BASEES Newsletter 45: December 2025

Newsletter issue 45 December 2025

The December 2025 issue (#45) of the BASEES Newsletter is now available here, and contains:

·       President’s Editorial (Katharine Hodgson)

·       Launch of the 2026 round of BASEES teaching excellence prizes

·       Welcoming of new committee officers, Gary Lawson (Treasurer) and Sam Foster (Information Officer)

·       Interview with Connor Doak, winner of BASEES’s first Excellence in Teaching Slavonic, East European & Eurasian Studies Prize

·       R&D funding report: Sarah Hudspith

·       Study Group Corner: News from our Study Groups on Minority History, the Baltic States, Slavonic & Eastern European Music, and Religion and Spirituality in Russia & Eastern Europe.

·       New books from Glagoslav publications

Please submit your news, comments, or letters to the editor to the new and incoming BASEES Information Officer, Samuel Foster (Samuel.Foster@uae.ac.uk), for publication in the spring issue of the BASEES newsletter by 22nd March 2026.

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As I sign off, and begin to pass on the baton to the very capable hands of Sam, I’d like to say thank you for the engagement, encouragement and support of the committee team over the past three years.

I wish you a very Merry Christmas if you celebrate it, and in any case a well-deserved winter break! All the best for 2026!

Victoria Hudson

BASEES Information Officer (2023-2026)