The CEELBAS Seminar Series at Warwick has now finished. Further information on CEELBAS can be found here.

Meetings in 2009/10

Seminars are held on Wednesdays at 5:00 pm, alternately at the Universities of Birmingham and Warwick:

Wed., Nov. 4, 2009, at the Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham

Speaker: Lara Cook
School of Historical Studies, Newcastle
Title: Collegiality in the People's Commissariats 1917-20. Paper.
Venue: Muirhead Tower (Building R21 in this map), Room 113.

Wed., Dec. 2, 2009, at the Institute for Advanced Study, University of Warwick

Speaker: Yoram Gorlizki
Department of Government, Manchester
Title: Too Much Trust: Regional Party Leaders and Political Networks under Brezhnev. Abstract.
Venue: Milburn House (Building 38 in this map, or search for "IAS" in this interactive map), IAS Seminar Room.

Wed., Feb. 3, 2010, at the Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham

Speaker: Robert Service
St Antony’s College, Oxford
Title: Trotsky and the Bolshevik Revolutionary Project: Who Betrayed What?
Introduction to Trotsky: A Biography.
Venue: Muirhead Tower (Building R21 in this map), Room 113.

Wed., Mar. 3, 2010, at the Institute for Advanced Study, University of Warwick

Speaker: Alena Ledeneva
School of Slavonic and East European Studies, UCL
Title: Open Secrets and Knowing Smiles: Reflections on Informal Power in Russia. Abstract.
Introduction to work on informal networks: From Russia With Blat.
Venue: Milburn House (Building 38 in this map, or search for "IAS" in this interactive map), IAS Seminar Room.

Logistics

Papers are uploaded and linked from this page, or circulated by email, in advance of each seminar.

Refreshments are provided for a small charge at the end of each seminar. To assist with catering arrangements, please send a message in advance to Rosalind Lucas at the Institute for Advanced Study if you plan to attend.

Use http://go.warwick.ac.uk/russiaseminar to return to or bookmark this page.

About CEELBAS

The Centre for East European Language Based Area Studies is a HEFCE-funded national consortium of institutions with a focus on Russia and Eastern Europe, including Birmingham and Warwick. CEELBAS supports area-studies initiatives around the country. In 2008/09, and again in 2009/10, the Universities of Birmingham and Warwick have jointly secured CEELBAS funding for an interdisciplinary Russia seminar that meets twice in each institution and serves the Midlands region.

Other Sponsors

The CEELBAS Midlands Russia seminar also thanks for financial and other support:

• The Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham
• The School of Geography, Earth, and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham
• The Institute for Advanced Study, University of Warwick
• The Departments of Economics, History, and Sociology, University of Warwick.

About Russian studies at Warwick

More information about Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies at the University of Warwick.

Contacts

To join the mailing list for seminar papers and other arrangements, please send an email to Rosalind Lucas at the Institute for Advanced Study.

In 2009/10 the seminar co-organizers are:

Mark Harrison, Department of Economics, University of Warwick, and

Jeremy Smith, Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham.