The report will explore the encounter between psychoanalysis and philosophy at the point where the two seem to be the most incompatible. Sex (and psychoanalytic theory of sexuality) is something that philosophy usually doesn't know what to do with; sex is the question usually left out in even the most friendly philosophical appropriations of Lacan and his concepts. And ontology (as since of pure being) is something that psychoanalysis doesn't know what to do with, or is highly critical about.

Are Copycats Subversive?Strategy-31, the Russian Runs, the Immortal Regiment, and the Transformative Potential of Non-Hierarchical Movements

In this paper we recall the history of Jubilee debt cancellations, emphasizing what their social purpose was at that time. We note that it would not be possible to copy that procedure exactly nowadays, primarily because most debt/credit relationships are intermediated via financial institutions, such as banks, insurance companies, etc., rather than by governments or wealthy families directly.

Central Banking: Past, Present and Future Financial crisis of 2008-2009 and unconventional measures of monetary policy following it raised a number of questions related to the role and functions a Central bank should play in an economy. How will the set of monetary policy tools changes? Which factors will influence monetary policy most in the future? What are the challenges Central banks should get ready to? These and other factors will be discussed by the roundtable participants.   Programme 16:00 – 16:50

EUSP graduate Evgenii Vladimirov's final thesis won the first prize at the Competition for Young Economists 2017 for the best graduation thesis in economics organized by the Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy among graduates of economics schools and departments at higher educational institutions in Russia. More than 300 young economists who defended their theses in 2017 participated in the contest.

Report: Seminar "Islam and the City", European University of Saint Petersburg, 14 December 2017, originally posted on the website of The Netherlands In

The 19th meeting of the Friends and Trustees of the EUSP Endowment Fund was held at the Moscow City Golf Club on December 14. In addition to the management, trustees and professors of the university, the meeting was attended by representatives of Russian businesses, as well as public and political figures: presidential aide Andrei Fursenko, Governor of the Novgorod Oblast Andrei Nikitin, heads of the Boris Yeltsin Foundation Tatiana Yumasheva and Valentin Yumashev, chairman of the Coordination Council of the Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO Alexander Voloshin.

EUSP Anthropology Department graduate Evgeniia Zakharova defended her dissertation "Muzhskie kvartal'nye soobshchestva Tbilisi: struktura i funktsionirovanie [Street-Corner Societies of Tbilisi: Structure and Functioning]" at the Dissertation Council of the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography of the Russian Academy of Sciences “Kunstkamera” on December 18, 2017. Evgeniia Zakharova was awarded the academic degree of candidate of sciences in history. The dissertation was written under the supervision of EUSP Professor Ilia Utekhin.

EUSP Political Science and Sociology Department graduate Ivan Grigoriev defended his dissertation "Transformatsiia institutov sudebnoi vlasti v protsesse konsolidatsii gibridnogo politicheskogo rezhima (na primere Konstitutsionnogo suda Rossiiskoi Federatsii) [Transformation of Judiciary Institutions in the Process of Consolidating a Hybrid Political Regime (on the Example of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation)]" at the National Research University Higher School of Economics on December 19, 2017.

EUSP Anthropology Department graduate Daria Dubovka defended her dissertation "Povsednevnye distsiplinarnye praktiki i religioznaia refleksiia v pravoslavnykh zhenskikh monastyriakh postsovetskoi Rossii: etnograficheskie aspekty [Everyday Disciplinary Practices and Religious Reflection in Orthodox Women's Monasteries of Post-Soviet Russia: Ethnographic Aspects]" at the Dissertation Council of the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography of the Russian Academy of Sciences “Kunstkamera” on December 18, 2017.

EUSP has worked with a group of friendly licensing experts and prepared an action plan to make our building and our licensing documents over the top ideal in terms of all conceivable requirements.European University at St. Petersburg intends to file the documents for a new license in the second half of February 2018.

A new issue of the Interdisciplinary Journal of Siberian Studies Sibirica "Mobility and Infrastructure" was published.

EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY AT ST PETERSBURGENERPO RESEARCH CENTERCLEAN ENERGY FORUM 2017 Clean energy for sustainable development Second international forum CLEAN ENERGY will take place on November 30, 2017 in the Hotel Indigo in St. Petersburg. On September 25, 2015, the UN General Assembly adopted a set of goals for sustainable development to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure prosperity for all.

On November 22, 2017 the Coordinating Committee of the Russian Presidential grants contest in support of civil society development has announced the results of the second contest campaign of 2017.

The Federal Arbitration Court of the North-Western district upheld the decisions of the primary and appellate courts regarding the unilateral termination of the lease agreement for the Small Marble Palace by the Committee for Property Relations. Ultimately, the termination of the agreement has been considered legal.

The eleventh Exhibition of the Academic Research Achievements (VDNKh) will take place at EUSP on November, 17th-18th, 2017. Languages: English, Russian   DAY ONE: November, 17th 09:30 – 10:00 Registration (2 floor)

The organizing committee of RBC Saint Petersburg Awards has announced that EUSP Rector Nikolai Vakhtin (and with him the entire University

Yulia Raskina, EUSP Department of Economics, has published her article "Convergence or Divergence? Life Expectancy Patterns in Post-communist Countries, 1959–2010" (co-authored with Christopher J. Gerry and Daria Tsyplakova) in the Social Indicators Research journal (impact factor 1.743).   Abstract

Place: New EUSP Office, Gagarinskaya St., 6/1, lit.A (the entrance from Shpalernaya St., 1), second floor, room 201, Conference-hall.  

EUSP Anthropology Department graduate Iuliia Andreeva defended her dissertation “Proekty preobrazovaniia mira v novom religioznom dvizhenii "Anastasiia": antropologicheskie aspekty religii N'iu-Eidzh v sovremennoi Rossii [Projects of the Transformation of the World in the New Religious Movement “Anastasia”: Anthropological Aspects of the New Age Religion in Modern Russia]” at the Dissertation Council of the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography of the Russian Academy of Sciences “Kunstkamera” on Septem