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Russian and East European Studies Seminar Series - Trinity Term 2008
Please Note: This seminar series has finished. For information on our current seminar series please see our Seminar Series.
Society and Economy of Post-Communist Countries (CEE/CIS)
Seminars are held on Mondays st 5pm in the Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College, unless otherwise indicated below. This is an advanced research seminar series supported by the School of Geography and the management committee of Russian and East European Studies. Participation is open to all.
For further information contact Dr Judith Pallot or Dr Carol Scott Leonard.
Week 1: 5pm, Monday 21 April 2008, Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College
The social costs of 'transition': Coping with marginalisation in Magadan City.
Dr John Round, School of Geography, Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham.
Week 2: 5pm, Monday 28 April 2008, Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College
Science-industry links in CEE and CIS: Conventional policy wisdoms facing reality.
Prof. Slavo Radosevic, School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES), UCL.
Week 3: 5pm, Monday 5 May 2008, Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College
The four I-words - and a fifth one: Medvedev's economic plans.
Pekka Sutela, Bank of Finland.
Week 4: 5pm, Monday 12 May 2008, Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College
The weight of the Vorkuta sky: Accounting for 'place' in research narratives.
Prof. Hilary Pilkington, Sociology Department, University of Warwick.
Week 5: 5pm, Monday 19 May 2008, Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College
Aspects of legal culture in post-Soviet Russia.
Dr Marina Kurkchiyan, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford.
Week 6: 5pm, Monday 26 May 2008, Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College
Workers' protests and civil society in Russia today.
Elizabeth Teague, British Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO).
Week 7: 5pm, Monday 2 June 2008, Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College
Researching care, social security and the withdrawing state.
Prof. Rebecca Kay, Central and East European Studies Department, University of Glasgow.
Week 8: 5pm, Monday 9 June 2008, Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College
Prison rehabilitation in Ukraine: does it work?
Prof. Marianna Klochko, Department of Sociology, Ohio State University.