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In March and June of 2019, Marina Butovskaya, a senior fellow of the International Anthropology Centre and an associate member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, went on expeditions to the United Republic of Tanzania with a team of her colleagues.

On January 11, 2020, there was published an interview with the academic supervisor of the IL for the Study of Russian and European Intellectual Dialogue, professor Leonid Luks 

Michele Minardi, from Italy, holds a PhD in Archaeology from Sydney University and has spent a number of years in investigating Karakalpakstan in Uzbekistan. He has recently joined the team of Centre of Classical and Oriental Archaeology of the Institute for Oriental and Classical Studies as a Research Fellow. We spoke with Michele about his projects, teaching methods and expedition plans.

Leading Research Fellow of the ILFP has presented a talk at the Conference CREATIVITY-2019, which was held in Rio de Janeiro from 8 to 13 December 2019.

On November 22—29, the 100th anniversary celebration of the International Union of Academies (Union académique international, UAI–IUA), the most prestigious international organization in the humanities and social sciences, was held in Paris. Askold Ivantchik, Head of the Centre of Classical and Oriental Archaeology and Vice‑President of the International Union of Academies, served as an organizer of the event.

At last week’s Golden HSE Award Ceremony, the winners of the Silver Nestling Award included two international students: Yunying Pei (China) of the Dual Bachelor’s Programme in Data Science and Business Analytics, and Juan Sota (Spain) of the Master’s Programme in Medieval Studies. HSE News Service spoke to the two students about their courses, speaking Russian, and the reactions their families and friends had when they told them they won the Silver Nestling Award.

What connects philosophers, linguists, and logicians? How do you develop partnerships with dozens of foreign research centres in just six months? Can science exist in isolation from the outside world? Elena Dragalina-Chernaya, Head of the International Laboratory for Logic, Linguistics, and Formal Philosophy, discusses these and other issues.

In November and December, several dog therapy sessions will be held in HSE buildings on Staraya Basmannaya and Pokrovsky Boulevard. Students and doctoral students, as well as HSE staff and lecturers are welcome to attend the event.

Language Science Press has published a book on the Mehweb language, edited by Michael Daniel and Nina Dobrushina of the Linguistic Convergence Laboratory and Dmitry Ganenkov of the Laboratory of Caucasian languages.

Nine members of the Center for Language and Brain attended the annual Science of Aphasia conference that took place in Rome on 23-26 September 2019.