Resources
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CEELBAS Podcasts: recordings from previous CEELBAS workshops and events |
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Language Resources:
NEW! open-access digital repository
of teaching and self-study materials for Slavonic and East European languages |
| Area Methods Research Guide: ideas and tips for postgraduate students undertaking area methods research |
| Related Research: major research projects with which CEELBAS has interacted or which CEELBAS has helped to generate |
| Useful Links: related websites and internet resources |
CEELBAS Podcasts
- The Birth and Death of Modern Literary Theory: Eight Years Later: Professor Galin Tihanov (Literary Theory Masterclass, UCL, 11 Feb 2013)
- Russia's Skolkovo in Comparative and Historical Context (UCL SSEES, 13 June 2012)
- Shale Gas and Renewable Energy: Reducing Central and Eastern Europe’s Dependency on Natural Gas Imports (UCL SSEES, 25 June 2012)
- Society, Culture and Politics of Eastern Europe (University of Oxford, 12-13 December 2008)
Language Resources
The CEELBAS Language Repository is a newly-created open access
resource for teachers and students of the languages of Central and Eastern
Europe and Russia. It has the twin objectives of advancing the availability of
specially designed teaching and self-study materials, targeting the specific
requirements of research-focused language training, and of promoting pedagogic
reflection on language learning.
Additional CEELBAS Language Workshop reports and materials:
- Using Moodle and Hot Potatoes to create
computer-based language exercises
15 February 2011, UCL - Cognitive Linguistic Methods in Cultural Analysis: Interdisciplinary
Perspective
30 June 2011, University of Oxford
Area Methods Research Guide: Reflections on Fieldwork In Eastern Europe and Russia
An online guide has been produced by CEELBAS Postdoctoral Fellows to
assist postgraduate students in their research projects on Central and Eastern
Europe and Russia. This is a Learning Space in which the Fellows draw on their
own experiences to offer ideas and possible approaches to some of the common
challenges encountered during the research process in the CEELBAS region.
CEELBAS has also supported the Russian Archives Training Scheme: a week-long doctoral archive-training workshop in Russia. A detailed guide to USING ARCHIVES AND LIBRARIES IN THE FORMER SOVIET UNION, produced by previous participants on this training scheme can be accessed via the Language Repository.
Other resources:
‘The Russian & CIS Energy Sector and academic/practitioner engagement’ - slides from a presentation by Nat Moser (UCL SSEES) delivered at the Language-Based Area Studies (LBAS) Advanced Training in Research Methods Conference, University of Glasgow, 30 November 2012.
See also: CEELBAS Research Ethics Workshops
Related Research Projects
Since 2006 CEELBAS has played a key role in the articulation and conceptualisation of the research agenda and in the development of new lines of collaborative, individual and interdisciplinary research. The Centre continues to interact with several related external research projects and programmes, including:
MYPLACE - Memory, Youth, Political Legacy And Civic Engagement
Hilary Pilkington, University of Warwick, 2011-2015
A major FP7 EU-funded project exploring how young people’s social participation is shaped
by the shadows (past, present and future) of totalitarianism and populism in
Europe.
The Genre Studies Network
Natasha Rulyova, University of Birmingham, 2012-2013
Taking forward collaboration initially developed through the CEELBAS-supported research network workshop Genre in Contemporary Russian Culture (June 2011)
Pot-Socialist
Punk: Beyond the Double Irony of Self-Abasement
Hilary Pilkington, University of Warwick,
2009-13
Interacting substantially with the series of
interdisciplinary CEELBAS workshops under the themes of ‘Doing Culture’ (Jan – Oct 2008) and ‘Situating Culture’
(Dec 2009 – May 2010) and the academic-practitioner workshop on the contemporary Russian artistic underground, 'RottenBeat' (May 2011).
INSPIRE: International Strategic Partnership in Research and Education
Galina Yemelianova, University of Birmingham, 2010-13
A joint project to develop research links between the University of Birmingham and the Kazakh-British
Technical University (Kazakhstan), drawing on networks fostered through the CEELBAS workshop 'The Caucasus and Central Asia: Theoretical, Cultural and Political Challenges' (July 2009).
Mediating Post-Soviet Difference: An Analysis of
Russian Television Representations of Inter-Ethnic Cohesion Issues
Stephen
Hutchings, University of Manchester, 2010-13
Drawing on collaboration
fostered through the CEELBAS network workshop and online discussion forum on
‘Post-Soviet Media Research Methodologies’ (October 2007 – April 2008)
Memory
at War: Cultural Dynamics in Poland, Russia, and
Ukraine
Alexander
Etkind, University of Cambridge, 2009-12
The CEELBAS Network
workshop on ‘Methods of Memory Studies’ (December 2008) played a key role in
the planning of this successful major EU grant application.
Russian
National Identity since 1961
Catriona Kelly, University of Oxford, 2007-2010
This series of projects included a CEELBAS workshop on National Identity in
Eurasia: Migrancy and Diaspora (July 2009)
Poland’s
Influence in the EU: the Case of Its Eastern Neighbours
Nathaniel
Copsey, University of Birmingham / University of Aston,
2008 -10
Drawing on Dr
Copsey’s research project as CEELBAS Postdoctoral Fellow (April 2007 – October 2009) on Polish Foreign Policy
Useful Links
CEELBAS Workshops and Projects: External Webistes and Materials
- RottenBeat: academic and musical dialogue with new Russian punk (Pushkin House, May 2011)
- Recent Developments in the Post-Soviet Media Landscape: Ukraine, Belarus and Russia (University of Oxford, July 2010)
- CEELBAS Midlands Russia Seminar Series (University of Warwick and University of Birmingham, November 2009 – May 2010)
- New Media in Europe and Asia (University of Birmingham, March 2010, and UCL, May 2010)
- Russia on Edge: Reclaiming the Periphery in Contemporary Russian Culture (University of Cambridge, December 2009)
- National Identity in Eurasia II : Migrancy & Diaspora (University of Oxford, July 2009)
- CEELBAS post-Soviet Media Project (University of Manchester and University of Birmingham, October 2007 – May 2008)
Other Area-related Internet Resources
- Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham
- Slavonic Studies, University of Cambridge
- Russian and East European Studies, University of Oxford
- UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies
Subject Centres and Associations
- BASEES (The British Association for Slavic and East European Studies)
- Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies (University of Southampton)
- UACES (University Association for Contemporary European Studies)
Research Networks and Centres based at CEELBAS universities
- Cambridge Ukrainian Studies
- Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies (University of Manchester)
- Environmental Energy Analysis Group (University of Kent)
- European Theatre Research Network (University of Kent)
- Migration and Diaspora Cultural Studies Network (University of Manchester)
- Political Economy of Energy in Eastern Europe and Russia (University of Warwick)
- Polish Migration Website (University of Bath)
- Russian and Eurasian Studies (St Antony's College, Oxford)
- SOAS Centre of Contemporary Central Asia and the Caucasus
- South-East European Studies at Oxford
- The Bakhtin Centre (University of Sheffield)
- The Oxford Society for the Caspian and Central Asia
- UCL European Institute
- UCL SSEES Research Centres and Seminars
Online Journals
- Women's Writing Online
- Digital Icons Studies in Russian, Eurasian and Central European New Media
- Russian Analytical Digest
Newsletters
- BEARR Trust bulletin
- Chatham House: The World Today (Russia and Eurasia-related articles)
- East European Memory Studies newsletter
Blogs
- Dr Sean's Diary (by Sean Hanley, UCL SSEES)
- Sarah J. Young (UCL SSEES)
- Memory at War
- Oli Johnson (University of Sheffield)
- Russian History Blog: An experiment in digital Russian history (bloggers include Miriam Dobson, University of Sheffield)
- Languages Linguistics and Area Studies News Blog
- MYPLACE (blog site for MYPLACE, a European Commission funded project: Memory, Youth, Political Legacy and Civic Engagement)
- Snail on the Slope (a collaborative blog on Russian, Soviet, and Eastern European sci-fi)
- Po Polsku - Polish Language and Culture (by Urszula Chowaniec, UCL SSEES)
- Romanian Roma in the UK and Migrant Night Workers in London (CEELBAS research internship blogs by SSEES M.Res graduate Cezar Macarie)
Cultural Institutes and Associations
- Czech Cultural Centre
- British Czech and Slovak Association
- Finnish Institute
- Hungarian Cultural Centre
- Polish Social and Cultural Association
- Polish Cultural Institute
- Pushkin House
- Romanian Cultural Centre
- Romanian Cultural Institute
- GB-Russia Society
- Slovak Centre London
- Ukrainian Institute
Other Language-Based Area Studies Centres
| Centre for Russian, Central and East European Studies (CRCEES) |
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| Centre for the Advanced Study of the Arab World (CASAW) |
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| White Rose East Asia Centre (WREAC) |
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| British Inter-university China Centre (BIIC) |
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- New Global Europe Centre launched at the University of Kent
- Language-Based Area Studies Reception at the British Academy, 13 May
- Frontlines: Politics and Culture in the post-Soviet Space. New CEELBAS debate series with openDemocracy Russia
- CRCEES Postgraduate Research Methodology Summer School, 4 - 14 July, Krakow: places available for CEELBAS university postgraduates
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