**********posted on behalf of Muireann Maguire************
Hello to all UK postgraduates in Slavonic and East European studies! I am
your brand-new postgraduate representative on the BASEES committee, which
means that my role is to inform you about opportunities concerning BASEES
that affect you, and also to pass on to BASEES your feelings about the
academic development of Slavonic and East European Studies in your
institution.
My name is Muireann and I'm a second year PhD student at the University of
Cambridge. My research area is twentieth-century Russian Literature. Like
most of us, I'm occasionally frustrated with my dissertation's progress
(or lack of it), I sometimes feel that my research area isolates me from
peers and colleagues in other departments, and I'm genuinely enthusiastic
about Slavonic and East European Studies. This is why I'm interested in
making BASEES more accessible to - and more useful for - postgraduates as
a network for exchange of ideas, mutual support and contacts. I'm
supported by the BASEES postgraduate liaison officer (Jon Oldfield;
[log in to unmask]) and I'm working closely with two postgraduate
colleagues:
Valentina Feklyunina (UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW)
EMAIL: [log in to unmask]
and
Victoria O'Neill (UNIVERSITY OF KEELE)
EMAIL: [log in to unmask]
There are several exciting new projects brewing in the world of British
Slavonic and East European Studies, and I don't just mean Boris
Berezovsky's plans to dynamite the Kremlin... For a start, there are two
brand-new area research centre initiatives:
CEELBAS (Centre for East European Language Based Area Studies)
http://www.ceelbas.ac.uk/
and
CRCEES (CENTRE FOR RUSSIAN, CENTRAL AND EAST EUROPEAN STUDIES)
http://www.gla.ac.uk/centres/crcees/index.html
CEELBAS is having its inaugural conference at UCL this week. I will be
attending part of the conference and I will send you a report on it in the
near future.
CRCEES is holding its First Annual Research Forum at the University of
Glasgow on 11-12 May, 2007: more details available on the website.
My main message today is to advertise the news that we are planning to
hold a workshop/conference for postgrads in Slavonic and East European
Studies, to take place in October-November 2007.
We will shortly be issuing a call for papers and general interest.
However, first we'd like YOU to float as many ideas as possible. Do you
have any suggestions for possible themes (academic/skills-based etc.) or
possible guest speakers (apart from Berezovsky - the security would
bankrupt us)? What issues/problems are of concern to you? This is to be a
student-organised conference, so we need your feedback and your ideas.
Please feel inspired! This is a real chance to create a dynamic forum
within BASEES for postgraduate students.
Please send your ideas to me, Victoria and Valentina. We will be very
pleased to hear from you.
Muireann Maguire
EMAIL: [log in to unmask]
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