Research & Expertise

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.

On July 16 Mikhail Boytsov, Professor at the School of History, delivered a report on the perception of Jan Hus in Russia at a memorial event in Munich.

Svetlana Yatsyk, Analyst at the HSE Laboratory of Medieval Studies, spoke at the 22^nd International Medieval Congress in Leeds on the problem of paganism in the works by John of Wales.

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.

From June 11 – 12, 2015, Natalia Samutina and Boris Stepanov, leading research fellows at the Poletayev Institute for Theoretical and Historical Studies in the Humanities, took part in an international conference ‘Past the “Post-”: Theorizing the Post-Post-Soviet via (New) Media and Popular Culture’, which was organized by the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA). They spoke on various aspects of cultural communication in the Russian internet.

The International Conference on Language Variation in Europe took place from May 27 – 29, 2015, in Leipzig, Germany. Anastasia shared her impressions of the event.