UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies
@uclssees.bsky.social
UCL's School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES) is the UK’s largest national centre for research and teaching on Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe, the Baltics, the Caucasus and Central Asia. www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees
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🔊 We are seeking an outstanding academic leader to join us as Director (Head of Department) of UCL SSEES.
📍 Location: London (hybrid)
🗓 Closing date: 15 February 2026
🗣️ Interviews: 9–10 March 2026
➡️ Apply here: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
📍 Location: London (hybrid)
🗓 Closing date: 15 February 2026
🗣️ Interviews: 9–10 March 2026
➡️ Apply here: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
🗞️ Hot off the press!
"It is far from clear whether #Iran will offer the kind of nuclear deal Trump would find acceptable, and Trump himself does not seem to know what else to do other than double down on military threats."
Read the latest article by Dr Christian Emery: buff.ly/XqvJcGF
"It is far from clear whether #Iran will offer the kind of nuclear deal Trump would find acceptable, and Trump himself does not seem to know what else to do other than double down on military threats."
Read the latest article by Dr Christian Emery: buff.ly/XqvJcGF
Trump insists Iran talks must continue, but military action is not off the table
After a meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House, Donald Trump said he wanted talks with Iran to continue.
theconversation.com
February 13, 2026 at 3:55 PM
🗞️ Hot off the press!
"It is far from clear whether #Iran will offer the kind of nuclear deal Trump would find acceptable, and Trump himself does not seem to know what else to do other than double down on military threats."
Read the latest article by Dr Christian Emery: buff.ly/XqvJcGF
"It is far from clear whether #Iran will offer the kind of nuclear deal Trump would find acceptable, and Trump himself does not seem to know what else to do other than double down on military threats."
Read the latest article by Dr Christian Emery: buff.ly/XqvJcGF
❤️From Classmates to Partners: Andrea & Alexandra's Journey
Andrea & Alexandra met at SSEES, began dating and are now engaged - all while building Thrad together, the start up Andrea co-founded. Their story reminds us how some of the most meaningful connections start in the classroom: bit.ly/3OdwcBP
Andrea & Alexandra met at SSEES, began dating and are now engaged - all while building Thrad together, the start up Andrea co-founded. Their story reminds us how some of the most meaningful connections start in the classroom: bit.ly/3OdwcBP
February 13, 2026 at 12:37 PM
❤️From Classmates to Partners: Andrea & Alexandra's Journey
Andrea & Alexandra met at SSEES, began dating and are now engaged - all while building Thrad together, the start up Andrea co-founded. Their story reminds us how some of the most meaningful connections start in the classroom: bit.ly/3OdwcBP
Andrea & Alexandra met at SSEES, began dating and are now engaged - all while building Thrad together, the start up Andrea co-founded. Their story reminds us how some of the most meaningful connections start in the classroom: bit.ly/3OdwcBP
🔊 One week to go!
Join us for Yugo Queer, a one-day conference which aims to make area studies more #queer. It remaps the #Balkans from a war-torn region into one where new forms of activism, art, and affinity can emerge.
🗓️ 19 February
➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
#LGBTplusHM26
Join us for Yugo Queer, a one-day conference which aims to make area studies more #queer. It remaps the #Balkans from a war-torn region into one where new forms of activism, art, and affinity can emerge.
🗓️ 19 February
➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
#LGBTplusHM26
Yugo Queer
A project by Natalija Stepanović, with support from UCL FRINGE, IAS & qUCL.
www.ucl.ac.uk
February 12, 2026 at 1:36 PM
🔊 One week to go!
Join us for Yugo Queer, a one-day conference which aims to make area studies more #queer. It remaps the #Balkans from a war-torn region into one where new forms of activism, art, and affinity can emerge.
🗓️ 19 February
➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
#LGBTplusHM26
Join us for Yugo Queer, a one-day conference which aims to make area studies more #queer. It remaps the #Balkans from a war-torn region into one where new forms of activism, art, and affinity can emerge.
🗓️ 19 February
➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
#LGBTplusHM26
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📺"What is now an institution in the top 10 elite list of universities started off as an up-start"
BBC London report on @ucl.ac.uk's 200th anniversary, featuring Prof @profginab.bsky.social @ioe.bsky.social and UCL President & Provost, Dr Michael Spence.
BBC London report on @ucl.ac.uk's 200th anniversary, featuring Prof @profginab.bsky.social @ioe.bsky.social and UCL President & Provost, Dr Michael Spence.
February 12, 2026 at 10:41 AM
📺"What is now an institution in the top 10 elite list of universities started off as an up-start"
BBC London report on @ucl.ac.uk's 200th anniversary, featuring Prof @profginab.bsky.social @ioe.bsky.social and UCL President & Provost, Dr Michael Spence.
BBC London report on @ucl.ac.uk's 200th anniversary, featuring Prof @profginab.bsky.social @ioe.bsky.social and UCL President & Provost, Dr Michael Spence.
Reposted by UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies
🗨️“Ukraine today is a 90 percent consensus society on the most important things.”
Listen to the interview with Prof. Andrew Wilson, who discussed how #Ukraine has evolved since 1991 and why a peace deal with Vladimir Putin could prove dangerously unstable.
open.spotify.com/episode/33NO...
Listen to the interview with Prof. Andrew Wilson, who discussed how #Ukraine has evolved since 1991 and why a peace deal with Vladimir Putin could prove dangerously unstable.
open.spotify.com/episode/33NO...
How the Russia–Ukraine War Reshaped Ukrainian Society — and What's Next | Prof. Andrew Wilson
Spotify video
open.spotify.com
February 12, 2026 at 11:48 AM
🗨️“Ukraine today is a 90 percent consensus society on the most important things.”
Listen to the interview with Prof. Andrew Wilson, who discussed how #Ukraine has evolved since 1991 and why a peace deal with Vladimir Putin could prove dangerously unstable.
open.spotify.com/episode/33NO...
Listen to the interview with Prof. Andrew Wilson, who discussed how #Ukraine has evolved since 1991 and why a peace deal with Vladimir Putin could prove dangerously unstable.
open.spotify.com/episode/33NO...
Book launch of “Happiness” Tues 10 March, 7-8.30pm
Join Professor Maria Rubins and Dr Bryan Karetnyk at the launch of 'Happiness' by Yuri Felsen, a leading modernist writer of the interwar Russian diaspora. Takes place at Pushkin House, register at: www.pushkinhouse.org/whats-on/eve...
Join Professor Maria Rubins and Dr Bryan Karetnyk at the launch of 'Happiness' by Yuri Felsen, a leading modernist writer of the interwar Russian diaspora. Takes place at Pushkin House, register at: www.pushkinhouse.org/whats-on/eve...
Book launch of “Happiness” by Yuri Felsen, with Bryan Karetnyk, Matthew Janney and Maria Rubins
Book Launch: Book launch of “Happiness” by Yuri Felsen, with Bryan Karetnyk, Matthew Janney and Maria Rubins
www.pushkinhouse.org
February 10, 2026 at 11:05 AM
Book launch of “Happiness” Tues 10 March, 7-8.30pm
Join Professor Maria Rubins and Dr Bryan Karetnyk at the launch of 'Happiness' by Yuri Felsen, a leading modernist writer of the interwar Russian diaspora. Takes place at Pushkin House, register at: www.pushkinhouse.org/whats-on/eve...
Join Professor Maria Rubins and Dr Bryan Karetnyk at the launch of 'Happiness' by Yuri Felsen, a leading modernist writer of the interwar Russian diaspora. Takes place at Pushkin House, register at: www.pushkinhouse.org/whats-on/eve...
Join us for this seminar with Kirill Goriachok, who will talk about women film workers in Soviet documentary, and examine why a visible women-led documentary movement never fully formed despite women’s strong presence behind the scenes.
🗓️ 2 March at 5.30pm
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🗓️ 2 March at 5.30pm
➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
February 9, 2026 at 3:49 PM
Join us for this seminar with Kirill Goriachok, who will talk about women film workers in Soviet documentary, and examine why a visible women-led documentary movement never fully formed despite women’s strong presence behind the scenes.
🗓️ 2 March at 5.30pm
➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
🗓️ 2 March at 5.30pm
➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
🔊 We are seeking an outstanding academic leader to join us as Director (Head of Department) of UCL SSEES.
📍 Location: London (hybrid)
🗓 Closing date: 15 February 2026
🗣️ Interviews: 9–10 March 2026
➡️ Apply here: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
📍 Location: London (hybrid)
🗓 Closing date: 15 February 2026
🗣️ Interviews: 9–10 March 2026
➡️ Apply here: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
February 9, 2026 at 1:28 PM
🔊 We are seeking an outstanding academic leader to join us as Director (Head of Department) of UCL SSEES.
📍 Location: London (hybrid)
🗓 Closing date: 15 February 2026
🗣️ Interviews: 9–10 March 2026
➡️ Apply here: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
📍 Location: London (hybrid)
🗓 Closing date: 15 February 2026
🗣️ Interviews: 9–10 March 2026
➡️ Apply here: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
Join us for this seminar with Dr Georgios Giannakopoulos to hear more about his book 'The Interpreters' which offers a new interpretation of the cultural and intellectual exchanges between Britain and southeastern Europe in an age of imperial transformation.
🗓️ 3 March at 6pm
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🗓️ 3 March at 6pm
➡️ buff.ly/3FH0K8u
February 6, 2026 at 11:58 AM
Join us for this seminar with Dr Georgios Giannakopoulos to hear more about his book 'The Interpreters' which offers a new interpretation of the cultural and intellectual exchanges between Britain and southeastern Europe in an age of imperial transformation.
🗓️ 3 March at 6pm
➡️ buff.ly/3FH0K8u
🗓️ 3 March at 6pm
➡️ buff.ly/3FH0K8u
Why does the most famous poem in the #Polish language open with the invocation ‘Lithuania! My Fatherland!’?
Please join us for Prof. Richard Butterwick-Pawlikowski's Inaugural Lecture to find out more.
🗓️ 11 March at 6.30pm
📍 Gustave Tuck LT
➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
Please join us for Prof. Richard Butterwick-Pawlikowski's Inaugural Lecture to find out more.
🗓️ 11 March at 6.30pm
📍 Gustave Tuck LT
➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
February 5, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Why does the most famous poem in the #Polish language open with the invocation ‘Lithuania! My Fatherland!’?
Please join us for Prof. Richard Butterwick-Pawlikowski's Inaugural Lecture to find out more.
🗓️ 11 March at 6.30pm
📍 Gustave Tuck LT
➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
Please join us for Prof. Richard Butterwick-Pawlikowski's Inaugural Lecture to find out more.
🗓️ 11 March at 6.30pm
📍 Gustave Tuck LT
➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
🔊 Job vacancy: Lecturer in Applied Economics: Firms, Industries and Innovation
The post-holder specialise in delivering teaching and assessment in Applied Economics, with a focus on Firms, Industries, and Innovation.
🗓️ Deadline: 26 February
➡️ Apply here: bit.ly/4r5gJlS
The post-holder specialise in delivering teaching and assessment in Applied Economics, with a focus on Firms, Industries, and Innovation.
🗓️ Deadline: 26 February
➡️ Apply here: bit.ly/4r5gJlS
February 5, 2026 at 10:47 AM
🔊 Job vacancy: Lecturer in Applied Economics: Firms, Industries and Innovation
The post-holder specialise in delivering teaching and assessment in Applied Economics, with a focus on Firms, Industries, and Innovation.
🗓️ Deadline: 26 February
➡️ Apply here: bit.ly/4r5gJlS
The post-holder specialise in delivering teaching and assessment in Applied Economics, with a focus on Firms, Industries, and Innovation.
🗓️ Deadline: 26 February
➡️ Apply here: bit.ly/4r5gJlS
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An extraordinary opportunity, and so heartening to see this support from UCL-SSEES for fragile yet extremely valuable fields of scholarship!
🔊 Job vacancy: Lecturer in Czech and Comparative Literature
The post-holder will specialise in the literatures and cultures of Central and Eastern Europe, with a particular emphasis on Czech literature.
🗓️ Deadline: 26 February
➡️ Apply here: bit.ly/3Moi6gj
The post-holder will specialise in the literatures and cultures of Central and Eastern Europe, with a particular emphasis on Czech literature.
🗓️ Deadline: 26 February
➡️ Apply here: bit.ly/3Moi6gj
February 5, 2026 at 6:49 AM
An extraordinary opportunity, and so heartening to see this support from UCL-SSEES for fragile yet extremely valuable fields of scholarship!
Reposted by UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies
This is a permanent research snd teaching post. Please share widely and forward to suitable candidates.
🔊 Job vacancy: Lecturer in Czech and Comparative Literature
The post-holder will specialise in the literatures and cultures of Central and Eastern Europe, with a particular emphasis on Czech literature.
🗓️ Deadline: 26 February
➡️ Apply here: bit.ly/3Moi6gj
The post-holder will specialise in the literatures and cultures of Central and Eastern Europe, with a particular emphasis on Czech literature.
🗓️ Deadline: 26 February
➡️ Apply here: bit.ly/3Moi6gj
February 4, 2026 at 4:29 PM
This is a permanent research snd teaching post. Please share widely and forward to suitable candidates.
🔊 Job vacancy: Lecturer in Czech and Comparative Literature
The post-holder will specialise in the literatures and cultures of Central and Eastern Europe, with a particular emphasis on Czech literature.
🗓️ Deadline: 26 February
➡️ Apply here: bit.ly/3Moi6gj
The post-holder will specialise in the literatures and cultures of Central and Eastern Europe, with a particular emphasis on Czech literature.
🗓️ Deadline: 26 February
➡️ Apply here: bit.ly/3Moi6gj
February 4, 2026 at 4:20 PM
🔊 Job vacancy: Lecturer in Czech and Comparative Literature
The post-holder will specialise in the literatures and cultures of Central and Eastern Europe, with a particular emphasis on Czech literature.
🗓️ Deadline: 26 February
➡️ Apply here: bit.ly/3Moi6gj
The post-holder will specialise in the literatures and cultures of Central and Eastern Europe, with a particular emphasis on Czech literature.
🗓️ Deadline: 26 February
➡️ Apply here: bit.ly/3Moi6gj
🔊 Tomorrow!
There's still time to register for this talk with @sanjavico.bsky.social.
Free and open to all: www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
There's still time to register for this talk with @sanjavico.bsky.social.
Free and open to all: www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
Join us next week for this @seeatucl-ssees.bsky.social
seminar with @sanjavico.bsky.social to hear more about her book 'Doing Nation in a Digital Age: Banal Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism in Polymedia Environments'.
🗓️ 4 February at 6pm
📍 UCL SSEES
➡️ Free and open to all: buff.ly/kKgI1PW
seminar with @sanjavico.bsky.social to hear more about her book 'Doing Nation in a Digital Age: Banal Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism in Polymedia Environments'.
🗓️ 4 February at 6pm
📍 UCL SSEES
➡️ Free and open to all: buff.ly/kKgI1PW
February 3, 2026 at 12:12 PM
🔊 Tomorrow!
There's still time to register for this talk with @sanjavico.bsky.social.
Free and open to all: www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
There's still time to register for this talk with @sanjavico.bsky.social.
Free and open to all: www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
In 1996, journalist Irena Brežná travelled to #Chechnya to write a report on the activities of Chechen women under Russian bombs and missiles. In this talk, she will share her experience in this forgotten war without rules.
This event will be delivered in Russian.
🗓️ 4 February
➡️ buff.ly/Q1gY6XJ
This event will be delivered in Russian.
🗓️ 4 February
➡️ buff.ly/Q1gY6XJ
Eyewitness Аccount of the Russian War in Chechnya / Доклад очевидца российской войны в Чечне
A SSEES Culture and Society in Modern Russia seminar with Irena Brežná. This event will be delivered in Russian.
www.ucl.ac.uk
February 2, 2026 at 2:14 PM
In 1996, journalist Irena Brežná travelled to #Chechnya to write a report on the activities of Chechen women under Russian bombs and missiles. In this talk, she will share her experience in this forgotten war without rules.
This event will be delivered in Russian.
🗓️ 4 February
➡️ buff.ly/Q1gY6XJ
This event will be delivered in Russian.
🗓️ 4 February
➡️ buff.ly/Q1gY6XJ
Our academics will be delivering training in 2026 to UK Government officials on topics spanning the full range of the School’s areas of expertise. Securing this contract continues SSEES’s rich tradition of engagement with the FCDO.
February 2, 2026 at 12:00 PM
Our academics will be delivering training in 2026 to UK Government officials on topics spanning the full range of the School’s areas of expertise. Securing this contract continues SSEES’s rich tradition of engagement with the FCDO.
🔊 We are delighted to share that SSEES has won the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) contract to provide the Eastern Europe and Central Asia Practitioner Level Core Curriculum for the FCDO.
➡️ Read the full story here: buff.ly/Bj38tYF
➡️ Read the full story here: buff.ly/Bj38tYF
February 2, 2026 at 11:59 AM
🔊 We are delighted to share that SSEES has won the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) contract to provide the Eastern Europe and Central Asia Practitioner Level Core Curriculum for the FCDO.
➡️ Read the full story here: buff.ly/Bj38tYF
➡️ Read the full story here: buff.ly/Bj38tYF
🔊 This event is now sold out in person, but you can still join us online to learn more about how food vocabulary in the #Balkans encodes millennia of indigenous evolution, alongside contact, borrowing, and contested belonging.
🗓️ 3 February at 5pm
➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
🗓️ 3 February at 5pm
➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
January 30, 2026 at 1:20 PM
🔊 This event is now sold out in person, but you can still join us online to learn more about how food vocabulary in the #Balkans encodes millennia of indigenous evolution, alongside contact, borrowing, and contested belonging.
🗓️ 3 February at 5pm
➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
🗓️ 3 February at 5pm
➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
🔊 Yugo Queer
Join us for this one-day conference, which aims to make area studies more #queer and queer studies more far-reaching. It remaps the #Balkans from a war-torn region into one where new forms of activism, art, and affinity can emerge.
🗓️ 19 February
➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
Join us for this one-day conference, which aims to make area studies more #queer and queer studies more far-reaching. It remaps the #Balkans from a war-torn region into one where new forms of activism, art, and affinity can emerge.
🗓️ 19 February
➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
Yugo Queer
A project by Natalija Stepanović, with support from UCL FRINGE, IAS & qUCL.
www.ucl.ac.uk
January 30, 2026 at 12:07 PM
🔊 Yugo Queer
Join us for this one-day conference, which aims to make area studies more #queer and queer studies more far-reaching. It remaps the #Balkans from a war-torn region into one where new forms of activism, art, and affinity can emerge.
🗓️ 19 February
➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
Join us for this one-day conference, which aims to make area studies more #queer and queer studies more far-reaching. It remaps the #Balkans from a war-torn region into one where new forms of activism, art, and affinity can emerge.
🗓️ 19 February
➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
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Job opportunity!
Come work with us! SSEES is a great place!!!
Come work with us! SSEES is a great place!!!
🔊 We are seeking an outstanding academic leader to join us as Director (Head of Department) of UCL SSEES.
📍 Location: London (hybrid)
🗓 Closing date: 15 February 2026
🗣️ Interviews: 9–10 March 2026
➡️ Apply here: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
📍 Location: London (hybrid)
🗓 Closing date: 15 February 2026
🗣️ Interviews: 9–10 March 2026
➡️ Apply here: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
January 29, 2026 at 10:28 PM
Job opportunity!
Come work with us! SSEES is a great place!!!
Come work with us! SSEES is a great place!!!
🔊 We are seeking an outstanding academic leader to join us as Director (Head of Department) of UCL SSEES.
📍 Location: London (hybrid)
🗓 Closing date: 15 February 2026
🗣️ Interviews: 9–10 March 2026
➡️ Apply here: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
📍 Location: London (hybrid)
🗓 Closing date: 15 February 2026
🗣️ Interviews: 9–10 March 2026
➡️ Apply here: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
January 29, 2026 at 11:01 AM
🔊 We are seeking an outstanding academic leader to join us as Director (Head of Department) of UCL SSEES.
📍 Location: London (hybrid)
🗓 Closing date: 15 February 2026
🗣️ Interviews: 9–10 March 2026
➡️ Apply here: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
📍 Location: London (hybrid)
🗓 Closing date: 15 February 2026
🗣️ Interviews: 9–10 March 2026
➡️ Apply here: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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🔊 There’s still time to register today!
🔊 Tomorrow!
There's still time to register for this keynote with Anne Lajla Utsi, CEO of The International Sámi Film Institute.
There's still time to register for this keynote with Anne Lajla Utsi, CEO of The International Sámi Film Institute.
Please join us for this keynote with Anne Lajla Utsi, managing director of the International Sámi Film Institute, who will explore how cinema has become a powerful tool for narrative sovereignty in the Sámi community.
🗓️ 28 January at 5pm
📍 UCL Bloomsbury
➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
🗓️ 28 January at 5pm
📍 UCL Bloomsbury
➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
January 28, 2026 at 12:25 PM
🔊 There’s still time to register today!