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Helena Knyazeva made a plenary lecture at the Fifth Balkan Scientific Conference “Science - Education - Art in the 21st Century”, which was organized by the Southwest University “Neofit-Rilski” in Blagoevrad (Bulgaria) in September 26-27, 2019.

HSE University improved its performance from last year, entering the Top-200 of the Times Higher Education (THE) subject ranking in Arts and Humanities. We now place second among Russian universities and have the best results of the participants of the Russian Academic Excellence Project 5-100.

Galina Ryazanskaya from HSE Center for Language and Brain at the 7th European Conference on Schizophrenia Research

On September 17 and 19, the HSE School of Linguistics had an honor to host Marianne Mithun, a prominent American linguist focusing on typology and indigenous languages of North America. Marianne has gracefully agreed to answer our questions about her research and her impression of HSE.

IGITI Research Assistants and members of the team of the project "On Land and Sea: Medical geography in the Russian empire (1770–1870)" Elena Lisitsyna and Vladislav Yakovenko took part in the summer school “Russian Empire / Soviet Union Through the Lens of Global and New Imperial Histories”, held in Tyumen State University on June 30 - July 5.

A satellite event of the 25th AMLaP conference, Typical and Atypical Language Development Symposium (TALDS 2019), took place at HSE  University in Moscow.

New monograph by IGITI Chief Research Fellow Galin Tihanov "The Birth and Death of Literary Theory. Regimes of Relevance in Russia and Beyond" has been published by Stanford University Press. See the abstract.

Article by Dmitry Biriukov entitled 'Penetration of Fire into Iron: The Sense and the Usage Mode of This Metaphor for Description of Theosis in the Byzantine Theological Literature has been published in Scrinium. Journal of Patrology and Critical Hagiography (Vol. 15, 2019). The text is accessible online.

Aleksei Pleshkov, Director of IGITI, took part in Symposium Platonicum XII: Plato’s Parmenides, which was held on July 14–19, 2019 in Paris (France). His talk was devoted to Plato’s concept of eternity in dialogues the Parmenides and the Timaeus. The conference was organised by the International Plato Society, with the support of INHA: Institut national d'histoire de l'art, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Ambassade de Grèce à Paris and 10 more educational and research institutions of France.

Member of the Center for Language and Brain Anna Yurchenko participated at the Radboud Summer School on analysis of neural oscillations.