![Vladimir Kantor's book on Dostoevsky, Nietzsche, and the crisis of European Christianity has been translated into Italian Vladimir Kantor's book on Dostoevsky, Nietzsche, and the crisis of European Christianity has been translated into Italian](/data/2015/09/19/1075753118/1902787_832626013435440_5954603736428830718_n.jpg)
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![Vladimir Kantor's book on Dostoevsky, Nietzsche, and the crisis of European Christianity has been translated into Italian Vladimir Kantor's book on Dostoevsky, Nietzsche, and the crisis of European Christianity has been translated into Italian](/data/2015/09/19/1075753118/1902787_832626013435440_5954603736428830718_n.jpg)
Academic Studies Press issued the ‘Word and Image in Russian History: Essays in Honor of Gary Marker’. The articles ‘Businesswomen in Eighteenth-Century Russian Provinicial Towns’ by Alexander Kamenskii and ‘Catherine’s Liberation of the Greeks: High-Minded Discourse and Everyday Realities’ by Elena Smilyanskaya were also included in the collection.
Challenging traditional explanations of history and taking a new view on the past is the hallmark of a good historian; re-examining the history of post-war Soviet agriculture and economics is no exception, according to Aaron Hale-Dorrell, who recently received his PhD in History from the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill and will begin a post-doctoral fellowship at the HSE International Centre for the History and Sociology of World War II and Its Consequences in September. Aaron Hale-Dorrell recently agreed to speak with the HSE news service about his research interests, his plans while at HSE, and his experiences living and working in Russia.
Anna Guseva, Associate Professor at the School of History delivered a report at the XI International Conference ‘Sustainable City Life. Exploring Aesthetic Values in Urban Settings’, organized by the International Institute of Applied Aesthetics at the University of Helsinki.
![Mikhail Boytsov Delivered a Report at Jan Gus Memorial Evening Mikhail Boytsov Delivered a Report at Jan Gus Memorial Evening](/data/2015/08/01/1084315584/13Ludwig_III._von_der_Pfalz_bei_der_Hinrichtung_von_Jan_Hus.jpg)
![Svetlana Yatsyk Spoke at the International Medieval Congress in Leeds Svetlana Yatsyk Spoke at the International Medieval Congress in Leeds](/data/2015/07/21/1086289361/6fittosize__480_235_dfe1a10a0bf112f6e8da0.._his_cloak_with_caption_515x252.jpg)
The latest issue of the journal Enthymema is now available to download from the official website. The editorial board of the journal includes Stefania Sini and Yulia Ivanova, Associate Professor at the School of History.
A professor from the School of Philology took part in the ‘Diversity Linguistics: Retrospect and Prospect’ conference, which took place in Leipzig from May 1st – 3rd, 2015.
HSE’s School of Linguistics, along with Samsung and the Leo Tolstoy State Museum, has developed a mobile application called ‘Living Pages,’ which offers users a new way of reading Leo Tolstoy’s novel War and Peace. The programme’s launch coincides with the Russia’s Year of Literature.
![Natalia Samutina and Boris Stepanov Participated in a Conference at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis Natalia Samutina and Boris Stepanov Participated in a Conference at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis](/data/2015/06/16/1084171911/2NS BS.jpg)