News & Events

ESRC Festival of Social Science Schools Event

Thu, 01 Sep 2011 14:29:00 BST

This event brings together secondary schoolchildren from Central and East European (CEE) migrant communities and local Scottish children from schools across Glasgow to discuss their experiences. 19 March 2010

Sovereignty After Empire: Comparing the Middle East and Central Asia

Thu, 01 Sep 2011 14:30:00 BST

Workshop at the University of St Andrews. 19-20 March, 2010

Postgraduate student study trip to Moscow

Thu, 01 Sep 2011 14:33:00 BST

The Russian Archives Training Scheme, funded by CEELBAS, CRCEES and CRCEES is organising a postgraduate student study trip to Moscow. 31 March - 3 April, 2010

Conference: 'The Russian Language Outside the Nation'

Thu, 01 Sep 2011 14:37:00 BST

This is the second conference organised by Russian in Context, established to provide a focal point for the advanced research in the Russian language. 1-3 April 2010

Conference: Villains and victims: Justice, violence and retribution in late Imperial and early Soviet Russia

Thu, 01 Sep 2011 14:39:00 BST

This conference represents an attempt to contextualise and to harmonise the disparate micro-level studies that have been conducted thus far on this topic, and to use these studies to engage with larger themes. 6-7 April 2010

Conference: Scotland - Russia Business Forum

Thu, 01 Sep 2011 16:15:00 BST

CRCEES and the Scotland - Russia Forum are co-hosting the Scotland – Russia Business Forum: Challenges and Opportunities in Today’s Russia. 9 April 2010

Conference: The Caucasus: Imagining Freedom, Negotiating Dominion

Thu, 01 Sep 2011 16:16:00 BST

This international two-day conference will bring together speakers with an interest in the Caucasus from a wide range of disciplines. 16-17 April 2010

New Directions: how Languages promote research and internationalisation in higher education

Thu, 01 Sep 2011 16:18:00 BST

This seminar is jointly organised by the Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies and the Centre for Russian, Central and East European Studies(University of Glasgow). 23 April 2010

Conference: The International Crisis and the Post-Soviet states

Thu, 01 Sep 2011 16:20:00 BST

The conference will examine the implications of the financial crisis that began in late 2008 for the post-Soviet states. 13-14 May 2010

Workshop: Post-Yugoslav Identities

Thu, 01 Sep 2011 16:22:00 BST

The workshop will explore Post-Yugoslav Identities. 15 May 2010

Conference: The New Politics of EU Integration: The View from CEE

Thu, 01 Sep 2011 16:23:00 BST

The symposium will examine the how CEE states have viewed the recent period of EU institutional and political reform which ended with the coming into force of the Lisbon Treaty. 21-22 May 2010

Workshop: Between Segregation and Social Integration: Recent Immigrants and Foreign Workers in the USA and in the UK

Thu, 01 Sep 2011 16:29:00 BST

This one-day workshop is organised as part of a Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowship held by Dr Judit Molnar and featuring speakers from Glasgow, Washington, Hungary, and Finland. 28 June 2010

Summer School 2010: Postgraduate Research Methodology in Hungary

Thu, 01 Sep 2011 16:30:00 BST

The Summer School is a co-organised event between CRCEES and its international partner in the region. Corvinus University, Budapest, and the Széchenyi István University, Győr, Hungary. 26 June - 10 July 2010

Conference: ICCEES World Congress

Thu, 01 Sep 2011 16:33:00 BST

CRCEES are sponsoring the participation of 6 panels at the VIII International Council for Central and East European Studies 2010 in Stockholm, Sweeden. 26-31 July 2010

Conference: Languages for the 21st century: training, impact and influence

Thu, 01 Sep 2011 16:38:00 BST

Languages for the 21st Century: training, impact and influence will showcase new training provision, techniques, technologies, methodologies and research in language teaching. 1-2 September 2010

Seminar: Glasgow meets Giessen – cooperation day

Thu, 01 Sep 2011 16:39:00 BST

The cooperation day will also discuss possibilities for joint research projects, postgraduate student exchange and joint teaching programmes between the institutes involved. 3 November 2010

International Research workshop "Rural Realities in the Post-socialist Space: Understanding Social, Cultural and Political Change in the Russian and Eastern European countryside"

Thu, 01 Sep 2011 16:40:00 BST

This workshop aims to bring more careful attention to the meanings of rurality and to address the complexity of rural societies and cultures in Eastern Europe. 12-13 November 2010

2ND UK-FINNISH POSTGRADUATE WORKSHOP: Critical Reflections on Russia and Eastern Europe

Thu, 01 Sep 2011 16:42:00 BST

A joint seminar organised by the Centre for Russian, Central and East European Studies [CRCEES], University of Glasgow, the Finnish Graduate School for Russian and East European studies, and the School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures, University of Manchester. 19-20 November 2010

Seminar: Poetry Translation

Thu, 01 Sep 2011 16:42:00 BST

Kristiina Ehin and Ilmar Lehtpere will present an introduction to the art of translating poetry and, in the course of the ensuing discussion, will endeavour to give participants a practical understanding of the joys and complexities of conveying the voice of the poet into another language. 26 November 2010

Meet Kristiina Ehin

Thu, 01 Sep 2011 16:44:00 BST

Meet Estonian author Kristiina Ehin and translator Ilmar Lehtpere who will be reading from her latest collection of poetry, 'The Scent of Your Shadow'. Kristiina will be signing copies afterwards. 26 November 2010

Estonian Songs and Sounds

Thu, 01 Sep 2011 16:44:00 BST

Mari Kalkun and Anna Hints are are singers and interpreters of traditional songs and music. Runo singing (regilaul) is an Estonian singing tradition which dates back thousands of years. Singing accompanied every aspect of life carrying wisdom passed on from generation to generation. 27 November 2010

Specialist Polish Language Training for Postgraduate Students

Thu, 01 Sep 2011 16:45:00 BST

Connecting Communities via Language: Reading Strategies and Translation Skills for Post-Intermediate Learners of Polish. 10 December 2010 onwards