Honorary Lectures
Recordings of our previous Honorary Lectures.
Andrew Monaghan
In this years Annual Honorary Erickson Lecture, Dr Andrew Monaghan speaks on Russian views of war in the twenty-first century.
8 March 2019 (English)
Omer Bartov
Omer Bartov, John P. Birkelund Distinguished Professor of European History at Brown University, delivers the Annual Honorary Erickson Lecture on "Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz".
30 March 2018 (English)
Alexei Kudrin
Professor Alexei Kudrin is a former Russian Minister of Finance, former Deputy Prime Minister, Dean of the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences of the St Petersburg State University and an Honorary Professor of the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures of the Edinburgh University.
30 March 2016 (English)
Alexei Kudrin
On 1 October 2014, Professor Alexei Kudrin delivered a public lecture New realities and challenges for Emerging markets after (and in) crisis: the case of Russia.
Alexei Kudrin, former Russian Minister of Finance, former Deputy Prime Minister, Dean of the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences of the St Petersburg State University, is a newly-appointed Honorary Professor in the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures at the University of Edinburgh.
In his lecture Professor Kudrin covered the situation of global economic imbalance and identified problems and challenges Russia as well as other emerging market economies are facing.
Evgeny Dobrenko
Professor Evgeny Dobrenko, Head of Russian and Slavonic Studies at the University of Sheffield, discusses how the realities of WWII tranformed the narrative and style of Soviet literature, music and visual arts.
Irina Sandomirskaia
Professor Sandomirskaia examines the phenomenon of Aesopian language, a tradition of euphemistic speech practices developed by Russian speakers in order to speak about politically sensitive issues under censorship.