11 October / 5pm Latimer Room, Clare College 

Marta Dyczok (Western University, Canada)

’The Evolution of Ukrainian Media since Independence’

20 October* / 5pm Knox Shaw Room, Sidney Sussex College*

Daniel Beer (Royal Holloway)

‘House of the Dead: Siberian Exile under the Tsars’  

*Please note the date and venue

25 October / 5pm Latimer Room, Clare College

Christian Ratffensperger (Wittenberg U)

‘Friends, Enemies, Kin: Constructing Kinship Webs and Situational Kinship Networks in Medieval Eastern Europe’

8 November / 5pm Latimer Room, Clare College 

Josie von Zitzewitz (Cambridge)

‘Poetry Groups and Journals in 1970s Leningrad’

22 November / 5pm Latimer Room, Clare College 

Friederike Kind-Kovacs (Universität Regensburg)

'Clandestine Radio Listening and State Surveillance’

24 January / 5pm Latimer Room, Clare College

Jon Stone (Franklin and Marshall)

‘Decadence and the fin de siècle’

7 February / 5pm Latimer Room, Clare College

Valentina Parisi (EURIAS)

‘The Function of the Author in Samizdat Text Production’

21 February / 5pm Latimer Room, Clare College

Marco Sabbatini (University of Macerata)

‘Poetry’s Role in Leningrad Samizdat’