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Jessica Werneke, who completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Iowa and her PhD at the University of Texas at Austin, joined the International Centre for the History and Sociology of World War II and its Consequences as a Research Fellow in 2016. Originally from Chicago, Illinois, she has spent a considerable amount of time living internationally – in both the UK and Latvia – and following her post-doc plans to start a new position as a Newton International Fellow of the British Academy at Loughborough University, where she will continue her research on Soviet photography clubs and amateur photographers in the RSFSR and the Baltic Republics.

The Moscow Government has presented various awards to several young HSE researchers - Aigul Mavletova, Evgeny Feigin and Alexey Vdovin.

Center for Language and Brain invites applications for postdoctoral research positions

Center for Language and Brain invites applications for postdoctoral research positions

On December 22nd professor Jean-Michel Kantor (Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu - Paris Rive Gauche (IMJ-PRG)) gave a talk "Mathematics and the World" at the joint meeting of Logico-philosophical club and "The aesthetics of the transcendental" seminar (HSE)

From November 27 to December 1, 2017 a seminar on "Methods for linguistic convergence research" was held at the laboratory. The seminar was devoted to discussing the intermediate results of research projects, as well as the immediate tasks and general goals of the participants. It was the first joint meeting of all employees and partners.

On November 23-24, 2017 the international scientific conference "S.L. Frank: Postrevolutionary Downfall of Idols", organized by the International Laboratory for the Study of Russian and European Intellectual Dialogue, was held

Leading Research Fellows of IGITI Alexander Dmitriev and Boris Stepanov took part in the Annual Convention of ASEEES (Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies), held in Chicago on November 9–12.

On November 13 - 18, the fifth philosophical readings dedicated to the topic "Cultural and Philosophical Relations of Florence and Russia" were held as part of the celebration of the World Philosophy Day at the University of Florence (Università degli studi di Firenze). The project was prepared by the Faculty of Humanities of the National Research University "Higher School of Economics" (the head of the delegation was the Dean of Faculty of Humanities Professor A.M. Rutkevich) jointly with the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences (the head of the delegation was Professor A.A. Kara-Murza, project coordinator was O.I. Kusenko) and the Department of Slavic Literature Università degli studi di Firenze (project director and scientific coordinator - Professor Marcello Gardzaniti).

Research fellow of IGITI Aleksei Pleshkov became a member of the Society for Philosophy of Time (SPoT). SPoT is a network for researches working on the philosophy of time. This includes the metaphysics of time, the nature of persistence through time as well as linguistic references to the present moment. SPoT explicitly encourages an interdisciplinary approach, including results from physics, psychology and linguistics.