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Details of recent public engagement, outreach, media appearances and activities of SSEES Languages and Culture colleagues

May 2024

• Dr Alex Krouglov completed a report on a new book proposal for Palgrave Macmillan (20 May 2024)
• Prof Peter Zusi听launched his new book,听on 16 May at the University of Bristol. He also launched 17 April at the Centre for East and Southeast European History at the Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich.
• Dr Alex Krouglov organised the international conference 'Languages and Cultures in time of war' over 2-3 May, held at 911爆料网. A full write of the event can be found here.听听
• Dr Eszter Tarsoly听has been听awarded funding (鈧�130.000), jointly with听, by the National Research Council (OTKA) of Hungary for a four-year project whose aim is to enhance the linguistic citizenship of bilingual Roma through participatory research in linguistic ethnography. The project investigates the frictions, tensions, and convivial possibilities arising from the coexistence of bilingual Roma and monolingual non-Roma in a small-town setting in eastern Hungary.
• Dr Svetlana McMillin gave a presentation 鈥淩ussian Anti鈥搘ar Songs鈥� at the conference 鈥淟anguages and cultures in time of war: (im)possible, (re)imagined, (un)manageable, organised by SSEES and University of Giessen, Germany.
• Dr Alex Krouglov听presented a paper "Russian invasion of Ukraine and the growing role of English and other European languages" and chaired several panels at the international conference "Languages and cultures in times of war: (im)possible, (re)imagined, (un)manageable, 2-3 May 2024

April 2024

• Dr Eszter Tarsoly and Dr Jelena Calic have been awarded a grant by the UCL Center for Humanities Education (funded by generous support from the Lord Randolph Quirk Endowment Fund at 911爆料网) responding听to a call for developing EDI initiatives that connect to socio-economic equity and education. Eszter and Jelena will use the funds to organise a symposium 鈥楲essons from the margin: Roma inclusion in education鈥� in September.
• On April 19,听Dr Eszter Tarsoly and Dr Jelena Calic听took听part in a workshop titled 'Neither London Nor Moscow: Decolonial Dialogues' held at the University of Glasgow.听This workshop was part of a wider series called .
• On April 24, Ramona Gonczol, Yordanka Velkova and Olga Volosova听hosted 58 GCSE students from three high schools at 911爆料网, as a culmination of the Proficiency in East European Languages (PEEL) project. Students had language classes in their heritage language, a tour of UCL and heard about what studying a language at university could lead to.听

March 2024

• Dr Riitta Valijarvi was interviewed on Sweden's national public radio Sveriges Radio about their project to document and describe Me盲nkieli. The interview is in Finnish and Me盲nkieli. 听(27 March)
• On March 28,听Dr Riitta Valijarvi, Associate Professor听of听Finnish and Minority听Languages, was a guest on the BBC Radio 4 programme听In Our Time, to discuss Finland's epic The Kalevala. Riitta was also joined by retired SSEES Professor, Daniel Abondolo (Reader in Hungarian).听
• Dr Anna Ponomareva听had a chapter published: 'The Visibility of the Translator: A Case of Telugu Section in Progress Publishers and Raduga'听 in Murieann Maguire and Cathy McAteer (eds) Translating Russian Literature in the Global Context, pp.429-435. Available at
• Dr Uilleam Blacker听was听interviewed for the European Resiliance Initiative podcast on Ukrainian literature's history of resistance: .
• Ana Ilievska Zavr拧ni听and Macedonian short course students visited the Republic of North Macedonia in UK Embassy to meet with the听Ambassador Ms.Katerina Stavreska
• Dr Uilleam Blacker听participated in a public discussion on 'How Wars End' at the Cambridge Union alongside Sir Richard Evans, Ayse Zarakol and Kristin Bakke. Part of the Cambridge Festival. .
• On 20 March,听Dr Jelena Calic听chaired a听Book launch: Utopia of the Uniform, joined by听Dr Jessie Barton-Hroneseva听as a speaker.
• Dr Uiileam Blacker听participated in a panel organised by the Ukrainian Book Institute at the London Book Fair on promoting Ukrainian literature in wartime alongside Ukrainian writers Nina Kuriata and Tania Goriushina.
• Dr Anna Ponomareva presented her paper, 'The Black and the White',听 at The Challenges and Consequences of Cultural Misunderstanding: Linguistic, Legal and Translational Perspectives, an international symposium organised by Universite Polytechnique Hauts-de-France in cooperation with the University of Applied Sciences (Zwickau) and Sorbonne University, in Valenciennes, France 14-16 March 2024.
• On 15 March, Prof Alena Ledeneva, Dr Iryna Petrova and Dr Jakub Benes took part in a panel event at the IAS celebrating the legacy of Professor Teodor Shanin.
• On 11 March, Dr Uilleam Blacker听chaired an event with International Booker Prize winner, Georgi Gospodinov and his translator Angela Rodel on his book 'Time Shelter' at the event:听Does the Past have an Expiry Date? A conversation with Georgi Gospodinov and Angela Rodel. Dr Blacker was on the Booker Prize judging panel.
• On March 5th, PROLang ran a successful Postgraduate event on Romanian language with 12 PhD candidates presenting their ongoing research, from UK Universities ( UCL, Exeter, Kent, Cambridge, Oxford) as well as from abroad: Timisoara, Romania, Jena, Germany and Beijing.听Prof Emeritus Dennis Deletant opened the event. Prof Adam Ledgeway from Cambridge and听 Prof Martin Maiden from Oxford were also present.听The event was convened by SSEES PhD student Jack Dean together with Ramona Gonczol
• On 2-3 March, Dr Svetlana McMillin co-organised and acted as Chair in the various sessions at the Eurasian Business Conference 鈥淏reaking the Boarders鈥� (UCL/SSEES, LSE).

• On 2 March, Dr Katarzyna Zechenter gave the opening talk at the Polish Educational Society's Polish A-level weekend, which took place at SSEES and saw over 100 Polish students attend workshops and classes on Polish language and literature. 鈥嬧�嬧�嬧��

February 2024

• Dr Uilleam Blacker听published an for The Ukrainians Media (27 February).
• On 25 Feburary, Dr Uilleam Blacker was quoted in The Guardian article '听which also mentioned the event held at SSEES on 17 February on Ukrainian Theatre, 'Between Revolution and War:The New Ukrainian Drama from the Maidan to the Full-scale Invasion'
• Dr Uilleam Blacker was interviewd for the Silicon Curtain podcast about war, resistance and freedom in Ukrainian literature, watch at:听
• On 21 February,听Dr Svetlana McMillin hosted a听lecture by Prof Vladimir Pastukhov (UCL) 鈥淒isintegration of the Soviet Empire, phase 2; Non鈥揅ivic War in Russia and Ukraine鈥� as part of the听Culture and Society of Modern Russia seminar series. Dr McMillin had two abstracts published of her presentations at the conference: 鈥淕lobal and Local processes in Slavic languages, literatures and Culture鈥�,which took place in Riga in May 2023:听鈥淎 Failed Successful Film: The听Film Adaptation of听 Georgi Vladimov鈥檚 Story 鈥楾he听Big Ore鈥欌��, pp. 110鈥�113 and 鈥淕eorgy Vladimov: the Burden of Shivalry鈥�, pp.114-116.
• On 17 February, Dr Alex Krouglov听participated in the meeting of the International Association of Teachers of Ukrainian (IATU) at the
• On 15 February, Dr Dmitry Suslau gave a talk at Pushkin House titled 'Monuments and Their Fate'听examining the constant transformation of national memory in the twenty-first century.听
• Emeritus Professor Arnold McMillin published 'The Fate of the Belarusian Literary Language over Half a Century',听Acta Albaruthenica, 23, 2023, pp. 62-72. He also published 'A radical change in the Bielaviezha Cultural Tradition: The Innovative and Provocative Verse of Viktar Siamashka',听Studia Bialotenistyczne,听17, 2023, pp. 195-224.

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January 2024

• Ramona Gonczol and Mirela听Xhaferraj听took part in the PROLang event:听Albanian Studies in the Global Context, held at SSEES, 30 January 2024.听
• On January 25th, Dr听Katarzyna Zechenter听 led an online seminar on Kornel Filipowicz's writing in a talk with Anna Zaranko, the award-winning translator of Filipowicz's work.听This was the third seminar on Filipowicz's writing organised by听the Research Centre on the Legacy of Polish Migration at ZPPnO of which Katarzyna is Vice-Director.
• Emeritus Professor Arnold McMillin published an article: 'Ad paemau u proze da baladau: Viershy Uladzimiera Arlova',听Zapisy BNIM听(NY), 43, pp. 524-49. He also听wrote 'Three Generations of Belarusian Historical Fiction in Prose and Verse: Inspiration and Iconoclasm, Przeglad wschodnioeuropejski, XIV/2, 2023, 285-302.
• Vlasta Rebro拧ov谩 produced the S.听
• Dr Svetlana McMillin had an 听(鈥�The Birds Do Not Sing Here鈥�.听Russian anti鈥搘ar songs) published in the journal:听.听鈩� 12, 2023, pp. 44鈥�71.
• Dr Jelena 膯ali膰 and Dr Eszter Tarsoly held a workshop at King's College London on a seminar series entitled听听with a focus on less-commonly taught languages.
• The translation from Hungarian by(Hon. Senior Research Associate) of Krisztina T贸th's short story collection "Barcode" was shortlisted for the 2023 Warwick Prize for Women in Translation at the end of last year.听 Over 150 books were submitted for the prize, of which eight reached the shortlist.

December 2023

• Senior Research Associate, George G枚m枚ri,听published听a new book:"Moi polscy pisarze i poeci" which includes 24 sketches and essays on Polish writers from Broniewski to Bara艅czak. It was published by Ksi臋garnia Akademicka of the Jagie艂艂o University with photographs and an index.听
• Language short course students and staff produced a showing off their language skills.听
• On 1 December, Dr听Svetlana McMillin听organised and acted as a chair at the event of UCL Eurasian Business Society 鈥淢eet Ekaterina Schulmann: Q&A evening鈥�
• Dr Riitta Valijarvi was awarded a Swedish Research Councii Grant听for the听project "Me盲nkieli: Spoken Corpus and Descriptive Grammar".

November 2023

• Maja Ran膷igaj Bene拧 moderated a discussion at SSEES with Slovene writer and artist Cvetka Bevc, as part of the Study of Central Europe Seminar Series (28 November 2023)
• Ramona Gonczol has delivered content for Romanian, as part of the SELCS-run听'Not Just Words' project which promotes language learning through art and objects. . On Friday 10^th听November, Ramona attended a meeting between the Romanian community and three Romanian parliamentarians representing the diaspora, organised by the Romanian Embassy and hosted at the Romanian Cultural Institute, discussing the contributions , successes and importance of the Romanian diaspora in the UK as well as the need to encourage the maintenance of the language amongst school children. A working group between the Romanian embassy, the Romanian cultural centre and SSEES will be formed to collaborate on projects that lead to the introduction of GCES exams in Romanian as a community language in the future.听
• Keti Kalandadze and Marine听Tigishvili, Georgian Short Courses teachers, organised a Language Taster with听the Georgian Students society, run by听 SSEES student听Mariam Vekua.听
• Emeritus Professor Arnold McMillin attended an international conference on a Belarusian pioneer, Vaclau Lastouski, in the Francis Skaryna Library, London. (11 November 2023)
• Dr Anna Ponomareva听had an听article chapter hasublished (5 November 2023) :'Mirror pas de deux: Cranko鈥檚 reinvention of Pushkin鈥檚 Text in his Ballet Onegin (1965)' in Helen Julia Minors (ed.) (2003)听Music, Text and Translation Vol. 2.听London and Oxford: Bloomsbury, pp.117-132. ISBN: 978-1-3501-7573. She also听presented a听paper听'Translation as Gardening: Early Buddhist Project in China' at the 7^th听UK-CHA Conference 鈥淪hared Visions: Humanities in Retrospect and Prospect鈥� at Wuhan University on 10-11 November 2023. The visit to China was supported by a British Council grant. On 6 November, she听was a guest lecturer at the Centre for Translation at Hong Kong Baptist University where she听presented her听lecture听My Appointment with Onegin: Charles Johnston, Douglas Hofstadter and Stanley Mitchell.
• Dr Uilleam Blacker moderated with Emma Shercliff (literary agent), Sasha Dovzhyk (Ukrainian Institute London/IWM, Vienna), Charlotte Higgins (Guardian), Christina Lamb (Sunday Times), at the听British Library. (9 November 2023).听He also participated in a听 discussion organised by the Fund of the President of Ukraine on With Sasha Dovzhyk (Ukrainian Institute London, IWM, Vienna) and Iryna Odrekhivska (Ivan Franko University, Lviv/UCL SSEES), organised by Anna Oliinyk (UCL SSEES)
• Prof听Alex Krouglov has been invited to join the International Conference on Education, Psychology and Modern Management (with responsibilities for Education)

October 2023

• Prof听Alex Krouglov has been invited to serve as an assessor on the Reading Committee of the
• Honorary Research Associate, George听G枚m枚ri received the J谩nos B谩r谩ny Prize administered by Ferencv谩ros, the Ninth District of Budapest. B谩r谩ny was a working-class fighter in the above district in October-November 1956,听eventually arrested by the K谩d谩r-police 听and executed in February 1959.
• Dr Uilleam Blacker gave the Inaugural lecture for Queen Mary University of London's new Centre for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies:, (30 October 2023)
• Dr Yordanka Velkova produced the 30-second language lesson in Bulgarian, the first in a series of shorts showcasing SSEES languages.听听
• Dr Ana Ilievska Zavr拧nik听and SSEES Director Prof Richard Mole welcomed听Minister of Culture of the Republic of North Macedonia, Bisera Kostadinovska-Stojchevska, to SSEES on 25 October 2023. A donation of Macedonian books was made to the SSEES Library.听
• Dr Jelena 膯ali膰 and Dr Eszter Tarsoly co-organised the听'Decolonising Language Studies Symposium II' on behalf of听PROLANG, held at 911爆料网 on 25 October.听Dr Riitta-Liisa Valijarvi,听Dr Rachel Morley and Dr Olga Voronina took part as discussants.听 A summary of the event can be found on the SSEES news pages.听
• Dr Svetlana McMillin听听chaired a presentation by Prof Tamara Eidelman 鈥淕reat discoveries 鈥� Good or Evil?鈥�, organised by the UCL Eurasian Business Society on 23 October 2023.听
• Dr Ana Ilievska Zavr拧nik听was a panelist on the PROLANG event 'Macedonian Language 鈥� The Meeting Point of Slavic and Balkan Languages' which took place at 911爆料网 SSEES on 17 October.
• Dr Uilleam Blacker took part in the event听鈥楶oetry is not what you think it is鈥�. An evening with Iryna Shuvalova, organised by the Ukrainian Institute. 14 October 2023.听
• Dr Peter Zusi moderated the panel 'Gaming the System: Language, Conformism, and Breaking Conventions, From V谩clav Havel鈥檚 Absurdism to the Age of X鈥� as part of the听, on 12 October, at 911爆料网 SSEES.听
• Prof Arnold McMillin听published an article,听'Nation-Building and Its One Opponent, as Reflected in Contemporary Belarusian Poetry', in the听New Zealand Slavonic Journal. vols 55-56听(2021-2022 [2023]), pp. 25-50.

• Dr Uilleam Blacker participated in a discussion event at the L'viv Book Forum with the International Booker Prize winning author Georgi Gospodinov, the Ukrainian poet and translator Ostap Slyvynskyi and director of Ukraine programmes at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna Katherine Younger. A recording can be found here: 听(4 October)
  During the Forum he was also interviewed for Ukrainian national broadcaster Suspilne Kultura () and for Suspilne Radio.
  On October 2, Dr Uilleam Blacker听chaired an event with Prof Vitaly Chernetsky, 'Recognizing and Addressing Epistemic Injustice', hosted at SSEES.听

September 2023

• Dr听Svetlana McMillin听participated in a conference 鈥淩ussian studies after 2022鈥�, held by the Institute of Linguistics and Literary Studies at the Marie Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin, Poland (28鈥�29 September) On 28听September, she was听a discussant听in a panel 芦袪褍褋懈褋褌懈泻邪 薪邪 褎芯薪械 胁芯泄薪褘, 褉械锌褉械褋褋懈泄, 褝屑懈谐褉邪褑懈懈禄听(鈥淩ussian studies against the backdrop of war, repression and emigration鈥�). She also听gave a paper 鈥溾�櫺椥葱笛佈� 锌褌懈褑褘 薪械 锌芯褞褌鈥︹�� 袪芯褋褋懈泄褋泻懈械 邪薪褌懈胁芯械薪薪褘械 锌械褋薪懈鈥� (鈥溾�橳he birds do not sing here鈥︹��, Russian anti鈥搘ar songs鈥�).(29 September)听
• Dr听Ljiljana Bilbija听attended the听European Language Day in the UK EU Delegation Open Day to promote Croatian language learning in the UK (Sept 26, 2023)
• Prof Arnold McMillin presented a paper, 'The Growth of Belarusian National Consciousness' at Gdansk University on听 23 September
• Prof听Alex Krouglov听has been teaching听a course in Ukrainian for heritage speakers at Ukrainian Institute London (from 21st September):
• Prof Zoran Milutinovic (together with听Prof Slavo Radosevic) was one of three keynote speakers at The Third Balkan Studies Conference -Cultural Inheritance and Diversified Development, organised by Balkan Studies Center, Beijing Foreign Studies University, September 19-23, 2023.
• Dr Uilleam Blacker was in conversation with Dame Melinda Simmons, former UK ambassador to Ukraine, at JW3/Ukrainian Institute London: (11 September 2023). On 25 September, Dr Blacker's translation of a poem by Iryna Shuvalova was chosen as poem of the day by the American Association of Poets:
• Dr Ramona Gonczol created and filmed the with SpringPod, a platform to allow prospective students to try out a university level course before application.听

August 2023

• Dr Ullieam Blacker's translation of Ukrainian writer听Victoria Amelina's poem 'About a Crow' was read by actress Fiona Shaw in the Game for Ukraine on August 5
• Dr Svetlana McMillin's book 鈥淕eorgy Vladimov: the Burden of Chivalry鈥� (Moscow, ACT, 2022) was reviewed in the听journal 听 Moldova, 2023, 鈩� 3, pp. 268-278, by听prominent Ukrainian scholar Prof Yefim Gofman.

July 2023

• Dr Uilleam Blacker's essay on Ukrainian war poetry was published in the TLS, titled听' July 2023
  On July 7 he听 for the Ukrainian writer Victoria Amelina, who was killed in a Russian rocket attack on Kramatorsk on July 1. His translation of one of Victoria's poems was also published in the Guardian ().听Victoria gave a reading at SSEES in April.听
• Dr Svetlana McMillin acted as a consultant &听external expert for the European Research Council, evaluating a project, presented by the University of Poznan, Poland:听Brave New Slavic World: 鈥淧ostcommunist Dystopia in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus鈥� over summer 2023.听
• Dr Yordanka Velkova interviewed Rob Dixon, British Ambassador to Bulgaria, HE Ambassador,听highlighted the importance of learning languages & understanding different cultures. Watch the