Faculty of Humanities

Web-service Designed by the HSE Centre for Digital Humanities Nominated for DH Awards 2017

The Easy Linavis web-service allows users to quickly transform a text or any other type of data into a graph, as well as study it by using a social network analysis. You don’t need any special programming skills to use this service.

February 23, 2018

Alexander Piperski Gets Russian Academy of Sciences Medal

Alexander Piperski, Lecturer at the HSE School of Philology, has received an award for Russian young literature and languages researchers for his book Constructing Languages: From Esperanto to Dothraki.

Society professors publications

February 12, 2018

Denis Fedyanin: "Threshold and Network generalizations of Muddy Faces Puzzle"

Denis Fedyanin (ICS RAS) gave a talk "Threshold and Network generalizations of Muddy Faces Puzzle" at the Formal Philosophy Seminar.

February 08, 2018

Speech by visual artist Natalia Drobot

On February 02, 2018 visual artist, graduate student of the University of Hasselt Natalia Drobot made a presentation at the seminar "West and East: Universalism of Culture"

Research & Expertise international faculty

February 05, 2018

'Cultural evolution is not just a metaphor'

Alberto Acerbi, a cognitive/evolutionary anthropologist at TU Eindhoven, explains the notion of cultural evolution and highlights its potential for Digital Humanities.

February 05, 2018

Andi project received grant funding from the Russian Foundation for Basic Research

On the eve of 2018, the Russian Foundation for Basic Research finished reviewing grant applications. Among the approved applications was the project "The Andi morphosyntax in a typological perspective", under the guidance of Michael Daniel; professor at the School of Linguistics and participant of the Linguistic Convergence Laboratory.

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February 01, 2018

Our new paper: "An eighteenth-century theme park: museum-reserve Tsaritsyno (Moscow) and the public culture of the post-Soviet metropolis" by Natalia Samutina and Boris Stepanov

A new paper on urban culture by Natalia Samutina and Boris Stepanov was published in journal "Urban History" (Vol. 45, Issue 1). The paper is titled "An eighteenth-century theme park: museum-reserve Tsaritsyno (Moscow) and the public culture of the post-Soviet metropolis" and discusses history of the Tsaritsyno Park in Moscow and museum-reserve. See the paper abstract.

January 30, 2018

Oksana Zaporozhets participated in the conference "Materie, Materialien, Methoden" at Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg

Leading research fellow of IGITI Oksana Zaporozhets took part in the conference "Materie, Materialien, Methoden", organised by the assosiation "NeueKulturgeographie". The conference held on January 26 at Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg.

January 29, 2018

Laboratory invites postdocs from international research universities

Linguistic Convergence Laboratory invites applications for postdoctoral research positions in the field of language contact; computer corpora; typology; sociolinguistics.

Research & Expertise Invitation to participate

January 22, 2018

Stephen Kotkin's book presentation "Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1919-1941"

On January 15 Stephen Kotkin, Professor of History at Princeton University and Associated Researcher at the International Center for the History and Sociology of World War II and Its Consequences, gave a book presentation "Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1919-1941"

Research & Expertise book presentation History of Stalinism Soviet history

January 19, 2018

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