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"Let's Rock: the Study of British Popular Music" Course Website Launch

We launched a new website of IGITI course "Let's Rock: the study of British popular music".

Our new papers: Samutina, Natalia. Plastic Beach Utopia: Gorillaz’ Multimedia Concept Project in the Context of Contemporary Popular Music Culture. Higher School of Economics Research Paper. 2014.

A new paper in English from our “popular music team” has been published at the HSE university working paper series. The paper by Natalia Samutina can be downloaded here for free: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2512814

Natalia Samutina participates in theme park conference in Mainz

Natalia Samutina participated in the International Interdisciplinary Conference ‘Time and Temporality in Theme Parks’ at Johannes Gutenberg University (Mainz, Germany) on September 18-20.

Our new books: Micro-urbanism. City in details. Ed. by Olga Brednikova and Oksana Zaporozhets. Moscow: New Literary Observer, 2014.

The book is devoted to and inspired by contemporary city. A variety of research approaches grasping the fluidity, plurality and ambiguity of urban life are united by micro-urbanism as a common analytical perspective. See contents.

Our new books: Tsaritsyno. Attractions with history. Ed. by Natalia Samutina and Boris Stepanov. Moscow: New Literary Observer, 2014.

The book is written by a collective of researchers and students of Higher School of Economics as a result of three years research project. It is devoted to present State Historical-architectural, Art and Landscape Museum-reserve Tsaritsyno.
See contents.