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Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics

 

Slavonic Studies presents the "Freedom" Speaker Series 2025-26

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