Activities

Our core activities include:

• Convening the RIPSS seminar series
• Promoting high-quality research through peer-reviewed journals and book series:
  • Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society (General Editor: Julie Fedor) (an international bi-annual journal published by ibidem Press, Stuttgart and distributed by Columbia University Press)
  • Elements in Soviet and Post-Soviet History (Editor: Mark Edele) (a new Cambridge University Press series designed to support an intellectually sophisticated reinvigoration of historically informed post-Soviet area studies)
  • Australian Slavonic and East European Studies (Editor: Robert Lagerberg) (a refereed venue for work on all aspects of Slavonic and East European studies, including language, literature, history, political and social science, and art)
• Embedding our research into teaching at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels
• Fostering a collegial community of scholarly inquiry embracing both staff and students
• Extending the research and impact of our research, including through digital scholarship
• Building relationships with local diaspora communities and other stake-holders