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Research & Expertise

Seeking Answers in Medieval Russian History

On May 31, Valerie Kivelson, Professor of History at the University of Michigan, will be delivering a seminar entitled ‘Visualizing Empire: Muscovite Images of Race’. Professor Kivelson is an expert in Medieval and early modern Russia, history of cartography, history of witchcraft, religion, and political culture, among other topics. She is the author of 'Desperate Magic: The Moral Economy of Witchcraft in Seventeenth Century Russia' and a guest editor of 'Witchcraft Casebook: Magic in Russia, Poland and Ukraine. 15-21st Centuries'.

Russian Sincerity Today – A Conversation with Professor Ellen Rutten

On May 23, Ellen Rutten, Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies at the University of Amsterdam, delivered a lecture at HSE on her new book, ‘Sincerity after Communism’. An expert on Slavonic literature and culture, Professor Rutten is involved in numerous projects, including the Digital Emotions group, Sublime Imperfections, and ‘Russian Literature’, a journal where she serves as editor-in-chief.

Workshop of Tatiana Shchedrina

Workshop of Tatiana Shchedrina
On May 22, 2017 within the framework of the seminar "West and East: Universalism of Culture" of the International Laboratory for the Study of Russian and European Intellectual Dialogue there was a masterclass of prof. Tatyana Gennadievna Shchedrina.

Professor Dirk Uffelmann’s Report at "West and East: Universalism of Culture" Seminar

Professor Dirk Uffelmann’s Report at "West and East: Universalism of Culture" Seminar
On April 12, 2017, within the framework of a regular scholarly seminar of the International Laboratory for the Study of the Russian and European Intellectual Dialogue, Dirk Uffelmann, head of the Department of Slavic Culture and Literature of the University of Passau, Vice-President of the Union of German Slavists made a report.

The Neurolinguistics Lab is behind the polar circle!

The conference was held at the Heart of Finnish Lapland April 2-5

Svetlana Cecovic's Talk to Jyväskylä University, Finland

Assistant Professor of School of Philology at Conference on East-West Cultural Relations

Collaboration with the speech therapy center "Children's Academy of Speech"

Children's Academy of speech — is a specialized speech center established to help children with speech and behavioural difficulties

Tatiana Bolgina at the Fifth conference-school "Problems of language: young researchers' perspective"

The conference is held at the Institute of Linguistics and covers a broad range of topics in the areas of linguistics, psycholinguistics and neurolinguistic research.

RusVectōrēs: A Yearly Report

RusVectōrēs: A Yearly Report
RusVectōrēs is a web service for distributional semantics created at the School of Linguistics. The service allows users to play with distributional semantic models (a.k.a. word embeddings) right in the browser. Last year we added lots of new features, and we are happy to share the news with you.

Seth Bernstein “Victims, Traitors, Refugees: The Social Reception of Soviet Repatriates after World War II”

Seth Bernstein “Victims, Traitors, Refugees: The Social Reception of Soviet Repatriates after World War II”
On January 26 Seth Bernstein gave a presentation “Victims, Traitors, Refugees: The Social Reception of Soviet Repatriates after World War II” at the scholarly seminar of the International Center for the History and Sociology of World War II and Its Consequences.