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Professor Stefania Sini Gave a Lecture ‘The Study of Narrative: Fundamental Principles’

On Thursday, Professor Stefania Sini from the Amedeo Avogadro University of Eastern Piedmont, Italy gave a lecture on the study of narrative.

HSE Has Become an Accredited Cambridge English Language Assessment Centre

HSE signed an agreement with Cambridge University and is an authorized center to sit international KET, PET, FCE, CAE, CPE, BEC, TKT and ILEC exams.

Three Research Projects from the School of Linguistics Supported by the HSE Academic Fund

The HSE Academic Fund agreed to support in 2015 the research carried out by three research and education groups in the School of Linguistics: Yiddish Corpus, Lexical Typology Studies, and Languages of Dagestan.

HSE BA and MA Students at the International Conference of Young Philologists

On the 12th - 14th February 2015 students from the School of Philology and Linguistics presented their papers at a conference of young philologists in Tallinn.

Understanding Our Own History by Learning about Another’s

Social Historian, Franziska Exeler has focussed much of her research on the Soviet Union and the Second World War but at HSE she is asking students to find out what happened in other countries to try to understand the Soviet experience in a global context. She talked to the HSE English News website about teaching and researching at the International Center for the History and Sociology of World War II and Its Consequences, about discovering Moscow’s architecture and about her life as an academic in Russia.

‘As Long as We Think about the Middle Ages as a Dark Time, We Will Remain Dark Ourselves’

‘As Long as We Think about the Middle Ages as a Dark Time, We Will Remain Dark Ourselves’
Every era builds its own version of the Middle Ages, and the modern age is no exception. Oleg Voskoboynikov, the youngest full professor at the Higher School of Economics, talks about the reason for the popularity of metaphors that refer to that era, why the ‘Suffering Middle Ages’ group on 'VKontakte' is not the same thing as medieval studies and how the desire to be different from everyone else can lead a student to study the Middle Ages.

70 Years on: Remembering Victory in WWII — A View of Post-war Life in the Soviet Union

In the year that marks the 70 th  anniversary of victory in the Second World War, we talk to Kristy Ironside, who received her BA and MA from the University of Toronto before going on to complete her PhD at the University of Chicago, and who is currently researching life in the Soviet Union in the post-war years. Kristy Ironside’s work examines what the War meant to ordinary people, how their lives changed — and how Soviet society coped with the aftermath.

Leonid Kulikov Explains How the Syntax of Indo-European Languages Changed

From 20th-24th January Leonid Kulikov, (University of Ghent, Belgium) gave HSE linguistics students a mini-course in diachronic typology. The lectures and seminars were on the historical syntax of Indo-European languages in terms of typology.

Humanities at HSE: One Faculty, Different Programmes, More Opportunities

Humanities at HSE: One Faculty, Different Programmes, More Opportunities
The united Faculty of Humanities has been launched and recently held an open day at HSE. For those who missed the event we share the most important information about the faculty.

Faculties Still Expanding at HSE

As part of organizational reform at HSE, two more ‘big’ faculties are being created – the Faculty of Economic Sciences and the Faculty of Humanities. These faculties will include educational and research divisions in their corresponding fields. Changes will also take place in the structure of HSE’s Moscow State Institute of Electronics and Mathematics.