Previous Activities
Previous Conferences
- Constructing Regional Identities in the Post-Communist Space: Eurasia or Europe?', an ESRC-funded international colloquium organized by the Institute for Advanced Studies, the
University of Lancaster, in cooperation with the Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies, the University of Manchester , took place on 26-28 June 2007 - 'Networks and Hierarchies in the Soviet Provinces' an ESRC-funded international workshop took place in September 2006
- In June 2006, the Centre hosted its first conference, 'Imagining the West - Perceptions of the Western Other in Modern and Contemporary
Eastern Europe'. The conference was organized by the Program on East European Cultures and Societies at the Norwegian University of Sciences and Technology, Trondheim, Norway; the University of Manchester; Lund University, Sweden, and the Institute of History of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, Budapest, Hungary . The conference discussed the results of a three-year research project which aims to generate new knowledge about the main tendencies, historical-cultural forms, patters and significance of perceiving, understanding and explaining the "West in Eastern Europe through the modern era until today. For a detailed description of the project see http://www.hf.ntnu.no/peecs/newproject.html
Three international debates
Russia and the West: Media, Democracy and Conflict.
Professor Stephen Hutchings was awarded a supplementary grant to his second AHRB Research Grant to investigate post-Soviet Russian Television Culture.
Under the auspices of this grant a series of three public debates were organized. These involved prominent print, television and new media journalists as well as academics from the USA, Russia, and Western Europe. The debates were held sequentially in the first half of 2007, in Manchester, Birmingham and London.
Debate 1. The Media and Freedom of Speech
Date: 15 February 2007
Venue: The University of Manchester
Panel members:
- Mary Dejesky (The Independent, UK),
- Bridget Kendall (BBC, UK) (TBC),
- Professor Ellen Mickiewicz (Duke University, USA) (TBC),
- Vladimir Pozner (Channel One, Russia).
Debate 2. New Media and Civil Society
Date: 16 March 2007
Venue: The University of Birmingham
Panel members:
- Aleks Eksler (Web expert, Russia),
- Oleg Kozlovskii ('Oborona' movement, Russia),
- Oleg Kuvaev (Mult.ru, Russia),
- Anton Nosik (President of Rambler search portal, Russia),
- Dr Vlad Strukov (Internet researcher, UK),
- Ivan Zassourskii (Moscow State University, Russia).
Debate 3. The Media and the War on Terror
Date: 5 April 2007
Venue: Frontline Club, London
Panel members:
- Nadezhda Azhgikhina (Dart Centre for Journalism and Trauma, Russia),
- Mark Brayne (Dart Centre for Journalism and Trauma, UK),
- Ruslan Gusarov (Northern Caucasus Centre, NTV, Russia),
- Victoria Ivleva-Iork (Photo journalist, Russia).
Contact :
Dr Oxana Poberejnaia: Oxana.Poberejnaia@manchester.ac.uk
The Leverhulme Lectures
As the Leverhulme visiting professor at Manchester 2006-2007, Professor Evgeny Steiner (New York University) was working on his book 'Kramskoy and the Wanderers: Populist Rhetoric and the Creation of Art Market in Russia'. He gave a series of lectures entitled 'Overcoming Alienation: Russian Intellectuals' Response to Not Belonging':
1. 'Artist-Wanderers: Democratic Cause or the Struggle for a Free Market?', Thursday, 8 February 2007, Room A 7, Humanities Lime Grove
2. 'Russian Artists in Paris in the Early Twentieth Century: the Politics of Estrangement and the Creation of the Avant-garde', Wednesday, 14 March 2007, Room A 101, Humanities Lime Grove
3. 'Japan as a Realm of Escape for the Soviet Intelligentsia in the 1970s and the 1980s', Wednesday, 25 April 2007, Room A 7, Humanities Lime Grove