Andy Willimott

Between Sound and Silence: Avraamov’s Symphony of Sirens in Baku (1922) A screening of Arseny Avraamov's 'Symphony of Sirens in Baku' (1922)

CEREES Paper: Monday 28 April, 6pm
"Between Sound and Silence: Arseny Avraamov’s Symphony of Sirens in Baku (1922)" by David Schwartz (McGill Uni)

Orchestrating the sound of the October Revolution through the Soviet urban soundscape

Registration essential!
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Central Asia’s relationship with Russia after the invasion of Ukraine Join us for the next CEREES public lecture, 'Central Asia’s relationship with Russia after the invasion of Ukraine.'

Our next CEREES Lecture – Monday 10 March, 18:00-20:00 –

'Geopolitical shifts in Central Asia’s relationship with Russia after the invasion of Ukraine'

Speaker:
Dr Bhavna Dave (SOAS).

Registration essential!

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Central Asia’s relationship with Russia after the invasion of Ukraine Join us for the next CEREES public lecture, 'Central Asia’s relationship with Russia after the invasion of Ukraine.'

CEREES Lecture: "Central Asia’s relationship with Russia after the invasion of Ukraine"
Speaker: Dr Bhavna Dave, Senior Lecturer in Politics of Central Asia at SOAS

Monday 10 March, 2025, 6pm-8pm
@QMHistory @QMUL_HSS www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/central-as...

Ukraine: The Endgame of Leninism? As the tankies pile in with Musk and Trump, what theory is driving them?

Paul Mason writes up his paper "Ukraine: The Endgame of Leninism?" Delivered to @qmul.ac.uk Centre for Eurasian, Russian, and East European Studies (CEREES) open.substack.com/pub/htsf/p/u...

The British Left and Ukraine Join us in discussing the historical and contemporary political aspects of whether the UK Left still has a blind spot with regard to Ukraine

Join us to discuss Ukraine, war, and the British Left 📅 Monday, 10 Feb 2025, 18:00 - 20:30 GMT 📷 Queen Mary University of London Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-britis... #CEREES

CEREES Hybrid Event – The British Left and Ukraine – Monday 10 February, 18:00-20:30 – @QMUL

Speakers:
@paulmason.bsky.social (journalist)
Christopher Ford (Ukraine Solidarity Campaign)
Yuliya Yurchenko (Uni of Greenwich)

Registration essential!

projects.history.qmul.ac.uk/cerees/2024/...

Portrait of Andrew Carnegie

Cover of "The Man who Loved Libraries" by Andrew Larsen.

Today made a trip to Dunfermline, Fife, birthplace of the great Andrew Carnegie, a man to whom library-lovers owe an enormous debt of gratitude!
#libraries

Book cover of "Against the Liberal Order: The Soviet Union, Turkey, and Statist Internationalism, 1919-1939" (Oxford University Press, 2024).

Hello Bluesky, I am a historian based in Ankara. A few months ago, Oxford University Press published my first book, which explores the way that Russian and Turkish revolutionaries arrived at a statist partnership as they responded to post-WWI liberal internationalism.

My first #Delighted post on here! Delighted to receive a copy of @clairelanghamer.bsky.social’s expertly edited collection A Cultural History of Love. Includes my chapter on ‘Love and the Divine’ - featuring Virginia Woolf, the Beatles and Sun Myong Moon - and many other brilliant contributions!

CEREES Event, QMUL - ‘The British Left and Ukraine’

Join us on Monday 10 February

Speakers: Paul Mason (journalist - @paulmason.bsky.social); Christopher Ford (Ukrainian Solidarity); Yuliia Yurchenko (Greenwich)

Registration essential:
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Having spent many years behind the Readers’ Enquiry Desk in the British Museum’s famous round reading room, I would have to disagree. As Lenin said:
“Let me tell you, there is no better library than the British Museum. Here there are fewer gaps in the collections than in any other library.”

CEREES Event, QMUL - "New Directions in Ukrainian Film History"

Join us on Monday 3 February

We will launch a joint special issue of 'Culture of Ukraine (Kharkov)' and 'Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema'.

Registration essential
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Front cover of October 2024 Royal Historical Society briefing, 'The Value of History in UK Higher Education and Society'.

"For the past few yrs, Kingston Univ has been asking businesses what skills they need but currently aren’t finding in potential employees. Top ... are the ability to communicate, analyse, adapt, problem-solve & think creatively." (Telegraph)

A recent @royalhistsoc.bsky.social briefing agrees 1/3 👇

We've created a Starter Pack of #History societies and groups working to support promote our disciple and historians, in higher education and related professions go.bsky.app/68FsvjY

Mainly UK but also international, with selected societies from related humanities subjects. Please share #Skystorians

9th Annual SEEES Online Dissertation Research Workshop
March 6, 2025
9:00 am – 12:45 pm CT
Register https://buff.ly/3VpoEg5
The Slavic Reference Service (SRS) with ASEEES invites doctoral students in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies and affiliated disciplines to attend this annual event.

5, 4, 3…. To gone The logic of the Fifth Republic is stability, yet increasingly it is clear that this much-vaunted stability rests on the say-so of 289 Deputies in the Assembly. Whoever can build a winning majority…

Wrote a blog about the collapse of the Barnier government and the political crisis. How to find a Goldlilocks government in a parliament of bears? awmsmith.wordpress.com/2024/12/05/5...

100+ archives & library special collections accounts have now joined Bluesky!

Welcome to
@britrecs.bsky.social
@guildhalllibrary.bsky.social
@theulspeccoll.bsky.social
@hartleyspecialc.bsky.social
@archives76.bsky.social

& catch up with more new arrivals in our starter pack at go.bsky.app/4EpKvv2

Our workshop on using archives and libraries in Eastern Europe & Eurasia is on 6 December 14:00-15:30 UK time. Join us to learn about conducting research in Central and Southeast Europe, Ukraine, Moldova, Poland, the Baltic States, the Caucasus & Central Asia. All welcome! forms.gle/hAC9jrrsdYbj...

I thought I'd share some recent research for the new crowd. A few months ago my article on Soviet HIV-AIDS activism was published in @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social. It examines the local/global entanglements of AIDS activism in Moscow and Riga in the twilight years of Soviet power tinyurl.com/3a7xdsp6

Radical Histories Join the conversation

Looking for radical histories on Bluesky?

We've made a Starter Pack of people & organisations who stretch our idea of what history is, who it is made by & what it is for.

Please share and let us know if you'd like to be added.
🗃️ & ✊🗃️

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Slide advertising the Royal Historical Society's RHS Workshop Grants for 2025. The grants support projects and networking by historians. Closing date: Friday 24 January 2025.

Applications for the Royal Historical Society's Workshop Grants for 2025 are now invited. Grants offer £1,000 to enable a day-long project meeting for historians bit.ly/3Omeg4T

The scheme supports a wide range of activities to promote networking and project development. Closing date 24 January.

We've created our first Starter Pack, collecting accounts from all our schools, faculties, institutes, research centres and departments.

We'll keep adding to this list as our university Bluesky community grows.

bsky.app/starter-pack...

CEREES: Decolonising the (Post-)Soviet Screen Decolonising the (Post-)Soviet Screen explores the ambivalent legacies of the Soviet Union through a cinematic lens.

CEREES Event:
‘Decolonising the (Post-)Soviet Screen’
Monday 2 December, 18:00-20:00
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cerees-dec...

John Prescott, Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, visits the party conference on October 1, 1991 in Brighton, Sussex. Credit: David Fowler

🖋️NEW #MEIBlog🖋️

After the death of the former Deputy Prime Minister, #JohnPrescott, was announced this morning, @qmpoliticsir.bsky.social's Tony McNulty reflects on the gravitas, personal warmth and political nous of a #LabourParty giant.

🔗 www.qmul.ac.uk/mei/news-and...

Join us at the ICCEES World Congress in London next summer! The deadline for submitting paper, panel, and roundtable proposals has been extended to midnight (GMT) on November 30, 2024. Remote attendance is also possible! Visit iccees2025.org for more details.

Tonight’s important CEREES Panel: “Political Prisoners in Russian and the Occupied Territories of Ukraine”. Despite security and tube issues, we drew a good in-person and online audience. Speakers:Judith Pallot, Bill Bowring, Valentina Chubarova, and Yevgeniy Zakharov @qmul.bsky.social

A wonderful gift from Masha Karp, who came to see us tonight at the Centre for Eurasian, Russian, and East European Studies (CEREES), Queen Mary University of London. @qmul.bsky.social

Poster advertising talk by me in Cambridge UK, 5pm in Sidney Sussex College on 20 November

Cambridge friends, a reminder that this event is coming up on Weds 20 Nov. All welcome!

abstract (potentially TOO abstract) Paul Klee + Bluesky visual joke

historians arriving on Bluesky be like

Right, in an unsubtle attempt at enticing more colleagues on here: look at my lovely and brilliant colleagues at QMUL who are already on here!

Give them a follow, for some truly inspirational research, #skystorians go.bsky.app/cpVJHE