Richard S. Wortman is Professor Emeritus at Columbia University. He is author of “The Development of a Russian Legal Consciousness” (Chicago, 1976) and Scenarios of Power: Myth and Ceremony in the Russian Monarchy” (2 vols. Princeton, 1995–2000). Both books have also appeared as Russian translations, which was awarded the George L. Mosse prize of the American Historical AssociationEfim Etkind prize of the St. Petersburg European University for the best western work on Russian culture and literature.

Roland Theis is General Secretary of the CDU in Saarland and spokesperson for a fraction of the CDU on European politics of the Landtag. 

Kiril Ilyinsky spoke of the importance of models in finance and their role in financial initiatives as well as whether or not we should be blaming these models for the systematic financial crisis. He also discussed who supports such models, how bubbles are formed from these models and how they can be used for self interest. 

Conference program (in Russian) 

In this context “setting about it” relates not only to the PhD but, in the first instance, to choosing a path once finishing a Master’s degree. It also relates to one’s life and career, choosing a pathway and which one will lead to the greatest success.

EUSP Gender Studies Program, with the sponsorship of Novartis International AG, hosted an international seminar, dedicated to the fifteenth anniversary of the program

The division of Russian and universal history in the 19th century between university departments brought with it a whole range of consequences. It is with these consequences that this paper is interested. Both subjects were in constant, if differing, contact in the spheres of teaching, research and published material.

Serge Schmemann, a writer (winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1991) and editorial page editor at the International Herald Tribune 

The aim of the School is to disseminate new knowledge and results of current research in Risk Management, Insurance, Finance and related fields using mathematical models as analytical tools. The target group is scientists, students and practitioners from Russia and other ex-Soviet countries although people from the rest of the world may join this School as well. 

Dr Lorenzo Chiesa - Reader in Modern European Thought (University of Kent, UK). His research interests are in the area of contemporary French thought; contemporary Italian thought and culture; Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis; Marxist theory. 

Jonathan Fanton, Director of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (1999-2009), President of the New School for Social Research in New York (1982-1999) and member of the EUSP’s International Advisory Board.

This lecture coincides with the release of Dr. Shmelev’s latest publication “Ecological Economics: Sustainability in Practise”, which examines the problems of sustainable development at macro and regional levels as well as the methodology for an analysis of ecological and economical interplay and ecological economical applications.

Conference program (pdf 145KB) 

 

This talk partly continued the discussion, which started in October 2011 at the conference “Contemporary Society’s Demand for Knowledge of the Humanities” 

 

Alexander Etkind explained how to construct a successful (both academically and financially) project, tied to a knowledge of the humanities, how to relocate to Cambridge, receive a grant and be successful in the academic world. Alexander Etkind is Professor of Russian Literature and History of Russian Culture at King’s College, Cambridge. He is Director of the European research project “Memory at War”

Alexei Larionov works for the State Hermitage Museum (since 1984) and is currently Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Western European art and Curator of Pre-Eighteenth Century Dutch, Flemish and German Artworks. His main interests are Dutch art of the 15th-16th centuries, the artwork of Rubens and the history of collections of paintings by Old Masters in Russia.

Alexei Kudrin's speech (pdf 55KB) 

Professor Graham is a leading academician of Russian and Soviet science who, for many years, has been involved in research in the area of the history of science (STS approach). He is the author of Science in Russia and the Soviet Union (1993), The Ghost of the Executed Engineer: Technology and the Fall of the Soviet Union (1993), What We Have Learned About Science and Technology from the Russian Experience (1998),  Naming Infinity: A True Story of Religious Mysticism and Mathematical Creativity (with Jean-Michel Kantor) (2009).