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Karen Armstrong
Karen Armstrong; credit Michael Lionstar

Catch up: Prokhorov Lecture by Karen Armstrong - Sacred Nature

Religious affairs commentator Karen Armstrong examines the ways in which we can relate to the natural world at a deeper level by adopting attitudes that were assiduously cultivated in the religious traditions of China, India, Greece and Islam.
Professor Evgeny Dobrenko

Evgeny Dobrenko wins AATSEEL award

Professor Evgeny Dobrenko receives the Outstanding Contribution to Scholarship Award of the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages.
Akala

Race, class, and imperialism – Akala

Akala took a historical look at the development of racism and race science in the context of class development and European Imperialism for this lecture (Friday 18 October 2019) at the Prokhorov Centre. The event was attended by 400 people.
Dina Gusejnova

Dina Gusejnova on the centenaries of the European revolutions of 1916 and 1917

In her multi-media blog in the Journal of the History of Ideas, the University of Sheffield's Dina Gusejnova discusses the ways in which societies engage with the centenaries of the European revolutions of 1916 and 1917.
Cydney Sturgess

Cydney Sturgess wins Prokhorov Prize for Outstanding Contribution to Research Culture

The 2016-17 Prokhorov Prize for Outstanding Contribution to the Research Culture and Life of the School of Languages and Cultures has been awarded to Cydney Sturgess.
EU flags outside building

Catch up: Is the EU doomed to fail? A conversation with the historian David Engels

Historian David Engels discusses the parallels between the Roman Republic and the European Union with the Prokhorov Centre's Henk de Berg.
Sir Christopher Clark

Catch up: Sir Christopher Clark on the geopolitics of revolution in 1848

Historian and author Sir Christopher Clark, Regius Professor of History at the University of Cambridge, delivered a lecture on the geopolitics of revolution for an international conference at the Prokhorov Centre (26 May 2017).
EU flags outside building

Catch up: International conference Constructing Europe(s)

The Prokhorov Centre hosted the international conference 'Constructing Europe(s): The cultural borders of Western and Eastern Europe past, present, and future' on 26–27 May 2017.