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November 2023Prof Stephen White (1945-2023)IARCEES wishes to acknowledge the recent death of Professor Stephen White, Emeritus Professor of Politics at Glasgow University and President of BASEES 1994-1997. Hailing from Dublin and educated at Trinity College Dublin, Prof White was a friend of ISA/IAREES/IARCEES and was made an Honorary Life Member of the Association for his contribution to the development of Russian, Central and East European Studies in Ireland during a special presentation at the 40th Annual Conference 2016 at NUIM. Our thoughts are with the White family. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ May 2023Book launch and AGM
On 26 May 2023, IARCEES launched Maria Falina's book 'Religion and Politics in Interwar Yugoslavia: Serbian Nationalism and East Orthodox Christianity'. The launch was organised by the DCU School of History and Geography and IARCEES, and took place from 4-6pm at DCU Belvedere House. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ October 2022IARCEES launches the annual Marcus Wheeler Bursary designed to support early career scholars. This was made possible following a generous donation by Emeritus Professor of Politics at Trinity College Dublin, Editor of Irish Slavonic Studies for many years and Honorary Life Member of IARCEES, which the Association gratefully acknowledges. Responding to the proposal, Eleanor Wheeler, Marcus’s daughter, wrote: “On behalf of my family, I would be delighted to have you name a bursary after my father. It is a great honour and he would be very pleased.” ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ June 2020Prof Marcus Wheeler(1927?-2020).IARCEES wishes to acknowledge the death of its co-founder, Emeritus Professor Marcus Wheeler, who passed away on 12 June 2020. Having joined Queen's University Belfast as first Professor of Slavonic Studies in 1967, he worked there until his retirement in 1993. A very distinguished scholar, author of the Oxford Russian–English Dictionary and recipient of the prestigious Pushkin medal, he instigated the setting up of the Association - initially the Irish Slavists' Association - in 1975. Some of his work relating to Poland was published in the Association's journal Irish Slavonic Studies, and he was made an Honorary Life Member in recognition of his achievements. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ December 2018Launch of "World War I in Central and Eastern Europe. Politics, Conflict and Military Experience", edited by Judith Devlin, John Paul Newman and Maria Falina, on 4th December 2018 |
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During a special presentation reflecting on the 41 years of ISA/IAREES/IARCEES on the first day of the Annual Conference, Prof Stephen White was made an Honorary Life Member of the Association for his contribution to the development of Russian, Central and East European Studies in Ireland. |
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Cycle against suicide
Our Membership Secretary, Dr Jonathan Murphy, is taking part in the 2015 charity cycle. If you would like to support the event (for example if you know someone who could provide a homestay in Birr) click here. We wish Jonathan the best of luck in this endeavour - it is a sign of true dedication that he is going to miss the grand finale to be at our conference!
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Smyth, Sarah / Opitz, Conny (eds)
Negotiating Linguistic, Cultural and Social Identities in the Post-Soviet World
Table of Contents // More on Publisher's site
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Award of Pushkin Medal to Sarah Smyth
On the 4 November in the Moscow Kremlin by Presidential Decree, Sarah Smyth, Head of the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies (TCD), was awarded the prestigious Medal of Pushkin.
This medal is awarded annually to no more than ten recipients in recognition of their outstanding contribution to the promotion of Russian language and culture in the world.
Asked about how she felt being the first Irish person to be honoured in this way, Sarah said: ‘In the context of Bono’s concert in Moscow and meeting with President Medvedev during the summer, President Mary MacAleese’s visit to Russia in September and the Taoiseach’s planned trip in the coming year, the award highlights a significant shift in Irish-Russian relations and bodes well for future developments.”
Previous recipients have included the renowned Russian scholar and lexicographer, Professor Marcus Wheeler, formerly of The Queen’s University Belfast, and Lyudmila Putina, for her pioneering work in and with the Russian-speaking diaspora since the formation of the Russian Federation.
Sarah’s career as a Russianist began in the early eighties. She is the author of a number of widely acclaimed Russian language textbooks and is currently principal investigator on a major IRCHSS-funded research project on Russian speakers in Ireland.
Source: TCD Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies
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It is with great sadness that we report the death on Saturday 13th November 2010 of one of our members, Ros Dixon. Ros was a Lecturer in Drama and Theatre Studies in the English Department at the National University of Ireland, Galway. She wrote her doctorate on the work of the Soviet theatre director Anatolii Efros, she published articles on varied aspects of Russian theatre history. She was also engaged in research on productions of Russian plays in Ireland and Irish plays in Russia, a study that concerns issues of translation, adaptation, and cross-cultural exchange. Irish Times Obituary
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Ron Hill was conferred Honorary Life Membership of the Association.
Professor Ronald J. Hill is an Emeritus Fellow of Trinity College Dublin. He retired as Professor of Comparative Government, Trinity College Dublin in September 2007, a position to which he was appointed in 1991. Previously he had been Junior Lecturer, Lecturer, and Associate Professor of Political Science at TCD. He is also a Senior Associate Member, St. Antony's College, Oxford and an Associate of Institute for Soviet and East European Studies, University of Glasgow. He has been a Visiting Fullbright Professor at Lafayette College, Easton, PA (1981-82) and a Fellow-in-Residence, at the Netherlands Institute of Advanced Studies.
Ron’s contribution to the study of Soviet and Russian politics in Ireland and globally is immense. His first book Soviet Political Elites: The Case of Tiraspol (London: Martin Robertson and New York: St. Martin's Press, 1977), was one of the first books to look in detail and at first hand at Soviet political practices in local government. His Soviet Politics, Political Science and Reform (Oxford: Martin Robertson and Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1980) mapped out the reform debates that what were to become the intellectual origins of perestroika. His The Soviet Communist Party (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1981; 3rd edn 1986; co-authored with Peter Frank) was – and remains – the most complete description of the workings and nature of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. His other books include The Soviet Union: Politics, Economics and Society (London: Pinter, 1985; 2nd edn. 1989), Communist Politics Under the Knife: Surgery or Autopsy? (London: Pinter, 1990), Gorbachev and Perestroika: Towards a New Socialism? (Aldershot: Edward Elgar, 1990; co-editor), Beyond Stalinism: Communist Political Evolution (London: Cass, 1992; editor), Modern Irish Democracy: Essays in Honour of Basil Chubb (Blackrock: Irish Academic Press, 1993; co-editor), and Putin and Putinism (London: Routledge, 2009; co-editor). Ron’s contribution to global Russian and Soviet studies also included editorial work on book series and journals. He is General Editor of Studies of Communism in Transition (Edward Elgar Publishers) and Style and Managing Editor of the Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics. Internationally he has served as General Editor, ICCEES Warsaw Congress Proceedings (Macmillan Publishing). In Ireland he was for many years a mainstay of IARCEES and was editor, of Irish Slavonic Studies for many years. (Neil Robinson)
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