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Please find below provisional details of the workshop of the Russian
Archives Training Scheme to be held in Glasgow on 22-23 November. This is
aimed in particular at PhD students in any discipline who will be carrying
out or have already carried out work in Russian archives. We would be
extremely grateful if you can make any relevant PhD students aware of this
as well as ensuring that the notice is displayed as appropriate in your
departments. Please note the short deadline period for students to apply
for funded places.
Russian Archives Training Scheme
Research Student Training Workshop
University of Glasgow
22-23 November 2007
Programme:
Thursday 22nd November
3pm
Terry Cox (President of BASEES) – Welcome
Melanie Ilic (Gloucestershire) - Working in Russian archives - the basics
Polly Jones (SSEES-UCL) - Working at the Coalface: Update on Moscow
archives
5 pm
Student Presentations
6.30 pm
Tony Heywood (Aberdeen) - Archives in the Provinces and Ukraine
Birgit Beumers (Bristol) - Using Russian film and photographic archives
Friday 23rd November
9 am
Student Presentations
10.45 am
Ian Thatcher (Brunel) - Problems of memoirs as a historical source
Jon Smele (Queen Mary's London) - Getting work published
12.00 pm
Sandwich lunch
12.30 pm
Student Presentations
Jeremy Smith (Birmingham) - The Russian Archives Training Scheme trip to
Moscow
The workshop is open to all scholars who use Russian archives in the
course of their research. There is no registration fee, but all those
planning to attend must register by email to:
Ariadna Popova [log in to unmask]
<mailto:[log in to unmask]> by 26th October.
Research students registered in the UK for a PhD or other research degree
in a relevant subject area may apply for the full cost of their
accommodation and meals during the workshop, and a contribution to their
travel costs (this funding is made available by AHRC and does not count
against any BASEES funding allowance). Research students who have already
carried out some archival research are invited to present their findings
at the workshop. Further details and an application form will be posted
on www.basees.org.uk <http://www.basees.org.uk/> in the week commencing
15th October 2007.
Research students who have already carried out archival work and would
like to make a presentation at the workshop should write to Jeremy Smith
at [log in to unmask]
All funding for this event is provided by the UK Arts and Humanities
Research Council
Dr Jeremy Smith
Senior Lecturer in Russian History
Centre for Russian and East European Studies European Research
Institute University of Birmingham
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