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UCL Office for Open Science and Scholarship @uclopenscience.bsky.social · 1d

UCL Postgraduate Students 📢

There are still spaces available on this week's 'Copyright for Postgraduate Students' online session 👩‍💻

Thursday 9th October 11am - 12:20pm 📆

Have a look and book here 👉 buff.ly/Dn1ZOPP

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UCL Libraries @ucllibraries.bsky.social · 1d

Sharpen your literature searching skills and understand how to cite and reference your sources. Sign up for our upcoming Library Skills sessions here: https://library-guides.ucl.ac.uk/skills

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UCL Libraries @ucllibraries.bsky.social · 5d

Make the best use of our libraries and resources. Find out more about our guides and training to develop your library and information literacy skills. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/learning-teaching-support #WelcomeToUCL

Two students using computers in the library.

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UCL Arts & Humanities @artshumsucl.bsky.social · 5d

UCL Lunch Hour Lecture | How do our brains learn languages? | 16 Oct

Join this lecture where Dr. Natalia V. Parker (UCL SSEES) will examine language learning through the eyes of cognitive psychology and psycholinguistics

Book your free place now: buff.ly/bHfYXqQ

@uclssees.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk

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UCL SSEES Library @uclsseeslibrary.bsky.social · 5d

We've updated our #NewBooks display in time for the weekend. 📚📚📚Check it out on the Ground Floor of the Library, next to the self-service machine. All books are available for loan. 🙂

A selection of new books, on display at the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies Library. Ten volumes arranged on a stand.
Titles featured include:
The Penguin Book of Polish Short Stories, edited by Antonia Lloyd-Jones,
The Rise and Fall of Erich Honecker: The Man Who Built the Berlin Wall, by Nathan Morley,
Home and the World in Slovak Writing: A Small Nation's Literature in Context
Good Change: The Rise and Fall of Poland's Illiberal Revolution, by Stanley Bill and Ben Stanley
Short Stories from Montenegro - Sea, Sun, Salt
Russia After Putin & Trump, by Sergey Shelin
The Laissez-Faire Peasant: Post-Socialist Rural Development in Serbia, by Jovana Dikovic
Things That Fall from the Sky, by Selta Ahava
Sketches of Sofia,
and
Austria: Politics of a Nation since 1945, by Paul Lendvai

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Susan Reed @susanreed.bsky.social · 6d

Curating in the Crossfire: a 2-day event at the British Library looking at how materials created and shared in times of conflict are selected, collected and preserved. Details and booking here
events.bl.uk/events/curat...

Curating in the Crossfire: Collecting in the Time of War, Conflict and Crises | British Library

In recent years, the world has faced a series of profound challenges – from the COVID-19 pandemic and natural disasters to political protests and ongoing c

events.bl.uk

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UCL European Institute @uclei.bsky.social · 6d

🎙️ Tune in to the latest episode of The Ukraine Shelf podcast where @oliahercules.bsky.social and Felicity Spector speak with @uilleamblacker.bsky.social and @okhromeychuk.bsky.social on all things food!

☁️ soundcloud.com/european-ins...
🎧 www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6HZ...

#Europe #TheUkraineShelf

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UCL Libraries @ucllibraries.bsky.social · 7d

Trying to access books, journals or electronic resources in our libraries? Find out more about available guidance here. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/finding-resources #WelcomeToUCL

A student taking out a book from a library shelf.

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Luka Ivan Jukic @ljukic.bsky.social · 8d

🚨Attention Londoners!

In precisely two weeks I will be giving a talk at @uclssees.bsky.social on
the great historiographical challenge of writing Central European history.

It is free and open to the public and will be followed by a wine reception so please do join if you’re interested!

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UCL Libraries @ucllibraries.bsky.social · 9d

Get to know our libraries and find your way around them with a self-guided tour. Find out more here: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/using-library/getting-started/self-guided-library-tours

Students sat around the Flaxman Gallery.

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vkulikov.bsky.social @vkulikov.bsky.social · 12d

For those in London on 17 Nov 2025: please join us for a book talk at @uclssees.bsky.social. @eglerin.bsky.social and @robertsuits.bsky.social have read the book and will share their comments. Register here: www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

Burning Swamps: Peat and the Forgotten Margins of Russia’s Fossil Economy

A Rethinking Eastern Europe and Eurasia seminar with Katja Bruisch, Eglė Rindzevičiūtė and Robert Suits

www.ucl.ac.uk

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UCL Libraries @ucllibraries.bsky.social · 12d

Looking into using the library? Find out about our study spaces, opening hours, borrowing items, membership and more. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/using-library #WelcomeToUCL

A student entering through library entrance barriers.

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UCL SSEES Library @uclsseeslibrary.bsky.social · 12d

Happy #EuropeanDayofLanguages from all of us at UCL SSEES Library!
To mark the occasion, we have curated a selection of books to support and inspire your language learning journey.
tinyurl.com/ycxdwna3
#EDL2025 #LanguagesOpenHeartsAndMinds #UCLSSEES #LanguageLearning

Display of books on the Ground Floor of the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies Library. Three bays of bookshelves, featuring a selection of titles on East European languages and language learning.

A selection of language learning packs featuring books and CDs. The languages covered are Hungarian, Estonian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Slovak, Czech and Polish.

A printed poster advertising the European Day of Languages, 26 September 2025. The text reads: Languages: your bridge to the future, and the design features a person, depicted in white, walking across a colouful bridge, with the tagline "Languages: your bridge to the future" translated into a large range of different European languages.

Display of books on the Ground Floor of the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies Library. A bay of bookshelves featuring a selection of titles on East European languages and language learning.

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UCL SSEES Library @uclsseeslibrary.bsky.social · 14d

#NewBooks for a new term! Check out our display on the Ground Floor of the Library. 📚📚📚

Display of new books at the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies Library. Nine books with colourful covers arranged on a stand. Titles include:
Silverwhite - The Journey to the Fallen Sun, by Lennart Meri
Central Europe, by Luka Ivan Jukic
Rebel Russia - Dissent and Protest from the Tsars to Navalny, by Anna Arutunyan
Lithuania - A History, by Richard Butterwick
War in Ukraine - Making Sense of a Senseless Contest, by Medea Benjamin & Nicolas J.S. Davies
Estonia - a Modern History, by Neil Taylor
Blitzkrieg and the Russian Art of War by Andrew Monaghan

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UCL SSEES @uclssees.bsky.social · 15d

🎬 Please join us for the opening workshop of the 9th London Georgian Film Festival with Nana Ekvtimishvili and Marika Khundadze.

Supported by the Georgian Film Institute and Life Through Cinema.

🗓️ 30 September at 6.30pm
📍 UCL SSEES
➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

Event poster for 'London Georgian Film Festival Workshop' with a still from 'Crocodile Tears'.

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UCL SSEES Library @uclsseeslibrary.bsky.social · 16d

A special welcome to all the new students joining UCL SSEES [ bsky.app/profile/ucls... ] today.
We are running tours of the SSEES Library every day this week and would love to meet you. Book your place here: www.eventbrite.com/cc/ssees-lib...

SSEES Library Tours

Book your library tour!

www.eventbrite.com

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UCL Library, Culture, Collections and Open Science @ucllccos.bsky.social · 16d

Hello and welcome new students! We provide services and resources to support the world-class research, education and enterprise that is undertaken in UCL. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lccos/library-culture-collections-and-open-science-lccos #WelcomeToUCL

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UCL Libraries @ucllibraries.bsky.social · 16d

#WelcomeToUCL! Check out our Getting Started page for everything you need to know as a new student to access our libraries and resources. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/using-library/getting-started

A student with a laptop and pen in a library.

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UCL Libraries @ucllibraries.bsky.social · 23d

Whether you’re new to @ucl.ac.uk or returning, discover how our libraries can support your study and research needs. Read more here: www.ucl.ac.uk/library/news...

A student taking an item from a shelf in the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies Library.

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UCL Libraries @ucllibraries.bsky.social · 23d

Our guides, training and support enable you to develop your information literacy skills. Find out more and make the best use of our libraries. https://library-guides.ucl.ac.uk/skills #WelcomeToUCL

Students facing each other across the table in the library.

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UCL Libraries @ucllibraries.bsky.social · 26d

Congratulations to all our recent graduates! Access to our various libraries as part of @uclalumni.bsky.social is possible through a simple registration process. Find out more here: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/using-library/membership-services/external-non-ucl-users

A UCL graduate throwing her graduation hat with a smile while holding a bouquet of white flowers.

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UCL SSEES Library @uclsseeslibrary.bsky.social · 26d

Just to confirm that SSEES Library is open again today.
Our summer opening hours (Monday-Friday, 10:00-19:00; Saturday 10:00-17:00) continue until the end of next week. Term-time hours will resume on Monday 22nd September.
www.ucl.ac.uk/library/usin...

School of Slavonic and East European Studies Library

The SSEES Library provides print and electronic books, journals, archive collections and other resources to support the study of the whole of Central and Eastern Europe and Russia.

www.ucl.ac.uk

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UCL SSEES Library @uclsseeslibrary.bsky.social · 27d

Unfortunately, due to a shortage of staff, UCL SSEES Library is CLOSED today, 11th September.
Please check the Library Services updates page for the latest information ⬇️ www.ucl.ac.uk/library/usin...

UCL Library Services Updates

Library service information updates.

www.ucl.ac.uk

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UCL SSEES @uclssees.bsky.social · 28d

We are excited to invite you to a seminar with Mojca M. Hočevar from the University of Ljubljana: English-Slovenian Dictionaries: From Print Volumes to Digital Platforms

🗓️21 October at 6pm
📍UCL SSEES
➡️Free and open to all: www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

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Matthias Ammon @drmammon.bsky.social · Sep 5

Nice to open a book that I bought out of personal interest and find this. This is why my colleagues and I do what we do. It makes me so happy to read this. (From 'Central Europe: the Death of Civilization and the Life of an Idea' by @ljukic.bsky.social) @ghilondon.bsky.social

A picture of the acknowledgements page of the book mentioned in the tweet, with a highlighted passage: 'The staff of the SSEES Library and the German Historical Institute in London deserve great credit for running the two institutions that did most to facilitate the extensive research that this book required and whose rich shelves were a source of endless curiosity and inspiration.'

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