The paper by Boris Stepanov "The Space of the City and Literary Imagination: the Legacy of Nikolai Antsiferov" has been published in the interdisciplinary journal "Enthymema". It is devoted to the discussion of the legacy of Nikolai Antsiferov (1889–1958), a Russian historian who suggested an original design of urban studies in which literature played the key role. See and download the paper.
In January–June 2015 Alexandra Kolesnik makes a research internship at the Department of History (University College London) in the framework of HSE academic postgraduate program.
January 16, a round table "Working with Dubin's texts: sociology of culture project through the eyes of disciples and colleagues," prepared by the Research Center for Contemporary Culture, took place at Higher School of Economics. It was dedicated to the memory of Boris Dubin, Russian sociologist and translator, who died on August 20th, 2014. It is impossible to imagine the Russian scientific community without Boris Dubin, who contributed invaluable knowledge to social scienses and humanities. In the framework of the round table his students and colleagues met to discuss his texts, published at different times and devoted to different problems, but still relevant today. Presentations were made by Sergei Zenkin, Tatiana Weiser, Alexander Dmitriev, Tatiana Venediktova, Irina Kaspe, Natalia Samutina, Alexandra Urakova, Boris Stepanov and others. We offer you the reportage in Russian and photos, prepared by HSE news service.
On November 4-5 Alisa Maximova participated in the interdisciplinary postgraduate conference "Museums Alive! — Exploring how museums behave like living beings" at the School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester (UK). She presented a paper "Social organisation of experiments in museum: notes on interaction with hands-on exhibits".
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 participated in the International Interdisciplinary Conference ‘Time and Temporality in Theme Parks’ at Johannes Gutenberg University (Mainz, Germany) on September 18-20.
Boris Stepanov participated in the international conference ‘The Cold War on Film: Then and Now’ at the German Historical Institute in Moscow on September 19-20.
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.
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.
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