Richard Taruskin, professor of University of California, Berkeley, is a musicologist, music historian, and critic who has written about the theory of performance, Russian music, fifteenth-century music, twentieth-century music, nationalism, the theory of modernism, and analysis.  As a choral conductor he directed the Columbia University Collegium Musicum. He played the viola da gamba with the Aulos Ensemble from the late seventies to the late eighties. He received various awards for his scholarship.

 

Dr. Tom G. Palmer is the Vice President for International Programs at the Atlas Economic Research Foundation. Previously he was Vice President for International Programs at the Cato Institute and Director of the Center for Promotion of Human Rights.  He is a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute and Director of Cato University, the Institute's educational arm. 

 

Gilles Favarel-Garrigues is a research fellow at CERI, political scientist, lecturer in Institute of Political Sciences (Paris). His current research deals with police change in Russia, crime and law-enforcement issues in post-communist Europe and international regulation of transnational economic and financial crime.

 

Robert Putnam is a political scientist and professor at Harvard University, well-known for his writings on civic engagement, civil society, and social capital, a concept of which he is probably the leading exponent. Putnam also developed the influential two-level game model that assumes international agreements will only be successfully brokered if they also result in domestic benefits.

Quentin Skinner is a Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge University. He is usually taken to be the head of one of two schools of conceptual historians (Anglo-American, or Cambridge school, another one being the Begriffsgeschichte approach associated with Reinhart Koselleck). Prof Skinner has published a lot on early modern European thought, starting with by new classic Foundations of Modern Political Thought (2 vols.

Dr. Jerrold Post is Professor of Psychiatry, Political Psychology and International Affairs and Director of the Political Psychology Program at The George Washington University.

Hans Joas heads the Max Weber Center for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies (University of Erfurt, Germany) and is currently a Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Studies in Berlin. Prof. Joas serves on the editorial boards of the leading sociological journals and is the author of such books as «The Creativity of Action» (University of Chicago Press, 1996) and «The Genesis of Values» (University of Chicago Press, 2000).

Eunice Blavaskunas (University of California) gave a presentation about discussions of future of Poland's Bialowieza Forest. The actors of numerous debates about Bialowieza Forest use the civilizational rhetorics and call images of traditional cultures, royal hunting pasts and also the more recent twentieth century logging past. Bialowieza Forest becomes a border point across the mythical boundary between East and West. Abstract

May 25,  5.00 - 8.00 pm Quentin Skinner, Cambridge University, Thomas Hobbes and the English Republic Dominique Colas, Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, An Icon of the Republic:Statues of Rampart-Crowned Women in Paris. May, 261.00 - 7.00 pm

Giorgio Agamben (University of Verona) delivered a lecture within the framework of Inderdisciplinary seminar of the Department of Political science and sociology

The joint seminar of the Department of Economics and the Center for Environmental and Technological History: presentation by Stanislav Shmelev (RSEE; The Open University, UK).

 

Lecture by professor George Selgin (West Virginia University)

V.A. Ryzhkov, S.V. Aleksashenko and V.L. Inozemtsev (Moscow) discussed political and economic aspects of crisis in Russia

Professor David Laitin (Stanford University) delivered a lecture.

Almira Usmanova, Professor of the Department of Social Sciences, European Humanities University (Vilnus), Director of the MA Program on Cultural Studies, gave a lecture

In the Conference Hall, EUSP, Mikhail Oseevsky, Vice-Governor of Saint-Petersburg, held a public lecture.