Congratulations to EUSP Department of History graduate Konstantin Godunov on the successful defense of his dissertation for the degree of candidate of sciences in history. The defense took place on January 29, 2019 at the St. Petersburg Institute of History, Russian Academy of Sciences. The dissertation is titled: “Prazdnik 7 Noiabria v politicheskoi zhizni Sovetskoi Rossii epokhi Grazhdanskoi voiny (1918–1920 gg.) [ The November 7 Holiday in the Political Life of Soviet Russia during the Civil War (1918–1920)]”.

"UNEQUAL CITIES: self-selection, matching,and the distribution of income" is a joint paper with K.Behrens, The Universite du Quebec a Montreal.

European University at St. Petersburg (EUSP) invites bachelor and master degree students, researchers,  journalists, and everyone interested in Russian Studies to learn more about history, culture and the modern lifestyle in Russia at our four-week summer school.

European University at St. Petersburg (EUSP) invites bachelor and master degree students, researchers,  journalists, and everyone interested in Russian Studies to learn more about history, culture and the modern lifestyle in Russia at our four-week summer school.

The lecture is cancelled. We are sorry for the inconvinience.  

Joint paper: Aleksandra Lukina (Postdoctoral Associate at Cornell University) and Lawrence Blume (Goldwin Smith Professor of Economics and Professor of Information Science at Cornell University).

The defence of the doctoral thesis “Architectures of Life-Building in the Twentieth Century: Russia, Germany, Sweden” took place at the Södertörn University, Stockholm on December 7, 2018. Department of Aesthetics. The opponent: Thordis Arrhenius, Associate Professor, School of Architecture, Royal Institute of Technology, KTH, Stockholm. Link to the full text: http://sh.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A1263164&dswid=-7863

Dynamic stochastic economic models normally build on the assumption of time-invariant preferences, technology and laws of motions for exogenous variables. We relax this assumption and consider a class of infinite-horizon nonstationary models in which parameters can follow both deterministic and stochastic trends: the former trends take the form of anticipated shifts and drifts, and the latter trends take the form of Markov process with time-varying transition probabilities.

After the great success of Viagra, pharmaceutical companies have set a new goal: the "female Viagra", i.e. a pill for hypoactive sexual desire disorder (HSDD), the most commonly diagnosed female sexual dysfunction. Each subsequent proposal for the treatment of low desire showed the process of disease mongering in all its glory and simultaneous attempts to strengthen the hypotheses about its biological basis: depending of the drug manufacturer HSDD was supposed to be due to androgen deficiency, disordered pelvic blood circulation, or neurotransmitters imbalance.

The seminar is organized by the multidisciplinary research project ‘Between Normal and Abnormal – Cultural meanings of Dementia and Old Age in Finnish and Russian Cultures’ (DemOldCult) funded by Kone Foundation, Finland. View and download the program

Hegel famously maintained that no philosophy can be summed up in a single proposition or a first principle. As he said in the Phenomenology of Spirit: “Any so-called basic proposition or principle of philosophy, if true, is also false, just because it is only a principle.” Its truth can only lie in its development, its deployment, ultimately in a system, not in the assessment of some foundational proposition.

Ukraine continues to face one of the worst HIV epidemics in Europe. To date, prevention efforts there have largely consisted of information dissemination and needle/syringe exchange and distribution. In an effort to introduce new, culturally relevant and effective prevention strategies into Ukraine, a team of medical anthropologists and sociologists from the U.S. and Ukraine worked with local HIV activists in Ukraine to create and pilot novel, bottom-up interventions for drug users based on U.S. behavior change theories.

Growing numbers of people today are reluctant to describe their identity and social practices as either religious or secular, and prefer to portray themselves as "spiritual”.

On November 29, 2018, the Research Center ENERPO of the European University at Saint-Petersburg will welcome the third International CLEAN ENERGY Forum. The Forum will give room to discussions on clean energy and climate change: risks, strategies and possibilities.

How do incumbents in electoral authoritarian regimes manage to secure extraordinarily high levels of their electoral support? This study examines the determinants of the allocation of federal transfers to regional budgets in Russia to test whether the interbudgetary payments are used as a politically neutral tool with welfare equalizing goals or pursue various political aims of self-interested actors.

China has rapidly evolved energy and climate change policies to meet several goals of energy security, air pollution control, industrial development, and carbon emissions reduction. This has significant economic, social and environmental impacts domestically and internationally. This talk focuses on the CIS countries and Mongolia (and possibly Russia) to explore these impacts and to discuss further implications.

On Wednesday, September 12, 2018, Dean of EUSP International Programs Maria Trofimova presented her views on the topic of Academic Freedom in Europe at EAIE conference in Geneva. She discussed an important distinction between academic freedom and institutional autonomy, threats to academic freedom from outside and from within academia, and importance of international academic solidarity.

Gazprom against US LNG and EU Commission - An economist’s view on natural gas competition

On August 10, 2018, Rosobrnadzor, the Federal Service for Supervision in Education and Science, finally issued its order No. 1140, granting a new teaching license to the European University at St. Petersburg (EUSP). The University was granted the right to implement all graduate and postgraduate programs for which it applied in the fields of anthropology, art history, economics, history, philosophy, political science, and sociology. EUSP’s primary concern is to re-enroll those students forced to suspend their MA studies due to the revocation of the license.

The on-site inspection of the European University at St. Petersburg lasted two days and ended on August 1, 2018. Rosobrnadzor experts Alexander Balashov, Dmitry Sinkov and Elena Verkhovskaya found no violations of licensing requirements. The inspection report has established the availability of