Events 

Keep up to date with the latest news and events from around the Centre and the wide-ranging projects our staff and students get involved with. More events throughout the School of Government and Society.

Recent events:

2014

06-08 June - Annual CREES Conference, Cumberland Lodge

08 May – Joint Birmingham-Foreign and Commonwealth Office seminar on the Balance of Competences Review focusing on EU Enlargement

01 May – Motors of Change, Sources of Stability: Party Politics in Central and Eastern Europe

26 March – From Revolution to Annexation? Ukraine, Russia and the West

07 March – The Production of Migrants in Contemporary Capitalism 

12 February – Bribes that are Gifts? Theorising Informality from the Ground Up in Russia

04 February – Protest, Participation and the Patterns of Party Politics in Post-Communist Europe (joint event with ULB in Brussels)

30 January – Red Nations: the Nationalities Experience in and after the USSR

29 January – In a Cross-Fire of Integration: Russia, Europe and Political Crisis in Ukraine

2013

4th December - Legacies and Memories of Dictatorship: the Communist Past and the Present

4th December - Living in Interesting Times: Russian Politics and Economics in Putin's Third Term

16th October - In the Shadow of Violence: The Political Economy of Putin's Russia

2nd October - The Syrian Crisis: Perspectives and Prospects

6th May - JCMS Annual Review Lecture - Rethinking European Integration

20th March - Putin, Pussy Riot and Protest: A Turbulent Year in Russian Politics

18th March - Eastern Europe after 1989 - a laboratory for the sustainability of democracy?

6th March - Putin and the Russian Economy

27th February - The EU Crisis - What Next?

23rd January - 27 Up: the Challenges and Prospects of EU Enlargement

17th January - What Are Elections Good for? Authoritarianism and Democracy in the Post-Soviet Space'

2012

21st November - CREES 50th Anniversary Seminar Series: Why do Caucasian Studies Matter?

5th October - Russia and Security in the 21st Century

2nd October - "Eurasia. Does it Exist?"

25th May - Farewell to the microphone

27th April - Russia after Putin's Re-election

16th April - Voting and/or Protesting: the future of democratic participation in Putin's third term

Annual reports of activities