For those in London on 17 Nov 2025: please join us for a book talk at @uclssees.bsky.social. @eglerin.bsky.social and @robertsuits.bsky.social have read the book and will share their comments. Register here: www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

🔊 Join us for a third edition of the annual Václav Havel European Dialogues, a global series of discussions inspired by Havel’s enduring legacy. Co-organised by the Czech Centre London, SSEES and PIMs. 🗓️ 22 October at 5pm 📍 UCL SSEES ➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

If you could go back, what would you tell your first-year self? 💡 Our students and graduates share the advice they wish they’d had when starting university. Watch the video to hear more! buff.ly/usvBqf7 @uclhjs.bsky.social @uclselcs.bsky.social @uclssees.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk

🎬 Please join us for the opening workshop of the 9th London Georgian Film Festival with Nana Ekvtimishvili and Marika Khundadze. Supported by the Georgian Film Institute and Life Through Cinema. 🗓️ 30 September at 6.30pm 📍 UCL SSEES ➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

Please join us for this @seeatucl-ssees.bsky.social seminar with Prof. Vjeran Pavlaković to hear more about pop culture and memory politics in the former Yugoslavia. 🗓️ 10 October at 4pm 📍 UCL SSEES ➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

Please join us for a discussion with Dr Svitlana Biedarieva, who will focus on her notion of “ambicoloniality”, unpacking its significance to interdisciplinary area studies research. Co-hosted by @uclamericas.bsky.social 🗓️ 17 October at 5pm 📍 UCL SSEES ➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

Please join us for this #SSEESing roundtable event to hear more about the implications of the 2025 Czech parliamentary elections for the country's democracy, society, and position in Europe. Co-sponsored by the British Czech and Slovak Association. 🗓️ 9 October at 6pm ➡️ buff.ly/OQPDKzV

Please join us for this @seeatucl-ssees.bsky.social event with @theodorad.bsky.social, who will examine the case of adopted and fostered refugee children in the Balkan borderlands. Co-sponsored by @criticalchildhood.bsky.social 🗓️ 6 October at 5pm 📍 UCL SSEES ➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

🎬 Please join us for the opening workshop of the 9th London Georgian Film Festival with Nana Ekvtimishvili and Marika Khundadze. Supported by the Georgian Film Institute and Life Through Cinema. 🗓️ 30 September at 6.30pm 📍 UCL SSEES ➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

What to make of the Intervision song contest? See this excellent article by Joanna York for @france24.com, including comment from me. @uclssees.bsky.social www.france24.com/en/europe/20...

🎉 Congratulations to Dr Jessie Barton Hronešová, who has won the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia Article Prize for her article “The uses of victimhood as a hegemonic meta-narrative in eastern Europe". www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit... @artshumsucl.bsky.social

🇨🇿 Join us @uclssees.bsky.social for a roundtable on the 2025 Czech parliamentary elections. Specialists discuss the results, their implications for democracy, society & Czechia’s role in Europe. 🗓 9 Oct, 6pm | Online & in-person #CzechElections #SSEES #BCSA. www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

Welcome to UCL! 💜 Kick off Welcome Week with our Arts & Humanities Treasure Hunt. A fun way to explore campus and meet new people. 📍 Open to all new Arts & Humanities students 👉 Find out how to join here: buff.ly/VJwWt3Y @uclhjs.bsky.social @uclselcs.bsky.social @uclssees.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk

Our first event of the new season! 6 October, 1700h, Prof Theodora Dragostinova 'examines the case of adopted and fostered refugee children in the Balkan borderlands to unpack what treating a child “like my own” meant during the fluid transition from war to peace.' www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

I'll be present at this event at UCL SSEES. Everyone involved are amazing people!

Join us for a lecture & event with Arbër Qerka-Gashi, Ana Ilievska -Zavrsnik, Mirela Xhaferraj and Ramona Gonczol: The Balkans, its Diasporas, and the Stories of Material Culture 🗓️18 November at 5pm 📍UCL SSEES ➡️Free and open to all: www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

Join us for a lecture & event with Arbër Qerka-Gashi, Ana Ilievska -Zavrsnik, Mirela Xhaferraj and Ramona Gonczol: The Balkans, its Diasporas, and the Stories of Material Culture 🗓️18 November at 5pm 📍UCL SSEES ➡️Free and open to all: www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

We are excited to invite you to a seminar with Mojca M. Hočevar from the University of Ljubljana: English-Slovenian Dictionaries: From Print Volumes to Digital Platforms 🗓️21 October at 6pm 📍UCL SSEES ➡️Free and open to all: www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

We are pleased to invite you to the London Georgian Film Festival Workshop: Cinema of Displacement on a Home Called Sakartvelo. 🗓️30 September at 6.30pm 📍UCL SSEES ➡️Free and open to all: www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

What an incredible day! 🌟 On 9 September, we proudly celebrated over 700 Arts & Humanities students at our Undergraduate Graduation Ceremonies. 🎓 #UCLGrad @uclhjs.bsky.social @uclselcs.bsky.social @uclssees.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk @ucl.ac.uk.bsky.social

We are pleased to invite you to the book launch of 'Mirdja: A Decadent New Woman' by L. Onerva, translated by Eva Buchwald with an introduction by Viola Parente-Čapková. 🗓️ 23 October at 6pm 📍 UCL SSEES ➡️ Free and open to all: www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit... @themhra.bsky.social

We're having a book launch for Mirdja in October, come along if you're in or near London! The editors/translators will be talking about this wonderful novel, perhaps reading some passages. It's gonna be fun 😀

🗣️ The 'Slavonic and East European Review' 132.2, edited by @uclssees.bsky.social, is out! 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/publications... Articles by Stefan Baghiu, Catriona Kelly, Donald Ostrowski, Maria Grazia Bartolini, Balázs Apor & Book Reviews. @projectmuse.bsky.social 👉 muse.jhu.edu/issue/55383

🔊 Enrolments now open! Are you of Albanian heritage and interested in strengthening your language skills? Our course is specially designed for those who grew up speaking Albanian at home with family and friends, but who haven’t had much formal learning. ➡️ Find out more: buff.ly/x3kX8hK

Watch the recording of our discussion on Odesa, identity, resistance & empire with @julianevans.bsky.social, Olha Sydorushkina, Oksana Dovgopolova, Ivan Kozlenko. Organised by @uclssees.bsky.social & @ukrinstitute.bsky.social, supported by @britishacademy.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nb17...

Today is a special day for SSEES Library. Exactly 20 years ago today (15th August 2005) we opened at our current location in Taviton Street. The new @uclssees.bsky.social building was not quite finished, but that didn't stop us! 📚🥳🍾🎉🎈

'In a time of disruption, the Congress offered clarity, connection, and compassion — all of which help us to endure, remain engaged, and continue imagining a better future.' SSEES PhD candidate Alesia Mankouskaya reflects on ICCEES World Congress: blogs.ucl.ac.uk/ssees/2025/0... @basees.bsky.social

🔊"A lot of discussion in the Russian media is about a whole new chapter of Russian-American relations." ‪Prof @markgaleotti.bsky.social @uclssees.bsky.social explores what President Putin may be hoping to achieve at the Alaska summit on @newsagents.bsky.social‬. www.globalplayer.com/podcasts/42K...

Congratulations to all students receiving their A-Level results today! 🎉 For those joining us at UCL SSEES - we are thrilled to welcome you to our department and can't wait to meet you! Who will be joining us this autumn? #ALevelResults #ALevelResultsDay #Congratulations #WelcomeToUCL

🔊 Job vacancy! We are looking for an experienced Teaching and Learning Manager, who will lead the Education and Student Support Office (ESSO) at SSEES. The position is available from 30 September 2025 to 31 August 2026. 🗓️ Deadline: 24 August 2025 ➡️ Apply here: buff.ly/xHsuGhh

🔉The latest 'Slavonic and East European Review', edited by @uclssees.bsky.social, is out! Titled 'Crossing Boundaries: Human-Animal Relationships in Tsarist Russia and the Soviet Union', the Special Issue has been edited by Helena Holzberger & Timm Schönfelder. 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/publications...

🔊 Job vacancy! We are looking for an experienced Teaching and Learning Manager, who will lead the Education and Student Support Office (ESSO) at SSEES. The position is available from 30 September 2025 to 31 August 2026. 🗓️ Deadline: 24 August 2025 ➡️ Apply here: buff.ly/xHsuGhh

To wrap up July, how inspiring it was to give a guest lecture at the Ukrainian Summer School 2025 at the University of Warwick.I’m grateful to Prof. Christoph Mick for being the driving force behind this initiative.All the students came to my lecture in Ukrainian vyshyvankas 🤗 @uclssees.bsky.social

Presented on a fantastic panel “Contact zones & Cross-Cultural Dialogue in Ukrainian Literature” chaired by @uilleamblacker.bsky.social & had the pleasure to run a panel series “Between Past & Future: The Ukrainian War as a Battle for Identity” @iceeess.bsky.social, hosted by @uclssees.bsky.social

📺 In case you missed this event, the recording is now available here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9OI...

Congratulations to SSEES student Olga Doletskaya, who passed their PhD viva with minor corrections! Their PhD is entitled ‘Queer Russian Parents: Building Support Networks, Navigating Risks, “Doing Family” and Crossing Borders’. Read more: www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

This month's SSEES spotlight is on Kasia Kramer, President of the UCL SSEES Society! Kasia tells us about her studies and her role as the President of the SSEES Society, and shares her future aspirations! Read the full interview: bit.ly/3UrUbNl

Thank you #PeterHaslinger and Heidi Hein Kircher for Putting this wonderful Panel together at #iccees2025 @basees.bsky.social @uclssees.bsky.social 🤗🤗🤗

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!👏

Brief comments from me in this look ahead to the Czech Republic’s upcoming elections by @tvpworld.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjbK... @uclssees.bsky.social

If you're at #ICCEES2025 @uclssees.bsky.social @basees.bsky.social in London, pop into the roundtable on 'Hostile & Hospitable Environments in Eastern Europe' on Wednesday at 4.30 pm - with Karolina Follis, @kamilafialkowska.bsky.social Kasia Narkowicz, Roch Dunin-Wasowicz and yours truly:

Opening of #ICCEES2025 at @ucl.ac.uk @uclssees.bsky.social yesterday by @mneumannuea.bsky.social - hats off for organising the programme for/with over 1,000 participants. And congratulations on having been elected the new Chair of ICCEES!

It's the #ICCEES2025 XI World Congress in London (at @uclssees.bsky.social)! Come visit us at our booth, and remember to use code ICCEES35 for 35% off select titles until August 15th, 2025. For more details: bit.ly/3GALblM #ICCEES25 #academicsky #History #EastEuropeanStudies

Looking forward to presenting and discussing at #ICCEES2025 XI London @ioe.bsky.social @uclssees.bsky.social @basees.bsky.social Session “Central Europe in the Shadow of the Russo-Ukrainian War”. Join the discussion: www.myeventflo.com/event.aspx?m...

Very much looking forward to being in conversation with Dame Melinda Simmons today at #iccees2025, hosted at @uclssees.bsky.social. We'll be talking Ukraine, Poland, the Russian threat, and more www.iccees2025.org/keynote-spea...

In July Dr Anna Koch, Lecturer in Modern German History was the 2025 winner of BIAJS book prize. For her book ‘Home after Fascism: Italian and German Jews after the Holocaust.’ A truly well-deserved recognition, Congratulations 👏

Congrats to Prof. Richard Mole on his Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada grant! His ‘Sanctuaries of Hope’ project partners with Bogotá’s LGBTQ Houses to co-create research, policy, workshops & films on queer migration and community support.

📚 Join the authors for the launch of Anti-Atlas: Critical Area Studies from the East of the West, edited by Beasley-Murray, Bracewell & Murawski. 📅 22 July 2025 🕠 17:30 BST 📍 Moot Court, UCL Laws 🎟 Free – registration required 🔗 bit.ly/3ImhQMG #UCLPress #AntiAtlas

Our Associate Professor Ramona Gonczol led a free Romanian language session for staff at Great Chapel Street Medical Centre, supporting their work with Romanian speaking patients experiencing homelessness. Refreshers offered anytime! What fantastic work 👏