West Coast Seminar 2010-11

Semester 2 Programme

Wednesday 16 March 2011, 5.30pm
University of Glasgow, CEES seminar room, 8-9 Lilybank Gardens

Dr Elizabeth Waters, University of Westminster. View abstract: Dr Elizabeth Waters 

"Evidence-based satire: Soviet cartoons on drink and drunkenness, 1964-1982"

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Wednesday 02 February 2011,  5.30pm
University of Glasgow, CEES seminar room, 8-9 Lilybank Gardens

Dr Valentyna Romanova, Marie Curie International Fellow, Politics and International Relations, School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh. View abstract: Dr Valentyna Romanova 

"Democratisation vs Regional Diversity during Transition: the Case of Ukraine"

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Wednesday 26 January 2011,  5.30pm
University of Glasgow, CEES seminar room, 8-9 Lilybank Gardens

Dr Mychailo Wynnyckyj, Director of the Graduate School, Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Ukraine. View abstract: Dr Mychailo Wynnyckyj 

"Ukraine's post-Soviet political elite:  recent research on recruitment, circulation and network relations"

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Wednesday 12 January 2011,  5.30pm
University of Glasgow, CEES seminar room, 8-9 Lilybank Gardens

Dr Keiji Sato Visiting Fellow in CEES, University of Glasgowand Slavic Centre, University of Hokkaido. View abstract: Dr Keiji Sato 

"Acknowledgement of the Secret Protocol of the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact and the Declaration of the State Sovereignty by the Union Republics of the USSR"

Tea and Coffee from 5.00
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Semester 1 Programme

Monday 18 October 2010, 5.30 pm
University of Glasgow, Room 507 Boyd Orr Building Terry Wade Memorial Lecture

Professor Rosalind Marsh (Department of European Studies and Modern Languages, University of Bath. View abstract: Professor Rosalind Marsh 

"The Rise of Political Fiction in the Post-Soviet Period"

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Wednesday 27 October 2010, 5.30 pm
University of Glasgow, CEES Seminar Room, 8-9  Lilybank Gardens

Dr Csaba Törő, Central and East European Studies Visiting Research FellowAssociate professor of international relations and law at the Budapest College of Communication and Business, and senior research fellow at the Hungarian Institute of International Affairs. View abstract: Dr Csaba Törő 

"In search of the effective representation and promotion of shared interests from Central Europe to the Baltic Sea: The emerging pattern of co-ordination between the Visegrad (V4) and the Baltic (B3) countries within the EU and beyond"

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Thursday 04 November 2010, 5.30 pm
University of Glasgow, CEES Seminar Room, 8-9  Lilybank Gardens

Professor Abraham Ascher, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Graduate Center, City University of New York. View abstract: Professor Abraham Ascher 

'A Community Under Siege: the Jews of Breslau (Wroclaw) under Nazism'

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Wednesday 01 December 2010, 5.30pm
University of Glasgow, CEES seminar room, 8-9 Lilybank Garden

Dr Richard Connolly, CEELBAS Research Fellow, Centre for Russian and East European Studies, School of Government and Society, University of Birmingham. View abstract: Dr Richard Connolly 

 "The global financial-economic crisis and emerging Europe: what has changed?

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Wednesday 12 January 2010, 5.30pm
University of Glasgow, CEES seminar room, 8-9 Lilybank Garden

 Visiting Fellow in CEES, University of Glasgow and Slavic Centre, University of Hokkaido.

"Acknowledgement of the Secret Protocol of the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact and the Declaration of the State Sovereignty by the Union Republics of the USSR"

Tea and Coffee from 5.00
All Welcome