Research & Expertise

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.

HSE has hosted the international academic conference ‘Europe, 1945: Liberation, Occupation, Retribution,’ during which historians, sociologists, and culturologists from various countries discussed the social, economic, military, political, and cultural phenomena caused by World War II. In an interview with the HSE News Service, the Director of HSE’s International Centre for the History and Sociology of World War II and Its Consequences, Oleg Budnitskii, discusses the conference, its organizers, and its guests, and also talks about why it is important to study the human dimension of war.

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, 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.

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.

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

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.

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.