IARCEES Current Events

Lectures and Seminars

1) IARCEES Annual conference 2012, 4-5 May, UCC
"Russian-East European Relations: From Tsarism to Gazprom"

Call for papers:

The purpose of this conference is to explore the relations between Russia/the Soviet Union and its neighbouring countries in Eastern Europe. We welcome papers on a broad range of topics.

Our guest speaker will be Dr. Peter Duncan, Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Russian Politics and Society at UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies.

The 20th Century was a time of particularly turbulent relations between Russia and its Eastern European neighbours. Issues such as the 2007 relocation of the Bronze Soldier in Tallinn show that political and historical differences, such as over interpretation of the events of the Second World War, persist. Increasingly the issue of Russia's relations with her 'near abroad' has come under scrutiny as the Russian Government increasingly regulates its relations with the region through oil and gas contracts.

We envisage, but by no means limit, the range of possible topics to:
* The effects of nationalism in both the Russian and East European context

* Military and cultural relations during periods of both tension and stability

* The role of Russian and East European intelligentsia

* Inter-dependence, past and present

* Prospects for future relations

We welcome proposals from those working across disciplines, and we welcome especially proposals from Russian and Eastern European participants. Panels are especially welcomed.

Conference papers can be published online in Irish Slavonic Studies.

Abstracts of papers (no more than 250 words) should be submitted by email (Jonathan/James) no later than February 29, 2012.

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2) NUI Maynooth, Talk on Ethnic Cleansing

Gerard Toal (Virginia Tech), 'After Ethnic Cleansing: Bosnian Lessons for the Caucasus'

8 Dec 2011, 6 pm, Lecture Theatre 4, John Hume Building, North Campus, National University of Ireland Maynooth.

All welcome.

3) CSWE Research Seminar Series 2011/12

Dr Alexander Korb (University of Leicester/Stanley Burton Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies), ‘Ethnic homogenization in Europe 1941-1949: Rethinking the gap between Fascism and Communism’ (flier)

7 Dec 2011, 1-2.30 pm, 1st floor seminar room, Iontas Building, NUI Maynooth, North Campus

Upcoming events in this series

4) Long Room Hub Seminars

Upcoming events

Cultural Events

1) TCD, Russian and Slavonic Studies Departmental Pub Nights/
NEW: Departmental blog

During teaching term, Wednesdays, 8.30 pm in Kennedy's pub on Westland Row, at two-weeks' intervals. Come along to speak Polish, Czech and Russian.

The schedule, along with other event notifications, may be found on the new Departmental blog, The Slavonical Chronicle.

2) BBC Radio 4 podcast: The communist cosmos

A 30-min radio piece on the Soviet space programme to celebrate the anniversary of Gagarin's, and the world's, first trip into outer space, on April 12, 1961.

3) BBC Radio 4: Russian history series

A major new history series tracing the development of Russia over a period of 1,000 years in 25 episodes of 15 mins each. The first five weeks take the listener from the beginning of the Russian state in 862 A.D. up to the cataclysmic revolution of 1917. Martin Sixsmith, who writes and presents the series, was the BBC's Moscow Correspondent in 1991. The series begins with a vivid recording of his report on the events that led to the collapse of the Soviet Union. Podcast for first and following episodes.

IARCEES

Irish Association for Russian, Central and East European Studies

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