Upcoming events

Professor Matthew Blackburn will be visiting the University of Oslo on Tuesday May 10 to give a lecture on the processes of transformation taking place in Russia after 2012.

Lecture by Ekaterina Schulman.

A musical talk on protest and propaganda songs about Aleksandr Lukashenko.

Adam Bodnar, former Polish Ombudsman for Citizen Rights, will hold the 2021 ARENA lecture on 11 November.

Welcome to a lecture by Fabian Heffermehl! 

A project studying identity and political reform in Ukraine. 

Join a workshop in relation to the project "Fakespeak - the language of fake news" on Tuesday and Wednesday 16th and 17th of February. 

Senior Fellow Håvard Bækken (Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies) will give a talk about the increasing military exposure in the Russian civil society since the late 1990s.

This event has been cancelled to prevent spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19). Senior Fellow Håvard Bækken (Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies) will give a talk about the increasing military exposure in the Russian civil society since the late 1990s.

Following the lectures of Alicja Curanović, we are kindly inviting all interested to a film screening of the award-winning Russian film "Leviathan".

We are very pleased to announce a guest lecture by Alicja Curanović, Assistant Professor at University of Warsaw. The lecture's title is "On a Mission to Save the World? Contemporary Messianism and Russia’s Foreign Policy".

Alicja Curanović, Assistant Professor at University of Warsaw, will give a talk about the Russian Orthodox Church's increasingly prominent role in the Russian state diplomacy.

Associate Professor Audun Johannes Mørch will give a talk about indigenous Russian literature, based on the works of the Chukchi writer Yuri Rytkheu (1930-2008).

Professor Catriona Kelly (University of Oxford) will give a talk about how the history of Leningrad and St. Petersburg has afflicted the identities of both the city and the people living there.

We are kindly inviting all interested students and colleagues to the eighth film screening in the series of Post-Socialist Screenings at the Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages (ILOS) this autumn.

We are kindly inviting all interested students and colleagues to the seventh film screening in the series of Post-Socialist Screenings at the Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages (ILOS) this autumn.

Adrian Karatnycky (Atlantic Council) will give a talk about Volodymyr Zelensky, the Ukrainian comedian-turned-president, and how his electoral triumph was possible.

We are kindly inviting all interested students and colleagues to the sixth film screening in the series of Post-Socialist Screenings at the Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages (ILOS) this autumn.

We are kindly inviting all interested students and colleagues to the fifth film screening in the series of Post-Socialist Screenings at the Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages (ILOS) this autumn.

Drawing on his book “Dissidents in Communist Central Europe”, researcher Kacper Szulecki will explain how the convergence of certain factors enabled the emergence of dissidentism under the Communist period in the Eastern Europe.

We are kindly inviting all interested students and colleagues to the fourth film screening in the series of Post-Socialist Screenings at the Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages (ILOS) this autumn.

Associate Professor J. Paul Goode (University of Bath) will give a talk about how nationalism becomes a banal fact of everyday life in his analysis of Post-Soviet Russia.

We are kindly inviting all interested students and colleagues to the third film screening in the series of Post-Socialist Screenings at the Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages (ILOS) this autumn.