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.

Beginning of the new academic year. Ceremonial meeting and celebration

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

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.”