Welcome to Russian and East European Studies
Russian and East European Studies is part of the School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies. The Programme runs two masters courses, research projects, and a number of workshops and conferences each year. The University of Oxford has a long tradition of research and teaching in the REES field built up by many distinguished scholars, including Isaiah Berlin. There is a large scholarly community with interests in this field and currently over 60 doctoral students working on the region.
General enquiries can be sent to: rees.enquiries@area.ox.ac.uk
Learn more about graduate admissions on the Oxford University channel on YouTube. Follow links on the right hand side of the YouTube page to learn more about 'Academic Life', 'Colleges', 'Life in Oxford' and 'Funding'.
Application deadlines for entry in 2012/13
REES is now closed to applications for the MSc programme
***The REES MPhil programme will close to applications on Friday 18th May 2012. Please note that your application and all supporting materials, including references, must be received by this closing date. It is also important to note that if you were to be successful, all students that are offered a place on one of our courses then also have to be allocated to a college. It is not possible to guarantee you a college place if you apply in the open field (all students must have a college place to attend the university) but we would of course do our best to find you one.***
Further information about the admissions process for entry in 2012/13 is available on this site under 'Prospective Students' and via the Graduate Admissions website .
Calling REES Alumni!
We are updating our records and would like to hear from all REES alumni so that we can invite you to REES events and hear your news.
Please get in touch with alexia.lewis@area.ox.ac.ukLatest News
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CEELBAS awarded new development funding by AHRC and British Academy
CEELBAS has recently been awarded new funding by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and the British Academy (BA) to support its development of language-based area studies.
The award - over £150k per annum, initially for two years - will enable CEELBAS, in collaboration with the other LBAS Centres, to build on the achievements and impacts of the LBAS Initiative in 2006-2011, with a particular focus on knowledge exchange and engagement with non-academic communities. The funding is awarded within the framework of the AHRC's Delivery Plan 2011-15 and the British Academy's Languages and Quantitative Skills (L&QS) Programme, and will be used to support Knowledge Exchange Partnerships and Internships; Research Workshops and International Research Exchanges; Postgraduate Research Training and Language Development Projects. Further details of planned events and initiatives will be posted on the CEELBAS website in the coming months.
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Dr Gwendolyn Sasse awarded large Leverhulme Trust Project on Migration
Dr Gwendolyn Sasse, SIAS, DPIR and Nuffield College, has been awarded a three-year Leverhulme Trust Project on Political Remittances: Understanding the Political Impacts of Migration. This project aims to complement the research on the types and impacts of economic remittances.
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St Cross College MPhil Scholarship
St Cross College has announced a new MPhil Scholarship for students of the Humanities and Social Sciences division, who will begin their studies at the University of Oxford in 2012-13 . Prospective students for the MPhil in Russian and East European Studies, will therefore be eligible to apply for this college scholarship. Please visit MPhil Scholarship page of the St Cross website for further information and details on how to apply.
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Dr Sasse will chair a discussion about revolutions and art at Modern Art Oxford
Ukraines Orange Revolution in 2004 became a crucial moment for a new generation of Ukrainian contemporary artists. Jerzy Onuch, Director of the Polish Cultural Institute, New York, provided a platform for these artists in the midst of the mass demonstrations in the centre of Kyiv. He and Dr Olga Onuch, Petro-Jacyk Post-Doctoral Prize Fellow, University of Toronto, will bring this experience to life in a conversation with Dr Gwendolyn Sasse, Professorial Fellow, Nuffield College, University of Oxford.
Updated: 13 Jun 2011 Read more...
