CEELBAS

New Coverage of CEELBAS Expertise in Russian-Language Press

James A Perkins — 2010-03-01T09:32:05Z

Following a new strategic partnership between CEELBAS and The Russian Media House publishing company, the first in a projected series of articles covering the expertise of CEELBAS partners appeared in the UK Russian-language journal ‘New Style’ in January 2010 (issue 79). In this article Dr Maria Rubins of UCL School of Slavonic Studies presented her research on Russian Émigré Prose, discussing the various cultural-linguistic complexities faced by bilingual Russian émigré writers past and present, and their difficulties gaining recognition and acceptance whilst working within a foreign literary milieu. With particular reference to Russian émigré publications in interwar France, Dr Rubins described her work as an editor and publisher of these rare and often long out-of-print texts, highlighting the orthographic and technical challenges of such work. The original article (in Russian) is available here.

Language-Based Area Studies Reception at the British Academy

James A Perkins — 2010-03-01T08:54:00Z

The five Language-Based Area Studies centres welcomed supporters from Parliament, business, the media, diplomacy and international organisations to the British Academy on Wedensday February 24th to celebrate the success of the UK Funding Councils’ Language-Based Area Studies (LBAS) initiative.

Call for Papers: Diasporas and Cosmopolitanism in Central and Eastern Europe

James A Perkins — 2010-02-26T10:02:05Z

Papers are solicited for a conference on 'Diasporas and Cosmopolitanism in Central and Eastern Europe: From Theory to Practice' to be held at UCL School of Slavonic Studies in Setpember 2010. For full details, contacts, and deadlines please click here.

CEELBAS Postgraduate Student Conference - Russia and Eastern Europe in the 21st Century: Looking Back, Looking Forward

James A Perkins — 2010-02-25T13:06:47Z

St Antony's and Wolfson Colleges, University of Oxford

INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP: ‘Beyond Nationalism? Cultural Processes in East-Central Europe, 20th-21st Centuries’

James A Perkins — 2010-01-26T11:10:29Z

On 25-26 February 2010, the L'viv Center for Urban History of East Central Europe (www.lvivcenter.org) will host the first international workshop to be sponsored by CEELBAS. Dr Robert Pyrah, CEELBAS postdoctoral fellow at Oxford University, will coordinate the Workshop together with Tarik Amar, Academic Director at the L’viv Center.

CEELBAS Network Workshop helps bring HERA funding success

James A Perkins — 2010-01-26T10:45:31Z

The CEELBAS Network Project workshop on 'Methods of Memory Studies: Russia and Eastern Europe' held at the University of Cambridge in December 2008 has led to Project Leader Alexander Etkind submitting a successful bid to the Humanities in the European Research Area (HERA) Joint Research Programme Call under the Cultural Dynamics: Inheritance and Identity theme.

SSEES MRes Scholarships - New Funding Opportunity for CEELBAS Students

James A Perkins — 2010-01-19T11:39:02Z

The UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies is offering 3 scholarships at the level of Home-EU fees for study on the MRes in East European Studies to start from 1 October 2010 and to run for two years in each case. The scholarships aim to continue UCL SSEES support for the research and training programme of the Centre for East European Language-Based Area Studies (CEELBAS). Applications must show engagement with the CEELBAS research themes for 2010-16 (click on further information below for details):

SSEES PhD Scholarships - New Funding Opportunity for CEELBAS students

James A Perkins — 2010-01-19T11:26:55Z

The UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES) is offering 3 scholarships at the level of Home-EU fees for PhD Research to start from 1 October 2010 and to run for three years in each case. The scholarships will continue UCL SSEES support for the research and training programme of the Centre for East European Language-Based Area Studies (CEELBAS), which is led by UCL SSEES. In addition to meeting standard conditions for admission to UCL, priority will be given to applicants who demonstrate how their intended project will take forward research that meets strategic priorities identified by CEELBAS for the period 2010-2016 (click on further information below for details).

Call For Papers: Elites and the Formation of Identities in Post Soviet Space - Global and Domestic Influences

James A Perkins — 2010-01-05T12:23:38Z

INTERNATIONAL ELITES AND THE FORMATION OF POLITICAL IDENTITY IN POST SOVIET SPACE

Language teaching at UCL SSEES and the Common European Framework of Reference - Project Report

James A Perkins — 2009-12-22T16:06:59Z

Following the completion of a CEELBAS Network Project run by Marta Jenkala and Christopher Moseley to investigate how the teaching and testing of East European and Slavonic languages at the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES) maps onto the Council of Europe’s Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR), a summary of the project and a report on its findings and conclusions is available here. Further project details can be found in the Research section of the website. A presentation of the findings of the project, to which participants from across the CEELBAS Network will be invited, is being planned for Spring 2010 and will be publicised here.

The Changing Landscape of East-Central Europe since 1700 in Transnational Context - Conference Report

James A Perkins — 2009-12-17T11:51:34Z

Held under the aegis of the British-Czech-Slovak Historians’ Forum (http://users.ox.ac.uk/~bcsforum/index.html) this interdisciplinary worksop, part-funded by CEELBAS under its Network Projects scheme, attracted a total of about 60 participants to the History Faculty at Oxford with 18 half-hour papers by historians or academic specialists from six countries. A Conference Report is available here.

PhD Studentship in Russian and East European Studies at the University of Manchester

James A Perkins — 2009-12-16T11:09:32Z

The Discipline of Russian and East European Studies, School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures, at the University of Manchester is offering a Graduate Teaching Fellowship for candidates who want to pursue doctoral research from 1 September 2010 for three years. The financial support offered to the successful candidate is as follows:

New 'Polish for Foreigners' online language course launched

James A Perkins — 2009-12-11T16:08:14Z

Following completion of a pioneering CEELBAS-funded language project to create materials to develop the language skills of heritage speakers of Polish, the ‘Polish for Foreigners’ online language course is now available at www.polishforforeigners.org.

Situating Culture Workshop 1: Cultures of the Margins

James A Perkins — 2009-12-02T14:44:43Z

The first of a series of workshops under the umbrella theme Situating Culture is taking place at the University of Warwick from December 12^th-13^th 2009.

'Russia on Edge' workshop: 11-12 Dec 2009

James A Perkins — 2009-11-27T16:46:50Z

RUSSIA ON EDGE: RECLAIMING THE PERIPHERY IN CONTEMPORARY RUSSIAN CULTURE

'International Elites and Identity Formation' November 27 workshop details

James A Perkins — 2009-11-27T10:54:51Z

International Elites and the Formation of Political Identity in Post Soviet Space

Russian Archives Training Scheme: March-April 2010

unknown — 2009-10-22T15:31:07Z

Following several successful UK workshops and trips to Russia, the Russian Archives Training scheme is organising a one week trip to Moscow for research students based in the UK and overseas, in order to introduce them to working in the principal historical, literary and cultural archives used by scholars of the Soviet Union and the Russian Empire. The scheme is funded by CEELBAS and CRCEES, after a highly successful four-year pilot funded by a grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Council’s ‘Collaborative Research Training Provision for Doctoral Students’ scheme.

‘Legacies and Prospects’: Poland 1989-2009 conference report

unknown — 2009-10-21T08:31:53Z

A one-day international conference was held at the University of Oxford in June 2009 to mark the twentieth anniversary of the ‘bloodless’ democratic revolutions that spread from Poland’s Gdańsk shipyards across East-Central Europe. The conference was held under the patronage of the Embassy of the Republic of Poland, with sponsorship from CEELBAS, the M. B. Grabowski Foundation, and support from St. Antony’s College. It was co-ordinated by Dr Robert Pyrah, the CEELBAS Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Cultural Processes in East-Central Europe, with Filip Lachowski, President of the Oxford University Polish Society.

Report on Postgraduate Ethics workshop

unknown — 2009-10-08T09:40:54Z

The postgraduate ethics workshop took place at SSEES on 23 September 2009. Its main aim was to bring together academics and postgraduate research students within REES to exchange ideas and experiences relating to ethical issues. This workshop was divided into three sessions, designed to address three key themes: ethics and statistical data; ethical issues arising during fieldwork and ethical issues in an era of institutional paranoia.

'Spaces of Nationhood' workshop report

unknown — 2009-10-07T16:15:53Z

Spaces of Nationhood: Landscape and Identity after Communism

LBAS-Centre Directors' letter published in THES

unknown — 2009-09-03T11:13:44Z

A letter emphasising the importance of interdisciplinarity across the social sciences and humanities was published in the Times Higher Education Supplement. The letter was written by CEELBAS Director Robin Aizlewood and signed by the Directors of all five Language Based Area Studies Centres.

Visiting Fellowship at Johns Hopkins University

unknown — 2009-07-29T15:15:56Z

Dr Felix Ciută (UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies) has been awarded an ESRC/SSRC Collaborative Visiting Fellowship at the Paul H Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University, in the Spring term 2010. At SAIS, Felix will conduct research on his project "Lily-Pad Geopolitics: Strategic Representations of Romania in the Global War on Terror".

Report on Wider Europe Seminar in Bratislava

unknown — 2009-06-17T15:58:31Z

On 12 and 13 June 2009, the Wider Europe network held a seminar in Bratislava in collaboration with CEELBAS, the Economic and Social Research Council, the Slovak Foreign Policy Association and the Comenius University. The principal focus of the conference was the impact of the new Member States on the making of the European Union’s policy towards its eastern neighbours and, in particular, their preferences for the Eastern Partnership.

Current CEELBAS-funded projects

unknown — 2009-05-28T09:52:41Z

The Centre is organising, across its Network, regular thematic and/or (inter-)disciplinary workshops including participation by international scholars and non-area specialists to take forward the research agenda. Please see CEELBAS network projects for further information.

CEELBAS forthcoming events

unknown — 2008-10-27T15:37:56Z

Please see details of forthcoming CEELBAS events