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The @UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies ( #SSEES ) is the UK’s largest national centre for the study of Central, Eastern & South-East Europe & Russia

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@UCLSSEES
UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies
2 years
This evening we celebrate the SSEES legend that is Dr Pete Duncan. Whilst Pete remains a vital part of the SSEES community, through his work with the alumni association and appearances at events, we’ll all miss seeing him daily at the School. Happy Retirement, Dr Duncan!
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In memory of our beloved colleague and friend, SSEES launches The Dr Philippa Hetherington Memorial Fund:
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UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies
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We are deeply saddened to announce the passing of our dear friend & colleague Dr Philippa Hetherington, on Saturday 5 November. Philippa was an outstanding scholar who exuded warmth and enthusiasm in all that she did. She will be missed dearly.
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@UCLSSEES
UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies
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Happy birthday to us! 107 years of SSEES, founded 19 October, 1915. The buildings may have changed over the years,but our mission to research and understand the region has not.
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UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies
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We are deeply saddened to learn of former student Armin Soldin's death in Ukraine. As a SSEES politics graduate (2013), the School send our sincere condolences to his friends, family and colleagues. This brings home yet again the devastation of this war.
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AFP journalists, employees killed on duty or in attacks. #AFP
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We felt left out...
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UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies
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Our 'SSEES on Ukraine' pages aim to provide a summary of media coverage from the SSEES community, legitimate resources and ways to help those in need. We'll update regularly, so watch this space:
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UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies
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Congratulations to @BlackerUilleam on receiving a @BritishAcademy_ Mid-Career Fellowship for the project 'Mapping Ukraine’s Multicultural Literary Landscape':
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UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies
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Excited to announce Professor Richard Mole as the new incoming Director of SSEES, from 1 September. Congratulations, Richard!
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UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies
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We at The @ucl School of Slavonic and East European Studies stand with @ceuhungary #istandwithCEU #aCEUvalvagyok
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Congratulations to #SSEES @BlackerUilleam who was awarded a Paul Celan Translation Fellowship by @IWM_Vienna , where he will spend 3️⃣ months working on a translation of Tamara Hundorova’s 📚 The Emerging Word: The Discourse of Early Ukrainian Modernism 🇺🇦 #Ukraine
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@UCLSSEES
UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies
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Happy National Pierogi Day! 🥳 Homemade by our Academic Admin Manager @mchwz
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UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies
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Congratulations to @DrRachelMorley #SSEES , who has been awarded a two-year @LeverhulmeTrust Research Fellowship for her project on ‘Forms of Female Subjectivity in Contemporary Russian Women’s Cinema’ 📽️
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@UCLSSEES
UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies
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For updates regarding the Belarus elections, follow SSEES PhD candidate @TadeuszGiczan who is doing a fantastic job providing coverage:
@TadeuszGiczan
Tadeusz Giczan
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The detailed account of events outside Riga moll in Minsk tonight - one of two places where most clashes happened. The other being Pushkinskaya metro station
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UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies
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Wednesday breaking news- just discovered the matryoshka doll emoji! 🪆 🪆 🪆 🪆 🪆 🪆 🪆 🪆
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UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies
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Way ahead of the UK, in 1906, #Finland was the first country in the world to allow #women to stand for office. The world’s first female MPs were elected to Finnish Parliament in 1907. #100years
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UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies
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Checking in on our home again; the parks here are looking beautiful but quiet!
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To stave off idleness in lockdown, a group of #SSEES staff are starting a steps challenge and aiming to 'walk' from Finland to Georgia over the four week period. That's about 3,852,000 steps between us. Do you think we can do it?
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UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies
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#OnThisDay in 1909, Sir #NicholasWinton 🇬🇧 was born. A hero, who rescued 669 kids from Holocaust #Czechoslovakia
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UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies
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Anyone who's a regular at SSEES will have been greeted by Martin, our amazing security officer. We're wishing him a well deserved vacation and look forward to his smile returning to SSEES for start of term! @UCLSecurity
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UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies
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France has posthumously awarded its highest honour to SSEES graduate and AFP video journalist killed in Ukraine.
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UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies
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What's going on in Belarus? Join Prof Andrew Wilson and @TadeuszGiczan , for an update. Asking, why are there really protests? How are neighbors reacting? What does this mean for the West? And can Lukashenka survive? Join us on Thurs 3rd at 6pm to find out.
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@UCLSSEES
UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies
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Huge congratulations to SSEES staff! Julia Korosteleva has been promoted to the rank of Professor. @d_douarin & @Ben_H_Noble have been promoted to Associate Professor. Ramona Gonczol, Alex Krouglov, and Eszter Tarsoly have been promoted to Associate Professor (Teaching).
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@UCLSSEES
UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies
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Congratulations to SSEES academics @richardmole who has been promoted to Professor; @DrRachelMorley and Yuemei Ji who have been promoted to Associate Professor and Riitta Valijarvi has been promoted to Principal Teaching Fellow!
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@UCLSSEES
UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies
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The Dr Philippa Hetherington Memorial Fund, in memory of our much loved colleague, will support SSEES PhD students through the Philippa Hetherington History Research Travel Grant. Please consider giving:
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@UCLSSEES
UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies
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On Friday we celebrated the wonderful Dr Philippa Hetherington. For those who missed the event, the recording is available at: You can donate to the Dr Philippa Hetherington Memorial Fund at:
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@UCLSSEES
UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies
7 years
A proper Eastern European farewell to our Director @KubikJan . Thank you Jan, we will miss you!
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@UCLSSEES
UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies
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We are pleased to announce that Professor Diane Koenker will be joining us as #SSEES Director in January 2018.
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UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies
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👻 Do you know your followers? Maybe the #SSEES ghost is one of them! Happy #Halloween weekend! 🎃
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@UCLSSEES
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Ok, let’s try and cheer ourselves up! #SSEES community, post us your pet pictures below 👇🏼 starting here with a throwback to the beautiful therapy dogs we had on campus earlier this year ♥️
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World cup fever has hit SSEES!
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UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies
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If you are a history enthusiast, make a space on your bookshelf for a forthcoming book The Habsburgs: The Rise and Fall of a World Power by Prof Martyn Rady #SSEES 📚, also recommended by @FT 2020 visions: the year ahead in books
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🍂Autumn mornings at #SSEES !😍
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UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies
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Congratulations to the #SSEES Alumna, @DeborahBronnert , who has been appointed Her Majesty's Ambassador to the Russian Federation 🇷🇺🇬🇧 👏
@ukinrussia
UKinRussia🇬🇧🇷🇺
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Новый назначенный Посол Великобритании в России @DeborahBronnert прибыла в Россию и вскоре вручит верительные грамоты Министерству иностранных дел, а затем и Президенту России.
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UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies
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Read SSEES Director Prof Koenker's statement on the recent events in #Belarus We at #SSEES also support the statements made by @BASEES & @aseeestudies on these concerning developments. For the latest, follow our research student @TadeuszGiczan 🇧🇾
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@UCLSSEES
UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies
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Congratulations to @PeterZusi on becoming the next Vice-Dean for Research, Innovation and Enterprise @ArtsHumsUCL !
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@UCLSSEES
UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies
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Welcome to all our new students!😍 #ssees #uclssees #ucl #welcome
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UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies
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🎉We are delighted that Diane P. Koenker, UCL #SSEES Director and Professor of Russian and Soviet History, has received the 2⃣0⃣1⃣8⃣ ASEEES Distinguished Contributions to Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Award!
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@UCLSSEES
UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies
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🎉 Happy 108th Birthday to UCL SSEES! 🥳🎂 Today, we celebrate the incredible journey of the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies. Here's to many more years of excellence in Area Studies. 🌍📚 #SSEES #LoveUCL
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@UCLSSEES
UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies
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Miss you ♥️ Our building still gets the odd visitor, on the daily walk. Today’s snap from @mchwz
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UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies
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Congratulations to @allansikk @RIbenskas (Principal Investigator) @sonagolder who have been awarded a joint £1 million research grant from the Norwegian Research Council for a project on Party Instability in Parliaments 🤝 @UiB @psupolisci
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UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies
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We are so pleased to welcome @profaks at #SSEES ! While visiting, Professor Alison Smith @History_UofT is working on several pieces of writing out of her current research project on the palace of Gatchina 🇷🇺 and its surrounding area 🖋️
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UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies
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Prof Diane Koenker, #SSEES Director, recognises that today is a day of great sorrow. Speaking personally, she deplores the decision of the Russian government to wage war against its sovereign neighbour #Ukraine . We @ucl are here to support our community.
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@UCLSSEES
UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies
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Happy #EuropeDay 🇪🇺, celebrating peace & unity in Europe and marking the anniversary of the historical 'Schuman declaration' in 1950!
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@UCLSSEES
UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies
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A snap today from our Director, Diane P. Koenker: ‘SSEES on Sunday. Lonely and waiting for us to return’. ♥️
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UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies
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Professor Simon Dixon seems to be already busy in his new role as UCL SSEES Interim Director 😊!
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UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies
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Congratulations to @aurorachaang , HPE student #SSEES , for the Honourable Mention in the @DostoevskySoc Essay Contest 👏 Her essay for @russianist 's course ‘The Person, Love and Utopia in Russian Thought’ created a truly “polyphonic” analysis of “The Dream”
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@UCLSSEES
UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies
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Did you know... SSEES used to stand for School of Some Extremely Excellent Students? We changed our name in 1734. (But we still have excellent students)
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@UCLSSEES
UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies
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Missed our excellent panel discussion, 'SSEESing the #Russiareport ' on Monday? Now you can watch the recording to gain expert insight from @EJ_Burrows , @MarkGaleotti and Dr Pete Duncan, excellently brought together by @Ben_H_Noble !
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UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies
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How was Ukrainian society able to mobilise and withstand the Russian aggression so effectively? To mark one year since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, we will host a panel discussion with UCL Ukraine Fellows. 📆 01 March at 6pm 📍 UCL SSEES ➡️
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@UCLSSEES
UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies
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Welcome to all new SSEES students! We know this year isn't the same as normal but we're still thrilled that you're joining us. #SSEES #UCL #welcome
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Congratulations to #SSEES students Pippa & Ehlana who appeared on yesterday's episode of Pointless and won! 🎉👏
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@UCLSSEES
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Our home, Taviton Street ♥️
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🎉Congratulations to @Kaneshko_Sangar for successfully passing his PhD viva w/ minor corrections. His thesis 'Russia & the international struggle around Afghanistan 2001-12: competition & co-operation in historical perspective' was supervised by Dr P.Duncan & Prof A.Wilson #SSEES
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@UCLSSEES
UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies
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December jobs listed for the UK: 675 jobs requiring Russian 293 Polish 48 Ukrainian 84 Bulgarian 202 Romanian 89 Hungarian 173 Finnish 50 Serbo-Croat 75 Slovak 134 Czech And yet only a handful of UK graduates with these skills. #StudyLanguages !
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UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies
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Excited to have @MarkGaleotti (newly appointed as an Honorary Professor here at #SSEES ), here to talk about his new book ‘We Need to Talk About Putin’ written after he became exasperated with the caricatures, cliches and lack of nuance surrounding Putin and Putin’s Russia
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Join us next week for a conversation on war, truth and justice with one of #Ukraine ’s leading contemporary writers @vamelina . Chaired by @BlackerUilleam . 📅 21 April at 6pm BST 📍 UCL SSEES ➡ Tickets:
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UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies
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Monday 14th Sept, join @KubikJan (please note event start 5pm for UK based attendees) for a discussion on the current protests in Belarus and how this compares to the Solidarity movement in Poland.
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UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies
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Join @kzubovich and @murawski_michal next Tuesday for a double book launch: Moscow Monumental and The Palace Complex. The authors will be joined at the launch event by Professors Caroline Humphrey and Yuri Slezkine. Book a place at
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6000 followers!
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Happy Baba Marta Day! Celebrated in #Bulgaria on 1 March, martenitsas (small adornments, made of white and red yarn) are given out to wear throughout March until a stork or blossoming tree is seen, symbolising the coming of spring and warmer weather. Let's hope it works!
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@UCLSSEES
UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies
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Excellent work from the SSEES Student Society collecting for Ukrainian refugees ❤Taking more donations tomorrow (10-5.15pm) and Wednesday (10am-7pm), by SSEES (16 Taviton Street)
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Donation drop in progress. So much great stuff already collected. You can still donate tomorrow and Wednesday at @UCLSSEES .
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Congratulations to Dr Agnieszka Kubal #SSEES who has been awarded the ERC Grant EUR 1.5 million to fund her project 'Who are the humans behind Human Rights in Eastern Europe and Russia?’ 👉 @ERC_Research @uclnews @UCLResearch
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UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies
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We are enormously proud to share the news about successful promotions 2021-22 for #SSEES 🎉 Congratulations Phil Cavendish, Jakub Benes, Agnieszka Kubal, @murawski_michal , @AglayaSnetkov , Katarzyna Zechenter, Chiara Amini, Jelena Calic and Christian Emery
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@UCLSSEES
UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies
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Missed any of our great seminars? Go over to YouTube where you can find most of them recorded. This week alone we've hosted discussions on Navalny, the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth and the DAU Russian cinema project. Subscribe to get notifications!
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@UCLSSEES
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Our staff are so dedicated they even come in on their wedding day! Congrats to our student recruitment officer Lilla! Enjoy the rest of your day 💓
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Congratulations to our wonderful Romanian teacher, Ramona Gonczol, on receiving the 'Cultural Merit' order from Romanian state, to recognise her dedication to promoting Romanian language and culture abroad. She attended a decoration ceremony at the Romanian Embassy last week.
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A huge welcome to our new and returning students on the first day of term! We hope you are all as excited as we are! 🤓📚 #SSEES #WelcomeWeek
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UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies
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Did you know that @UCLSSEESLibrary is receiving a donation of around 80 Georgian books? Celebrate this special occasion with the Ambassador of #Georgia 🇬🇪 to the UK, Her Excellency Tamar Beruchashvili @tberuch @GeoEmbLondon , Georgian wine and nibbles
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UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies
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Congratulations to #SSEES PhD candidate @BohdanaKurylo who has won the BASEES PSG Polish Article Prize 🎉 Read more about the article and award:
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Dr Olga Voronina #SSEES on @bbcworldservice discusses Mikhail Bulgakov's novel The Master and Margarita. Listen and download now at:
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UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies
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New for 2018- SSEES will be offering #Georgian evening language classes for the first time. September start date. Details coming very soon on our website....
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@UCLSSEES
UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies
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We’re hiring! Come and join us at the largest centre in the UK for the study of the region: now recruiting for a Lecturer in Soviet/Post-Soviet History: And 2x Lecturers in Economics : Deadline 31 December
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@UCLSSEES
UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies
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Good luck to our fab cleaner Roland, who appears on this evening's episode of @Channel4 #Undateables . We're keeping our fingers crossed for you!
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UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies
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The SSEES Walking group have made it to St Petersburg! We've followed a route all the way from Warsaw, over the past 7 weeks passing through much of the SSEES region. We did this walk in aid of @macmillancancer , and you can still donate, if you are able:
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UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies
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We're very excited to share with you The SSEES Knowledge Café: Conversations without discipline. We have been bringing together SSEES academics from across disciplines in discussion and we'll be releasing these from the 14th September, so watch this space!
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UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies
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To John le Carré, learning a foreign language is an act of friendship. Not just a route to negotiation, but a way to grow closer to others by getting to know their culture, social manners and way of thinking. Full article: @UCLSELCS #studylanguage
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UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies
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Happy Birthday to us! Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, who inaugurated #SSEES 106 years ago today, went on to become the first President of Czechoslovakia.
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UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies
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🎉The winning photo from our #SSEESsummer competition😍
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UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies
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Masaryk in the Masaryk Room! Delighted to have been gifted this portrait of T. Masaryk who inaugurated the school in 1915, from the 1930s. It was kindly donated by Martin Josten, participant in a recent roundtable event at the Czech Embassy with Dr Lorman and Dr Benes of #SSEES
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UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies
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Today we're celebrating #IWD2021 by recognising achievements of women from/related to the SSEES region. We'll be posting these throughout the day so watch this space!
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UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies
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On this day in 1904, the Trans-Siberian railway was completed. Let us know if you've experienced the railway yourself! #SSEES #UCL #Travel #studyabroad
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UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies
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Congratulations to #SSEES PhD candidate @Bryan_S_K on his translation of 🇷🇺 novel Isolde, originally written in 1929 by Irina Odoevtseva. The book published by @PushkinPress has already been reviewed by @GuardianBooks and @spectator 📚
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UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies
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In case you are unsure whether #Ukraine 's beautiful capital is Kiev or #Kyiv 🇺🇦 #SSEES Prof Andrew Wilson provides further explanation for @Telegraph @uclnews
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UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies
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Congrats to #SSEES Richard Butterwick-Pawlikowski who has been awarded the Polish Historical Society's Pro Historia Polonorum prize for the best book in a foreign language published by a foreign-affiliated scholar on 🇵🇱 history between 2017-21 @YaleBooks
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UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies
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Saddened that Robert Pynsent, Emeritus Prof of Czech & Slovak Literature #SSEES has passed away.Those who knew him learned enormously about those rarest of human qualities: genuine originality & integrity. An obituary written by his close friend @PeterZusi
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@UCLSSEES
UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies
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Welcome to 2022/23! So excited to welcome both new and returning students back to SSEES- here's to a great academic year ahead.
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UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies
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#OnThisDay in 2004 ten new countries joined the EU: Czech Republic🇨🇿, Estonia🇪🇪, Cyprus🇨🇾, Latvia🇱🇻, Lithuania🇱🇹, Hungary🇭🇺, Malta🇲🇹, Poland🇵🇱, Slovakia🇸🇰 and Slovenia🇸🇮.
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UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies
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Prep in full swing for start of session- see you all on Monday! 🥳
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@UCLSSEES
UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies
4 years
27 January, 6pm, join @UCL_IAS for the launch of Dr Uilleam Blacker's book, 'Memory, The City and The Legacy of World War II in East Central Europe', which explores cultural memory dynamics in cities after WW2. Book now at
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@UCLSSEES
UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies
4 years
Friday, we have a special round table on the abortion crisis in Poland. Join our excellent panel discussing political, legal & social consequences of the decision of the Polish Constitutional Tribunal & asking what does it mean for women rights in Poland?
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@UCLSSEES
UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies
3 years
NEW for 2021: MA Comparative Russian and Eurasian Politics; a 2 year programme at UCL and HSE St Petersburg: Register for our live Q&A with Programme Coordinator Dr Snetkov next week on 20 Jan to find out more!
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@UCLSSEES
UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies
4 years
Dr Uilleam Blacker for @LAReviewofBooks on the controversy in Ukraine over appointment of Russian film director Ilya Khrzhanovsky as head of a new Holocaust memorial centre in Kyiv:
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@UCLSSEES
UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies
2 years
SSEES Society President @freyaproudman explains the efforts SSEES students are taking to support Ukraine- thank you to everyone for their donations this week, but especially to our wonderful students for the phenomenal efforts! We are incredibly proud:
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@UCLSSEES
UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies
8 months
Please join us for this #SSEESing event to hear more about @HauterJakob 's recently published book on the outbreak of war in Ukraine’s Donbas in 2014. Panel: @DrJadeMcGlynn , @jarabarbieri Chair: Prof Andrew Wilson 🗓️ 15 November at 7pm 📍 UCL SSEES ➡️
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@UCLSSEES
UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies
2 years
We're delighted to invite you to the next SSEESing NOW event on the evolving Ukraine-Russia crisis! Join us to hear from a panel of experts: Oksana Antonenko, @MarkGaleotti , @Orysiaua & Andrew Wilson. Chaired by @Ben_H_Noble 📅 3 Feb at 5pm GMT Tickets:
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