RHN 35/2024 | Event
Organisers: UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES) and Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS)
15 March 2024, IAS Common Ground, G11, UCL, Gower St, London, UK and online, via Zoom
The Legacy of Professor Teodor Shanin
Hybrid Event
Please join the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies for this event aimed to celebrate the work of Prof. Teodor Shanin, OBE, author of the Awkward Class, Revolution as a Moment of Truth, and many other books, including his autobiography which has been published in 2023.
Teodor Shanin OBE, born in Poland in 1930 and exiled to Siberia as a boy of 11, became an acclaimed sociologist who lived and worked mainly in Israel, Russia and England, where he moved in 1963, and pioneered the study of Russian peasantry in the West.
Fluent in English, Russian and Hebrew, during his years in Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union he founded the Moscow School for the Social and Economic Sciences. For many years before he was Professor in Sociology at the University of Manchester, where he specialised in peasant studies, development issues, sociology of knowledge, and gained a large and devoted student following.
Professor Shanin completed this autobiography shortly before his death in 2020.
Speakers
In person:
Chair: Irina Petrova (SSEES)
Dr. Jakub Benes (SSEES)
Prof. Henry Bernstien (SOAS)
Prof. Alena Ledeneva (SSEES)
Prof. Shulamit Ramon (University of Hertfordshire)
Sandy Balfour, chair, International Teodor Shanin Foundation
Online:
Prof. Alexander Nikulin, Centre of Peasants Societies Research, Moscow school of Social and Economic Sciences
Dr. Victor Vakhstayn, International Teodor Shanin Foundation
This event is free and open to all.
More Information here.
Source: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-advanced-studies/events/2024/