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Faculty of Humanities

 

Research & Expertise

'I Gulped down Ginzburg’s Article with Greedy, Insatiable Pleasure'

On 1st to 3rd June, the remarkable Italian historian and one of the founders of microhistory, Carlo Ginzburg will give a series of open lectures at the HSE. Professor Ginzburg has been invited to Moscow by the Poletayev Institute for Theoretical and Historical Studies in the Humanities (IGITI). His translator, Professor at the School of Philosophy, Sergey Kozlov spoke to the HSE News Service about how he was inspired to translate Ginzburg’s work into Russian which led to them becoming firm friends.

Ekaterina Ageeva at the EAMT 2015 conference

Ekaterina Ageeva, third year student on the Fundamental and Computational Linguistics programme at the HSE  Faculty of Humanities participated in the international conference on machine translation and presented her paper.

Lecture ‘Language, Fire, Music and Chess: Thoughts on the Evolution and Acquisition of Cognitive Systems’ by John Bailyn

Lecture ‘Language, Fire, Music and Chess: Thoughts on the Evolution and Acquisition of Cognitive Systems’ by John Bailyn
On April 27 John F. Bailyn, Professor at the Department of Linguistics, State University of New York spoke on: ‘Language, Fire, Music and Chess: Thoughts on the Evolution and Acquisition of Cognitive Systems’. The event was organized by HSE School of Linguistics.

Professor Explores Links between Literature, Landscape and the Natural World

On May 15, Dr James Canton of the University of Essex will deliver a lecture at HSE on ‘Wild Writing’, a form of literature that emerged in the mid-twentieth century as a novel way of understanding the urban landscape and nature. The author of numerous publications focused primarily on British travel writing in Arabia, Dr Canton’s lecture will focus on a discussion of local Essex landscapes.

Olga Sozinova at Workshop in Leiden

Olga Sozinova, a third-year undergraduate student, shared her impressions of a workshop she attended in Leiden.

Video Report of the Lecture 'Shell Shock in the First World War and after' by Jay Winter

Video Report of the Lecture 'Shell Shock in the First World War and after' by Jay Winter
On  April 20 Jay M. Winter, Professor of History at Yale University spoke on ‘Shell Shock in the First World War and after’. The event was organized by Poletayev Institute for Theoretical and Historical Studies in the Humanities.

Understanding the Evolution and Acquisition of Cognitive Systems through Language and Music

On  April 27 John F. Bailyn, Professor at the Department of Linguistics, State University of New York will speak on ‘Language, Fire, Music and Chess: Thoughts on the Evolution and Acquisition of Cognitive Systems’. The event is organized by HSE School of Linguistics.

Vitaly Kurennoy Lectures and Presents at Ruhr University Bochum on April 21-22

Vitaly Kurennoy Lectures and Presents at Ruhr University Bochum on April 21-22
Vitaly Kurennoy, Professor and Head of HSE’s School of Cultural Studies (Faculty of Humanities) gave a presentation entitled ‘Contemporary Cultural Policy in Russia’ on April 22 at Ruhr University Bochum during a joint colloquium of the Department of Eastern European History and a seminar at the Lotman Institute for Russian and Soviet Culture.

Linguistic Session at the XVI HSE April International Academic Conference

On April 10, 2015, the session ‘Universalism and Relativism in the Philosophy of Language and Mind’, organized by the Schools of Linguistics and Philosophy, took place at HSE as part of the XVI April International Academic Conference.

Alexandra Kolesnik Took Part in the Workshops of the Department of Music at the University of Chicago

Alexandra Kolesnik Took Part in the Workshops of the Department of Music at the University of Chicago
On April 2-3, 2015 Alexandra Kolesnik, Research Assistant at Poletayev Institute for Theoretical and Historical Studies in the Humanities took part in ‘EthNoise!: The Music, Language, and Culture Workshop’ organized by the Department of Music at the University of Chicago.