The European University at St. Petersburg (EUSP) is pleased to welcome Christopher Mouravieff-Apostol, Senior Vice-President of Banque Pictet & Cie and descendent of the celebrated Decembrist family, as part of its distinguished lecture series.  

Through the lens of the Cold War, jazz in the Soviet Union appears as a struggle between conservative party bosses and a rebellious youth striving for freedom and democracy. Michel Abesser’s talk addresses Soviet jazz culture and debates after 1953 and argues for a more complex understanding of its protagonists, discourses and practices. Such a focus can expand our ideas of youth, social stratification after Stalin’s death, and the hybridity between professional and amateur culture.

Women in Russia and Turkey face pervasive discrimination. Only a small percentage dare to challenge their mistreatment in court. Facing domestic police and judges who often refuse to recognize discrimination, a tiny minority of activists have exhausted their domestic appeals and then turned to their last hope: the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). The ECtHR is widely regarded as the most effective international human rights court in existence. Russian citizens whose rights have been violated at home have brought tens of thousands of cases to the ECtHR in the last 20 years.

The Month of Energy: ENERPO Open Lectures Series Current trends and challenges of Russian energy politics In March 2019, the ENERPO Research Center on energy policy from the European University at St. Petersburg launches “the Month of Energy”.

The European University at St. Petersburg (EUSP) is pleased to welcome Ivan Pictet, Senior Partner of Pictet & Cie (1982–2010), as part of its distinguished lecture series. Founded in 1805 when Geneva was under Napoleon’s rule, the Pictet Group today is one of the leading independent asset and wealth managers in Europe with close to 500 BILLION Swiss Franc (CHF) assets under management.

Venue: Golitsyn Hall in the Golitsyn Loft (20, Fontanka river embankment, St. Petersburg) During the month of March 2019, the ENERPO Research Center at the European University of St. Petersburg organizes a Series of Open Lectures — "THE MONTH OF ENERGY".

Venue: Freedom (7, Kazanskaya street, St. Petersburg, 2nd floor) During the month of March 2019, the ENERPO Research Center at the European University of St. Petersburg organizes a Series of Open Lectures — "THE MONTH OF ENERGY".

Venue: Golitsyn Hall in the Golitsyn Loft (20, Fontanka river embankment, St. Petersburg) During the month of March 2019, the ENERPO Research Center at the European University of St. Petersburg organizes a Series of Open Lectures — "THE MONTH OF ENERGY". 

Venue: Freedom (7, Kazanskaya street, St. Petersburg, 2nd floor) During the month of March 2019, the ENERPO Research Center at the European University of St. Petersburg organizes a Series of Open Lectures — "THE MONTH OF ENERGY".

In Sweden in the 1930´s, legislation was introduced to promote access to contraceptives and abortion. It was followed by a decrimininalization of homosexual contacts, and the introduction of sexuality education in schools. Critical voices in Sweden and in other countries could describe these reforms as a sexual revolution from above, governed by the state.

Congratulations to EUSP Department of History graduate Konstantin Godunov on the successful defense of his dissertation for the degree of candidate of sciences in history. The defense took place on January 29, 2019 at the St. Petersburg Institute of History, Russian Academy of Sciences. The dissertation is titled: “Prazdnik 7 Noiabria v politicheskoi zhizni Sovetskoi Rossii epokhi Grazhdanskoi voiny (1918–1920 gg.) [ The November 7 Holiday in the Political Life of Soviet Russia during the Civil War (1918–1920)]”.

"UNEQUAL CITIES: self-selection, matching,and the distribution of income" is a joint paper with K.Behrens, The Universite du Quebec a Montreal.

European University at St. Petersburg (EUSP) invites bachelor and master degree students, researchers,  journalists, and everyone interested in Russian Studies to learn more about history, culture and the modern lifestyle in Russia at our four-week summer school.

European University at St. Petersburg (EUSP) invites bachelor and master degree students, researchers,  journalists, and everyone interested in Russian Studies to learn more about history, culture and the modern lifestyle in Russia at our four-week summer school.

The lecture is cancelled. We are sorry for the inconvinience.  

Joint paper: Aleksandra Lukina (Postdoctoral Associate at Cornell University) and Lawrence Blume (Goldwin Smith Professor of Economics and Professor of Information Science at Cornell University).

The defence of the doctoral thesis “Architectures of Life-Building in the Twentieth Century: Russia, Germany, Sweden” took place at the Södertörn University, Stockholm on December 7, 2018. Department of Aesthetics. The opponent: Thordis Arrhenius, Associate Professor, School of Architecture, Royal Institute of Technology, KTH, Stockholm. Link to the full text: http://sh.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A1263164&dswid=-7863

Dynamic stochastic economic models normally build on the assumption of time-invariant preferences, technology and laws of motions for exogenous variables. We relax this assumption and consider a class of infinite-horizon nonstationary models in which parameters can follow both deterministic and stochastic trends: the former trends take the form of anticipated shifts and drifts, and the latter trends take the form of Markov process with time-varying transition probabilities.

After the great success of Viagra, pharmaceutical companies have set a new goal: the "female Viagra", i.e. a pill for hypoactive sexual desire disorder (HSDD), the most commonly diagnosed female sexual dysfunction. Each subsequent proposal for the treatment of low desire showed the process of disease mongering in all its glory and simultaneous attempts to strengthen the hypotheses about its biological basis: depending of the drug manufacturer HSDD was supposed to be due to androgen deficiency, disordered pelvic blood circulation, or neurotransmitters imbalance.

The seminar is organized by the multidisciplinary research project ‘Between Normal and Abnormal – Cultural meanings of Dementia and Old Age in Finnish and Russian Cultures’ (DemOldCult) funded by Kone Foundation, Finland. View and download the program