The school is intended for pre-degree students with different areas of specialization (historians, biologists, geographers, ecologists, engineers, sociologists, economists, journalists etc.) who are interested in the historical and social aspects of the interaction of man, nature and technology.

Annual conference, organized by the Department of Economics (EUSP) and St Petersburg Institute for Economics and Mathematics (RAS) participated by young researchers, PhD students and senior years students.

The conference continues debating on the phenomenon of diversity of thinking, stimulated by the monograph of Boris Firsov “Diversity of Thinking in the USSR 1940-1060s. History, theory and practices”. 

U.S. Consul General at Saint-Petersburg Sheila Gwaltney delivered an honored guest lecture

Presentation by Giorgio Sola (University of Genoa) "Theorethical paradygms of social sciences in Europe" and Monica Penco (University of Genoa) "Theory and practice of deliberative democracy".

Presentation by Vladimir Berelovich (Paris, Geneva) within the framework of the Open research seminar of the Art History Department.

John Urry (Lancaster University, UK) is a famouse sociologist, professor of Sociology and Director of "Centre for Mobilities Research" (CeMoRe). His most recent research interests are in the changing nature of mobility.

Beginning of the new academic year. Ceremonial meeting and celebration

Lecture by Carlo Ginzburg (University of California, Los Angeles - UCLA)

Presentation by Martin Jay (University of California at Berkeley). Prof. Martin Jay is most famous for his path-breaking work on the Frankfurt school (which, as the social constructivists would say, made it what it is now) - the book "Dialectical Imagination" (1973).

Philippe Descola (EHESS, College de France) gave a talk

Leonid Gozman (RAC "UES of Russia") delivered a public lecture

Eugenii Chichvarkin, the chairman of the board of directors of the joint-stock company “Euroset”, gave a public lecture.

We would like to congratulate Elena Bogdanova, graduate of the Department of Political Science and Sociology, for her victory in the International Sociological Association’s Sixth Worldwide Competition for Junior Sociologists with the paper “How Utopia Came True: The Baikal-Amur Mainline Construction was the Happiest Time in My Life.”

  Professor of the Political Theory of Democracy and Dean of the Department of Political Science and Sociology Artemy Magun has published a monograph in the series Political Theorgy and Contemporary Philosophy at Bloomsbury Publishing.

  As a part of the EUSP’s 7th annual conference “Exhibition of the Academic Research Achievements,” a mini-conference titled “Civil Society in Russia and the Contemporary World: Social Movements, Institutions, and Moods” took place from November 7th-9th. A number of major researchers from Russia, Europe, and the US presented at the conference.

  A seminar jointly organized by the EUSP and the Regional Public Organization “Council of Rectors of Institutions of Higher Education in Saint Petersburg” took place in the White Hall. As part of the seminar, Russian and American specialists on university endowments presented the results of joint research carried out in recent years by NACUBO and the Common Fund for Endowment in the U.S. Listed below are some of the seminar materials:

  Louise McReynolds is a professor at the University of North Carolina (USA) and now an affiliate researcher with the History Department at the EUSP. Her main research interests are middle class and leisure culture in Russia during the 19th century and pre-revolutionary period.

  The presentation was given by Birgit Hansl, lead economist and coordinator of the World Bank for Economic Policy in Russia, Alvaro Gonzalez, lead economist in the Department of Development for the Private and Financial Sector, and Sergei Ulatov, a senior economist in the Department of Economics and Politics.

The Foundation’s executive director John Ernst (USA) participated in the conference along with Mr. Kenneth S. Kaufman. In his presentation, Mr. Kaufman emphasized the fact that there is a strong intellectual component at the core of all successful alumni associations.