We warmly invite you to attend the Slavonic Studies/CamCCEEES joint 2025-26 Speaker Series, which is dedicated to the subject of 

Freedom

The talks will take place in Michaelmas and Lent Terms on Thursdays from 5:30pm in the Knox Shaw Room in Sidney Sussex College

30 October 2025

“Surrogates of Freedom: Authoritarian Rituals of Power and Citizens’ Notions of Liberty”

Ekaterina Schulmann (Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center, Berlin)

13 November 2025          

“Provocation: Between Free Expression and Compelled Action in Late Communist Poland” 

Benjamin Paloff (University of Michigan)

27 November 2025         

“Life in Spite of Everything: Tales from the Ukrainian East”

Victoria Donovan (University of St Andrews)

29 January 2026              

“Free Choice? A History of the Secret Ballot in Russia”

Stephen Lovell (King’s College London)

12 February 2026           

"On Freedom in All the World on a Page in the Light of Vladimir Markov’s O svobode v poezii (1994) and Stephanie Sandler’s The Freest Speech in Russia (2025)" 

Andrew Kahn (University of Oxford)

“An Instability of the Poetic Context: From a Document to Free Associations.”

Mark Lipovetsky (Columbia University)

26 February 2026:          

“Freedom Lost and Found? Revisiting the Crisis of Liberalism in Interwar Europe”

Balázs Trencsényi (Central European University)

12 March 2026:              

“Soviet Kyrgyzstan: Artistic Freedom in the Soviet Periphery” 

Eugénie Zvonkine (Université Paris VIII)