
Dear friends and colleagues,
You are warmly invited to the following upcoming event.
War in Ukraine: A Roundtable Discussion
Speakers and Topics:
Welcome by Prof. Gonda Van Steen, Koraes Chair (King’s Centre for Hellenic Studies)
Dr Alexandra Vukovich (KCL, History): Byzantino-Rus cultural monuments in Ukraine: History and perspectives
Dr Irene Polinskaya (KCL, Classics): “The chronically sick man of Europe” – A personal perspective on Russia as a totalitarian state, and the last/lost 30 years since the dissolution of the Soviet Union (1991-2022)
Dr Dina Gusejnova (LSE): Russia’s special path? The shadows of Weimar and Nazi Germany in current discourse on the Russian war in Ukraine.
6pm, Thursday 26 May
Bush House SE 1.02 and 1.06, KCL
Registration and More Information
Prof Gonda Van Steen sat down with Dr Vally Lytra (Reader in Languages in Education in the Department of Educational Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London) to discuss the 2022 collective volume, Liberating Language Education, published by Multilingual Matters. Watch the interview here.