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Book chapter
Between Geopolitical Ambition, Energy Nationalism, and Capacity Deficit: Russia’s Thorny Relationship with Climate Change

Sergey V. Kostelyanets.

In bk.: BRICS and Climate Change: Balancing National Interests, National Development Goals and Global Environmental Sustainability. Singapore: Springer, 2024. Ch. 3. P. 67-96.

Working paper
Popular Music as Cultural Heritage: Memory of the Leningrad Rock Club in St. Petersburg

Kolesnik A., Rusanov A.

Working Papers of Humanities. WP. Издательский дом НИУ ВШЭ, 2021. No. 205.

Tag "Reporting an event" – News

Trade, Jews, and the Soviet Economy in Western Belorussia, 1939–1941

Trade, Jews, and the Soviet Economy in Western Belorussia, 1939–1941
The article by Yanina Karpenkina in Holocaust and Genocide Studies is out

The new book "Другая Россия: Исследования по истории русской эмиграции" by Oleg Budnitskii is about to appeared

The new book "Другая Россия: Исследования по истории русской эмиграции" by Oleg Budnitskii is about to appeared
"Drugaja Rossija: Issledovanija po istorii russkoj jemigracii"

Presentation by Ben Eklof in IGITI

Presentation by Ben Eklof in IGITI
On March 12, a seminar of IGITI Centre for University Studies was held. IGITI Chief Research Fellow and Professor of History at Indiana University Ben Eklof presented a paper "Seeing Like a State? Local Governance and State-Society Relations in Provincial Russia Through the Lens of the School". See the abstract.

Alexandra Kolesnik took part in a conference on Russian popular music in Berlin

Alexandra Kolesnik took part in a conference on Russian popular music in Berlin
On February 24, IGITI senior research fellow Alexandra Kolesnik participated in a conference "The industry of provocation and protest: contemporary Russian popular music", which was held in the Humboldt University of Berlin.

International conference 'Biological Concepts, Models, and Metaphors in Social and Human Sciences'

The Poletayev Institute for Theoretical and Historical Studies in the Humanities (IGITI) held an international conference on 29-30 October 2015 on ‘Biological Concepts, Models, and Metaphors in Social and Human Sciences’. This meeting continues a series of international workshops and conferences organized by the Center for the History of Ideas and Sociology of Knowledge in 2013-2014. This year conference focuses on persistent yet troubled relations between social and life sciences, first of all biology, from the early period of their development in the mid-19th century until today. 

How Are Human Sciences and Sociology and the Humanities Related? The Debate Continues

The Poletayev Institute for Theoretical and Historical Studies in the Humanities (IGITI) held an international conference on 29-30 October 2015 on ‘Biological Concepts, Models, and Metaphors in Social and Human Sciences’. For two days, Russian, European and American researchers discussed the relations between social sciences and the humanities and various life sciences. This topic arises largely in the light of the recent boom in genetics, medicine and biology which have led academics to reconsider previous concepts of boundaries and connections between disciplines.

Extramural School ‘Forced Labour during WWII: Analysis of Documents and Exchange of International Experiences’

Extramural School ‘Forced Labour during WWII: Analysis of Documents and Exchange of International Experiences’
From October 1 – 7th, 2015, HSE students and graduates in history participated in an extramural school headed by Professor Oleg Budnitsky on ‘Forced Labour during WWII: Analysis of Documents and International Exchange of Experience’ in Berlin, Germany.

Alexander Kamenskii Presented Reports in USA

Alexander Kamenskii, Head of the School of History took part in the conference ‘KOLL-MANIA. Celebrating the scholarship of Nancy Shields Kollmann’ that was held on October 8-10 in Stanford.  Alexander Kamenskii presented the report ‘A Story of Criminal Love in the 18th Century’ – a case study based on a lawsuit found in the archive of Moscow office on zemstvo affairs.

Articles by HSE Professors Published in ‘Word and Image in Russian History’ Collection

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.

From Ancient Inscriptions to Blogs: Different Disciplines’ View on Ego Texts

HSE has held its post-graduate humanities summer school 'History in the First Person: From Antiquity to Our Time'. The summer school was dedicated to texts written or recorded in the first person, as well as to various methods for analysing them. The school’s organizers and participants spoke with the HSE news service about what ego texts are, how representatives of different disciplines work with them, and how French methodology differs from Russian.
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