The Deputy Prime Minister - Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation, member of the EUSP Board of Trustees Alexei Kudrin and the Director of the State Hermitage Museum, Chairman of the EUSP Board of Trustees Mikhail Piotrovsky chaired the fifth special meeting of trustees and friends of the EUSP Endowment Fund which was held in the State Council hall of the Hermitage. Heads of Russian and foreign companies, as well as EUSP professors and staff attended the meeting. A short presentation of corporate funded professorships already established at the University was held.

EUSP has proudly hosted the honored guest lecture by James Wolfensohn, the ninth President of the World Bank. Mr. Wolfensohn shared his views on the general paths of economic development in Post-World War II Europe and the US, and on the global economy that emerged afterwards. In his talk he touched upon the necessity to strengthen the competitiveness of the Western countries by improving education and developing innovative technologies. Mr Wolfensohn then dwelled on the recent experience of the Asian countries, India and China in particular.

In the past few years as a part of the ethnology of religion, everyone has been talking more frequently about the need to create an "anthropology of secularism," which would teach contemporary secularism as an ideology and a political practice. To Western academics, secularism is usually perceived as an aspect of political liberalism, and the aim of its examination is as a criticism of liberal ideas about the privatization of religion and the world outlook of a neutral state.

EUSP proudly hosted the lecture by the Deputy Minister for Economic Development of the Russian Federation Stanislav Voskresenskij. In his speech, Mr. Voskresenskij elaborated on the state policy in the spheres of innovations, investment and entrepreneurship development. He touched upon the current situation with natural resource management and expressed his opinion on the socio-economic development of the Russian Federation. After the talk Mr. Voskresenskij answered the questions from the students and professors of the University.

A seminar was participated by Mikhail Amosov, Olga Pokrovskaya, Boris Vishnevsky, Natalya Evdokimova, and Timur Nadtochey. Mikhail Amosov: Docent of St. Petersburg State University, Candidate of geographical science, Deputy of the 1st-3rd Legislative Assemblies; Olga Pokrovskaya: Lawyer, Docent of the State and Municipal Law Department of the Insitute for Humantarian Education;

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The contemporary sociological dictionary is obliged to Roland Roberston for the development and the popularization of the terms globalization and glocalization. In 1968, Roberston put forth a thesis that the sphere of culture has a decisive meaning for the categorization of the world, and began to develop the theory of globalization, which allows the conceptualization of the not only as a structure of changes, but also as changes that originate at the level of the consciousness of individuals.

Jurgen Doring started his first company at the age of 23, right after graduating from Munich Technical University as an electrical engineer. rd electronics has since grown into a global leader in car electronics, measurement and testing systems. Venturing out to repeat this success, Jurgen started AEE Renewables where he now spends most his time as CEO. AEE develops and builds hydro power plants as well as solar (photovoltaics) plants.

Over the last thirty years Media art has evolved into a vivid contemporary factor, Digital Art became the art of our time but has still not arrived in the core cultural institutions of our societies. Although there are well attended festivals worldwide, well funded collaborative projects, numerous artist written articles, discussion forums and emerging database documentation projects, media art is still rarely collected by museums, not included or supported within the mainframe of art history and nearly inaccessible for the non northern public and their scholars.

The subject of the presentation (entitled so paradoxically) is Russian regional architecture of XVIII c. that had managed to conserve some forms of late Middle Ages style through all the century. This architectural phenomenon will be presented as somewhat that cannot be reduced to a dichotomy “capital/provincial”. The lector will analyze the transformation of bulks, compositions, and décor of forms in their relations, which change from one generation to another.

After the talk, there was the presentation of Dmitry Travin's new book, "A Sketch of the New History of Russia. First Volume: 1985-1999.

The Institute for the Rule of Law in EUSP held the international conference devoted to the discussion on the current situation with law and law enforcement practices At the opening of the conference EUSP proudly hosted the lectureby the Chairman of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation Valery Zorkin Conference programme (pdf 61KB)

At the opening of the international conference "Law and Law Enforcement in Russia: Interdisciplinary Research", EUSP proudly hosted the lecture by the Chairman of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation Valery Zorkin. In his speech, Mr. Zorkin elaborated on his vision of "the paths of Russia toward law". He touched upon the current situation with law enforcement practices and expressed his opinion on the issue of judicial precedent and its significance in Russia.

The goal of the conference is the discussion of contemporary approaches to research in economics, finance and business, the promising directions and methods of analysis Conference program (in Russian)

 In the presentation Mr. Tiktinski shared his views on the worldview and cultural formation, commented on the causes of the world economic crises and touched upon the issue of business development ethics. After the lecture Edward Tiktinsky answered the questions from the students, graduates and professors of the University

Richard Taruskin 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. His Opus Magnus  - “Oxford History of Western music” – in six volumes gains him a world fame.

 

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.