Sarah, this is so sad. My heartfelt condolences. At SSEES - just one year - I wasnโt even taking any of Peteโs courses, yet he went out of his way to take an interest. And I couldnโt believe it; he remembered me over a decade later at BASEES. It was the same for many others. A legend indeed!
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A very insightful article on the recent threats to UK modern languages:
www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/late...
Support the petitions to stop the closures at Leicester and Nottingham, to sign click here:
www.change.org/p/save-moder...
www.change.org/p/stop-the-r...
#languages #mfl
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Thank you!
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Cover of "Courtly Gifts and Cultural Diplomacy" by Louise Hardiman
Join us in congratulating our editor @louisehardiman.bsky.social! Her book has just been shortlisted for the AATSEEL book prize (@aatseel.bsky.social) as the best edited multi-author scholarly volume.
Learn more about her book: brill.com/display/titl...
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Please join @louisehardiman.bsky.social and me on 2 April at our hybrid event "Behind the Glass", a print collection symposium. See link in my bio. Supported by @forarthistory.org.uk @printscholars @dorichhousemuseum @kingstonuniversity.bsky.social @technedtp @UKRI_Newsย #prints #BehindTheGlass
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Political Sociologist, Decolonial Writer, Central Asian to the core.
Lecturing at @UCLSSEES.
Most of the times you can find me writing or rummaging around the steppe, deserts and valleys.
Fellow at Homerton College, previously at Cambridge Sociology
Senior Lecturer in the Department of International Politics at Aberystwyth University. Researching and teaching on Russian politics and security, and gender and conflict. Expect cat photos.
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Historian of East-Central Europe, PhD. Author of The Death of a Soldier Told by His Sister (2022), โUndeterminedโ Ukrainians (2013). Director of Ukrainian Institute London. www.olesyakhromeychuk.com
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Historian (of Russia, at Exeter). Didn't really want another social account but susceptible to peer pressure, so here I am.
Nature, heritage and landscape enthusiast based in Devon. Also sews and knits. Has a doctorate (from SSEES) in something else.
Writing:
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Librarian at large. Chair of CILIP ILIG. Used to be a Slavonic librarian. Posts a random mix of libraries, Russia, food (gluten free) and the joys of life in Tooting.
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Russophone culture & history, prison/gulag writing, and C19 literature. Also cats. And needlework. Author/translator of Writing Resistance: Revolutionary Memoirs of Shlisselโburg Prison, 1884-1906 https://uclpress.co.uk/products/173021
Associate Professor at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London. Popular culture, humour, literature, cinema. https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/2561
Assoc Prof in Russian, University of Leeds. Not the views of my employer.
Professor of CEU in Vienna. A historian who teaches IR and the Anthropocene, but mostly thinks and comments about the current war. I ban, with or without warning
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Historian of Russian/Soviet Health and Med. Pushkin House Prize nominee for Cigarettes and Soviets. Shortlisted for Smoking under the Tsars. Now researching Russian male health. Opinions my own/not my employers.
Historian of Eastern Europe, Stalinism, Soviet law & criminal justice, Russian imperial famine relief and humanitarianism... and the NBA (go Mavs ๐!) @uni-jena.de
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Historian of Central Eastern Europe. Socialist things, industrial exhibitions and cultural bureaucracies. Also @SHERAart.bsky.social
Lecturer in Russian Culture and Language at UCL SSEES. PhD in Slavonic Studies from Trinity College, Cambridge. Researcher of Soviet, Ukrainian and Polish culture.
UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies Library. The UK's largest university library collection on Russia and Central, Eastern & South-Eastern Europe.