West Coast Seminar Series
"West Coast Seminars" on Economic and Social Change in Russia and Eastern Europe (University of Glasgow, University of Strathclyde and University of the West of Scotland).
SEVENTEENTH ANNUAL SERIES 2009-2010
West Coast Seminar Series 2010-2011
SEMESTER 1 PROGRAMME
Monday 18 October 2010, 5.30 pm
University of Glasgow, Room 507 Boyd Orr Building
Terry Wade Memorial Lecture
Professor Rosalind Marsh (Department of European Studies and Modern Languages, University of Bath
"The Rise of Political Fiction in the Post-Soviet Period"
Tea and Coffee from 5.00
All Welcome
Wednesday 27 October 2010, 5.30 pm
University of Glasgow, CEES Seminar Room, 8-9 Lilybank Gardens
Dr Csaba Töro, Central and East European Studies Visiting Research Fellow
Associate professor of international relations and law at the Budapest College of Communication and Business, and senior research fellow at the Hungarian Institute of International Affairs.
"In search of the effective representation and promotion of shared interests from Central Europe to the Baltic Sea: The emerging pattern of co-ordination between the Visegrad (V4) and the Baltic (B3) countries within the EU and beyond"
Tea and Coffee from 5.00
All Welcome
Thursday 04 November 2010, 5.30 pm
University of Glasgow, CEES Seminar Room, 8-9 Lilybank Gardens
Professor Abraham Ascher, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Graduate Center, City University of New York
'A Community Under Siege: the Jews of Breslau (Wroclaw) under Nazism'
Tea and Coffee from 5.00
All Welcome
Wednesday 01 December 2010, 5.30pm
University of Glasgow, CEES seminar room, 8-9 Lilybank Garden
Dr Richard Connolly, CEELBAS Research Fellow
Centre for Russian and East European Studies, School of Government and Society, University of Birmingham
"The global financial-economic crisis and emerging Europe: what has changed?
Tea and Coffee from 5.00
All Welcome
Wednesday 08 December 2010, 5.30pm
University of Glasgow, CEES seminar room, 8-9 Lilybank Garden
Dr Keiji Sato, Visiting Fellow in CEES, University of Glasgow
and Slavic Centre, University of Hokkaido
"Acknowledgement of the Secret Protocol of the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact and the Declaration of the State Sovereignty by the Union Republics of the USSR"
Tea and Coffee from 5.00
All Welcome
sixteenth Annual Series 2009-2010
Semester 2 Programme
WEDNESDAY 20 JANUARY, 5.30pm
Dr Julia Lajus
Marie Curie Research Fellow, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Science, University of Birmingham
and Center for Environmental and Technological History, European University at St Petersburg
'Soviet participation in the Second International Polar Year (1932-33): from international cooperation of scientists to a state project'
University of Glasgow, CEES Seminar Room, 8-9 Lilybank Gardens
WEDNESDAY 27 JANUARY 2010, 5.30pm
Professor David Moon
Department of History, University of Birmingham
'Debates on climate change in 19th Century Russia'
University of Glasgow, CEES Seminar Room, 8-9 Lilybank Gardens
WEDNESDAY 03 MARCH 2010, 5.30pm PLEASE NOTE THIS SEMINAR HAS BEEN CANCELLED
Dr Rutger von Seth
Honorary Fellow, Department of Politics, University of Glasgow
'From the Soviet to the Post-Soviet Russian Press: Democracy and the Elusive Public Sphere'
University of Glasgow, CEES Seminar Room, 8-9 Lilybank Gardens
WEDNESDAY 10 MARCH 2010, 5.30pm
Toshtemir Majidov
Research Fellow, University of Stirling
'The Effect of the Global Financial Crisis on the Central Asian Countries: the Case of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan'
University of West of Scotland, Paisley Campus, Room P114
WEDNESDAY 17 MARCH 2010, 5.30pm
Dr Derek Averre
Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham
‘A reluctant troika? US, EU and Russian perceptions of European security governance’
University of Glasgow, CEES Seminar Room, 8-9 Lilybank Gardens
WEDNESDAY 21 APRIL 2010, 5.30pm
Dr Natalia Kibita
Honorary Research Fellow, Central and East European Studies, University of Glasgow
'The sovnarkhoz reform'
University of Glasgow, CEES Seminar Room, 8-9 Lilybank Gardens
WEDNESDAY 05 May 2010, 5.30pm
Eleftherios Antonopoulos
PhD student, UACES scholar, European Policies Research Centre, University of Strathclyde
‘Pre-accession assistance as a mechanism of europeanisation: the effects of CARDS/IPA on administrative capacity in Croatia’
EPRC, Strathclyde University, Room 951, Graham Hills Building, 40 George Street
Semester 1 Programme
Wednesday 07 October 2009, 5.30 pm
In collaboration with the Terry Wade Memorial Lecture Series
Inaugural Lecture
Dr John Dunn (Honorary Research Associate, Slavonic Studies, University of Glasgow)
'How many Slavonic languages are there?'
University of Glasgow, Room T316, Adam Smith Building
Wednesday 21 October 2009, 5.30pm
Dr Charlotte Alston, Division of History and Politics, School of Arts and Social Scieinces, Northumbria University
'The Baltic States and the Paris Peace Conference of 1919'
University of Glasgow, CEES Seminar Room, 8-9 Lilybank Gardens
Monday 09 November 2009, 5.30pm
In collaboration with the Uralic Peoples Film Festival
Professor Dr János Pusztay, University of West Hungary
'The Finno-Ugruis and Uralic National Minorities in Russia'
University of Glasgow, CEES Seminar Room, 8-9 Lilybank Gardens
Wednesday 18 November, 5.30 pm
Dr Monica Ciobanu (CEES Visiting Research Fellow)
Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice at Plattsburgh State University of New York
'Communist Regimes, Legitimacy and the 1989 Revolutions in Eastern Europe'
University of Glasgow, CEES Seminar Room, 8-9 Lilybank Gardens
Wednesday 2 December, 5.30 pm
Dr Tony Heywood
(Department of History, University of Aberdeen)
‘Russia’s Great War and Revolution 1914-1922: The Centennial Reappraisal’
University of Glasgow, CEES Seminar Room, 8-9 Lilybank Gardens
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For further details contact:
Prof. Martin Myant
Tel: 0141 848 3367
University of the West of Scotland, e-mail: martin.myant@uws.ac.uk
Prof. Terry Cox
Tel: 0141 330 2343
University of Glasgow, e-mail: t.m.cox@lbss.gla.ac.uk
Dr Irene McMaster
Tel: 0141 554 4905
University of Strathclyde, e-mail: irene.mcmaster@strath.ac.uk