Events 2007-08

April 2008

  • Workshop: 'Agency and change in provincial Russia - the impact of location'
    Organised by the Department of Central and East European Studies and supported by CRCEES and ASRF, this workshop aims to provide a platform to establish collaborative links between researchers based in Glasgow and in Ul'ianovsk, Russia, doing ethnographic work. [more]
    2 April, 2008
    Room T217, Adam Smith Building, University of Glasgow.
  • Conference: 'Remembering 1948 and 1968 - Reflections on Two Pivotal Years in Czech and Slovak History'
    The Department of Central and East European Studies in conjunction with CRCEES is pleased to announce this conference to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the imposition of communism in Czechoslovakia and the 40th anniversary of the Prague Spring. [more]
    3-4 April, 2008
    Various rooms*, University of Glasgow.         *(see symposium programme for details)

February 2008

  • Estonian cultural events
    In February we will host a series of Estonian cultural events and an international student symposium to celebrate Estonia Day 2008 and mark the 90th anniversary of the Republic of Estonia.  Events include:
  • Film Series:  04 - 08 February, Gilmorehill G12 Cinema, University of Glasgow; [more]
  • Lectures: ' Exploring Estonian documentaries' (Jaak Kilmi & Tristan Priimägi) 05 and 07 February, Seminar Room, 8 Lilybank Gardens;
  • International Student Symposium: 'Perspectives on Estonia: Present, Past and Future' 28 February, venue to be confirmed; [more]
  • Special Guest Lecture :  HE Dr Margus Laidre, Estonian Ambassador to the UK, 29 February 15.00, Melville Room, Gilbert Scott Building
  • Concert : trio of Estonian classical musicians led by the internationally renowned guitarist Heiki Matlik of the Estonian Academy of Music, 29 February 17.00, The University Chapel.  All Welcome.

October 2007

  • 'Festival of Words' - Latvian Language and Culture through the Ages
    The next seminar in the autumn lecture series the Festival of Words. [more]
    Ms Dace Praulins (Lecturer, CRCEES)
    29 October 2007, 17.00
    Lecture Theatre B, Boyd Orr Building, University of Glasgow.
  • 'Place of Action: Lithuania' - Talk by the Film Director, Arunas Matelis
    Arunas Matelis will give a talk on his award winning documentary 'Before Flying back to Earth', which will be screened in Gilmorehill G12 Cinema from 6.15pm. (Free entry, tickets from G12 box office telephone 0141 330 5522). [more]
    23 October 2007, 17.00
    Room 408, Gilmorehill Centre, University of Glasgow.
  • Lithuanian cultural events - 'Place of Action: Lithuania'
    In October 2007 the University of Glasgow will host a series of Lithuanian cultural events and a joint academic-practitioner Round Table forum for discussion on the Kaliningrad Region after EU enlargement.
    Events include:
    • Film Series: 22, 23 and 24 October, Gilmorehill Cinema, University of Glasgow, from 18.15;
    • Introduction by Film Director, Arunas Matelis: 23 October, Gilmorehill Cinema, University of Glasgow, from 17.00;
    • Round Table: 23 October, Randolph Hall, University of Glasgow, from 10.30-15.30;
    • Public Lecture: 23 October, Professor Leonidas Donskis of Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, will give a lecture on aspects of Lithuanian Language and Culture, as part of CRCEES 'Festival of Words' series (details to follow). [more]
    22-24 October, 2007
    Rooms TBA, University of Glasgow.
  • Start of the seminar series 'Festival of Words'
    The following lectures are part of the autumn's 'Festival of Words' seminar series organised by the CRCEES and the Slavonic Studies Section of the School of Modern Languages and Cultures. [more]
    • Opening and Welcome: Richard Berry (Director, CRCEES) John Bates (Convener, Slavonic Studies Section, SMLC)
    • Representing Russianness: The Search for True Key Words in Russian Language related Discourse Dr S. Khairov (Lecturer, Slavonic Studies Section, SMLC)
    8 October 2007, 17.00
    Lecture Theatre B, Boyd Orr Building, University of Glasgow.
  • Rt. Hon. George Reid, Visiting Professor gives an Opening speech
    The Rt. Hon. George Reid, Visiting Professor to the Faculty of Law Business and Social Sciences has a keen interest and experience in Central Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union. On 2nd October 2007 he gave the following speech at the opening of the School of Conflict Resolution of the Foreign Policy Association of Moldova, Chisinau, Moldova.
    For more information download the Extracts of lecture (pdf, 52KB).
    2 October 2007
    School of Conflict Resolution of the Foreign Policy Association of Moldova, Chisinau, Moldova.

September 2007

  • Workshop: Security of Energy Supply in the New Europe - A Challenge for the European Neighbourhood Policy
    The Security of Energy Supply workshop is organised by Anke Schmidt-Felzmann and Valentina Feklyunina (Department of Politics, University of Glasgow). The workshop serves to promote discussion and exchange of ideas on the European Union's European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP), which sets out to reduce the risks of dependency on supplies of oil and gas from the Russian Federation by enhancing its strategic energy partnerships with the neighbouring countries important for the production or transit of energy. [more]
    19-20 September, 2007
    Rooms TBA, Adam Smith Building, University of Glasgow.

CEES Seminar Series 2007-2008

Semester 2:

Professor Kimitaka Matsuzato (Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University)
'Inter-Orthodoxy Relations and Trans-border Minorities in Unrecognized States: Abkhazia and Transnistria'
Thursday 19 June, 5.30pm
University of Glasgow, Seminar Room, 8 Lilybank Gardens.

Ms Valentina Feklyunina (Department of Politics, University of Glasgow)
'Russia's Image in the West and its Role in the Country's Foreign and Domestic Policies'
Wednesday 28 May, 5.30pm
University of Glasgow, Seminar Room, 8 Lilybank Gardens.

Dr Judit Molnár (University of Miskolc, Hungary)
'Poverty and segregation in the north-eastern villages of Hungary'
Wednesday 21 May, 5.30pm
University of Glasgow, Seminar Room, 8 Lilybank Gardens.

Professor Martin Myant (Business School, University of the West of Scotland)
'Local actors and economic development in North West Bohemia'
Wednesday 14 May, 5.30pm
University of the West of Scotland (Paisley campus), Room A407. 

Professor John Russell (Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford)
'Russia's Role in the War on Terror'
Wednesday 07 May, 5.30pm
University of Glasgow, Seminar Room, 8 Lilybank Gardens.

Professor Christopher Read (Department of History, University of Warwick)
'Retrieving the Historical Lenin'
Wednesday 30 April, 5.30pm
University of Glasgow, Seminar Room, 8 Lilybank Gardens.

Dr Kenneth Wilson
'Party-System Institutionalisation and Democracy: the Case of Russia'
Wednesday 23 April, 5.30pm
University of Glasgow, Seminar Room, 8 Lilybank Gardens.

Dr Dejan Jovic (Department of Politics, Stirling University)
'Dear Marshall Tito: Citizens writing to Josip Broz Tito, 1943-1964'
Wednesday 16 April, 5.30pm
University of Glasgow, Seminar Room, 8 Lilybank Gardens.

Mr Nadir Kinossian (School of City and Regional Planning, University of Cardiff)
'Constructing the Image of a Competitive City: the case of Kazan'
Wednesday 12 March, 5.30pm
University of Glasgow, Seminar Room, 8 Lilybank Gardens.

Professor Jane Hardy (Business School, University of Hertfordshire)
'The "survival" or "revival" of Polish trade unions in an enlarged Europe?'
Wednesday 13 February 2008, 5.30pm
University of West of Scotland, Room F311, Paisley Campus.

Dr Olaf Mertelsmann (Centre for the Study of Soviet History at the University of Tartu, Estonia)
'Sovietisation of the Western Borderlands: The Case of Estonia'
Wednesday 23 January 2008 at 5.30 pm
University of Glasgow, Seminar Room, 8 Lilybank Gardens.

Semester 1:

Dr Michele Rivkin-Fish (Department of Anthropology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
'Heart of an Intelligent: Collective Memory and the Justification of Class Revival in Russia'
Wednesday 10th October 2007 at 5.30pm
University of Glasgow, Seminar Room, 8 Lilybank Gardens.

Professors Marju Lauristin and Peeter Vihalemm (University of Tartu)
'Lessons from the Soviet war monument crisis ('Bronze soldier riot') for Estonian Society'
Wednesday 17th October 2007 at 5.30pm
University of Glasgow, Seminar Room, 8 Lilybank Gardens.

Dr. Laimonas Briedis (History Department, University of Toronto)
'Between History and Geography: Tracing Europe in Vilnius'
Wednesday 31st October 2007 at 5.30pm
University of Glasgow, Seminar Room, 8 Lilybank Gardens.

Professor Ojars Sparitis (Department for Doctoral Studies, Latvian Academy of Arts)
'Latvian Cultural History Seen Through Architecture and the Built Environment '
 Friday 23 November
 Seminar Room, 8 Lilybank Gardens

Dr Nina Ivashinenko    (Department of Economic Sociology, Nizhni Novgorod State University)
Social-economic transformation in Russia and the countries of the former Soviet Union: experience and perspectives of research 
Dr Ivashinenko will give a brief overview of her home institution followed by a more in-depth discussion on her own research. All Welcome.
Wednesday 14 November, 5.00
Seminar Room, 8 Lilybank Gardens

Additional Guest Seminars

Dr Olaf Mertelsmann (Centre for the Study of Soviet History at the University of Tartu, Estonia)
Explorations in the Strange World of Soviet Statistics 
Postgraduate research methodology seminar
11.00 Wednesday 30 January 2008 Seminar Room, 8 Lilybank Gardens 

Living on a Stalinist Kolkhoz: an oral history 
As part of the LBSS Adam Smith Research Foundation seminar series
12.30 Thursday 31 January 2008 Seminar Room, ASRF , 66 Oakfield Avenue

Guest/Visiting Fellow Seminars

    Post-Communist transformation in Estonia: historical overview.*
    Professor Marju Lauristin and Professor Peeter Vihalemm (University of Tartu)
    Estonian economic and social developments in comparative perspective.
    14.00 - 16.00 Monday 15 October Seminar Room, 8 Lilybank Gardens
    Estonian politics: problems of democratic consolidation, party system, civic society*
    Professor Marju Lauristin and Professor Peeter Vihalemm (University of Tartu)
    11.00 - 13.00 Tuesday 16 October Room T205, Adam Smith Building
    Russian minority in Estonia*
    Professor Marju Lauristin and Professor Peeter Vihalemm (University of Tartu)
    15.00 - 17.00 Tuesday 16 October Seminar Room, 8 Lilybank Gardens
    Estonia's story: reflections on success and trauma of postcommunist transformation*
    Professor Marju Lauristin and Professor Peeter Vihalemm (University of Tartu)
    13.00 - 15.00 Wednesday 17 October Room T403, Adam Smith Building
    15.00 - 17.00    
    Public opinion in Estonia before and after EU accession*
    Professor Marju Lauristin and Professor Peeter Vihalemm (University of Tartu)
    15.00 - 17.00 Thursday 18 October Seminar Room, 8 Lilybank Gardens
    Estonia on the way to information society: changes in media system, in practices of media use*
    Professor Marju Lauristin and Professor Peeter Vihalemm (University of Tartu)
    14.00 - 16.00 Monday 22 October Seminar Room, 8 Lilybank Gardens
    Seminar: representation of the post-communist countries in the British media*
    Professor Marju Lauristin and Professor Peeter Vihalemm (University of Tartu)
    Presentation of the students' papers, comments from Professors Marju Lauristin and Peeter Vihalemm.
    11.00 - 13.00 Tuesday 23 October Seminar Room, 8 Lilybank Gardens
    15.00 - 17.00    

*Sessions are primarily for all students taking the CEES Honours options in Estonia. Other students may attend either the course as a whole or individual lectures.

For further information please contact Maggie Baister (m.baister@lbss.gla.ac.uk)

    Social-economic transformation in Russia and the countries of the former Soviet Union: experience and perspectives of research
    Dr Nina Ivashinenko (Department of Economic Sociology, Nizhni Novgorod State University)
    Dr Ivashinenko will give a brief overview of her home institution followed by a more in-depth discussion on her own research. All Welcome.
    17.00 Wednesday 14 November Seminar Room, 8 Lilybank Gardens
    Latvian Cultural History Seen Through Architecture and the Built Environment
    Professor Ojars Sparitis (Department for Doctoral Studies, Latvian Academy of Arts)
    The lecture by Professor Ojars Sparitis, Head of the Department for Doctoral Studies of the Latvian Academy of Arts and subsequent roundtable discussion will be followed by a light lunch.

To attend please contact Maggie Baister (m.baister@lbss.gla.ac.uk) by 20 November. Thanks
    11.00 - 13.00 Friday 23 November Seminar Room, 8 Lilybank Gardens