UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies

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UCL's School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES) is the UK’s largest national centre for research and teaching on Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe, the Baltics, the Caucasus and Central Asia. www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees

Successful academic promotions for 2025-26. Dr Jakub Benes has been promoted to Professor of Central European History. Dr Riitta-Liisa Valijarvi has been promoted to Professor of Sociocultural Linguistics. Dr Pawel Bukowski has been promoted to Associate Professor. Dr Alessandro Iandolo has been promoted to Associate Professor.
Albanian language tutor, Mirela Xhaferraj with the Albanian for Heritage Speakers course students Key course information: Our courses run over three 10-week terms (30 lessons total) each academic year Classes take place once a week from 6:30-8:30pm UK time All courses are taught online
A photo of Malika Toqmadi
Ramona Gonczol at UK Parliament
Poster for Heritage Language Courses for 2026-27: Albanian, Bulgarian & Romanian with a photo of a student working on a laptop, sitting in front of UCL Portico. Photo credit: Mat Wright.
Event poster for 'Girlhood, Truth, and Metafiction: A new literary novel from Finland' with an image of the book cover. In person event.
Event poster for 'Girlhood, Truth, and Metafiction: A new literary novel from Finland' with an image of the book cover. In person event.
Event poster for 'Girlhood, Truth, and Metafiction: A new literary novel from Finland' with an image of the book cover. In person event.
Event poster for 'On the outside' with images of the book covers. In-person event.
Dr Ramona Gonczol with Prof. Paola Lettieri, UCL Vice-Provost (Strategy)
Event poster for 'Peripheral Solidarities: Ukrainian Musical Modernism Beyond Ukraine' with a painting 'Green Squares' by Joseph Schillinger.
Event poster for 'Peripheral Solidarities: Ukrainian Musical Modernism Beyond Ukraine' with a painting 'Green Squares' by Joseph Schillinger.
Event poster for 'All Tomorrow’s Parties: What Central and Eastern Europe Teaches Us About Party Politics'. In person event.
Event poster for 'On the outside' with images of the book covers. In-person event.
Event poster for 'Postcards as Communist Insta in Socialist Romania: between official rhetoric and personal experience' with images of old postcards of socialist Romania. Online event, open to all.
Event poster for 'Postcards as Communist Insta in Socialist Romania: between official rhetoric and personal experience' with images of old postcards of socialist Romania. Online event, open to all.
Event poster for 'On the outside' with images of the book covers. In-person event.
Event poster for 'All Tomorrow’s Parties: What Central and Eastern Europe Teaches Us About Party Politics'. In person event.
Event poster for 'Russian Pendulum: Paradoxes, Practices and Patterns' with an image of the book cover.
Event poster for 'A turning point for Hungary?' with an image of a person voting and the Hungarian flag.
The Alexander Nash Fellow will be appointed for two years to undertake an independent programme of research in Albanian Studies, from which peer-reviewed publications will be generated and results and findings disseminated to a variety of audiences. The Fellow will also support the delivery of the School’s undergraduate and postgraduate teaching portfolio, including but not limited to providing dissertation supervision to any students specialising in Albanian Studies.
Event poster for 'Writing (beyond) War: Ukraine in the World' with images of book covers by Myroslav Laiuk, Yuliya Musakovska and Luke Harding.
Event poster for 'A turning point for Hungary?' with an image of a person voting and the Hungarian flag.
Event poster for 'Russian Pendulum: Paradoxes, Practices and Patterns' with an image of the book cover.
Event poster for 'All Tomorrow’s Parties: What Central and Eastern Europe Teaches Us About Party Politics'. In person event.
A photo of Freya Proudman in the SSEES Library
Event poster for 'Filming the 1921-23 famine in Russia and Ukraine: a reappraisal of early Soviet film history' with an image by Dmitrii Moor, Help! (1921). In person event.
Event poster for 'Spotlight in Slovak' with a photo of students at UCL by James Tye. In-person and online event.
Event poster for 'Decolonial Queer Approaches to Researching Queer and Trans Lives in Central Asia'.
Event poster for 'Filming the 1921-23 famine in Russia and Ukraine: a reappraisal of early Soviet film history' with an image by Dmitrii Moor, Help! (1921). In person event.
Event poster for 'Literature and identities in Moldova, Romania and the diaspora with Tatiana Țîbuleac' with images of book covers by Tatiana Țîbuleac. In-person and online.
Event poster for 'Spotlight in Slovak' with a photo of students at UCL by James Tye. In-person and online event.
Event poster for 'Decolonial Queer Approaches to Researching Queer and Trans Lives in Central Asia'.
A portrait of Helen Sharman. Credit: Thomas Angus, Imperial College Text below: In 1989 though the Berlin Wall was down, the USSR was still shut. Gorbachev decided to offer astronaut training for hard currency to Western countries. Helen applied to the British company set up to manage the mission. There were around 5,500 qualified applicants and the final two were selected live on British TV, and given 4 days' notice to go to Zvezdnyi gorodok, then a military facility with 3,500 inhabitants. Helen spent 8 days in space in May 1991 conducting a range of experiments.
Event poster for 'Film screening: That Boy: conversation about hate and healing (2025). TRIGGER WARNING: This film contains accounts of violence, violence against women and racist talk.
Event poster for 'Decolonial Queer Approaches to Researching Queer and Trans Lives in Central Asia'.
Event poster for 'Literature and identities in Moldova, Romania and the diaspora with Tatiana Țîbuleac' with images of book covers by Tatiana Țîbuleac. In-person and online.
Event poster for the SSEES Film festival with film posters.