Professor Josephson - is a well known specialist on the history of science and technology in 20th century and on the Soviet history More information on Prof. Josephson's list of publications can be found here

The sixth special meeting of the Friends and Trustees of the EUSP Endowment Fund took place in the State Council Hall of the State Hermitage Museum.  Rector, Vice-Rectors and professors of the University hosted the representatives of corporate donors and partners of the EUSP.  Member of the Board of Trustees, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation, Alexei Kudrin, greeted those present; he was followed by the Chairman of the EUSP Board of Trustees, Director of the State Hermitage Museum, Mikhail Piotrovsky, and Rector of EUSP, Oleg Kharkhordin.

Kirill Rogov is a political scientist, political analyst, columnist for “Novaya Gazeta” and Russian Newsweek, author of articles in Pro et Contra, blogger for InLiberty.ru, and frequent participant in programs on Echo of Moscow Radio Station, presented his analysis of cycles of political and economic development in Post-Soviet Russia and his view of perspectives of the return of Russia in the 2010s to the agenda of liberal reforms. 

The 4th EUSP conference "The Exhibition of EUSP Academic Achievements". As a part of the conference Mary McAuley,  the Honorary Doctor of EUSP, gave a talk: “The Map isn’t of My Homeland: Thoughts of a Roving Scholar” Conference program (pdf 25KB)  

The lecture was devoted to a current state and specifics of the Russian insurance market. Hannes Chopra noted weak penetration of insurance services into the Russian economy, which is harmful for the economy growth rate. The Russian economy is pushed backward by any catastrophic event due to the fact that in each case losses are covered by the federal budget. Mr.

Oleg Lyapustin, the Deputy Chairman of the St. Petersburg City Property Committee, shared his views on the possibilities for job placement, and career growth in the St. Petersburg Government

Professor Kollman is a famous specialistin the history of the Russian Middle Ages and the beginning of the New Age, and is the author of the books "Kinship and Politics: The Making of the Russian Political System, 1345 - 1547" (Stanford UP, 1987) and "By Honor Bound: State and Society in Early Modern Russia" (Cornell UP, 1999), translated in Russian as «Soedinennye chest'ju: Gosudarstvo i obschestvo v Rossii rannego novogo vremeni» (Moscow, 2001).

A workshop on Science and Technology Studies (STS) participated by the prominenent sociologists and historians of science Harry Collins (Cardiff University), Andrew Pickering (University of Exeter), Trevor Pinch (Cornell University) Seminar program (pdf 28KB)

Graeme Wheeler (Advisor and Independent Non-Executive Director of the World Bank Group) and Hans-Joerg Rudloff (Barclays Capital Chairman) gave lecture united by the common topic. Graeme Wheeler presented a macroeconomic view to this issue. He elaborated on the types of international capital flows and discussed main factors determining their directions and intensity.

 

As a part of a series of the "Career Development" seminar Ivan Oskolkov, Director of the Corporate Governance Department of the Economy Ministry of Russia shared his views on the the career options in the federal government structures

 

In comparison with its Western counterpart, the architecture of Russian classicism has only partly been included in world architectural historiography. The reason for this is the range of social, historiographical, and political factors, which are responsible for the peculiarities of the environment of the development of Russian classicism. In contrast, Western European neoclassicism produced a far more transparent paradigm, well-thought out in the both the general cultural sphere and in professional contexts.

Maksim Krongauz is a Doctor of Philology, professor, Head of the Russian Language Department, and Director (and one of the founders) of the Institute of Linguistics at the Russian State University for the Humanities. He graduated from the Philology Department of Moscow State University. He specializes in problems of the semiotics of language and culture, Russian grammar, theories of dialogue, political discourse, and humor. In recent years he has concentrated on changes in contemporary Russian language.

The workshop is aimed at promoting the use of advanced economic theory in the field of natural resources, environment and growth.

Ruben Vardanian is Troika Dialog's Board Chairman and CEO and SKOLKOVO School of Management President.

 

Vera Milchina – a historian of Russian and French literature, candidate of philology, leading research fellow of the Institute of Higher Studies in Humanities, translator of French fiction, memoirs as well as historical and political texts. She was awarded the medal of French Academic Palm branch, the Leroy-Beaulieu prize for the best work about France and the Wasmacher’s award for the best translation from the French given by the French embassy in Moscow.

Professor Keenan has served as Associate Director (1973-1975) and then as Director (1976-1977) of Harvard's Russian Research Center, and as Director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies over a considerable period of time. He has also served as Director of The Dumbarton Oaks Research Library in Washington DC. Professor Keenan is the author of  a number of texts that contest the authenticity normally attributed to the Russian medieval period — “The Kurbskii-Groznyi Apocrypha: The Seventeenth-century Genesis of the 'Correspondence' Attributed to Prince A. M.