• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organisers: Professor Paul Chaisty (University of Oxford) , Professor Stephen Whitefield (University of Oxford)
• Timing: Mondays at 5pm (except week 4, which is on Tuesday 6th February at 5pm)
• Organising department: Department of Politics and International Relations (DPIR)

Monday 22 January 2018 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Disrupted democracy in Ukraine? Protest, performance and contention in the Verkhovna Rada
  Dr Sarah Whitmore (Oxford Brookes University)

Monday 29 January 2018 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Health and well-being in Russia: new approaches, new challenges
  Professor Christopher Gerry (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 6 February 2018 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The challenges to growth in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe
  Sergei Guriev (SciencesPo)

Monday 12 February 2018 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - After 20 years: Russia and the European Convention on Human Rights
  Prof Jeffrey Kahn (Southern Methodist University)

Monday 19 February 2018 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Ethnic hierarchy in the Russian labour market
  Dr Alexey Bessudnov (University of Exeter)

Monday 26 February 2018 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Mobilizing under uncertainty: from fleeing to fighting in wartime Abkhazia
  Dr Anastasia Shesterinina (University of Sheffield)

Monday 5 March 2018 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The influence (and limits) of Russia’s strategic narrative during ‘information war’ in Ukraine
  Dr Joanna Szostek (Royal Holloway)