Committee:
President: Olivia Alford                       Vice-President: Nicki Challinger
Treasurer: Hugh Colyer                      Publicity Officer: Kirby Stebbing
Social Secretary: Aleksandra Broom  Secretary: Helen Young
Cultural Director: Clare Griffin             Postgraduate liaison role: Kelly Dobson
Events Co-ordinator: Janek Lasocki

At the start of the year, there were only two, the President (Olivia Alford) and the Treasurer (Hugh Colyer), but after an EGM, we finally had a full committee:
Nicki Challinger was the new V-P, Kirby Stebbing the Publicity Officer, Aleksandra Broom the Social Secretary, Janek Lasocki the Events Co-Ordinator, Helen Young the Secretary, and Kelly Dobson and Clare Griffin became General Committee Members, Kelly taking on a post-graduate liaison role, and Clare becoming our cultural director. This year, we created several new positions on the committee to cope with the ever-growing repetoire of events the society puts on.

Term One involved us putting on film screenings (Goodbye Lenin!, Brat 1 & 2, Kolya, Dancing In The Dark). We also went out to bars and restaurants as a society (among others, Bar Polski, Czech Club in Hampstead), we went to the theatre (an adaptation of Kafka's Metamorphosis at the Lyric Theatre in Hammersmith), went to lectures about Hungary '56 at the Barbican,...
We also had some student lectures given by SSEES veterans: Oli Geidt gave us an interesting look at football in the Soviet Union ("Beria's Game"), and Clare Griffin gave us a look at Czechoslovak murder mysteries ("Who killed Jan Masaryk?"), and we also welcomed Count Adam Zamoyski who came to talk about the Congress of Vienna (and we thought that was a good excuse to go out to eat again). His talk was well attended by students of Dr. Butterwick's Group 2 History course "The Fall and Rise of the Polish Nation."

We organised two nights in the Union, "A Night Beyond the Iron Curtain" in Easy J's on 30th November 2006 was a sell-out, with a live DJ, food and a pub quiz, with the team "Dynamo SSEES" being the jubilant winners!
The very first East-European cultural evening was held  in the Dent Room on 22nd February 2007 with a talk by Seth Graham ("On the 83rd Anniversary of Trotsky’s ‘Vodka, Church, Cinema’ (Russian popular culture in the ‘post ideological age’)")poetry and music by our Folk Ensemble, and even the President's Polish Rap!

Our annual trip was to Riga in the February reading week with daytrips to Sigulda, Jurmula and Salaspils. We also hosted UCLU's first "Romanian Week" to celebrate their accession to the European Union. We showed the film "Moartea domnului Lăzărescu" by Cristi Puiu, Rebecca Haynes gave a brilliant lecture on "Bram Stoker's Transylvania", and we had a panel discussion entitled "Romania: the way forward", chaired by Prof. Dennis Deletant, professor of Romanian Studies at SSEES (UCL) and the University of Amsterdam, and speaking were Dr David Phinnemore, Senior Lecturer in European Integration, Jean Monnet Chair in European Political Science at Queen's University Belfast, Mark Field MP, Conservative MP for the Cities of London and Westminster, Dr Tom Gallagher, Professor of Ethnic Conflict and Peace at the University of Bradford and Mr. Adrian Vierita, Romanian Secretary of State for European and Euro-Atlantic Affairs in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (we even got a mention on the Romanian Embassy's website).

2006-07 was the society's most successful year, with record-high membership and the biggest and most enthusiastic committee ever. Special mention must fo to our contact at the Romanian Embassy, Ms Carmen Turturea, who was pivotal in helping to co-ordinate our panel discussion.

Our president, Olivia, got Centenary Colous for her outstanding contribution to the SSEES community throughout her time at UCL and  was elected Services & Events Sabbatical Officer for the coming year. At our Annual General Meeting, we elected Rachel Bending as president, Hugh Colyer as treasurer and Billy Street as Vice-President.