Exciting news! 🎙️ The Ukraine Shelf is back with two fantastic guests: Luke Harding and Myroslav Laiuk. Coming very soon to your favourite podcast platforms and UIL’s YouTube channel. Until then, dive back into our previous episodes! 🎧
Our much missed @uclssees colleague Pete Duncan remembered in The Guardian. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
We're delighted to welcome Professor Jasna Dragović-Soso as the new Director of SSEES from September 2026! www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
On Wed 13 May at 6pm, I will deliver my UCL Inaugural Lecture "All Tomorrow's Parties: What Central and Eastern Europe Teaches Us About Party Politics" followed by a drinks reception.
Free & open to all. If you are in London, I'd be delighted to see you there!
www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
Portraits of Luke Harding, Yuliya Musakovska and Myroslav Laiuk
Don't miss this chance to hear 3 brilliant writers discuss how they write about Ukraine in wartime! Join Yuliya Musakovska, Myroslav Laiuk & Luke Harding next Tuesday at UCL, details: www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit....
@uclssees.bsky.social @ukrinstitute.bsky.social @lukeharding1968.bsky.social
Many thanks to everyone who attended last night’s event, '40 Years On: Chornobyl’s Legacy and European Environmental Security', co-organised by the @Ukr_Institute and @theRSAorg. If you missed it, you can watch the recording here: www.youtube.com/live/vrrza_z... 1/2
Event poster for 'All Tomorrow’s Parties: What Central and Eastern Europe Teaches Us About Party Politics'. In person event.
We are delighted to invite you to Prof. @allansikk.bsky.social's Inaugural Lecture 'All Tomorrow’s Parties: What Central and Eastern Europe Teaches Us About Party Politics'.
🗓️ 13 May at 6pm BST
📍 Gustave Tuck
🗓️ Free and open to all: www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
📺 Recording now available! Literature and identities in Moldova, Romania and the diaspora with Tatiana Țîbuleac
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFyB...
I spoke at @chathamhouse.org on the question of Ukraine’s cultural identity and why its protection is key to a durable peace.
You can watch the full recording here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAmk...
Congratulations, Diana! 🎉 ⭐️
The Kazakh Spring by Cambridge University Press is the winner of the BASEEES Alexander Nove Prize ❤️
Thank you so much!!!
basees.org/nove-prize
🔊 Only a few tickets left for Wednesday's screening of 'Million Moments for Democracy' (2025).
🗓️ 25 March at 5.30pm
📍 UCL SSEES
Register for free: www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
Still time to sign up to attend this talk by @hicksjeremy22.bsky.social. All welcome!
Event poster for 'Decolonial Queer Approaches to Researching Queer and Trans Lives in Central Asia'.
Join us for this Politics and Sociology seminar with
@levitanus.bsky.social, who will examine the ethical complexities and questions of positionality involved in researching #queer, #trans, and gender-diverse people in Central Asia.
🗓️ 19 March at 5pm
📍 UCL SSEES
➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
A photo of a nightjar looking wide
Widescreen nightjar on a post
Long nightjar head
Stretched out horizontal nightjar on a branch
Nightjars are a 4:3 bird accidentally displayed in 16:9
Event poster for 'Spotlight in Slovak' with a photo of students at UCL by James Tye. In-person and online event.
Please join us for this year’s postgraduate research seminar, Spotlight on #Slovak, which will examine cultural diplomacy, ethics in teacher training, linguistics, translation and history related to Slovakia or the Central and Eastern European region.
🗓️ 24 March at 5pm
➡️ buff.ly/zIm9qzH
Sneak peak of chapter 3 of my forthcoming manuscript though I still need to continue editing.
This monumental artist, citizen, artsociologist, one of the main protagonists of my next book, Askhat Akhmediyarov has his Birthday today.
Thank you for all your work and inspiration, Shyraqshy!
SSEES in the media: just published! 👇
Dr Ilias Chondrogiannis co-wrote a blog on his findings from a Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) project. Titled "How might distressed fintech firms affect UK growth and private debt?", it’s now live in the LSE Economics Observatory series: bit.ly/4bFgVD4
A book cover with a poster at center showing a woman in a purple skirt, orange top, and black boots waving to a distant crowd, opposite a taller looming woman in white. At bottom is the book title, Circulating Subjects, in black and at top is the author's name, Philippa Hetherington, in orange type.
An incredible cover has landed for an incredible book - Philippa Hetherington's "Circulating Subjects: Sex Work and Migration in Russia, 1885–1935."
More on how to pre-order a copy of her "riveting" and "radical" @cornellupress.bsky.social book here: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
POST-DOC!
3-year job in history of political thought / visual culture / art history
Department of Politics & International Studies
University of Cambridge
@thecambridgeschool.bsky.social
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/54724/
Painting of a young white girl, upper half, with her back to the viewer, standing by a window in an interior, there are bottles on the windowsill with flowering twigs in them
'Spring at the Window' by Tetyana Yablonska (1917-2006), Ukrainian painter #WomensArt
Londoners!
There's still time to make plans to come to Aziza Kadyri's talk tonight at SSEES.
Aziza is an artist known for her beautiful, emotive rendering of identities, fragmented past and second-hand nostalgia. She's a tireless archivist of diasporic embodied knowledge, memories and feelings. <3
🎉 Congratulations to @odrekhivska.bsky.social, Lecturer (Teaching) in Ukrainian and East European Culture at SSEES, who has been awarded a Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA).
www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
Join us on Friday for this Politics and Sociology seminar with Uzbek visual artist Aziza Kadyri, who will explore how memory moves across bodies, stories, spaces, and archives within her artistic practice.
🗓️ 6 March at 5pm
📍 UCL SSEES
www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
A display of documents, images and books arranged over three bays of grey library shelving.
A close-up shot of a shelf featuring a display related to the Hungarian journal Nyugat. Two cover pages of the journal are featured, and a couple of pages of printed text mounted on a background of green card.
A photograph featuring a bay of grey library shleving. A display is arranged over four shelves, featuring several open volumes of the Hungarian journal Nyugat. The volumes are arranged in chronological order from 1908 to 1941.
An image of a shelf featuring a display of four or five language primers. The books date from the mid 19th century and the languages featured include Romanian, Polish, Yiddish and Hungarian.
Join the Platform for Linguistic and Epistemic Justice for a session showcasing a student-led project using object-based learning to explore the multilingual SSEES Library collections.
📅 Wed 4 March
⏰ 4–5 pm
📍 Room 432, SSEES
☕ Followed by refreshments
🎟️ To book: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-west-a...
'There are three ways to end the war, and none are easy'. Dr Christian Emery (SSEES) writes for the LSE United States Politics and Policy Blog on the US-Iran conflict: blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...
if you're in Amsterdam, my friends organised and participated in this superb exhibition! Congrats to Fabienne Rachmadiev who curated it!
framerframed.nl/en/expositie...
This Monday - 2 March, 5.30pm start. All welcome and free to attend but registration essential via link in post below.👇
