A brief summary of SSEES to explain where the Masaryk Society came from.
The School of Slavonic and East European Studies was inaugurated in 1915 by Tomas Masaryk as a college of the University of London. It was based in Senate House, and later took over two adjacent houses at 21/22 Russell Square. It was one of the smallest colleges of UoL and had its own seperate SU, bar, common rooms, and clubs and societies.
In 1999, SSEES merged with UCL, and became a school within it. In 2005 the move to new building at 16 Taviton Street was completed. The school remains one of the leading institutes in the world for the study of Central, Eastern, and South-Eastern Europe as well as Russia, by teaching among others, economics, politics, history, sociology, litterature, as well as a wide range of Slavonic and East-European languages.
The school has over 60 academic staff, 150 graduate students and 500 undergraduates. It is represented by the SSEES Site Committee and the SSEES President is an executive officer of UCL Union.
Of the old SSEES clubs and societies, only SSEES AFC, the football club survive; the Masaryk Society being the only other society attached to SSEES.
Links:
http://www.ssees.ac.uk/
www.sseesfootball.uclu.org
http://www.uclunion.org/ssees
In 1999, SSEES merged with UCL, and became a school within it. In 2005 the move to new building at 16 Taviton Street was completed. The school remains one of the leading institutes in the world for the study of Central, Eastern, and South-Eastern Europe as well as Russia, by teaching among others, economics, politics, history, sociology, litterature, as well as a wide range of Slavonic and East-European languages.
The school has over 60 academic staff, 150 graduate students and 500 undergraduates. It is represented by the SSEES Site Committee and the SSEES President is an executive officer of UCL Union.
Of the old SSEES clubs and societies, only SSEES AFC, the football club survive; the Masaryk Society being the only other society attached to SSEES.
Links:
http://www.ssees.ac.uk/
www.sseesfootball.uclu.org
http://www.uclunion.org/ssees
