Dr Rachel Morley

Dr Rachel Morley

@rachelmorley.bsky.social

Associate Professor of Russian & Soviet Cinema & Culture. Co-Convenor of SSEES Cinema Research Group. Academic Director of Education. All @uclssees.

255 Followers 74 Following 16 Posts Joined Oct 2023
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Event poster for 'Spotlight in Slovak' with a photo of students at UCL by James Tye. In-person and online event.

Please join us for this year’s postgraduate research seminar, Spotlight on #Slovak, which will examine cultural diplomacy, ethics in teacher training, linguistics, translation and history related to Slovakia or the Central and Eastern European region.

🗓️ 24 March at 5pm
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Sneak peak of chapter 3 of my forthcoming manuscript though I still need to continue editing.

This monumental artist, citizen, artsociologist, one of the main protagonists of my next book, Askhat Akhmediyarov has his Birthday today.

Thank you for all your work and inspiration, Shyraqshy!

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How might distressed fintech firms affect UK growth and private debt? - Economics Observatory Rare cases of severe losses in large fintech firms – what are known as black swan events – may harm UK growth and significantly increase debt among households and small businesses. Current regulations...

SSEES in the media: just published! 👇

Dr Ilias Chondrogiannis co-wrote a blog on his findings from a Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) project. Titled "How might distressed fintech firms affect UK growth and private debt?", it’s now live in the LSE Economics Observatory series: bit.ly/4bFgVD4

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A book cover with a poster at center showing a woman in a purple skirt, orange top, and black boots waving to a distant crowd, opposite a taller looming woman in white. At bottom is the book title, Circulating Subjects, in black and at top is the author's name, Philippa Hetherington, in orange type.

An incredible cover has landed for an incredible book - Philippa Hetherington's "Circulating Subjects: Sex Work and Migration in Russia, 1885–1935."

More on how to pre-order a copy of her "riveting" and "radical" @cornellupress.bsky.social book here: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

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1 week ago
Research Associate (Fixed Term) - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge Research Associate (Fixed Term) in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge.

POST-DOC!

3-year job in history of political thought / visual culture / art history
Department of Politics & International Studies
University of Cambridge
@thecambridgeschool.bsky.social

www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/54724/

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Painting of a young white girl, upper half, with her back to the viewer, standing by a window in an interior, there are bottles on the windowsill with flowering twigs in them

'Spring at the Window' by Tetyana Yablonska (1917-2006), Ukrainian painter #WomensArt

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Londoners!
There's still time to make plans to come to Aziza Kadyri's talk tonight at SSEES.
Aziza is an artist known for her beautiful, emotive rendering of identities, fragmented past and second-hand nostalgia. She's a tireless archivist of diasporic embodied knowledge, memories and feelings. <3

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Dr Iryna Odrekhivska Awarded Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy Congratulations to Dr Iryna Odrekhivska, Lecturer (Teaching) in Ukrainian and East European Culture at SSEES, who has been awarded a Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA).

🎉 Congratulations to @odrekhivska.bsky.social, Lecturer (Teaching) in Ukrainian and East European Culture at SSEES, who has been awarded a Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA).

www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

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An evening with AZIZA KADYRI SSEES Politics and Sociology Seminar Series presents AZIZA KADYRI

Join us on Friday for this Politics and Sociology seminar with Uzbek visual artist Aziza Kadyri, who will explore how memory moves across bodies, stories, spaces, and archives within her artistic practice.

🗓️ 6 March at 5pm
📍 UCL SSEES
www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

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2 weeks ago
A display of documents, images and books arranged over three bays of grey library shelving. A close-up shot of a shelf featuring a display related to the Hungarian journal Nyugat. Two cover pages of the journal are featured, and a couple of pages of printed text mounted on a background of green card. A photograph featuring a bay of grey library shleving. A display is arranged over four shelves, featuring several open volumes of the Hungarian journal Nyugat. The volumes are arranged in chronological order from 1908 to 1941. An image of a shelf featuring a display of four or five language primers. The books date from the mid 19th century and the languages featured include Romanian, Polish, Yiddish and Hungarian.

Join the Platform for Linguistic and Epistemic Justice for a session showcasing a student-led project using object-based learning to explore the multilingual SSEES Library collections.

📅 Wed 4 March
⏰ 4–5 pm
📍 Room 432, SSEES
☕ Followed by refreshments
🎟️ To book: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-west-a...

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The US war on Iran has vague deadlines, unclear victory goals and exit strategy, and no easy way to end | LSE United States Politics and Policy There are three ways Trump could bring the war to a close quickly and declare victory, though none are easy.

'There are three ways to end the war, and none are easy'. Dr Christian Emery (SSEES) writes for the LSE United States Politics and Policy Blog on the US-Iran conflict: blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...

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Exhibition: Between Fires – Irradiated Imaginations & Anti-Nuclear Solidarities – Framer Framed From 13 February to 17 May 2026, Framer Framed presents the exhibition Between Fires: Irradiated Imaginations and Anti-Nuclear Solidarities, curated by writer and researcher Fabienne Rachmadiev and pr...

if you're in Amsterdam, my friends organised and participated in this superb exhibition! Congrats to Fabienne Rachmadiev who curated it!

framerframed.nl/en/expositie...

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2 weeks ago

This Monday - 2 March, 5.30pm start. All welcome and free to attend but registration essential via link in post below.👇

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We still have some tickets left for Monday's Cinema Research Group event with Kirill Goriachok!

Free and open to all: www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

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2 weeks ago
Event poster for the SSEES Film festival with film posters.

🎬 SSEES Film Festival Vol 1: "Resistance"

The festival forms part of our UCL200 programme of events to celebrate UCL’s bicentenary.

The film screenings are free but ticketed.

Book here: www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

@artshumsucl.bsky.social

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3 weeks ago

Still time to apply. 👇

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3 weeks ago
Students with laptops in a lecture theatre.

Using artificial intelligence in research and education raises many questions around copyright. Join us on 4 March for an interactive workshop on copyright and GenAI with guest speaker, Ben White. https://library-calendars.ucl.ac.uk/event/4430020

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1 month ago
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Yugo Queer A project by Natalija Stepanović, with support from UCL FRINGE, IAS & qUCL.

🔊 One week to go!

Join us for Yugo Queer, a one-day conference which aims to make area studies more #queer. It remaps the #Balkans from a war-torn region into one where new forms of activism, art, and affinity can emerge.

🗓️ 19 February
➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

#LGBTplusHM26

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1 month ago

Congratulations, Pavel! 🙌

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1 month ago
Event poster for 'Doing Nation' in a Digital Age: Banal Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism in Polymedia Environments' with an image of the book cover. In-person event.

Join us for the next @seeatucl-ssees.bsky.social seminar to hear more about @sanjavico.bsky.social's book 'Doing Nation in a Digital Age: Banal Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism in Polymedia Environments'.

🗓️ 4 February at 6pm
📍 UCL SSEES
➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

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Event poster for 'A Siberian History of Soviet Film: Manufacturing Visions of the Indigenous Peoples of the North' with an image of the book cover. In-person event, open to all.

🎥 Join us on Monday for the SSEES Cinema Research Group seminar with Dr Caroline Damiens, who will explore how the depictions of the indigenous 'Peoples of the North' in #Soviet cinema and television evolved between 1920 and 1980.

🗓️ 26 January at 6pm
📍 UCL SSEES
➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

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1 month ago
Event poster for 'Eating the Balkans: Language, Cuisine, and Cultural Meaning in the Balkans' with an image of Balkan food.

🔊 Due to high demand, this event will now be livestreamed online

Join us for an exploration of how food vocabulary in the #Balkans encodes millennia of indigenous evolution, alongside contact, borrowing, and contested belonging.

🗓️ 3 February at 5pm
➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

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2 months ago

My grandad used to go and watch Macclesfield play in the 1930s!

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UNC cuts all six area studies research centers, effective 2026 As part of the University's plan to make $70 million in budget cuts across the institution, Vice Chancellor for Finance and Operations Nate Knuffman projected that cutting 14 centers and institutes in...

They are killing international studies.
If the UK had a clue that it was possible to do anything other than imitate bad decisions made in the US, it would be inviting these people to come and build powerhouse research institutes across the country.
www.dailytarheel.com/article/univ...

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2 months ago
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Russia names German broadcaster Deutsche Welle as 'undesirable organization' Russian authorities have named German public broadcaster Deutsche Welle as an “undesirable organization,” effectively outlawing its operation in the country.

Russia banned Deutsche Welle today, adding it to the ever-growing list of "undesirable agents." That means it's now illegal in Russia to share DW content, work for DW, or even comment to DW for a story. You can still read it, though, if you're able to circumvent the Internet censors.

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7 months ago

🎊 Calling all current PGRs and ECRs - be a part of Limmud Festival’s PhD engagement programme, created to build a cohort of emerging academics in the field of Jewish studies across the UK. Apply below by 15th August for a place at 90% discount, and please do share in your networks!
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7 months ago
Stefan Lacny and Dr Natalia V. Parker with their award

Congratulations to Stefan Lacny on winning the BASEES Prize for Best Scholarly Article for “Creating the Polish Enemy on the Soviet Screen, 1925–1939.” Also to Dr Natalia V. Parker, awarded the BASEES Prize for Excellence in Teaching. Well deserved!👏

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I'll be talking about the movement away from/towards regimes of belonging as an everyday security practice tomorrow at #iccees2025. Come say hi if you're around!
www.myeventflo.com/event-lectur...

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8 months ago
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Guest, Host, Ghost A Dinner Party in Kyiv

"It is too easy, more than three years into this terrible war, to call to mind dinner parties, academic conferences, weddings, where memory folds and unfolds to admit a shadow, because someone who was there, and who should still be with us, has been killed."
snyder.substack.com/p/guest-host...

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1 year ago
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Women end up doing the academic housework

A study on what many of us already know: over 75% of internal service work in academia is done by women. The bit that gets me:”The male associate professors in particular made it clear that they actively engaged in evasiveness and did not want to participate if it was not positive for their careers”

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