2017-2018

Thursday, 26 October 2017 / 5:30pm

Dominic Lieven (Cambridge), ‘Reflections on the Russian Revolution’, Umney Theatre, Robinson College

Thursday, 2 November 2017 / 5:30pm

Emma Widdis (Cambridge), ‘Feeling Revolution’, Umney Theatre, Robinson College

Thursday, 23 November 2017 / 5:30pm

Natalia Murray (Courtauld Institute of Art), ‘Revolution and Art’, Umney Theatre, Robinson College

Thursday, 25 January 2018 / 5:30pm

Boris Kolonitskii (European University of St Petersburg), 'Revolution and the Cult of the Leader’, Umney Theatre, Robinson College

Thursday, 8 February 2018 / 5:30pm

Mikhail Minakov (Kyiv-Mohyla Academy), ‘Cycles of Revolution in Ukraine’, Umney Theatre, Robinson College

Thursday, 23 February 2018 / 5:30pm

Mark von Hagen (Arizona State University), The Sixteenth Annual Stasiuk Lecture in Contemporary Ukrainian Studies, Exploring the legacy of 1918 in Ukraine, with reference to internal dynamics and international implications of today’s events. Umney Theatre, Robinson College

Thursday, 8 March 2018 / 5:30pm

Tamara Hundorova (National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine), ‘Revolution and Literature’, Umney Theatre, Robinson College

2016-2017

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’

 

2014-2015

Over the course of the 2014-15 academic year, CamCREES organised a host of diverse seminars that culminated in a Lent Term series on Russian and Soviet Mass Culture. Our Michaelmas Term programme explored topics ranging from Moscow architecture to Russian crime fiction. Our Lent Term programme, generously supported by the British Academy, featured presentations on themes from Cold War radio to Soviet DIY culture.

Thursday, 23 April 2015

Professor Anna Berman (McGill), 'Darwin and Mechnikov in Tolstoy's Literary Imagination'

Tuesday, 3 March 2015

Professor Joan Neuberger (Austin, Texas), 'Eisenstein's Ivan: Sensory Thinking from Machiavelli to Disney'

Tuesday, 17 February 2015 

Dr Simon Huxtable (Loughborough), 'Newspapers, Readers and the "Managed Public Sphere" during the Soviet Sixties'

Tuesday, 3 February 2015 

Professor Susan Reid (Sheffield), 'Makeshift Modernity: DIY, Craft and the Virtuous Homemaker in New Soviet Housing of the 1960s'

Tuesday, 20 January 2015 

Dr Kristin Roth-Ey (UCL), 'Listening Out: Cold War Radio and the Soviet Audience'

Tuesday, 25 November 2014

Dr Claire Whitehead (St. Andrews), 'The Construction of Authority in Early Russian Crime Fiction'

Tuesday, 11 November 2014 

Professor Valerie Kivelson (Michigan), '"Rivers of Blood": Illustrating Violence and Virtue in Russia's Early Modern Empire'

Tuesday, 28 October 2014

Professor Luba Golburt (UC Berkeley), 'The Persistence of the Eighteenth Century: a Book Presentation of The First Epoch: The Eighteenth Century and the Russian Cultural Imagination'

Tuesday, 14 October 2014 

Professor Anne Nesbet (UC Berkeley), 'Modeling Moscow: Life, Architecture, and the Composite Shot in Soviet Films of the 1930s'

 

2013-2014

Over the course of the 2013-14 academic year, CamCREES organised a series of seminars and gatherings oriented on the theme of 'New Interdisciplinary Approaches'. Our Michaelmas 2013 programme, generously supported by a grant from CEELBAS, focused on trends old and new in the study of nineteenth-century Russian literature. Our Lent 2014 programme featured a series of informal roundtables on research across languages and disciplines as well as public lectures on Islamic militancy in Central Asia and on the poetry of Taras Shevchenko, whose bicentennial was celebrated in 2013-14.

Tuesday 4 March 2014

Peter Fedynsky (Translator / Journalist) "Translating Shevchenko's Kobzar" 

Tuesday 18 February 2014

Gruia Badescu, Elena Tchougounova-Paulson, Tanya Zaharchenko (Cambridge) "Dovzhenko / Manchevski: Silence, Speech and the Gaze" A Panel Discussion on Two Filmmakers across Contexts

Tuesday 4 February 2014

Mette High (Edinburgh); Caroline Humphrey, Tatiana Safonova, Istvan Santha, Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov (Cambridge) "Anthopology in the Russian Language" A Panel Discussion on the Challenges and Opportunities of Interlingual Translation

Tuesday 21 January 2014

Hamid Ismailov (BBC World's Writer in Residence) "A Poet and Bin Laden, or Islamic Militancy in Central Asia and Afghanistan"

Tuesday 3 December 2013

Rosamund Bartlett (Oxford) "Tolstoy, Chekhov, and the Music of Russian Prose"

Monday, 2 December 2013

"Film, Conflict and Representation: Perspectives from the Balkans" An Evening with Award-Winning Filmmaker Milcho Manchevski

Organised by a CamCREES Postgraduate Interdisciplinary Working Group (MML/Architecture)

Tuesday 12 November 2013

Robin Feuer Miller (Brandeis/Oxford) "Tolstoy's 'About Mushrooms'"

Tuesday 29 October 2013

Connor Doak (Bristol) "Of Men and Their Demons: Masculinity in Dostoevskii's Besy"

Tuesday 15 October 2013

Valeria Sobol (Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) "The Gothic and Colonial Mimicry in Antony Pogorelsky's Monastyrka"

 

2012-2013

2 May 2013 / Umney Theatre, Robinson College

'Resistance and Gender'

Dr Olesya Khromeychuk (University of Cambridge)

Part of the series 'Resistance in Russia and Eastern Europe', co-organised by CamCREES and the Department of Slavonic Studies

25 April 2013 / Umney Theatre, Robinson College

Dr John Freedman (Writer, translator, critic and scholar of Russian theatre) 

'Resistance and Performance'

Part of the series 'Resistance in Russia and Eastern Europe', co-organised by CamCREES and the Department of Slavonic Studies

7 March 2013 / Umney Theatre, Robinson College 

'Resistance and Rights'

Professor Benjamin Nathans (University of Pennsylvania)

Part of the series 'Resistance in Russia and Eastern Europe', co-organised by CamCREES and the Department of Slavonic Studies

6 March 2013 / Umney Theatre, Robinson College 

'True Believers: Collaboration and Opposition under Totalitarian Regimes'

A public lecture by Anne Applebaum 

21 February 2013 / Umney Theatre, Robinson College

'Resistance and Conscience'

Dr Philip Boobbyer (University of Kent)

Part of the series 'Resistance in Russia and Eastern Europe', co-organised by CamCREES and the Department of Slavonic Studies

14 February 2013 / Umney Theatre, Robinson College 

'Resistance and Textuality'

Dr Ann Komaromi (University of Toronto)

Part of the series 'Resistance in Russia and Eastern Europe', co-organised by CamCREES and the Department of Slavonic Studies

5 February 2013 / Umney Theatre, Robinson College

'Resistance and New Media'

Dr Vlad Strukov (University of Leeds)

Part of the series 'Resistance in Russia and Eastern Europe', co-organised by CamCREES and the Department of Slavonic Studies

24 January 2013 / Umney Theatre, Robinson College

Professor David Marples (University of Alberta)

'Resistance and Nationalism'

Part of the series 'Resistance in Russia and Eastern Europe', co-organised by CamCREES and the Department of Slavonic Studies

22 January 2013 / Latimer Room, Clare College

'The Riddle of Space: The History of Russia's Social Geography'

A public lecture by Tony Wood (New Left Review)

Thursday, 22 November 2012 / Umney Theatre, Robinson College

Dr Rory Finnin (Cambridge)

'Resistance and Solidarity'

Part of the series 'Resistance in Russia and Eastern Europe', co-organised by CamCREES and the Department of Slavonic Studies

Wednesday, 21 November 2012 / Mill Road Lecture Rooms

Professor Amir Weiner (Stanford)

'Getting to Know You: Occupation and Information'

Part of the Lees Knowles Lectures, 'Total War: The Soviet Union and the Eastern Front in a Comparative Framework', hosted by Trinity College and co-sponsored by CamCREES 

Wednesday, 14 November 2012 / Mill Road Lecture Rooms

Professor Amir Weiner (Stanford)

'Fighting Total War: A View from the Ground'

Part of the Lees Knowles Lectures, 'Total War: The Soviet Union and the Eastern Front in a Comparative Framework', hosted by Trinity College and co-sponsored by CamCREES 

Tuesday, 13 November 2012 / Umney Theatre, Robinson College

Dr Rebecca Reich (Cambridge)

'Resistance and Madness'

Part of the series 'Resistance in Russia and Eastern Europe', co-organised by CamCREES and the Department of Slavonic Studies

Wednesday, 7 November 2012 / Mill Road Lecture Rooms

Professor Amir Weiner (Stanford)

'Envisioning and Preparing for Total War'

Part of the Lees Knowles Lectures, 'Total War: The Soviet Union and the Eastern Front in a Comparative Framework', hosted by Trinity College and co-sponsored by CamCREES 

Wednesday, 31 October 2012 / Mill Road Lecture Rooms

Professor Amir Weiner (Stanford)

'On the Road to Hell: Sovereignty Reconfigured'

Part of the Lees Knowles Lectures, 'Total War: The Soviet Union and the Eastern Front in a Comparative Framework', hosted by Trinity College and co-sponsored by CamCREES 

Thursday, 25 October 2012 / Umney Theatre, Robinson College

Dr Polly Jones (Oxford)

'Resistance and Memory'

Part of the series 'Resistance in Russia and Eastern Europe', co-organised by CamCREES and the Department of Slavonic Studies

Thursday, 11 October 2012 / Umney Theatre, Robinson College

Masha Gessen (Radio Svoboda)

'Resistance and Personality'

Part of the series 'Resistance in Russia and Eastern Europe', co-organised by CamCREES and the Department of Slavonic Studies

Friday, 5 October 2012 / Latimer Room, Clare College

CamCREES Networking Party

All undergraduate and postgraduate students and staff welcome

 

2011-2012

Tuesday, 13 March 2012, 5pm: CamCREES seminar

Luke Harding (The Guardian)

'Russia: The Mafia State'

Tuesday, 28 February 2012, 5pm: CamCREES seminar

Heiko Pleines (Centre for East European Studies, Bremen)

'The Political Challenges of an Oil Boom: Resource Curses and Resource Blessings in Post-Soviet Countries'

Tuesday, 7 February 2012, 5pm: CamCREES seminar

Madeleine Reeves (University of Manchester)

'Moskvachylyk: On the Ethics of "Illegality" in Migrant Moscow'

Tuesday, 24 January 2012, 5pm: CamCREES seminar

Olena Fim'yar (Freie Universität Berlin)

'Ukraine's Education Policy under a Foucauldian Gaze'

Tuesday 22 November 2011, 5pm: CamCREES seminar

Michael Moser (University of Vienna; Ukrainian Free University, Munich)

'Ukrainian, Russian, and Rusyn on the Western Periphery'

Monday, 14 November 2011, 5:30pm: CamCREES seminar

Boris Uspenskij (Russian State University of the Humanities)

'Europe as Metaphor and Metonymy in Relation to the History of Russia'

Tuesday 8 November 2011, 5pm: CamCREES seminar

Hamid Ismailov (Writer, journalist, BBC World Service writer-in-residence)

'Soviet Novel vs Soviet Reality, from Platonov to Aitmatov'

Tuesday 25 October 2011, 5pm: CamCREES seminar

Olga Kutsenko (Taras Shevchenko National University, Kyiv)

'The Legacy of Socialism on Ukrainian Political Culture'

Tuesday 11 October 2011, 5pm: CamCREES seminar

David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye (Brock University, Canada)

'What Is Russian Orientalism?'

Friday 7 October 2011, 5pm: CamCREES Networking Party

Latimer Room, Clare College