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    IARCEES

    Irish Association for Russian, Central and East European Studies

    Cumann Slaiviseach na hEireann

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Lectures and Seminars

1) IARCEES Annual Conference, Dublin, 23-24 April 2010

Private Lives, Public Personas: Memoirs, Diaries, Biography, and Personal Narrative under Communism

Call for papers (Deadline Friday 12 March 2010)

Members are invited to submit their paper proposal even if they do not relate directly to the conference theme.

 

2) SSEES Conference, University College London, 18-19 Sept 2010

Diasporas and Cosmopolitanism in Central and Eastern Europe: From Theory to Practice

Call for papers (Deadline Fri 2 April 2010)

 

3) Irish Solidarity with Poland, Exhibition and Public Meeting

Poland was a country in crisis in the early 1980s. The founding of the free trade union, Solidarity, in the Gdansk shipyard in August 1980, led to resistance to the Communist government. On 13th December, 1981, General Jaruzelski declared martial law and the army took control of the country.

In Ireland a group of Polish people and Irish supporters in the Irish Polish Society organized protests and fund-raising events and sent over £250,000 worth of aid to Poland. To commemorate this episode in Irish-Polish relations:

Public Meeting: 8 March 2010, 7 pm

Exhibition: 1-13 March 2010, Blanchardstown Public Library, Blanchardstown Centre

Local activists will tell their stories along with a video and protest music from the period by Polish folk-singer, Justyna (Szwarna) Kosmulska. Admission is free and open to all. Information from Patrick Quigley, Tel: 085 7133106

 

4) CSWE Research Seminar Series

Sessions are held from 6-8, in the John Hume Boardroom, JH Building, North Campus, NUI Maynooth. Please take the lift to the 3rd floor.

1) 10 March 2010: Prof Johannes Paulmann (London/Mannheim), ‘Welfare without borders? On the entangled history of German social policy in the Cold War era’. (Poster, Abstract)

This seminar is is kindly co-hosted by the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany (Dublin) and the Department of History (NUI Maynooth). The event will be opened with a reception at 5.30pm in order to mark the start of the lecture series on German history. Refreshments will be served.

2) 24 March 2010: His Excellency Veselko Grubišič (Ambassador of the Republic of Croatia to Ireland), ‘Croatia: the EU’s next member state’.

Professor Edward Moxon-Browne (University of Limerick), ‘Macedonia’s difficult path toward EU Membership’

3) 14 April 2010: Dr. Patty, A. Gray (NUI Maynooth), ‘Changing Vectors of Development: Russia as a Donor of International Aid’

Programme for the seminar series

 

5) Public lecture

Dr Andrea Orzoff (New Mexico State University), 'Battle for the Castle: The Myth of Czechoslovakia in Europe 1914-1948'

11 March 2010, 6.30 pm, European Commission Representation in Ireland, European Union House, 18 Dawson Street, Dublin 2

Dr. Orzoff is Associate Professor of History at New Mexico State University. She is a specialist on 20th century Central and East European history, mass media and propaganda, Cold War culture, nationalism and national mythologies. She is the author of several scholarly articles an the highly praised book Battle for the Castle: The Myth of Czechoslovakia in Europe 1914-1948, which has recently been published by Oxford University Press

Contact: Balázs Apor

 

6) Exhibition PODE BAL / CRISIS - Embassy of the Czech Republic in Dublin

The Czech artist group Pode Bal, renowned for its interpretation and dramatization of social and political aspects, interprets the work and life of 110 years deceased writer Oscar Wilde.

10-18 March 2010, Mon-Fri 10 am-12.30 pm, 1.30 pm-4 pm, IrishAmerican University, Oscar Wilde House, 1 Merrion Square, Dublin 2

Free admission. Closed on St. Patrick's Day. More information.

 

7) TCD European History Research Seminar Series

Alex Watson (Clare Hall, Cambridge), ‘Unheard of brutality: Russian atrocities against civilians in East Prussia, 1914-15’

1 April 2010, 4 pm, room A6009 , TCD, Dublin 2

Programme for the series

 

8) Europe Meets Russia: A Forum for Young Leaders

11-16 April 2010, Berlin

The Institute for Cultural Diplomacy is now accepting applications for participants with an active interest in the issue. (Application form/further information, Contact)

 

9) Ukraine 'Borderland' Exhibition and Blog

from 1 May 2010, The Mill Theatre, Dundrum

Everybody is invited to contribute to a blog to coincide with the opening of the exhition. More information from John Murray (TCD), the creator of the blog.

 

10) Conference 'Civil Society and Transitions in the Western Balkans'

7-8 May 2010, London School of Economics and Political Science (Programme)

 

 

Jobs

Full Professor in Modern Russia Studies, Leiden University (Details)

 

Resources

1) Book: Jean Lombard, 'An Irish Woman in Tsarist Russia' (Press release, book cover)

2) Virgilio Krumbacher: Russian Grammatical Dictionary

 

 

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