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Research Seminars 2006-2007

Organiser: Dr Margaret Tejerizo

Semester 1

Presenter

Topic

Venue

Week 7 Wednesday 08 November, 3.00 pm

Dr Jan Vorel

(University of Ostrava, Czech Republic)

Герменевтика русского символизма

Rm 310, Level 3, Hetherington Bldg

Week 7: Thursday 09 November, 2.00 pm (a Special Lecture for students of Slavonic Studies 1A)

Dr Petr Bílek

(Charles University, Czech Republic)

Life is Unknowable? Milan Kundera in East and West.

Lecture Theatre D, Boyd Orr Bldg

Week 7: Thursday 09 November, 5.00 pm

Ms Marta Filipova

(PhD candidate, History of Art Department, Glasgow University)

Construction of National Identity in Czech Art History

Room 101, 8 University Gardens

Week 8

Monday 13 November, 5.00 pm

Dr Petr Bílek

(Charles University, Prague)

Why Literature is not Like a Virtue Any More. Some Remarks on Writing the Literary History of the Post-Communist Era (Early Czech History Case Study)

Rm 310, Level 3, Hetherington Bldg

Week 8

Tuesday 14 November, 4.00 pm, Special Lecture for students of Slavonic Studies 2A

Dr Petr Bílek

(Charles University, Prague)

Romanticism and Realism

Rm 133, Level 1, Hetherington Bldg

Week 11

Monday 04 December, 5.00 pm

Room 310, Level 3, Hetherington Bldg

Week 12

Monday 11 December, 5.00 pm

Dr Evgenii Pavlov,

University of Canterbury, New Zealand

Vvedenskii and Kant

Room 310, Level 3, Hetherington Bldg


Semester 2

Semester 2

Presenter

Topic

Venue

Week 2

Week 3

Week 4

Monday 12 February, 5.00 pm

Dr Magdalena Zawis³awska (University of Warsaw, Poland)

To Explain the Unexplained Metaphors in the Language of Science

Room 310, Level 1, Hetherington Bldg

Week 4

Tuesday 13 February, 11.00 am (intended for Russian Honours students, but all welcome)

Ms Elina Viljanen (Research Fellow at the Aleksanteri Institute: Finnish Centre for Russian and Eastern European Studies/ University of Helsinki)

Boris Asaf'ev on Russian Music and Russian Landscape Painting

Room 133, Level 1, Hetherington Bldg

Week 5

Monday 19 February, 5.00 pm

Dr John Bates (Section Convener, Slavonic Studies, University of Glasgow)

Solidarity in Recent Polish Cinema

Room 310, Level 3, Hetherington Bldg

Week 5

Thursday 22 February, 7.00 pm

2nd Annual Lazarev Lecture: Professor Geoffrey Swain (Alexander Nove Professor, University of Glasgow)

'Unpractical and Difficult People'. Russia's Moderate Socialists 90 Years On.

Seminar Room 1 (Yudowitz), Wolfson Medical School Building, University Avenue

Week 6

Wednesday 28 February, 12.30 pm - 3.00 pm

Dr Monica White (Clare College, University of Cambridge

The Rise of the Dragon in Middle Byzantine Hagiography

Lunch: 12.30pm in the Atrium of the Medical School, Lecture :Hugh Fraser room of the same building

Week 7

Wednesday 28 February, 5.30 pm

Dr Richard Butterwick (UCL-SSEES)

Between Enlightened Catholicism and Anti-Enlightenment Clerical Discourse in late Eighteenth-Century Poland-Lithuania

Room 506, Boyd Orr Bldg, University Avenue

Week 8

Monday 12 March, 5.00 pm

Mr Jakub Žytek (Czech Lektor, University of Glasgow)

Research in Progress

Room 310, Level 3, Hetherington Bldg

Week 8

Wednesday 14 March, 5.00 pm

Dr Seth Graham (SSEES, UCL)

New Selves and Old Others in Post-Soviet Russian Cinema

Room 310, Level 3, Hetherington Bldg

Week 10

Room 310, Level 3, Hetherington Bldg

Week 12

Monday 30 April, 5.00 pm

Professor Rebecca Wallace, (Glasgow and Aberdeen)

Gender in the Context of International Law and Refugee Rights (with Special Reference to the Baltic States)

Room 310, Level 3, Hetherington Bldg

Monday 04 June, 5.00 pm

Ms Izabela Rudzka, (University of Glasgow Polish Lektorial Fellow)

Update on current research

Room 310, Level 3, Hetherington Bldg

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