Central and East European Studies 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'
http://anthropology.unc.edu/people/faculty/mrivkinfish
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 31January 2008 Seminar Room, ASRF , 66 Oakfield Avenue
| Post-Communist transformation in Estonia: historical overview.* | ||
| Professor Marju Lauristin and Professor Peeter Vihalemm (Univeristy 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 (Univeristy 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 (Univeristy 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 (Univeristy 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 (Univeristy 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 (Univeristy 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 (Univeristy 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.