New episode of The Ukraine Shelf is out now! A great discussion with @lukeharding1968.bsky.social and Myroslav Laiuk on what it means to report on war. Don't miss it! www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3eT...

Look, it is *really* hard to write something snappy for the internet about an event titled "Late Antique Astronomical Sciences in Medieval Compendia" but we are hosting a workshop and you should come if you're into ancient astronomy. 💫 📅 10 June 2026 📍 UCL

Interested in studying Modern Languages at UCL? 🌍 Join us to learn more about studying Modern Languages at UCL, home to the widest range of language‑based degrees in the UK. Book now to hear from UCL SELCS and SSEES: buff.ly/22XZDaS @uclssees.bsky.social @uclselcs.bsky.social

UCL SSEES Associate Professor Ramona Gonczol spoke at the UK Parliament on introducing an optional GCSE in Romanian, highlighting the importance of heritage languages for identity and wellbeing. She also discussed the campaign and Romanian language provision in a Euronews Romania interview.

If in London, make sure to see Almagul Menlibayeva’s exhibition

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...

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

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...

Celebrating with @uclssees.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

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...

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!

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...

Nightjars are a 4:3 bird accidentally displayed in 16:9

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

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/

'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...

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.👇

We still have some tickets left for Monday's Cinema Research Group event with Kirill Goriachok! Free and open to all: www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

🎬 SSEES Film Festival Vol 1: "Resistance" The festival forms part of our UCL200 programme of events to celebrate UCL’s bicentenary. The film screenings are free but ticketed. Book here: www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit... @artshumsucl.bsky.social

Still time to apply. 👇

Using artificial intelligence in research and education raises many questions around copyright. Join us on 4 March for an interactive workshop on copyright and GenAI with guest speaker, Ben White. https://library-calendars.ucl.ac.uk/event/4430020

🔊 One week to go! Join us for Yugo Queer, a one-day conference which aims to make area studies more #queer. It remaps the #Balkans from a war-torn region into one where new forms of activism, art, and affinity can emerge. 🗓️ 19 February ➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit... #LGBTplusHM26

Join us for the next @seeatucl-ssees.bsky.social seminar to hear more about @sanjavico.bsky.social's book 'Doing Nation in a Digital Age: Banal Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism in Polymedia Environments'. 🗓️ 4 February at 6pm 📍 UCL SSEES ➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

🎥 Join us on Monday for the SSEES Cinema Research Group seminar with Dr Caroline Damiens, who will explore how the depictions of the indigenous 'Peoples of the North' in #Soviet cinema and television evolved between 1920 and 1980. 🗓️ 26 January at 6pm 📍 UCL SSEES ➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

🔊 Due to high demand, this event will now be livestreamed online Join us for an exploration of how food vocabulary in the #Balkans encodes millennia of indigenous evolution, alongside contact, borrowing, and contested belonging. 🗓️ 3 February at 5pm ➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

They are killing international studies. If the UK had a clue that it was possible to do anything other than imitate bad decisions made in the US, it would be inviting these people to come and build powerhouse research institutes across the country. www.dailytarheel.com/article/univ...

Russia banned Deutsche Welle today, adding it to the ever-growing list of "undesirable agents." That means it's now illegal in Russia to share DW content, work for DW, or even comment to DW for a story. You can still read it, though, if you're able to circumvent the Internet censors.

🎊 Calling all current PGRs and ECRs - be a part of Limmud Festival’s PhD engagement programme, created to build a cohort of emerging academics in the field of Jewish studies across the UK. Apply below by 15th August for a place at 90% discount, and please do share in your networks! lnkd.in/eVtmrHsu

Congratulations to Stefan Lacny on winning the BASEES Prize for Best Scholarly Article for “Creating the Polish Enemy on the Soviet Screen, 1925–1939.” Also to Dr Natalia V. Parker, awarded the BASEES Prize for Excellence in Teaching. Well deserved!👏

I'll be talking about the movement away from/towards regimes of belonging as an everyday security practice tomorrow at #iccees2025. Come say hi if you're around! www.myeventflo.com/event-lectur...

"It is too easy, more than three years into this terrible war, to call to mind dinner parties, academic conferences, weddings, where memory folds and unfolds to admit a shadow, because someone who was there, and who should still be with us, has been killed." snyder.substack.com/p/guest-host...

A study on what many of us already know: over 75% of internal service work in academia is done by women. The bit that gets me:”The male associate professors in particular made it clear that they actively engaged in evasiveness and did not want to participate if it was not positive for their careers”

Oooh, you mean it's OK to leave, realise it's a mistake, then rejoin? 😉