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UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies

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UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies
Established1915
FounderR. W. Seton-Watson
Parent institution
University College London
DirectorRichard Mole[1]
Academic staff
101[2]
Administrative staff
21[2]
Students900
Undergraduates650
Postgraduates210
Location
London
,
England
CampusUrban
Websitewww.ucl.ac.uk/ssees
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The UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES /ˈsiːs/) is a school of University College London (UCL) specializing in Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe, Russia and Eurasia. It teaches a range of subjects, including the history, politics, literature, sociology, economics and languages of the region. It is Britain's largest centre for study of Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe and Russia. It has links with universities across Europe and beyond.[3][4] It became part of UCL in 1999.

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The UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies is arguably the most important institution of its kind in the world. It celebrates this year its centenary. Everyone is a specialist in the region. Everyone is exceptionally well-travelled in the region. Given that we are studying one particular part of the word, and given that we often sort of focus on specific social issues, it's sort of quite clear that you can’t study these issues from one single disciplinary perspective. The world out there isn't neatly divided into different disciplines. One of the good things about studying at SSEES is that people are not only a part of UCL, which can be sometimes really big, but they also belong to a small community. One-on-one, the smaller classes we were in with some of the professors that I worked with, they made a a big impression on me because they were very learned people, they were kind of good people, you know they wanted to share their knowledge, and it's those kind of smaller groups, those classrooms where you’re working with individual professors and how that affects you as a person. My day-to-day life is spent with the history staff, with fellow history PhDs, but you come into contact with a whole range of people who are doing different disciplines, so they’re doing literature, they’re doing economics, they’re doing modern foreign policy. SSEES has a very, very important element to it, which is its area focus, which goes hand-in-hand with its interdisciplinarity. Just being surrounded by these people talking about ideas, it really broadens your mind and my research is quite interdisciplinary anyway, so I find it a really useful stimulus just to make me think in other directions, and I really don't think that I would have got that if I’d just been in the history department at another university. Over the course of time my research shifted quite significantly away from international relations and looks much more at sort of migration, sexuality and health, and this wasn't the result of my attending seminars and lectures at SSEES, or at least not only due to that, but it was sort of talking to colleagues in the corridors or over a coffee in the senior common room, asking what they were working on, and my interest sort of being piqued and my research therefore being sent off in unexpected directions. Here we believe that language is culture, so that’s the approach from which we teach the languages. At this point in time, we may be the only institution in the world that teaches 18 languages of the region. All the academics working at SSEES are obviously fluent in a number of these East European languages and they incorporate these language skills into their research, and that brings about very important cultural insights into whatever discipline one is engaged in doing research. The school was founded by several extraordinary individuals, among them the three most prominent are Sir Bernard Pares, Robert Seton-Watson and Tomas Garrigue Masaryk. Masaryk delivered a very important lecture in October 1915 on the fate of small nations of Europe. He later became the first president of independent Czechoslovakia. Many prominent scholars, politicians, artists, writers from the region, who were later joined by a set of extraordinary researchers from all over the world, produced a remarkable body of scholarships over these 100 years and trained a broad range of students. Among our alumni we count prime ministers, parliamentarians, functionaries of many important international organisations and many successful business people.

History

The school was founded by Robert Seton-Watson in 1915, as a department of King's College London, and inaugurated by Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, later President of Czechoslovakia. In 1932 it became an independent institute of the University of London,[5] but it merged with University College London in 1999.

Teaching

More than 100 staff teach and conduct research in the history, economics, politics, sociology, anthropology, culture, literature and languages of the countries of Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe, and Russia. In 2012/2013 the school had over 200 graduate students studying taught MA degrees or undertaking PhD research. The school also has over 600 undergraduate students.[citation needed]

Research

Along with its undergraduate and graduate teaching, the school hosts several interdisciplinary research centres, groups and funded projects aimed at helping to expand research and understanding of its specialist regions.[6]

It analyses and disseminates information about changes in the region, publishing periodicals, papers and books, holding conferences, public lectures, seminars and briefings, and providing experts to act as advisers to governments, the media and institutions.

Library

SSEES's first library was housed in King's College and staffed by a part time honorary librarian. In 1928 after the school moved to premises in Torrington Square books were housed by subject in various lecturers's rooms. The first full time librarian Sergei Yacobson was appointed in 1934 and he compiled the first catalogue of the library's stock. The library along with the school moved to new premises in Senate House in 1938 but during the war the library had to be left behind when SSEES was evacuated to Oxford and many books were damaged during an air raid. In the post war years the library expanded both in space occupied and staff employed.[7]

The library of some 357,000 volumes of books, pamphlets and periodicals is unique in the United Kingdom for the quantity of research material on open access and the extensive collection of regional newspapers. Its collections are consulted by scholars from all over the world. It has recently taken on a major role in providing electronic and audio-visual material on its area of study. The library moved from Senate House to a new building in Taviton Street in 2005.

The main fields of interest are the languages, literature, history, politics, economics, geography and bibliography of the countries it covers. Subsidiary fields are the arts in general, demography, ethnography and religion. Material is also collected on the former German Democratic Republic (history, political and economic life), the history of Germany and Austria, the Lusatian Sorbs, and Slavonic and Ugro-Finnic studies in general.[8] It houses the Bain Graffy Film Collection of films from and about Russia and Central and Eastern Europe.[9]

Building

In May 2004 the foundation stone of the school's new building on Taviton Street, Bloomsbury, was unveiled by the President of Poland, Aleksander Kwaśniewski, in the presence of The Princess Royal, Chancellor of the University of London. The school moved to the building in the summer of 2005 after almost 90 years at Senate House. Václav Klaus, President of the Czech Republic, delivered the keynote address of his visit to the UK at a ceremony to open the building in October 2005. After Klaus's address, the Princess Royal unveiled a stone to mark the formal opening, on the occasion of the school's 90th anniversary.

The building was designed by the architects Short and Associates. The design aims to be "environmentally friendly" not simply with solar panels, but by facilitating the draught of cool air round the building, to avoid a need for air conditioning or other energy-using solutions – a first for the "central London heat island".[10][11]

Notable alumni and staff

References

  1. ^ "Director's Office". UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SEES). University College London. Retrieved 20 October 2023.
  2. ^ a b "People". UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SEES). University College London. Retrieved 20 October 2023.
  3. ^ "SOLIDARITY/Solidarities PROJECT PARTNERS". European Commission. Archived from the original on 25 July 2011. Retrieved 8 October 2010.
  4. ^ "The Bain Graffy Film Collection | UCL Library Services – UCL – London's Global University".
  5. ^ I. W. Roberts, History of the School of Slavonic and East European Studies 1915-1990 (London: School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London, 1991).
  6. ^ UCL (24 July 2017). "Research". UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES). Retrieved 3 January 2019.
  7. ^ "Catalogue of School of Slavonic and East European Studies Collection, SSEES Library". www.ucl.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 27 April 2023. Retrieved 2 June 2023.
  8. ^ "SSEES Library Guide to Resources".
  9. ^ "The Bain Graffy Film Collection". 31 August 2021.
  10. ^ Contractors page for the project.
  11. ^ For an account of the design see: C. A. Short, G. Whittle and M. Owarish, 2006, "Fire & Smoke Control in Naturally Ventilated Buildings", Building Research & Information, 34 (1), pp. 21–54, and C. A. Short, K. J. Lomas and A. Woods, 2004, "Design Strategy for Low Energy Ventilation and Cooling Within an Urban Heat Island", Building Research and Information, 32 (3), May–June, pp. 187–206.
  12. ^ "Dr Pete Duncan - Honorary Associate Professor". UCL. 5 July 2017. Retrieved 25 September 2022.
  13. ^ "Visit of Slovak Prime Minister". UCL. 19 June 2007.
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