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The International Linguistic Convergence laboratory organized a grant competition for creating spoken language corpora. The submission of applications ended on June 25. The organizer of the event and the head of the laboratory Nina Dobrushina talks about the goals of the competition and why recording spoken language is important.

Junior research fellow Alexandra Kolesnik took part in ‘Modern Heavy Metal Conference: Markets, Practices and Cultures’, which was held on June 28 – July 2, 2017 at Aalto University (Helsinki, Finland). 

The 2^nd World Congress on Logic and Religion was held from June 18 to 22 in Warsaw. Researchers from HSE’s Moscow and Perm campuses took part in the event.

On June 27-28, 2017, Julia Ivanova and Pavel Sokolov, leading research fellows of IGITI, held three seminars for the students of the Institute for Slavic Studies at Cologne University. The seminars opened a new course "Iter Italicum Slavorum" aimed to explore how Italy and Italian culture were perceived in the Slavic world.

Natalia Samutina and Elena Melnikova took part in the 5th Fan Studies Network conference, which was held on June 23-25, 2017. The conference was organized by the Center for Participatory Culture of the University of Huddersfield, UK.

Elizaveta Sysoeva (Doctoral School of History) and Alexander Suvalko (Doctoral School of Philosophy), doctoral students at the HSE Faculty of Humanities, have received grants from the Russian President to study abroad in the academic year 2017/18.

The scientific landscape is changing before our eyes. Different sciences are becoming more and more intertwined with one another, and this sometimes creates quite unexpected combinations, such as the digital humanities. This field is developing rapidly, with conferences and summer schools now being held on the subject. In addition, HSE recently devoted an entire week to the Digital Humanities. But what is this field and why is it so important? 

International Centre for the History and Sociology of World War II and Its Consequences, Higher School of Economics and The Friedrich Ebert Foundation held 'A Memory Revolution’: Soviet History Through the Lens of Personal Documents' in Moscow on 7-8 June, 2017. The conference brought together distinguished historians and sociologists from across the globe. Michael David-Fox, Professor of History, Georgetown University, and Academic Advisor of HSE International Center for the History and Sociology of World War II and Its Consequences shares his reflections and considerations on the main topic and discussions at the conference and his own research

On June 15, 2017, the chief research fellow of the IL for the Study of Russian and European Intellectual Dialogue M. S. Kiseleva took part in the project "Anatomy of Philosophy: the Way Text Works. Series "Repliki" of the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences and F.M. Dostoevsky Library.

Guglielmo Cinque is a professor of linguistics at the University of Venice and one of the most well-known European generativists. Recently he paid a week-long visit the HSE School of linguistics, and now shares his impressions of our students and staff, as well as of this year's weather in Moscow.