Poletayev Institute for Theoretical and Historical Studies in the Humanities

In 2010 it was named after Andrei V. Poletayev.

Currently the Institute is conducting theoretical research in four main areas: History of ideas and sociology of knowledge; History of sciences of language and text; Studies of contemporary culture; Studies in theoretical sociology.

Academic plan of IGITI

September 5-8, 2011. International conference 
ILLEGITIMATE ARGUMENTATION IN WESTERN INTELLECTUAL CULTURE. FROM ST. ANSELM TO ISAAC NEWTON
Program of the Conference
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Materials
Interview

September 27, 2011.  
ANDREY POLETAYEV MEMORIAL READINGS
Program

October 17, 2011.  Prof. Irina Savelieva delivers a paper in Eberhard Karls University (Tübingen) 
IN SEARCH OF THE NEW ‘TURNS’: HISTORY AND THEORY IN THE 21ST CENTURY.
Summary

October 19, 2011. Prof. Elena Vishlenkova delivers a paper in Eberhard Karls University (Tübingen) 
UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES IN RUSSIA AS A CULTURAL PROJECT.
 

October 20-21, 2011. Sectional meeting during International Conference of the International Association for the Humanities (Saint-Petersburg)
THE SCHOLAR BETWEEN SOCIETY AND COMMUNITY: HISTORICAL PATTERNS AND PRESSING CHALLENGES

November 1, 2011. Seminar
DULL HISTORY: CONGLOMERATIO CENTRI
Speaker: Professor Pavel Uvarov, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Head of the Department of Social History

November 17-20, 2011. Section, organized by IGITI
FROM ADVISOR TO EXPERT: THE SCHOLAR AS AGENCY OF AUTHORITY IN THE NEW RUSSIAN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY
for the 43rd Annual Convention of the The Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES).
Abstracts of the papers
Preliminary program

December 12-14, 2011. Participation in panels during the debates
ACADEMIA IN PUBLIC DISCOURSE.
(Instytut Badań Interdyscyplinarnych "Artes Liberales", Uniwersytet Warszawski)
Program

December 13, 2011. Roundtable
STATUS OF DOCUMENT IN CONTEMPORARY CULTURE: PROBLEM OF FORGERY.

January 25, 2012. Seminar "Vigiliae sophisticae":
REPRESENTATION OF ILLEGAL IN INTELLECTUAL CULTURE OF MEDIAEVAL SPAIN (EVOLUTION OF THE CONCEPT).
Speaker: Dr. Alexander Marey (Faculty of Philosophy, HSE)

February 7, 2012. Presentation of new IGITI books on Russian history:
HISTORICAL CULTURE OF THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE: FORMATION OF REPRESENTATION OF THE PAST / Ed. A.N.Dmitriev. M.: ID VShE, 2012.
Vishlenkova Elena, Galiulina Rufia, Il'ina Kira. RUSSIAN PROFESSORS: UNIVERSITY CORPORATION OR PROFESSIONAL SOLIDARITY. M.: NLO, 2012.

 

February 28, 2012. Seminar
EPISTEMIC INTERVENTIONS: THE DISCREET CHARM OF "BORROWED" EXPLANATORY MODELS.
Speaker: Viktor S. Vakhshtayn, Ph.D. in sociology, Senior scientific researcher of the Center for fundamental sociology of IGITI.

March 21, 2012. Seminar "Vigiliae sophisticae":
WHEN THE CRIMINAL IS A PIG. "BAD CUSTOMS" AND UNWRITTEN LAWS OF MEDIEVAL JUSTICE.
Speaker: Dr. Olga Togoeva (Institute of General History, Russian Academy of Sciences).

April 16, 2012. Seminar
INSTITUTIONAL APPROACH TOWARDS THE STUDY OF KNOWLEDGE: THE CASE OF PHILOSOPHY.
Speaker: Dr. Maxim Diomin (HSE, campus in Saint-Petersburg).

April 24, 2012. Seminar in collaboration with the Institute for Educational Studies 
ANTHROPOLOGICAL APPROACH TOWARDS THE STUDY OF HISTORY OF RUSSIAN UNIVERSITIES.
Speaker: Prof. Elena Vishlenkova (IGITI).

THE EUROPEAN ETHNOLOGY IN AND OF BERLIN.
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Kaschuba (Institut für Europäische Ethnologie, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin).

May 11-12, 2012. Seminars
TO WHOM BELONGS THE URBAN PUBLIC SPACE? WHO BELONGS TO (IN) THE URBAN PUBLIC SPACE? and URBAN SPACES AND ART INTERVENTIONS. A CASE OF BERLIN».
Speaker: Dr. Eszter B. Gantner (Institut für Europäische Ethnologie, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin).

May 15, 2012. Seminar
COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH CLUSTERS IN GERMAN HUMANITIES. A FIELD REPORT.
Speakers: Prof. Dr. Ewald Frie and Prof. Dr. Klaus Gestwa (University Tübingen).

Prof. Dr. Ewald Frie and Prof. Dr. Klaus Gestwa (University Tübingen) May 23, 2012. Roundtable. Discussion of the book
HISTORY OF LITERARY CRITICISM IN RUSSIA: SOVIET AND POST-SOVIET PERIOD / Ed. E. Dobrenko, G. Tikhanova. - M.: NLO, 2011.
organized by "Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie", IGITI and Faculty of Philology (HSE).