The Faculty of Humanities was created on December 1, 2014. It trains instructors and researchers in the field of language and literature, as well as specialists in philosophy, history, and modern culture.
The main goal of the faculty is to teach students how to understand and analyse various cultural processes, employ current research strategies, and effectively put their knowledge into practice.
The faculty’s staff are leading Russian academics and practitioners from various cultural fields, as well as invited foreign specialists. Students receive a modern education in the humanities, as well as thorough language preparation, which allows them to find extensive professional opportunities upon graduation. Students are given the opportunity to conduct research and gain practical experience at major private and public establishments.
Our strengths:
1. Interdisciplinary approach
We study the humanities alongside other academic fields so that students can apply their skills in various areas.
2. International cooperation
We maintain active international ties, which allows students to undertake internships and study abroad, as well as broaden their outlook and cultural experiences.
3. Research
We encourage and support student participation in research projects. This gives them an opportunity to apply their knowledge in practice and make a contribution to the development of the humanities.
Our graduates pursue careers in public and commercial organisations and various types of mass media. They also implement their own media, cultural, social, and educational projects.
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Publications
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Book
Women and Martyrdom in Stalinist War Cinema: Russia's Eternal Quest for Messianism
This monograph examines representations of women and martyrdom in Soviet war cinema of the Stalin era through an analysis of eight fictional films made between 1941 and 1953, that is from the German invasion of the USSR to the end of Stalin’s regime. It challenges the narrative maintaining that traditional gender differences were radically undone within Stalinist political culture, by demonstrating the extent to which cinematic gender roles were deeply rooted in the Russian Orthodox religious tradition.
The findings of this monograph contribute to the key discourses on Soviet modernity which concur that Stalinist policies were not coherently shaped by Marxist-Leninist ideology, but rather by particularistic traits, above all, traditional Russian Orthodox values. This book examines the female and martyrdom theme as mediator between, on the one hand, ideal female heroism and patriotic duty, and on the other hand, the everyday responsibilities of Soviet women as citizens and as family members. This study sheds new light on the impact of Russian cultural heritage on the Stalinist Ideological State Apparatuses, revealing strong connections between Russian particularism and Soviet universalism.
Mozhgan Samadi is Associate Professor at the HSE University, Moscow. She received her PhD from the University of Manchester, UK. Her main research interests include state-nation relations, women studies, religious studies, and cinema studies in Russia and the Middle East.
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2024.
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Article
Cyber-moral panic and language: criminalisation of Arabic in Turkish social media from 1999 to 2024
This study examines the moral panic surrounding Arabic in Turkey, drawing on 18,343 comments from a popular online platform between 1999 and 2024 to reveal widespread perceptions of Arabic as a threat to linguistic unity.
Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development. 2024.
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Book chapter
Are Hidden-Variable Theories for Pilot-Wave Systems Possible?
Recently it was shown that certain fluid-mechanical ‘pilot-wave’ systems can strikingly mimic a wide range of quantum properties, including single particle diffraction and interference, quantization of angular momentum etc. How far does this analogy go? The ultimate test of quantumness of such systems is a Bell-test. Here the premises of the Bell inequality are re-investigated for particles accompanied by a pilot-wave, or more generally by a resonant ‘background’ field. We find that two of these premises, namely outcome independence and measurement independence, may not be generally valid when such a background is present. Under this assumption the Bell inequality is possibly (but not necessarily) violated. A class of hydrodynamic Bell experiments is proposed that can test this claim. Such a Bell test on fluid systems can provide a wealth of new insights on the different loopholes for Bell’s theorem. Finally, it is shown that certain properties of background-based theories can be illustrated in Ising spin-lattices.
In bk.: Advances in Pilot Wave Theory: From Experiments to Foundations. Vol. 344. Springer, 2024. Ch. 11. P. 161-187.
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Working paper
You shall know a piece by the company it keeps. Chess plays as a data for word2vec models
In this paper, I apply linguistic methods of analysis to non-linguistic data, chess plays, metaphorically equating one with the other and seeking analogies. Chess game notations are also a kind of text, and one can consider the records of moves or positions of pieces as words and statements in a certain language. In this article I show how word embeddings (word2vec) can work on chess game texts instead of natural language texts. I don't see how this representation of chess data can be used productively. It's unlikely that these vector models will help engines or people choose the best move. But in a purely academic sense, it's clear that such methods of information representation capture something important about the very nature of the game, which doesn't necessarily lead to a win.arxiv.org. Computer Science. Cornell University, 2024