On June 28, the Ninth Arbitration Court of Appeal in Moscow reviewed the EUSP appeal and ordered to leave the previous decision in force. This was the last act in our lawsuit against Rosobrnadzor.

Though empirical literature on the effects of export incentives for domestic export is very rich, export incentives’ effects for third countries' export have not yet been examined empirically. This paper sheds some light on this issue. According to existing theory, effects of domestic export incentives for third countries' exporters can be both negative (due to increased competition) and positive (due to input-output linkages in global value chains (GVCs)).

Following on Wednesday's talk, this lecture will focus on the contribution of nationalism to the emotional repertoire of humanity. At the core of the argument will be the claim that self-realization, including its central venues and expressions such as love and happiness, was such a contribution and that these emotions, contrary to what is generally believed, are therefore functions of nationalism and uniquely modern.

The talk will focus on the nature of nationalism and its spread, between the 16th and the 20th centuries, within its original monotheistic civilization. This will be contrasted with the particular dynamics of the globalization of national consciousness in the last decades, as it breaks through these borders and penetrates into China and India.

Since his rise to power in 1999, Vladimir Putin has crafted a public persona whose appeal relies on a clearly constructed larger-than-life masculinity. Perceived by some as the return of charismatic leadership to post-Soviet Russia and by others as pure camp, Putin’s masculinity functions as the cornerstone of a gender order that paradoxically seeks to naturalize the binary opposition between male and female through artifice and exaggeration.

Higher education in the United States has seen a dramatic expansion throughout the last century. The lecture, while intended for a broad audience, will offer an overview of the US Higher Education (HE) system from an economist’s perspective. It will undertake an analysis of HE’s operation as a marketplace. I will firstly survey the main distinctive features of an American university (admission, students’ choice of specialization, funding, tuition, placement, etc.).

In my presentation I will discuss how the official attitudes to complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), and particularly to folk healing have been changing in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan since proclamation of their independence. Initially, these countries, similar to the other newly independent Central Asian states, strove to confirm their legitimacy through referring to the richness of their cultural heritage, including traditional medical knowledge and practices.

The annual "TOP 50.The Most Famous Persons in Saint Petersburg" awards competition is held by the Sobaka.ru magazine for the thirteenth time. It introduces the heroes of our time - those people who are changing our city for the better. Raising awareness is the main mission of the awards, and each nominee is a leader in their sphere of activity.

The American Association of University Professors was founded in 1915 to defend the academic freedom and general professional standing of college and university faculty members. It is widely recognized as the authoritative voice on questions of academic freedom at all levels of higher education in the U.S. In the early 1970s the AAUP embraced trade union representation and today about 3/4 of its 50,000 members are in union chapters.

On December 20, 1768, as Russian plans to launch a naval expedition into the eastern Mediterranean began to materialize, Catherine II wrote to her envoy in London, describing how her tendency to build “Spanish castles” had been awakened. While, in some ways, idealistic, Catherine’s Greek project produced several tangible successes in the early 1770s. Following the victory at Chesma, in the summer of 1770, the Russian navy established firm control over the Aegean Sea for the remainder of the war.

This presentation introduces the initial findings of my new research project on cultural debates about vaccines. The paper focuses on the debates surrounding the connection between the Pandemrix vaccine used in the mass vaccinations in Europe during the 2009 H1N1 pandemic and the reported increase in narcolepsy among vaccinated children especially in Finland, Sweden, Ireland and the UK.

This talk will reflect on the key themes of my book, Population Genetics and Belonging (Palgrave Macmillan 2018). I explore how population genetics has emerges as a means of enacting belonging in contemporary technoscientific societies. I will reflect on the contradictions that underlie the project of discovering genetic roots, focusing on the tensions between global, national, communal and personal genetic belonging. I argue that genetic roots are not discovered – they are enacted through a range of technological, discursive, affective and material practices.

European University at St. Petersburg was listed among the top 151-200 universities in the world according to the QS World University Rankings by Subject for Sociology.

Following the steps of Elon Musk, groups of enthusiasts appear in Russia to explore space and master space technologies on an amateur basis. The amateurs attempt to create, test, and implement functioning artifacts that also containt performative elements.

In this work we consider a concept of sparse rationality (developed recently by Gabaix, 2014) as a selection tool in a model with multiple equilibria. Under sparse rationality paying attention to all possible variables is costly, and the agents could choose to over- or under-emphasize particular variables, even fully excluding some of them.

Yves Cabannes: University College London, Development Planning Unit, Emeritus. Participatory budgeting (PB) has been a major innovation in participatory governance worldwide, with more than 3,000 experiences listed across 40 countries. PB has also diversified over its 30 years, with many contemporary experiments (referred to as PBs) only tangentially related to the original project to “radically democratize democracy”.

The issue includes articles by Antonio Negri, Merab Mamardashvili, Evgeni Pavlov, Pascal Sévérac, Maria Chehonadskih, Andrey Maidansky, Evald Ilyenkov, Giuliano Vivaldi, Alex Levant, Artemy Magun, Keti Chukhrov, Alexei Penzin, Valery Podoroga.

European University at St. Petersburg has prepared an analytical report "How does Rosobrnadzor Work: Analysis of Open Data on Supervisory Activities in the Sphere of Higher Education" (download PDF in Russian). To what extent is the logic of actions of the supervisory agency consistent with the task of improving the quality of education and science?

EUSP Political Science and Sociology Department graduate Pavel Kononenko defended his dissertation "Vliianie glav sub"ektov Rossiiskoi Federatsii na evoliutsiiu institutov regional'noi i mestnoi vlasti [The Influence of the Heads of Constituent Territories of the Russian Federation on the Evolution of Regional and Local Power Institutions]" at the National Research University Higher School of Economics on January 29, 2018. His dissertation supervisor at HSE was Dr. Andrei Shcherbak.

EUSP Department of History alumna Daria Svirina has received the award of the German Historical Institute Moscow for the best graduation thesis. The work was titled "Germanness" in the Memoirs of Russian Germans Deported to the Krasnoyarsk Krai." Congratulations to Daria on her achievement!