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2024-04-25

Despite Putin's escalating war on queerness, #queer #parents in #Russia continue to have and raise children. How do they navigate the tension between the need to stay hidden for safety reasons and the necessity to engage with the state bureaucracy in contexts such as education, healthcare or adoption?

#UCL #SSEES doctoral student Olga Doletskaya will address this question in their talk on Monday (29 April) at 11 AM (BST). Join us as usual in person or online.

ucl.ac.uk/ssees/events/2024/ap

2024-04-16

Our #UCL #SSEES Research Student Seminar is coming back after a short break. You can look forward to eight presentations by SSEES #PhD students at various stages of their studies.

If you want to attend online, follow this space (or the SSEES Events page) for links. Links to the first two presentations are below.

Freya Proudman (22 April): ucl.ac.uk/ssees/events/2024/ap
Olga Doletskaya (29 April): ucl.ac.uk/ssees/events/2024/ap

The list of Research Student Seminar presentations.

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 (Tuesday, 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 (Wednesday, 1 PM, online only) – 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 (Tuesday, 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
2024-03-14

How can the lived experience of #Kyrgyz migrant women in #Russia inform our thinking about #race, #ethnicity, and #citizenship? The next speaker in our #UCL #SSEES Research Student Seminar will be first-year PhD student Ksenia Sizonova who will outline her research plan.

Join us next Monday (18 March) in person or online for the last presentation of the term. We will be back from 22 April.

ucl.ac.uk/ssees/events/2024/ma

2024-03-07

Next Monday (11 March), #UCL #SSEES PhD student Oliver Banatvala will present his work in progress on shopping malls in times of #war. What insight into everyday #geopolitics can these "inherently flexible" parts of the #urban landscape offer?

This time in person only.

ucl.ac.uk/ssees/events/2024/ma
#anthropology #conflict #Ukraine #urbanism

2024-02-15

Has #Romania's #healthcare system become the victim of political #populism? The next speaker in our RS seminar series will be a #UCL #SSEES PhD student Jack Daniel Dean who will outline his research plan to investigate this question.

Join us in person or online on Monday 26 Feb at 11 GMT.

ucl.ac.uk/ssees/events/2024/fe

#politicalscience

2024-02-08

Can #literature make readers more active in the world outside of text? Next Monday (12 Feb, 11 am GMT), #UCL #SSEES PhD student Agnieszka Puchalska will present her research project which explores how certain literary strategies may turn readers into co-creators of narratives within and beyond texts.

Please note that this event will take place online.

More information and registration:
ucl.ac.uk/ssees/events/2024/fe

#Tokarczuk #Benjamin

2024-02-01

Join us this Monday (05/02) at #UCL #SSEES for Carmela Morgillo’s presentation of her research on #Soviet #nostalgia in Cavriago, the town where #Lenin is the honorary mayor.

(Online attendance may be possible, DM me if interested)

ucl.ac.uk/ssees/events/2024/fe

2024-01-25

This year’s #UCL #SSEES Research Student Seminar Series is kicking off next week (*coincidentally* with my presentation). Join us in the SSEES common room almost every Monday from 11 am (GMT).

(Some sessions will be hybrid – msg me if you're interested)

ucl.ac.uk/ssees/research/resea

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 - The Last Soviet City: 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                      
11 Mar: Oliver Banatvala - Wartime Malleability: The Shopping Mall as Public Sphere(?) Since Russia's Full-scale Invasion of Ukraine
19 Mar: Ksenia Sizonova - Discrimination and Resistance – How Do Kyrgyz Migrant Women Reflect on Their Everyday Experiences in Russia? (Overview of a research proposal)
Seán HanleyDrSeanHanley
2023-03-08

Interesting student research on Latvian new parties and Russian state internet trolling of US liberal-left on show @uclssees@tweets.icu Politics and Sociology BA dissertation poster event.

Student poster about Russian internet trolling Student poster about Latvian new parties
2023-03-06

The Bracewell Travelling Scholarship is now open for 2023. Open to PhD students from Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe who wish to spend one term at UCL SSEES. Covers tuition plus a living stipend. Deadline 31 May.

#scholarship #stipend #UCL #SSEES #PhD

ucl.ac.uk/ssees/news/2023/feb/

2022-11-30

Don’t miss: #LGBTQ+ Studies at Risk conference, 23-24 March 2023, #UCL #SSEES (hybrid)

Friends are organising a two-day #conference on the challenges of doing #queer research in hostile environments. It will feature workshops on research ethics, risk management, digital security, vicarious trauma, and more.

Apply by 23 December to participate and/or present. I’ll see you there!

ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-advance

@queerstudies @anthropology @sociology @politicalscience

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