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On October 10, Stephen Wheatcroft, Professor of the School of Historical Studies at the University of Melbourne delivered a lecture on ‘The importance of the grain problem in the Russian Revolution and for the next 40 years of Soviet Economics' at HSE Moscow as part of a long and busy schedule. A participant at previous April Conferences at HSE, Professor Wheatcroft is one of the world’s foremost experts on Soviet social, economic and demographic history, as well as famine and food supply problems in modern world history.

From 18 to 20 September the international conference on dependency linguistics Depling 2017 took place in Pisa (Italy).

On October 9, 2017, Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor of the Higher School of Economics Mark Urnov gave a master class.

Anastasia Panova, intern-researcher at the Linguistic Convergence Laboratory, participated in the Twelfth conference of the Slavic Linguistics Society, from 21 to 24 September in Ljubljana (Slovenia), where she gave a poster presentation "A corpus outlook on regional varieties of Russian in Daghestan".

On October 5, 2017, Professor Vladimir Kantor spoke in the Yaroslavl State Pedagogical University.

Within the framework of the seminar "West and East: Universalism of Culture" Professor of the RSUH Boris Khavkin made the report "Third Reich: How German Children were Turned into Anti-Semites"

Eitan Grossman, an associate professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, talks about his participation in TyLex summer school on typology and lexicon organized by HSE. 

A numerous delegation of Center for Language and Brain (Neurolinguistics Lab) members led by the head of the Lab attended the annual Science of Aphasia Conference 2017 in Geneva, Switzerland.

David Gil, a researcher at Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, talks about his parciticpation in TyLex summer school organised by HSE linguists. 

TyLex — 2017 summer school on typology and lexicon gathered participants from al across the world. Shihong Zhou, a researcher at Beijing Normal University, shared his impression of the event in a short interview with the organizers of TyLex.