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HYBRID The legacy of Professor Teodor Shanin
15 March 2024, 4:00 pm鈥�6:00 pm
Please join us 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.
This event is free.
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Open to
- All | UCL staff | UCL students
Availability
- Yes
Cost
- Free
Organiser
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SSEES
Location
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IAS Common Ground and online, via ZoomG11, ground floor, South WingUCL, Gower St, LondonWC1E 6BTUnited Kingdom
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.
Confirmed speakers
Chair: Irina Petrova (SSEES)
Dr聽Jakub Benes (SSEES)
Prof聽Henry Bernstien (SOAS)
Prof聽Alena Ledeneva (SSEES)
Prof聽Shulamit Ramon (University of Hertfordshire)
Sandy Balfour, Chair, International Teodor Shanin Foundation
All welcome. The event will take place in-person at UCL and online. Please select the relevant ticket when registering:聽