Research in Central & East European Studies

West Coast Seminars 2008-2009

Semester 2

Wednesday 20 May 5.30 pm (PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF DATE)
Paul Lassalle  (University of the West of Scotland)
'Polish Entrepreneurs in Scotland: the Polish community, personal trajectories and business strategies'
University of the West of Scotland (Paisley Campus), Room A407

Wednesday, 27 May 5.30 pm  (PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF DATE)
Dr Laura Piacentini (University of Strathclyde)
'Women and Imprisonment in Russia'
University of Strathclyde, Graham Hills Building, 40 Great George Street, Room 951

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Wednesday, 21 January  5.30 pm
Dr Erik Van Ree (University of Amsterdam)
'The Stalinist Self: The Case of Ioseb Jugashvili (the young Stalin, 1892-1907)'
University of Glasgow, CEES seminar room, 8-9 Lilybank Gardens

Wednesday, 4 February  5.30 pm
Co-hosted in collaboration with the Department of Politics, University of Glasgow
and The International Centre for Gender and Women's Studies
Dr Vikki Turbine (University of Glasgow, Department of Politics)
'Women, welfare and legal claims in contemporary Russia: new definitions and approaches to claiming rights?)'
University of Glasgow, CEES seminar room, 8-9 Lilybank Gardens

Wednesday, 11 February  5.30 pm
Robert Porter  (Honorary Professorial Research Fellow, Slavonic Studies, University of Glasgow)
'Understanding Russian Politics through Literature: Valerii Kazakov's novel "Ten' goblina" (2008).' 
University of Glasgow, CEES seminar room, 8-9 Lilybank Gardens

Tuesday 17 February 5.30 pm
SPECIAL GUEST LECTURE
CEES VISITING RESEARCH FELLOW
Dr Anna Maltseva  (Faculty of Sociology, Altai State University, Russia)
'The Altai Region: its culture and sociological science' 
University of Glasgow, CEES seminar room, 8-9 Lilybank Gardens

Wednesday, 18 February 5.30 pm
Dr Umut Korkut  (University of Dublin)
'How to Best Reduce Regional Underdevelopment? Multi-level Collaboration vs Centralised Public Policy Making'
University of the West of Scotland (Paisley Campus)

Wednesday, 4 March  5.30 pm
Dr Martin Kovats  (Birkbeck College, London)
'The Rise and Fall of the EU Roma Strategy'
University of Glasgow, CEES seminar room, 8-9 Lilybank Gardens

Wednesday, 11 March  5.30 pm
Dr Katherine Lebow (University of Virginia)
'The Making of the Polish Working Class: from Stalin to Solidarnosc in Nowa Huta' 
University of Glasgow, CEES seminar room, 8-9 Lilybank Gardens

Wednesday, 18 March 5.30 pm
Dr Katja Mirwaldt (EPRC, University of Strathclyde)
'A Geographical Approach to the  Contact Hypothesis: evidence from the Czech-German border' 
University of Strathclyde, Graham Hills Building, 40 Great George Street, Room 951

Wednesday, 29 April 5.30 pm
Mr Marek Naczyk (University of Oxford)
'Can the Power Resources perspective and the Varieties of Capitalism approach shed more light on institutional change in Central European pension systems?'
University of the West of Scotland (Paisley Campus), Room A407

Thursday 7 May  5.30 pm
Dr Lynne Attwood  (University of Manchester)
'The Housing Crisis as a Theme in Fiction' 
University of Glasgow, CEES seminar room, 8-9 Lilybank Gardens

Semester 1

Tuesday 21 October, 5.30 pm
Dr Arturas Tereskinas (Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania)
"Post-Soviet Masculinities, Shame and the Archives of Social Suffering in Contemporary Lithuania"
University of Glasgow, CEES seminar room, 8-9 Lilybank Gardens

Tuesday 11th November  5.30 pm
Dr Sándor Gallai (Corvinus University, Budapest)
Informal discussion on current Hungarian politics  (No paper)
University of Glasgow, CEES seminar room, 8-9 Lilybank Gardens

Wednesday, 19th November  5.30 pm
Murad Ismaylov (Baku State University and Azerbaijan Diplomatic Academy – CEES Visiting Fellow)
“Structure, Agency and Resource Curse: Azerbaijan’s Efforts to Minimise the Curse and Maximise the Blessing”
University of Glasgow, CEES seminar room, 8-9 Lilybank Gardens

Thursday, 27th November 5.30 pm 
Brigita Stroda (Director of Latvian Tourism, London)
Co-hosted in association with the Department of Politics 
 “The Role of Culture in Nation Branding”
University of Glasgow, CEES seminar room, 8-9 Lilybank Gardens

Wednesday 3rd December  5.30 pm
Co-hosted in association with the Department of Sociology, Anthropology & Applied Social Sciences, University of Glasgow and the International Centre for Gender and Women's Studies
Francesca Stella(CEES, University of Glasgow)
“Soviet modernity and the ‘modern homosexual’: Researching lesbian sexuality through an oral history project”
University of Glasgow, CEES seminar room, 8-9 Lilybank Gardens