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ACCREDITATION EXPERTS TO VISIT EUSP

21.05.2019
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.

COALITION-BUILDING AND IDENTITY POLITICS: Representation and Democracy in Odessa During the 1912 State Duma Election

21.05.2019
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.

THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF FEAR

06.05.2019
        The 4th conference within the framework of joint program"The Anthropological Turn in the Humanities and Social Sciences"    

EUSP BID FOR ACCREDITATION ACCEPTED TO BE EXAMINED

18.04.2019
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.

SEXUAL LIBERATION, SOCIALIST STYLE: Science and Politics in Communist Czechoslovakia

15.04.2019
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.

ANTHROPIE: The Human Animal between Discourse, Entropy, and Knowledge

12.04.2019
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.

GONE WITH THE WIND

12.04.2019
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?

EUSP Open House

15.03.2019
Dear Friends! You are welcome to visit the European University at St. Petersburg to learn more about our MA degree programs, speak with professors, students, alumni, and our team. 16.00 - 19.00 - presentations of our MA degree programs in Russian Studies and in Energy Politics, building tours, meetings with professors, alumni and staff.

STAGING A CULTURAL COMMUNITY: Making Jazz Soviet Again after 1953

25.02.2019
Through the lens of the Cold War, jazz in the Soviet Union appears as a struggle between conservative party bosses and a rebellious youth striving for freedom and democracy. Michel Abesser’s talk addresses Soviet jazz culture and debates after 1953 and argues for a more complex understanding of its protagonists, discourses and practices. Such a focus can expand our ideas of youth, social stratification after Stalin’s death, and the hybridity between professional and amateur culture.