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2.1 ÂÒÂ×Ðã Term Dates: 2023/24

Reading Weeks are the weeks beginningÌýMonday 6 November 2023 and Monday 12 February 2024. While SSEES has Reading Weeks, other departments may not. If you take modules from other departments, you will need to check whether there is any teaching you are required to attend during those weeks.

Further information:

ÂÒÂ×Ðã Term Dates & Closures 2023-24

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2.2 Module Selection and Verification Deadlines

You will receive an email through the Student Records system, Portico, with details of module registration deadlines. Later on, you will also be asked to check in Portico and confirm that your module registrations are correct. It is important that you check that you are registered for the correct modules so that you are entered for the right assessments.

Further information:

• Module Registration

Students must select their modules on PorticoÌýby the deadlines published by ÂÒÂ×Ðã Student Records each year to ensure they are entered for the correct examinations:

Further information:

• Academic Manual Chapter 3, Section 2: Module Selection

2.3ÌýÂÒÂ×Ðã Examination Periods 2023/24

Written examinations are held in Term 3, and are scheduled by the Examinations Office. Some oral and aural examinations may take place outside of these times but within term time. Your personal examination timetable will be released via Portico towards the end of the Term 2.

2.4 SSEES and ÂÒÂ×Ðã events

SSEES Seminars, Conferences and Other Events

Regular seminars are held at SSEES covering a wide range of topics relating to Central, South-Eastern and Eastern Europe, Russia and the former Soviet Union. These events are advertised on the SSEES website. From time to time, larger events such as Study Days and Conferences are also held at SSEES. Look out for the posters advertising these activities. You will be very welcome to attend them (free of charge). Please visit ourÌýNews and EventsÌýpages for more details.

Inaugural Lectures

A series of free evening lectures, delivered by recently promoted professors across the arts, humanities, and social sciences, runs from November to June. Dates for these lectures will be published on the Faculties’ web pages.

IAS Events

The Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS) harnesses ÂÒÂ×Ðã’s extensive expertise across the humanities and social sciences to investigate received wisdom and to address the most urgent ethical and intellectual challenges of today. It is a research-based community, comprising colleagues and doctoral students from across ÂÒÂ×Ðã, as well as visiting fellows and research collaborators from the UK and around the world.Ìý
Based in the Wilkins Building, the IAS runs a vast and varied range of conferences, talks and seminars throughout the year. Visit the Institute’s website to discover more about upcoming events.Ìý For more information and to see what’s coming up, visit the Institute’s website.

Festival of Culture

ÂÒÂ×Ðã’s Festival of Culture takes place in term three. It is an exciting, week-long showcase and celebration of the quality, diversity, and relevance of scholarship across ÂÒÂ×Ðã’s Faculties of Arts and Humanities and Social and Historical Sciences. Visit the for more information about past and upcoming events.Ìý

Conferences (PG Students)

Conferences are an integral part of the school's research programme, providing a forum in which to exchange ideas with academics, students, business people, journalists and those employed in implementing government policy.

SSEES postgraduate conferences take place in alternate (even-numbered) years. These are organised by the research students themselves, and have been very successful in attracting high-calibre international participation by graduates from Eastern and Western Europe and other parts of the world, as well as corporate and government sponsorship.

Academics and politicians from these areas regularly visit the School and participate in open discussions; these occasions offer unique opportunities for students to develop contacts. Students are always welcome free of charge at these events where they can help to furnish a lively atmosphere for debate about historical and contemporary issues with their academic peers and teachers. They are also often employed to help with the organization of conferences and of public lectures and presentations.

Seminars (PG Students)

Throughout the autumn and spring terms the school's research centres run weekly or fortnightly lunchtime and early-evening seminars, which graduate students are encouraged to attend. For example in 2014-5 students themselves were very active in organising seminars and other events under the Platform Ukraine.

Throughout the year academic staff arrange for occasional lectures to be given, often by scholars, writers or representatives of the media visiting the school from abroad.

Background Briefings

Background briefings have been a regular feature at the school since they were launched in 1980. They are attended by members of the British and international press, radio and TV, and by representatives of government agencies and commercial firms, as well as by staff and students, and provide a forum to discuss political events and topical developments. Contributors typically include diplomats, BBC staff, politicians, academic specialists and Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) research analysts.Ìý