Daniel P. Todes has been awarded the History of Science Society’s 2015 Pfizer prize for Ivan Pavlov: A Russian Life in Science (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015).

16 December at 18.00 in the Golden Hall, Anika Walke (Washington University in St. Louis) will present at a joint meeting of the interdisciplinary seminar “Eurasia without Borders” and the Anthropology Department’s seminar “Transnationalism and Migration Studies.” The presentation will be in English, followed by discussion in Russian and English.

On October 14 at the European University, St. Petersburg held the “Oriental” research seminar hosted by TAIF Professorship in the History of the Muslim Peoples of Russia in collaboration with the seminar on the Anthropology of Religion.

On October 8, Alexey Miller, professor at the Department of History of the European University at St. Petersburg  presented his new book «Nationalizing Empires (Historical Studies in Eastern Europe and Eurasia)» sharing with the audience his vision of the nation state phenomenon.

The answer to this question was the main focus of Daniel Todes’ open seminar held on September 24, 2015 at the European University at St. Petersburg. A professor in the Department of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University (USA), author of the first biography of Ivan Pavlov and a visiting professor in the EUSP’s Department of History, Daniel Todes spoke about his experience studying the life and work of Ivan Pavlov and the examination of the last of Pavlov’s manuscripts, written (but never finished and never published) by the scientist in the last winter of his life in the Leningrad suburb of Koltushi.

On June 19th-20th, the European University at St. Petersburg and the St. Petersburg Institute of  History, Russian Academy of Sciences hosted an international conference titled “Issues in Reforming Russia at the Turn of the 19th-20th Centuries: On the 100th Year Anniversary of Sergei Witte’s Death” with support from Goznak.

On March 5th, Sanna Turoma, a senior research fellow at the Aleksanteri Institute of the University of Helsinki, visited EUSP. Professor Turoma gave a talk on the ‘spatial turn’ in Russian studies. In the history of the social sciences there have been three paradigmatic shifts: linguistic, cultural, and, finally, spatial. What possibilities will this spatial turn open up in the studies of Russia and the Soviet Union?

On May 29, Federico Romero, dean of the Department of History and Civilizations at the European University Institute in Florence, gave a lecture on new approaches to Cold War history.

Michele Espagne coined the term “cultural transfer” in the 1980s, becoming one of the founders of the transnational approach. The focus of his research interests is primarily the history of translation and the circulation of knowledge between France and Germany in the 19th century. He currently leads one of the research laboratories at the École Normale Supérieure (Paris) and the National Centre for Social Research in France (CNRS).

Two views on the nature of emotion exist amongst researchers, psychologists, and neurologists. One is that emotions are universal, the same in every culture, and do not change with time. The other, on the contrary, supposes that emotion is culturally specific—volatile and closely related to language and the symbolic codes of society in which it exists. The history of emotion is developing in line with the latter view.

On April 25-26 an international conference titled “After Stalin: The Late Soviet Personality” took place in EUSP. The conference brought together historians involved in research of Soviet subjectivity in various fields, including well-known experts like Anna Krylova, Susan Reed, Igal Halfin, Jochen Hellbeck, Benjamin Nathans, and Oleg Kharkhordin.

Conference program (pdf 145KB) 

 

  Conference program (pdf 156KB) Conference proceedings (pdf 1.3MB)  

The conference dealt with two memorable dates: the 150th anniversary of the emancipation of the serfs and the 130th anniversary of the assassination of Alexander II. Over the course of the conference, discussions were held on a range of vital questions about the history of Russia: the meaning of the Great Reforms for the fate of the country, the role of the individual in the process of modernization, and the influence of reforms in the life of the individual citizen.

Professor Josephson - is a well known specialist on the history of science and technology in 20th century and on the Soviet history More information on Prof. Josephson's list of publications can be found here

Professor Kollman is a famous specialistin the history of the Russian Middle Ages and the beginning of the New Age, and is the author of the books "Kinship and Politics: The Making of the Russian Political System, 1345 - 1547" (Stanford UP, 1987) and "By Honor Bound: State and Society in Early Modern Russia" (Cornell UP, 1999), translated in Russian as «Soedinennye chest'ju: Gosudarstvo i obschestvo v Rossii rannego novogo vremeni» (Moscow, 2001).

 

  Louise McReynolds is a professor at the University of North Carolina (USA) and now an affiliate researcher with the History Department at the EUSP. Her main research interests are middle class and leisure culture in Russia during the 19th century and pre-revolutionary period.

Within the framework of the Open seminar of the Department of History  Professor Claudio Sergio Nun Ingerflom of the French National Center for Scientific Research/National Scientific and Technical Research Council (Argentina) presented his paper