We warmly invite you to attend the Slavonic Studies/CamCCEEES joint 2025-26 Speaker Series, which is dedicated to the subject of
Freedom
The talks will take place in Michaelmas and Lent Terms onThursdays from 5:30pm in the Knox Shaw Room in Sidney Sussex College
30 October 2025
“Surrogates of Freedom: Authoritarian Rituals of Power and Citizens’ Notions of Liberty”
Ekaterina Schulmann (Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center, Berlin)
13 November 2025
“Provocation: Between Free Expression and Compelled Action in Late Communist Poland”
Benjamin Paloff (University of Michigan)
27 November 2025
“Life in Spite of Everything: Tales from the Ukrainian East”
Victoria Donovan (University of St Andrews)
29 January 2026
“Free Choice? A History of the Secret Ballot in Russia”
Stephen Lovell (King’s College London)
12 February 2026
"On Freedom in All the World on a Page in the Light of Vladimir Markov’s O svobode v poezii (1994) and Stephanie Sandler’s The Freest Speech in Russia (2025)"
Andrew Kahn (University of Oxford)
“An Instability of the Poetic Context: From a Document to Free Associations.”
Mark Lipovetsky (Columbia University)
26 February 2026:
“Freedom Lost and Found? Revisiting the Crisis of Liberalism in Interwar Europe”
Balázs Trencsényi (Central European University)
12 March 2026:
“Soviet Kyrgyzstan: Artistic Freedom in the Soviet Periphery”
Eugénie Zvonkine (Université Paris VIII)
Publication date:
Friday, 3 October 2025