On April 3rd, the European University at St. Petersburg held a meeting with Alexei Mordashov, general director of the JSC “Severstal” and one of the leading figures on the list of Russian billionaires, according to Forbes Magazine. EUSP rector Oleg Kharkhordin presented the guest with a short biography, highlighting that Mordashov is a patriot of Cherepovets, where he still has an apartment.

Beginning in 1958 and until the late 1980s, students from the so-called “developing countries” studied in Soviet universities—in Moscow and Leningrad, as well as in Tashkent and Kharkov. These students benefited from the Soviet government’s ambitions to expand its influence in the new independent post-colonial states, but also experienced difficulties in everyday life in Soviet society.

On December 14th, MDM Professor of Financial Econometrics Hakan Eratalay gave a presentation as part of the EUSP Department of Economics’ research seminar. Professor Eratalay presented his report based on an article co-authored with Department of Economics graduate Vitaly Merso.

On November 23d, 2015 as part of the Res Publica Center’s regular seminar Carlo Taviani (German Historical Institute in Rome) delivered a lecture.

Original article: Web-magazine “Realnoe vremya” [“Real Time”] (in Russian) 

On November 14th, as part of the VDNH-9 conference, the “Arctic Social Sciences” and “Migration Studies” research groups held a session titled “Infrastructure, Migration and Mobility in the North: Das Sein bestimmt das Bewusstsein?” The session was devoted to the issues of mutual influence and adaptation of infrastructures and societies of different levels. The central discussion question was the following: how are infrastructures used and modified in accordance with the needs and interests of northern communities? This issue was examined in terms of migration and mobility in the North.

At 14:00 on 17 December 2015 in Room 414, the History Department will host a conversation with Anika Walke (Washington University in St. Louis). This discussion of oral history research in the Soviet Union will take place in Russian and English.

  On 10 December 2015, the International Graduate Student Workshop in Soviet History will meet at 18:00 in Room 414. We will discuss the work of Nicholas Bujalski (Ph.D. Candidate, Cornell University). In 1924, the Peter and Paul Fortress – that founding site of St. Petersburg, sacred burial ground of the imperial family, and dread prison of the Tsarist autocracy – was proclaimed a ‘Museum of the Revolution.’

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.

Time and Location: 3 December, 12:00-13:30h in Golden HallOrganizer: Department of Political Science and Sociology, STS Center, with Support of the Consulate General of the Netherlands.

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 November 14th, the session “Experts in Sexuality: Scientific, Legal, Everyday, and Economic Versions of Sex” was held as part of the VDNH-9 conference. Participants discussed discourses of power that form knowledge about sexuality in contemporary society.

The session “The Energy of Nature: Toward a New Philosophy of the Environment,” organized by the EUSP’s Department of Political Sciences and Sociology, took place on November 13th as part of the 9th VDNH conference. In his introductory remarks, EUSP Department of Political Sciences and Sociology dean Artemy Magun provided an overview of the history of the concept of “energy.” Its meaning has changed fundamentally over time, as have many of its key concepts.

On October 19th, as part of a Gender Studies program seminar, EUSP hosted a lecture by Laurie Essig (Middlebury College)

Latest opinion piece written by Grégory Stoupnitzky & Shamil Yenikeyeff (Organising Director, International Energy Center) for the Financial Times BeyondBRICS: Will Russia’s liberal technocrats restructure its oil industry?

On October 27, EUSP Provost Veljko Vujačić presented his new book, a comparative historical study of the fall of two states—the USSR and Yugoslavia to colleagues, students and university guests

On October 20th and 21st, representatives from universities participating in the 5-100 Project took part in a workshop titled “Methods for Introducing Shared Governance into Public Universities.” The research on the creation of a methodological basis for introducing elements of a participatory system into the university governance (shared governance) of Russian universities taking part in the 5-100 Project was conducted in the European University at St. Petersburg.

The IMARES program at the EUSP has opened its annual Workshop Series of public lectures this semester by hosting Dr. Ilya Yablokov, a Teaching Fellow in Russian Studies at the University of Leeds.

On November, 10th at 6.00 pm, IMARES Workshop series will host Akifumi SHIOYA in the Golden Hall Akifumi SHIOYA, PhD (2012) and assistant professor of University of Tsukuba (Japan), is currently working on the political and societal upheavals in the local society of Central Asia before and after its conquest by Imperial Russia, focusing on the development of irrigation and environmental changes.