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On Saturday 8 June I attended the annual conference of the Centre for Russian and East European Studies (CREES). CREES was established as a specialist interdisciplinary centre for research on the Soviet Union and eastern bloc countries at the University…
From 5 to 8 April I was at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, for the annual British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies conference, which this year also hosted the International Council for Central and East European Studies European Regional Congress…
Just an announcement to those who may not already know, on Wednesday April 24 Melanie Ilic’s inaugural lecture will take place on Park campus. Melanie has published widely on Soviet women’s history and became Professor of Soviet History in summer…
Hearty congratulations to Rob Hornsby for the publication of his book Protest, Reform and Repression in Khrushchev’s Soviet Union (Cambridge University Press, 2013). Rob was an AHRC-funded PhD student attached to a three-year project on ‘Policy and Governance in the…
8 March 2013 marks the centenary of International Women’s Day celebrations in Russia. International Women’s Day has its origins at the women’s conference of the Second International in Copenhagen in 1910 with the aim of furthering the cause of women’s…
On Friday 23 November, my friend and colleague Mark Harrison (Prof of Economics, University of Warwick) was interviewed for Radio 4’s Today programme (begins 2.24 to 2.29) about the Soviet practice of erasing the public record of political and cultural…
‘Why do Caucasian Studies Matter?’ On 21 November, I attended a seminar organised by the Centre for Russian and East European Studies, The University of Birmingham, to celebrate the publication of a special issue of Europe-Asia Studies (vol. 64, no.…
Melanie Ilic: Vilnius conference At the beginning of September 2012, I travelled to Lithuania for a conference I had co-organised on ‘The Soviet Past in the Post-Soviet Present: the Ethics of Oral History and Memory Studies’. My co-organiser, Prof Dalia…
Melanie has been on some very productive European visits this summer! Here is her account of her time in Finland: On the day after my arrival, Elena Osokina, a well-known Russian historian, gave a seminar at Helsinki’s Aleksanteri Institute about…