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School Of Slavonic And East European Studies - Definition and Overview

School Of Slavonic And East Europan Studies (SSEES)

The School of Slavonic & East European Studies was inaugurated on 19 October 1915 by TomᚠGarrigue Masaryk, who went on to become the President of Czechoslovakia.

SSEES is one of the world's leading specialist institutions and the largest national centre in the UK for the study of Central, Eastern and South-East Europe and Russia. It teaches a wide range of subjects including, history, politics, literature, sociology, economics as well as a wide range of slavonic and eastern european languages.

In 1999 SSEES merged with UCL and joined one of the world's leading universities

On 5 May 2004 the foundation stone of the new SSEES building was unveiled by the President of Poland Aleksander Kwaśniewski in the presence of HRH The Princess Royal.

19 October 2005 will see the official opening of the new SSEES building on the occasion of the School's 90th anniversary.

Notable Professors:

  • Geoffrey Hosking
  • Lindsey Hughes

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Example Usage of Slavonic

wikicfp: [CFP] Res Publica(s) 2010 : The 4th International Conference - Iberian and Slavonic Cultures in Contact an.. http://bit.ly/4wzxHr
brojoghost: I wish I understood Old Church Slavonic as much as Russian, but that's like you saying You wish you could understand Middle English!
mertmij: I also know a little Church Slavonic.
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