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.

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).

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

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.

Conference is devoted to life, political and scientific activity of Nikolai Borodin – a representative of Ural Cossacks, who became prominent public and political figure in Russia, an internationally known expert in ichthyology and fisheries and professor of Harvard University. 

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.