Lecture by Dr ROBIN AIZLEWOOD

This talk will seek to tell the story of Russian Philosophy of the 19th and early 20th centuries, focusing on some of the distinctive features in this tradition – and the persona of the philosopher – as well as on some of the distinctive themes, such as the person, time and utopia.

Dr Robin Aizlewood is the Director of the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES), one of the world’s leading specialist institutions and the largest national centre in the UK for the study of Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe and Russia.  SSEES is a multidisciplinary centre with expertise across the social sciences and humanities, with more than 60 academic staff.  As Director of SSEES, Dr Aizlewood is the Director of the HEFCE/ESRC/AHRC – funded inter-university centre for East European Language-Based Area Studies (CEELBAS), which UCL leads with the Universities of Oxford and Birmingham and a network of 7 other UK universities,.He is also Managing Director of the UCL-led Erasmus Mundus funded consortium for the International Master’s in Economy, State and Society.  Over a number of years he has played a leading role in the modern languages world, especially in the promotion of Slavonic and East European languages.  His research interests cover philosophy and literature, principally of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and he has published widely, both books and articles, in these fields.

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