EUSP will host Professor Derk Loorbach to discuss oil and gas in transition for its first ENERPO Workshop Series lecture this year.

The Russian Science Foundation will support a research project headed by Ekaterina Borozdina, Candidate of Sciences in Sociology, Dean of the EUSP Department of Sociology and Philosophy.

The European University at St. Petersburg received a positive expert opinion based on the results of the accreditation assessment of master's programs on July 3, 2019. The positive findings established the full compliance of the content and quality of EUSP programs with state educational standards. We are now waiting for the official order of Rosobrnadzor to issue accreditation.

On Wednesday, June 19, 2019, at 18:00, Ben Grunwald, Assistant Professor, Duke Law School will make a presentation on "The Wandering Officer". 

Professor Gur Huberman will deliver a public lecture at EUSP on June 19.

This talk offers an in-depth analysis of “spatializing culture,” an idea that grew out of my work on the Latin American plaza (Low 2000) and Deborah Pellow’s (2002) ethnography of West African socio-spatial organization and institutions. Through subsequent research and theory-building “spatializing culture” has evolved into a multi-dimensional framework that includes social production, social construction, embodied, discursive, emotive and affective, as well as translocal approaches to space and place.

St. Petersburg's leading business daily Delovoi Peterburg has published a special issue dedicated to higher education in the city. They have ranked Petersburg's universities based on data about alumni salaries. European University at St. Petersburg tops the ranking with a significantly higher average salary paid to its alumni.

June 8th, Svetlana Erpyleva, a graduate of the Department of Political Science and Sociology at EUSP successfully defended her doctoral thesis entitled The New Local Activism in Russia: Biography, Event and Culture at the University of Helsinki. Supervisors: Dr. Tuomas Ylä-Anttila and Dr. Risto Alapuro (University of Helsinki). The opponent Dr. Elena Zdravomyslova (EUSP). Full text of the thesis is available here: https://helda.helsinki.fi/handle/10138/301023  

  The Charisma of Invented Traditions: Religious (and Academic) Communities in the Search for Legitimacy European University at Saint Petersburg Department of Anthropology Center for Anthropology of Religion Committee for the Scientific Planning  

Department of Economics of the European University at St. Petersburg and Chair of Economics / Resource Economics, ETH Zurich are organizing the 5th International Workshop on Economic Growth, Environment and Natural Resources on May 31 – June 1, 2019. The aim of the Workshop is to promote the use of advanced economic theory in the fields of growth, environment and natural resource economics.

Congratulations to EUSP Department of Anthropology graduate Ekaterina Rudneva on the successful defense of her dissertation for the degree of candidate of sciences in philology.   On May 16, 2019, Ekaterina Rudneva has defended her dissertation "Strategii lingvisticheskoi vezhlivosti v spontannom rechevom vzaimodeistvii" [Strategies of Linguistic Politeness in Spontaneous Speech Interaction] at the Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow).

Experts will examine the EUSP application for accreditation between May 27 and 31, 2019 in accordance with Order No. 802-06 issued on May 17, 2019 by the Federal Service for Supervision in Education and Science (Rosobrnadzor). A copy of the original order in Russian was posted on the EUSP web site earlier today.

In 1912, Russia held empire-wide elections to the Fourth State Duma, a parliamentary body established in 1905. In Odessa, the election campaign revealed that Russians fought not only about which candidate to elect, but also about underlying concepts of politics and democracy. When two rival newspapers, Odesskaia pochta and Iuzhnaia mysl, endorsed different "progressive" candidates, they started a debate over competing meanings of democratic representation: the politics of compromise and coalition-building versus the politics of class identity.

  Introduction to Collective Choice and Modern Political Economy  European University St. PetersburgJune 2019     Lecturer Prof. Dr. Clemens Puppe Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)   Schedule First Session: Wednesday, June 5, 11:00–14:00. Second Session: Wednesday, June 5, 15:00–18:00. Third Session: Thursday, June 6, 11:00–14:00.

        The 4th conference within the framework of joint program"The Anthropological Turn in the Humanities and Social Sciences"    

The European University at St. Petersburg has applied for state accreditation of its educational programs. Rosobrnadzor, the Federal Service for Supervision in Education and Science, accepted the documents for examination on April 17, 2019. State accreditation will allow EUSP students and alumni to receive state-recognized diplomas and defer military conscription. Foreign students will also be able to obtain long-term visas and reside in the Russian Federation for the entire period of their studies at accredited programs.

Did women have better sex under socialism? While individual experience may vary, we can get a vivid picture from expert discourses on female pleasure and male deviance, from state policies and expert input into these policies, together with responses by people who were subject to all these interventions. This talk approaches sexuality as one of the most important terrains in the larger societal project of modernity. By tracing sexual tropes, mores and practices as they change across time and place, one can grasp the changing accents of modern societies.

In what is arguably his most politically oriented work, Seminar XVII – The Other Side of Psychoanalysis (1969-70), Jacques Lacan coins the neologism anthropie in order to refer to a form of entropy – a degradation or loss of energy – that would be specific to the human animal. In my presentation I will scrutinise this expression. First, I will introduce the notion of discourse, which is the main focus of Seminar XVII.

The American South has always been different – slavery, secession, poverty, rural, and segregated – seemingly the reverse of American ideals. As novelist William Faulkner noted, in the South, the past is not even past, as the recent conflict over Confederate monuments attests. Why is this so? How have other regions in the U.S. contributed to the Southern mixture of myth and history? And what does its persistence say about the nation?

The third and the final lecture of the IMARES Month of Global Affairs will be on Nationalism with examples from Russia and Serbia.