Jeremy Hicks

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The Forum Prize About the Forum Prize The Forum essay prize competition was launched to mark Volume 45 of the journal in 2009. Having published hundreds of outstanding article

May brings anniversaries: 8th May VE Day (or 9th), 17 May Irish National Famine Commemoration. So perhaps it is time to write an essay on the theme of anniversaries for the Forum for Modern Languages prize (£500, publication and acclaim await).
Go on, do it!
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Impressive given USSR wasn't created until 1922

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Calling all historians interested in Europe - The Iland scholarship is open for applications for projects relating to "European culture, political thought, language and literature" and including history. Deadline 20 June.
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The key chart right now:

Usually US economic pain is cushioned by falling bond yields and a strengthening dollar, which mean lower interest rates and more spending power for consumers.

This time we’re seeing the opposite, meaning the pain will be amplified.

'You can't turn fish soup back into an aquarium ' (Lech Wałęsa)

NHS waiting lists drops to 7.4m as slow recovery continues The NHS waiting list continued to decline, falling to 7.40 million people in January 2025, according to the latest data from NHS England.

NHS waiting lists have fallen for six months in a row!

7,402,148 people were on the waiting list in February, down from 7,428,309 people in January.

#Labour #KeirStarmer #NHS

Join our KINO course to explore the wonders of Ukrainian cinema with top experts. Student discount available! The course starts tomorrow!

Important lecture on the situation in contemporary Central Asia at Cerees @QMUL_HSS by Bhavna Dave
Tomorrow 6pm, remember to register on this link. Hybrid also available
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'Reform is a protest party led by the messiah' BBC News - Farage defends suspending MP and criticises 'infighting'
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Ukrainian documentary Mission 200 wins Grand Prix at international film festival in Riga – video The International Documentary Film Festival Artdocfest/Riga has announced the award winners in its competition programme. The Grand Prix went to Mission 200, a film by Ukrainian director Volodymyr Sid...

🎥 🏆 Ukrainian documentary Mission 200 wins Grand Prix at international film festival in Riga – video

People riding in a bike-lane.

“Every $1300 New York invested in building bike-lanes in 2015 provided benefits equivalent to 1 additional year of life at full health over the lifetime of all city residents, according to a new economic assessment.”

Among many other benefits, bike-lanes are a really smart public health investment.

Over two million extra NHS appointments delivered early as trusts handed £40 million to go further and faster Over two million extra NHS appointments including for chemotherapy, radiotherapy, endoscopy, and diagnostic tests delivered as government delivers first step to fix the NHS seven months early.

Labour promised to deliver an extra 2 million appointments a year as a first step to fix the the NHS.

And they have reached that target in just 5 months.

The impact? More people getting the treatment they need and waiting lists down by 160,000 (compared to a 33,000 rise the year before).

Land for peace. Works every time ... 🙄

NHS England » Waiting list falls as NHS staff treated record numbers last year NHS staff delivered a record 18 million treatments in 2024, as the waiting list fell in December for the fourth month in a row. The overall backlog has dropped again from 7.48 million to 7.46 million,...

NHS waiting lists fell for the 4th month in a row in December, despite the usual extra pressure seen during winter and a significant increase in the number of people in hospital with flu.

This is really good news and exactly what Labour promised they would do when they got into power.

The British Left and Ukraine Join us in discussing the historical and contemporary political aspects of whether the UK Left still has a blind spot with regard to Ukraine

Join us to discuss Ukraine, war, and the British Left 📅 Monday, 10 Feb 2025, 18:00 - 20:30 GMT 📷 Queen Mary University of London Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-britis... #CEREES

On 10.02 we have a #CEREES #QMULHSS panel discussion on 'The British Left and Ukraine'
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One of the speakers, Richard Johnson recounts how, in April 1956, when Nikita Khrushchev got into a row with leading Labour people
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Very excited about the official launch of our joint special issue on Monday at CEREES Panel & Launch – Centre for Eurasian, Russian, and East European Studies (hybrid event - all welcome)
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Українські студії за кордоном: чому це важливо для культурної дипломатії Культурна дипломатія України: нові горизонти україністики, чому в іноземних університетах потрібні кафедри україністики, які виклики та переваги українських студій. — Cуспільне Культура

Fascinating overview and reflection on the state of Ukrainian studies in universities worldwide suspilne.media/culture/9291...

Visiting International Fellowships The Society for French Studies is the UK's premier scholarly organisation for encouraging and supporting intellectual enquiry in French studies at all levels.

We are currently accepting applications for the annual Visiting International Fellowship scheme, which includes a grant of up to £5,000. Applications close on 31 March 2025. 👩‍🎓 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇮🇪 🏛️

For more information about eligibility and how to apply, see the link below:

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Finland is winning the war on fake news. What it’s learned may be crucial to Western democracy Russia's neighbor has developed a plan for countering misinformation. Can it be exported to the rest of the world?

Finland is winning the war on fake news. What it’s learned may be crucial to Western democracy

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Event poster for 'Stalin’s Final Films: in Conversation with Claire Knight' with a photo of the book cover.

Please join us for a conversation between Claire Knight and
Stefan Lacny about Dr Knight's recent book Stalin's Final Films: Cinema, Socialist Realism, and Soviet Postwar Reality (@cornellupress.bsky.social).

🗓️ 20 January at 5.30pm
📍 UCL SSEES
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Fridrikh Ermler's The Peasants, 1935 has a lot of pel'meny www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjFL...

My colleagues Lada Kolimiyets, Victoria Somoff, & Karina Madzari did pioneering work with their elementary Ukrainian students. They worked with students in Ukraine to create an "impermanent [digital] collection" of Ukrainian museums destroyed by Russia. www.library.dartmouth.edu/news/imperma...

This has to be the most dishonest reporting of an opinion poll I've ever seen

The survey actually found that over two thirds of voters *do not* think Starmer will be out of No 10 within a year.

Competition to recruit English translators in the EU institutions – information session Join us online on Tuesday 17 December at 6:15pm Irish time (7:15pm CET) for an information session about a competition to recruit English language translators to work in the EU institutions. Translato...

Want to work as a translator for the EU on a permanent contract? Then enter an open competition for a chance to be recruited. 2 source languages. EU citizens only, no experience needed. Deadline 14 Jan 2025: eu-careers.europa.eu/en/translato.... See also info event Tue 17 Dec: loom.ly/03kxbag

CEREES Event, QMUL - "New Directions in Ukrainian Film History"

Join us on Monday 3 February

We will launch a joint special issue of 'Culture of Ukraine (Kharkov)' and 'Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema'.

Registration essential
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CEREES Event, QMUL - ‘The British Left and Ukraine’

Join us on Monday 10 February

Speakers: Paul Mason (journalist - @paulmason.bsky.social); Christopher Ford (Ukrainian Solidarity); Yuliia Yurchenko (Greenwich)

Registration essential:
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📢Applications are open: bit.ly/4iuMRM2

We invite current PhD students from eastern, central or southeastern Europe who wish to spend a term at SSEES to apply for the Bracewell Scholarship. The award will cover the tuition fee costs for one term, plus a living cost stipend.

Deadline: 31 March 2025

This is the right demand from a truly committed French MP.
This call for new and fair elections, as required by the Georgian President Salomé Zourabichvili, must become the shared stance of the EU, the EU and NATO member states.
Let's not #Georgia fall into the russian dark winter.
Enough is enough.