We are the Russian and East European Studies (REES) unit of Oxford University's School of Global and Area Studies (@OSGAOxford).
University of Oxford, UK.
Joined September 2013
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📢 The BEARR Trust Annual Conference: Prevention of Violence Against Women and Girls in Eastern Europe
🗓️ Friday 20 Nov 🕤 9:30-13:30 GMT
📍Voluntary Action Islington, London & Online
🔗 Registration (in person or online): eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-bearr…
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📚 Book Talk: Daughters of Dissidents Need Not Apply by Nadina Ronc
🗓️ Wed 11 Nov📍 Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony's
🕔 4:00pm-5:30pm
Nadina Ronc discusses her memoir, Daughters of Dissidents Need Not Apply, about her childhood in Bosnia as Yugoslavia collapsed into war.
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Week 5 RESC Monday Seminar
🗓️ Mon 9 Nov 🕔 5pm
📍Nissan Theatre, St Antony’s
Today, Susanne Schattenberg (University of Bremen) will be presenting The European „Continent“ against the Soviet Arkhipel GULag. Natalya Gorbanevskaya and the Russian exile press in Paris (1976-1991).
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🎶 A Concert and Talk on Radiohead with Anna Vilenskaya
🗓️ Friday 13 November 🕐 1:15 to 2:45 pm
📍 Antechapel, Wadham College
👤 Organized by: The Oxford New Russian Society
🔗 Tickets: fixr.co/event/a-concert-and-…
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Living Emptiness: Place, Power and Meaning-Making from the Baltic to the Russian Far East
🗓️ 5 Nov 🕓 4-7 pm
📍 Belsyre Garage, 75 Woodstock Rd
Register via Eventbrite: eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-laun…
More information: livingemptiness.org/
Week 4 Slavonic Seminar
🗓️ Thursday 5 November 🕔 5pm
📍Room 2, Taylor Institution
This week’s seminar features two presentations on DPhil research sub-faculty by Anastasia Oleshchuk and Magdalena Blincoe-Deval, followed by Q&A and drinks.
All welcome!
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🎄 The Bodleian Social Science Library is collecting small Christmas presents for Ukrainian children and soldiers
🇺🇦 Presents will be packed and shipped to Ukraine
👤 Organised by One Project Ukraine
🎁 Collection: 10 - 24 November
See attached poster for suggested gifts!
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🇺🇦 Featured Talk Today: 'Russia's war on Ukraine: when will it end? What is its global impact?'
🗓️ 3 November 2026 🕕 6-7 pm📍 St Peter's College
🔗 Registration & more information: eventbrite.co.uk/e/russias-w…
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Week 4 RESC Monday Seminar
🗓️ ** Tuesday 3 Nov ** 🕔 5 pm
📍 Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony’s College
Professor Sergey Radchenko (Johns Hopkins University) will present ‘Power Play: The Ruthless Rise and Perilous Future of Russia’s Energy Empire’.
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🇺🇦 Featured Lecture Today
Post-War Reconstruction of Ukraine: Input–Output Analysis, 2026–2036
🗓️ Wednesday, 28 Oct 🌐 Online
🕚 11:40 UK time / 13:40 Kyiv time 🗣️ Language: English
🔗 Registration: forms.gle/p93qR9nMgKxBC8GC8
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Week 3 RESC Monday Seminar
🗓️ Monday 26 Oct 🕔 5 pm
📍 Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony’s
This week, Tobias Rupprecht (Humboldt University of Berlin) will be speaking on: ‘The tragedy of Soviet market economists: the failed quest to civilise Russia, 1972–2022’
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📢 Week 2 Slavonic Research Seminar
🗓️ Thu 22 Oct, 5pm📍 Room 2, Taylor Institution
👤 Natalia Grinina (Humboldt)
‘Island Russia’: Insularity, History & Bounded Space in a Continental Empire
From Shcherbatov to Tsymbursky: islands in Russian utopian thought. All welcome!
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🇺🇦 Power Under Fire: What Ukraine's Energy System Teaches the World
🗓️ Monday 2 November
🕔 5:15 - 6:30 pm
📍 Lecture Theatre, Dyson Perrins Building
👤 Featuring Maxim Timchenko, CEO, DTEK Group
Free, hybrid seminar on energy security & resilience.
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📚 We Shall Outlast Them: Putin's Global Campaign to Defeat the West
🗓️ Wed 21 Oct 🕐 13.00📍 St Antony’s
Hanna Notte will introduce her recently published book - the chilling and revelatory story of how Russia’s confrontation with the West went global.
ccw.ox.ac.uk/events/2026/not…
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📢 Polarization and Institutional Conflict: Poland as a Laboratory of Democracy
🗓️ Tuesday, 20 Oct 🕔 5-6:45 pm
📍 Seminar Room, St Antony's
👥 Speakers: Fernando Casal Bértoa (University of Nottingham) & Katarzyna Walecka (Kellogg College, Oxford)
events.ox.ac.uk/oxford_event…
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📢 Special RESC Seminar
🗓️ Friday 23 October 🕓 4 - 5:30 pm
📍 Pavilion Room, St Antony’s College
Please join us next Friday for Professor Ceslav Ciobanu's (Virginia State University) presentation ‘Glasnost and Perestroika at 40: An Insider’s Perspective.’
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Week 2 RESC Monday Seminar
🗓️ Monday 19 October 🕔 5pm
📍Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony’s
Simon Huxtable’s (University of Leeds) will be presenting ‘Uncomradely object: the Soviet condom and the fight against HIV/AIDS’.
🔗 events.ox.ac.uk/oxford_event…
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🇰🇿 Kazakhstan’s New Political Order: Constitutional Reform, Elections & Power
🗓️ Wed 21 Oct, 1:00–2:15 p.m. (EST) 💻 Virtual
Experts discuss the 2026 referendum, parliamentary elections, institutions, civic space & Tokayev’s reform agenda.
🔗 RSVP: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
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📢 Week 1 Slavonic Research Seminar: Welcome and Introduction 🗓️ Thursday, 15 October 🕟 5-7 pm
📍 Room 2, Taylor Institution, St Giles
👤 Convenors: Polly Jones, Tamar Koplatadze, Philip Bullock
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