West Coast Seminars 2009-2010

Semester 2

WEDNESDAY 19 MAY 2010, 5.30pm
Dr Rutger von Seth
Honorary Fellow, Department of Politics, University of Glasgow

'From the Soviet to the Post-Soviet Russian Press: Democracy and the Elusive Public Sphere'
University of Glasgow, CEES Seminar Room, 8-9 Lilybank Gardens

WEDNESDAY 20 JANUARY, 5.30pm
Dr Julia Lajus
Marie Curie Research Fellow, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Science, University of Birmingham
and Center for Environmental and Technological History, European University at St Petersburg
'Soviet participation in the Second International Polar Year (1932-33):
from international cooperation of scientists to a state project

University of Glasgow, CEES Seminar Room, 8-9 Lilybank Gardens

WEDNESDAY 27 JANUARY 2010, 5.30pm
Professor David Moon
Department of History, University of Birmingham
'Debates on climate change in 19th Century Russia'
University of Glasgow, CEES Seminar Room, 8-9 Lilybank Gardens

WEDNESDAY 10 MARCH 2010, 5.30pm
Toshtemir Majidov
Research Fellow, University of Stirling
'The Effect of the Global Financial Crisis on the Central Asian Countries:
the Case of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan'

 University of West of Scotland, Paisley Campus, Room P114

WEDNESDAY 17 MARCH 2010
, 5.30pm
Dr Derek Averre
Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham
‘A reluctant troika? US, EU and Russian perceptions of European security governance’
University of Glasgow, CEES Seminar Room, 8-9 Lilybank Gardens

WEDNESDAY 21 APRIL 2010, 5.30pm
Dr Nataliya Kibita
Honorary Research Fellow, Central and East European Studies, University of Glasgow
'The sovnarkhoz reform'
University of Glasgow, CEES Seminar Room, 8-9 Lilybank Gardens

WEDNESDAY 05 MAY 2010, 5.30pm
Eleftherios Antonopoulos
PhD student, UACES scholar, European Policies Research Centre, University of Strathclyde
‘Pre-accession assistance as a mechanism of europeanisation: the effects of CARDS/IPA on administrative capacity in Croatia’
EPRC, Strathclyde University, Room 951, Graham Hills Building, 40 George Street

WEDNESDAY 19 MAY 2010, 5.30pm    RESCHEDULED FROM 03 MARCH
Dr Rutger von Seth
Honorary Fellow, Department of Politics, University of Glasgow
'From the Soviet to the Post-Soviet Russian Press: Democracy and the Elusive Public Sphere'
University of Glasgow, CEES Seminar Room, 8-9 Lilybank Gardens


Semester 1

Wednesday 07 October 2009, 5.30 pm
In collaboration with the Terry Wade Memorial Lecture Series
Inaugural Lecture

Dr John Dunn (Honorary Research Associate, Slavonic Studies, University of Glasgow)
'How many Slavonic languages are there?'
University of Glasgow, Room T316, Adam Smith Building

Wednesday 21 October 2009, 5.30pm
Dr Charlotte Alston, Division of History and Politics, School of Arts and Social Scieinces, Northumbria University
'The Baltic States and the Paris Peace Conference of 1919'
University of Glasgow, CEES Seminar Room, 8-9 Lilybank Gardens

Monday 09 November 2009, 5.30pm
In collaboration with the Uralic Peoples Film Festival
Professor Dr János Pusztay
, University of West Hungary
'The Finno-Ugruis and Uralic National Minorities in Russia'
University of Glasgow, CEES Seminar Room, 8-9 Lilybank Gardens

Wednesday 18 November, 5.30 pm
Dr Monica Ciobanu (CEES Visiting Research Fellow)
Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice at Plattsburgh State University of New York
http://www.gla.ac.uk/departments/centralandeasteuropeanstudies/visiting%20fellowships/#d.en.134963
'Communist Regimes, Legitimacy and the 1989 Revolutions in Eastern Europe'
University of Glasgow, CEES Seminar Room, 8-9 Lilybank Gardens

Wednesday 2 December, 5.30 pm
Dr Tony Heywood
 (Department of History, University of Aberdeen)
‘Russia’s Great War and Revolution 1914-1922: The Centennial Reappraisal’
University of Glasgow, CEES Seminar Room, 8-9 Lilybank Gardens