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On June 3, Birgitte Beck Pristed, Associate professor of School of Culture and Society - Russian and Balkan Studies at Aarhus University (Denmark) presented a paper based on her new book “The New Russian Book: A Graphic Cultural History” (Palgrave 2017) at the Research Center for Contemporary Culture Academic Seminar.

Helena Knyazeva presented a paper “The Systemic Methodology of Organization of Active Innovative Media” at the World Conference on Complex Systems, which took place on April 22-25, 2019

Two members of the Center for Language and Brain, Svetlana Malyutina and Elena Savinova, participated at the 5th international conference "Aging and Cognition", which was aimed at stimulating research in the domain of cognitive aging.

Junior Research Fellow of IGITI Alisa Maximova took part in a conference "Museums as Agents of Memory and Change", held on April 24-26 and organized by the Estonian National Museum and Department of Ethnology of the University of Tartu.

On April 25-26, 2019, the International Laboratory for the Study of the Russian and European Intellectual Dialogue organized the international scientific conference "Russian as the basis of being of Russia (since the Peter-Pushkin era)"

From 15-17 April a conference organized jointly by the Laboratory of Language Convergence, the University of Lyon, the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), and the Institute of Linguistics (Moscow) was held in Lyon. The conference was dedicated to the study of multilingualism in minority language communities - a field of research which has been actively pursued by Laboratory faculty for some time thanks to extensive fieldwork in Dagestan.

The head of the International Laboratory for the Study of Russian and European Intellectual Dialogue V.K. Kantor took part in the broadcast on the radio station "Vera"

On April 19, 2019, the International Laboratory for the Study of Russian and European Intellectual Dialogue, together with the master's program "Philosophy and History of Religion", organized a meeting with a research fellow of the Catholic University (Paris)

HSE’s new International Laboratory of ‘Russia’s Regions in Historical Perspective’ will study the social and political history of Russia’s regions from the 18^th to the late 20^th century.

On April 15, 2019, Research Centre for Contemporary Culture organizes a special event "Manga as Literature, Manga as Reading" with the participation of Jaqueline Berndt (Professor of Japanese Language and Culture, Stockholm University), Yulia Magera (Senior Lecturer, Institute for Oriental and Classical Studies HSE), Natalia Samutina (Leading Researcher, Poletayev Institute for Theoretical and Historical Studies in the Humanities HSE) and Yulia Tarasuk (Leading Librarian, Curator of Comics Library at the Izmailovskaya City Library, Saint Petersburg).