Last call for the Teachers' Day in Russian Studies (programme shown below). If you would like to attend, please contact Dr Steve Webber as soon as possible on [log in to unmask] THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM Centre for Russian and East European Studies (CREES) Teachers' Day in Russian Studies Saturday 24 November 2001 Conference room, European Research Institute, Pritchatts Road PROGRAMME 0930-1000 Arrival + coffee/tea 1000-1010 Welcome from Professor Phil Hanson, Director, CREES 1010-1030 Steve Webber: Introduction to the Day + Presentation of Outreach site 1030-1120 Hilary Pilkington Reading Beneath the Headlines: Changing Debates on 'Youth' in Post-Soviet Russia 1120-1145 BREAK 1145-1235 Jeremy Smith Using Role Play in Teaching Soviet History: Stalin, Trotsky and Bukharin at the Fifteenth Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, December 1927 1235-1345 LUNCH + tour of the European Resource Centre (which incorporates the Baykov Russian Studies library) 1345-1435 Mike Pushkin and Julian Moss Uses of Fantasy in Recent Russian Prose and Drama 1435-1455 BREAK 1455-1545 Russia's Regions Alina Zil'berman (Birmingham/Kazan') The Centre and the Regions in the Russian Federation (in Russian) Larisa Kosygina (Novosibirsk) A Portrait of Novosibirsk and its Region (in Russian) 1545 DEPART *************************************************** Dr Steve Webber Undergraduate Admissions Tutor Centre for Russian and East European Studies University of Birmingham Edgbaston Birmingham B15 2TT Tel. (0) 121 414 6357 Fax (0) 121 414 3423 e-mail [log in to unmask] web site: http://www.bham.ac.uk/cmil For details of our Russian Studies BA degree, go to: http://www.bham.ac.uk/crees/undergraduate_studies_at_birming.htm CREES site: http://www.bham.ac.uk/crees/ ***************************************************