Program:September, 18 (Golden Hall)3.00 - 3.40 PM Ksenia Ermoshina (École des Mines, Paris) On Social Studies of Russian "Civic Coding": Looking for Methods and Theories 3.40 - 4.20 PM Alexey Sidorenko (Warsaw / Moscow) Building Bridges Between Geeks and Activists: Lessons of Teplitsa 4.20 - 4.50 PM coffee break 4.50 - 5.30 PM Alexey Poimtsev (Moscow) Social Initiative and Social Entrepreneurship As a Way to Make World Better 5.30 - 6.00 PM final discussion

  The President of the European Council Herman Van Rompuy addressed the students of the European University at St. Petersburg and its distinguished guests, professors and representatives of the media while visiting St. Petersburg to participate in the G20 Summit hosted by Russia this year.

A graduate of the Political science and Sociology Department, Ekaterina Borozdina, successfully defended her Candidate of science dissertation in the Sociological Institute

EUSP graduate Irina Gerasimova successfully defended her Candidate of Science disseration in the St. Petersburg Institute of History

A graduate of the History Department, Marina Fedotova, successfully defended her Candidate of Science dissertation in the St. Petersburg Institute of History 

A graduate of the Anthropology Department, Natalia Galetkina, successfully defended her Candidate of science dissertation in the Museum for Anthropology and Ethnography

EUSP proudly hosted a delegation of the UN Foundation - one of the largest philanthropic institutions in the world, established by CNN founder Ted Turner. The UN Foundation Board members, including such famous figures as Kofi Annan, Muhammad Yunus and Hisashi Owada, came to EUSP to participate at the round table of leaders titled The Role of Russian Philanthropies in Tackling Global Problems.

Richard Donald Lewis is a British foremost linguist, cross-cultural communication consultant, and author.  His company, Richard Lewis Communications, provides cross-cultural communication training, as well as language training for international executives.

Russia faces a very specific and difficult challenge – the task of diversifying its economy, ending its heavy reliance on exports of oil, gas and other minerals. The new publication of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development looks in detail at policies that can help to achieve economic diversification. The report argues that sustainable long-term growth in Russia requires economic diversification to reduce the country’s dependence on natural resources. To achieve this, Russia needs to broaden and refocus its diversification strategy.

 

Being a hegemonic doctrine in the world politics, “democracy” does several things at the same time: it legitimizes the status quo of parliamentary republic, allows for imperialist interventions of NATO and US into affairs of periphery countries, and eventually provokes movements for “real” democracy, such as the global wave of protests in 2011-2012. However, as this wave of protests (including the US “Occupy” and the Russian “Fair election” movement) has shown, the grassroots democratic movement increasingly finds its limitation at the level of nation state.

Professor Markus Kaiser studies migration in modern Europe and Asia, as well as various cultural, social, and economic processes in multicultural societies. He is the author of several publications in these and related fields, including the monograph “Eurasia in the Making: Revival of the Silk Road. A Study on Cross-border Trade and Markets in Contemporary Uzbekistan” (Bielefeld University, 1999).

EUSP proudly hosted the Ambassador of the United States of America to the Russian Federation Michael A. McFaul.

 

The conference was organised by the Center for Environmental and Technological History in cooperation with Center for Russian, Central and East European Studies, Glasgow, UK.

Department of Economics invited academics, students and practitioners from Russia and other countries of the former Soviet Union, although participants from the rest of the world to join the School. The main objective of the School is to disseminate knowledge and results of latest research in the area of Risk Management, Insurance, Finance, and related fields.

Ilya Segalovich is a co-founder of Russian search engine Yandex. He has been CTO and director of Yandex since 2000. Ilya proposed the name “Yandex” for the search engine, derived from the idea of “Yet Another iNDEX”.

In this lecture I'll tell about the progress of my new book Discourse and Knowledge by summarizing some results of the respective chapters of this multidiscpliinary study.