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Faculty of Humanities

 

The Faculty of Humanities was created on December 1, 2014. It trains instructors and researchers in the field of language and literature, as well as specialists in philosophy, history, and modern culture.

The main goal of the faculty is to teach students how to understand and analyse various cultural processes, employ current research strategies, and effectively put their knowledge into practice.

The faculty’s staff are leading Russian academics and practitioners from various cultural fields, as well as invited foreign specialists. Students receive a modern education in the humanities, as well as thorough language preparation, which allows them to find extensive professional opportunities upon graduation. Students are given the opportunity to conduct research and gain practical experience at major private and public establishments.

Our strengths:

1. Interdisciplinary approach

We study the humanities alongside other academic fields so that students can apply their skills in various areas.

2. International cooperation

We maintain active international ties, which allows students to undertake internships and study abroad, as well as broaden their outlook and cultural experiences.

3. Research

We encourage and support student participation in research projects. This gives them an opportunity to apply their knowledge in practice and make a contribution to the development of the humanities.

Our graduates pursue careers in public and commercial organisations and various types of mass media. They also implement their own media, cultural, social, and educational projects.

Publications

  • Book

    Moiseev D.

    The Philosophy of Italian Fascism: Formation & Evolution

    Italian Fascism: its era has passed, yet its intellectual underpinnings remain a subject of intense scholarly debate.

    In his groundbreaking monograph, Russian scholar Dmitry Moiseev delves into the heart of Fascist political philosophy using the hermeneutical method. Tracing its roots back to the 19th-century intellectual movements that seeded its emergence, Moiseev navigates through Fascism’s ideological maturation up to its eventual demise in 1945.

    What philosophical doctrines fuelled the minds behind Italian Fascism? Did a distinct ‘Fascist philosophy’ exist, and if so, what were its core tenets? Moiseev’s work embarks on a meticulous exploration of these questions, uncovering the enduring ideas that shaped the convictions and policies of Fascist Italy’s thinkers.

    This monograph is designed for both seasoned philosophers and those intrigued by the intellectual legacy of the 20th century’s right-wing radical movements. The Philosophy of Italian Fascism is not just an academic inquiry but a journey into the ideological foundations of one of history’s most notorious regimes.

    L.: Arktos, 2024.

  • Article

    Logvinova N.

    Concord in Russian close appositional constructions: a quantitative study

    The paper discusses case concord in Russian appositional constructions, which manifests itself in optional case concord of the proper name (v rek-eLOC Don-eLOC/ v rek-eLOC DonNOM ‘in the river Don’). The study provides an in-depth corpus analysis of more than 15,000 examples, using a logistic regression statistical model to predict the choice between presence and absence of concord. The results indicate concord is most likely to occur in constructions with structurally simple and frequent proper names that exhibit adjectival properties and match the common noun in grammatical gender. Proper names with the Goal semantic role show concord with a higher probability than proper names with other roles. It is proposed that all relevant factors refer to frequency or convenience. A diachronic investigation shows that concord has become a much less preferred option over time. It is argued that concord is of low functional significance, therefore its gradual loss over time is expected.

    Russian linguistics. 2024. Vol. 48. No. 1.

  • Book chapter

    Uspensky B. A.

    The Gospel of Nicodemus and the Cult of St Longinus

    The cult of St. Longinus is significantly different between Western and Eastern Christianity. The Eastern Christian tradition has portrayed Longinus as a centurion present at the Crucifixion and converted after Christ’s death. In the Christian West, Longinus is identified with the soldier who pierced Christ’s side with a lance.The present paper traces the identification of both characters bearing this name to the apocryphal Gospel of Nicodemus, where the name Longinus (Λογγῖνος) first appears. Longinus the Soldier was perceived by the Greeks as a negative character (the one who crucified Christ). By contrast, Western Christianity elaborated the cult of Longinus the Soldier linked with the cult of the Holy Blood and therefore with the Eucharist. In the late period of the Byzantine Empire Western theology began to influence the Byzantine tradition, which is reflected in the ceremony of the prothesis rite, when the priest pierces the Eucharistic bread with the liturgical "lance", thus emulating the soldier who had pierced the body of Christ.

    In bk.: Enigma in Rus and Medieval Slavic Cultures. De Gruyter, 2024. Ch. 4. P. 63-101.

  • Working paper

    Dolgorukov V., Gladyshev M., Galimullin R.

    Dynamic Epistemic Logic of Resource Bounded Information Mining Agents

    Logics for resource-bounded agents have been getting more and more attention in recent years since they provide us with more realistic tools for modelling and reasoning about multi-agent systems. While many existing approaches are based on the idea of agents as imperfect reasoners, who must spend their resources to perform logical inference, this is not the only way to introduce resource constraints into logical settings. In this paper we study agents as perfect reasoners, who may purchase a new piece of information from a trustworthy source. For this purpose we propose dynamic epistemic logic for semi-public queries for resource-bounded agents. In this logic (groups of) agents can perform a query (ask a question) about whether some formula is true and receive a correct answer. These queries are called semi-public, because the very fact of the query is public, while the answer is private. We also assume that every query has a cost and every agent has a budget constraint. Finally, our framework allows us to reason about group queries, in which agents may share resources to obtain a new piece of information together. We demonstrate that our logic is complete, decidable and has an efficient model checking procedure.

    arxiv.org. Computer Science. Cornell University, 2024

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