UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies

The UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies ( SSEES ) is the largest center for studies and research on Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe and Russia in the United Kingdom. In addition to a wide range of subjects, history, political science, economics, sociology and literature comprises the region are taught at the SSEES also over a dozen foreign languages. SSEES is part of University College London.

History and current orientation of the SSEES

SSEES was - initially as a department of King's College London - founded in 1915 by Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, who later became president of Czechoslovakia. After a long time as an independent part of the University of London, the SSEES graduated in 1999 with the University College London ( UCL) together. Today, work and teach more than 60 academic staff at the SSEES. In the years 2005/2006 here studied about 150 master's and doctoral students, as well as approximately 500 students in bachelor's degree programs. Students and faculty at the SSEES currently come from over 60 different countries.

The SSEES has an international reputation as an interdisciplinary research facility and is internationally regarded as the most important center for training and education of the next generation of specialists in the countries of Eastern Europe and Russia. Many students work after their studies for management consultancies, NGOs, governments or the European Commission; some of the lecturers working at the SSEES also advise the governments of their home countries or the European Commission. The SSEES is also editor of several journals ( including the fully designed by master and PhD students ' Slovo ') and regularly organizes seminars, conferences and policy briefings.

Library

With over 357 000 books, pamphlets, newspapers and journals, the library is unique in Europe in the abundance of publicly available materials about the region, but also in the extent of the collection of newspapers from the countries concerned. The collections of the library to be used by scientists from around the world and have been extended in the past by electronic and audio- visual materials.

The library thus represents one of the leading research collections in the United Kingdom in the field of studies in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union dar. The emphasis is on the languages ​​, literature, history, politics, economics and geography of Russia, the western republics of the USSR and Finland, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, the former Yugoslavia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Albania. Other areas include art, demography, ethnography and religion. In addition, materials about the GDR, the history of Germany and Austria, the Sorbs, Ugro - Finnish studies and Slavic studies are collected in general.

Notable (former) employees

  • Norman Davies, a British historian
  • Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, co-founder of SSEES and the founder and first president of Czechoslovakia
  • Jacek Rostowski, the Polish finance minister
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