Previous Seminar Series
MINOR MATTERS
2017-2018
Professor Dina Iordanova (St Andrews): Screening and Discussion: ‘I Even Met Happy Gypsies’, director Aleksandar Petrovic (1967), 3 October 2017
Vladimir Averin (Radio Vesti FM, Mayak, Moskva FM): The Representation of Minorities in Russian Media (in Russian), 17 October 2017
Dr Jesse Gardiner (St Andrews): Scapegoats and Masks: Stalin’s Anti-Cosmopolitan Campaign, 22 November 2017
Professor Tomasz Kamusella (St Andrews): The Forgotten 1989 Expulsion of Turks from Communist Bulgaria, 13 February 2018
Monika Szydlowska (Na Emigracii) in Conversation with Dr Emily Finer, 14 February 2017
Dr Greta Matzner-Gore (USC): From the Corners of ‘The Brothers Karamazov’: Minor Characters in Dostoevsky’s Last Novel, 28 February 2018
Professor Motoki Nomachi (Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University, Japan): The Breakup of Serbo-Croatian and the Gorani of Kosovo
Leonid Parfenov: Screening and Discussion: ‘Russian Jews’ (2014-2016), 27 April 2018
THE ART OF REVOLUTION
2016-2017
Franak Viacorka: Screening and Discussion: ‘A Lesson of Belarusian’, 28 September 2016
Pr Steve Smith (All Souls College, Oxford): Writing the History of the Russian Revolution a Hundred Years On, 11 October 2016
Ihor Poshyvailo (Maidan Museum): Stronger than Arms: Artistic Expressions of the Maidan Revolution, 25 October 2016
Dr Margarita Vaysman (St Andrews): Men and Steamships: Russian Literary Classics after the Revolution of 1917, 8 November 2016
Dr Victoria Donovan (St Andrews) & Susan Edwards (Glamorgan Archives) Revolutionary Rumblings in the Letters of Welsh Migrants to the Donbass: the Hughesovka Story, 7 March 2017
Shaun Walker (The Guardian): The Long Hangover: Memory and Revolution in Ukraine and Russia’, 4 April 2017
Andrei Kurkov (‘Ukraine Diaries: Dispatches from Kiev’) in conversation with Dr Emily Finer, 18 April 2017
Iryna Clark (St Andrews): Mediating ‘Civil Society’ in the Belarusian Press: The Colour Revolutions, 25 April 2017
Katya Rogachevskaya (British Library): Revolution on Display: 1917 at the British Library, 23 May 2017
SOCIETY AND SPECTACLE
2015-2016
Shura Collinson (The Moscow Times): Parliamentary Pyrotechnics and the State Circus: How Russian state bodies distract and the media helps them to do so, 1 October 2015
Prof. Elena Mariushakova (Leverhulme Visiting Professor in History, St Andrews): Roma Culture in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe, 22 October 2015
Dr Caron Gentry (St Andrews): The Politics of the Macabre in the Reporting on Chechen Terrorism, 3 December 2015
Peter Pomerantsev (‘Nothing is True and Everything is Possible’) in conversation with Dr Boris Dralyuk, 27 January 2016
Dr Jeffrey Murer (St Andrews): The Aesthetics Of Hate: Anti-Semitic, Anti-Roma, and Anti-Immigrant Violence in Contemporary Hungary as Spectacle, 1 February 2016
Dr Vlad Strukov (Digital Culture, Leeds): Russian spectacle of patriotism: What will we see if we turn off the TV?, 29 February 2016
Pr Amy Bryzgel (University of Aberdeen): Out)-performing the Society of the Spectacle: Strategies of Resistance in postcommunist performance art in Central and Eastern Europe, 28 March 2016
Pr Dina Iordanova (St Andrews): Breaking Through Walls and Discourses: History for Losers, 11 April 2016
Dr Mitja Velikonja (University of Ljubljana): ‘Rock’n’Retro’: Yugoslav and Partisan Motifs in Contemporary Slovenian Music, 5 May 2016
Previous Conferences
Between Federalism, Autonomy and Centralism: Central and Eastern Europe in the 20th and 21st Centuries, 2015
In memory of Dr Oliver Smith (1979-2013), 2014
Red Laboratories: Exchanges Between Science and the Arts and Culture in Eastern Europe and Russia, 2013
Orthodox Ecclesiology and Modernity, 2012
The Class of 2011: Questions of Education in Post-Soviet Russia, 2011. The conference was jointly organised by History, Art History and Russian. The conference was supported by a £2000 School of History Conference Support Grant
The Caucasus: Imagining Freedom, Negotiating Dominion, 2010. The conference was awarded a £12870 Conference Support Grant by the British Academy.
Postcommunist Visual Culture and Cinema, 2009. The conference was supported by a £2000 AHRC Student-led Initiative grant.
Putin, People and Power: Elections in Russia, 2008. The Conference was supported by a £2000 donation from Glasgow CRCEES
Translating and Mistranslating Russia: The Cultural Aspect, 2007
Post-Soviet Borderlands, 2006
1905 – Russia in Revolution, 2005
Chekhoviana: One Hundred Years Since the Death of Anton Chekhov (1860-1904), 2004
The 300th Anniversary of the Foundation of St Petersburg, 2003
Eurasia’s Changing Security, 2002
Russia in Retrospect: 10 Years Since the End of the USSR, 2001
The Geography and Geopolitics of the New Eastern Europe, 2000
“By Force or by Will”: The Art of External Might and Internal Passion, 1999
Ideology and National Identity in Post-Communist Foreign Policies, 1998
Politics and Culture in Central and Eastern Europe, 1997
Language and Society in Eastern Europe, 1996
Russian Avant-Garde Art and Literature, 1995
Nations and Nationalism in Russia and Eastern Europe, 1993
Censorship in Eastern Europe, 1992
Democratic Traditions of Central and Eastern Europe: A Re-appraisal, 1991