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March 2023
Geographies of Russia: Lecture 1 by Alexander Chernokulsky “Climate Change in Russia”
This year we organise a series of lectures on Geographies of Russia. It will showcase various aspects of geography, covering environmental issues, socio-economic and cultural geography, the geography of the Arctic and the culture of the indigenous peoples of Siberia. We are inviting well-known geographers from Russia, Britain and other countries. We are delighted to invite you to inaugural lecture from the Geographies of Russia series curated by Dr Olga Tutubalina, a Visiting Scholar at the University of Cambridge and a CamRuSS Trustee.…
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Geographies of Russia: Lecture 2 by Olga Petri “Places of Tenderness and Heat: The Queer Milieu of Fin-de-Siècle St. Petersburg”
We continue our series of lectures on Geographies of Russia that showcases various aspects of geography, covering environmental issues, socio-economic and cultural geography, the geography of the Arctic and the culture of the indigenous peoples of Siberia. Olga Petri This time we will welcome Olga Petri, a Leverhulme/Newton Trust Early Career Research Fellow in the Department of Geography at the University of Cambridge. You can follow her on Twitter @olga_petri. The lecture will present historical and geographical landscape of queer St.Petersburg, Russia,…
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Traditional May Day BBQ
Save the date for our traditional May Day BBQ! Come to meet your friends, make new ones, enjoy a day out and share delicious food. Please fill out this form by 24 April so that we have an idea of the numbers. We aim to meet in the BBQ area at around 11:00, have a BBQ - with food and drinks to share - between 11:00 and 15:00. WHEN: Monday 1 May, 12:00 – 17:00 (BST) WHERE: Games Field BBQ – Den Building…
Find out more »Geographies of Russia Lecture 3. Arctic cities of Russia: a feat, a mistake, a conditionality? by Dr Nadezhda Zamyatina
We continue our series of lectures on the Geographies of Russia that showcase various aspects of geography, covering environmental issues, socio-economic and cultural geography, the geography of the Arctic and the culture of the indigenous peoples of Siberia. This talk will discuss how Russian Arctic cities came into existence, when, from the point of view of the modern urban economy, they cannot exist. There are no conventional trade networks there and these cities are too small to provide an effective…
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