The Research Student Seminar Series gives SSEES PhD students the opportunity to present their work to fellow researchers and the general public in an informal setting.
Each 20-30 minute presentation is followed by a Q&A session, which allows presenters to gain feedback from people with a range of disciplinary backgrounds and areas of expertise.
In-person seminars are customarily followed by a more informal discussion over drinks and snacks. All seminars are open to everyone to attend. Registration is free but mandatory.
Day/Time: Mondays 4pm
Venue: Masaryk room, UCL SSEES
- 2023-24 Events
- 29 Jan:David Rypel - Assembling a Secure Life: A Bottom-Up Approach to Understanding Everyday Security of Queer People in Georgia
- 5 Feb: Carmela Morgillo - Nostalgic for the Future? Soviet Hauntology through Memorabilia, Virtual Memories, and Memes
- 12 Feb: Agnieszka Puchalska - Fostering Active Readers: Narrative Instability and Change in Walter Benjamin and Olga Tokarczuk’s Novels
- 26 Feb: Jack Daniel Dean - Anatomy of a Crisis: Medical Populism in Romania
- 11Mar: Oliver Banatvala - Wartime Malleability
- 18-Mar:Ksenia Sizonova - Discrimination and Resistance – How Do Kyrgyz Migrant Women Reflect on Their Everyday Experiences in Russia? (Overview of a research proposal)
- 22 April (hybrid):Freya Proudman -Resort to the Court: A Research Agenda for Exploring Human Rights Litigation in LGBTQ+ Russians’ and Poles’ Quest for Justice
- 29 April (hybrid):Olga Doletskaya -Creative Family Displays Under State Surveillance: Stories of Queer Parents in Putin’s Russia
- 7 May (hybrid):Alesia Mankouskaya -Belarusian Dramaturgist Simeon of Polotsk, 1650 – 1680: His Journey from Bilingual Academic Drama to Court Theatre
13 May (hybrid):Ellie McDonald-Dick -The Social, Religious and Cultural Aspects of Marriage in Early Kyivan Rus', Ninth to Thirteen Centuries
15 May (online):Xianni Ding -Exploring the Interplay between Financial Markets and Public Trust in the European Central Bank (ECB
20 May (hybrid):Miriam Pollock -The Impact of Regime Type on Environmental Policy: Large Lakes in Russia, Kazakhstan, and the United States
28 May (hybrid):Laura Osadciw -Stories Half Shared: Memory, Postmemory, and Narrative Biography Construction in the Postwar Ukrainian-British Diaspora, an Overview
3 June (hybrid):Natalija Stepanović -The Other Yugoslavs
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