New Ethics: What is Being Argued Today?
On February 10th, the Diversity Research Laboratory hosted a session on theme 'Introduction to Gender Studies'. Elena Omelchenko, the Director of the HSE Youth Studies Center, narrated about the concept of 'new ethics'.
'Indigenous People' as a Legal Status: Theory and Practice
On February 3 the fourth session of the Diversity Research Laboratory was held on the topic 'The Plurinational State and Politics in Relation to Different Ethnocultural Groups: Discourses and Practices.' Sergei Sokolovsky, the chief researcher at the IEA RAS (Institute of Ethnology and Antropology, Russian Academy of Sciences), spoke about the legal peculiarities and contradictions of the status of indigenous peoples.
The Start of a Series of Project Seminars with ILSIR Members and NPOs as Participants
In the second half of January the members of the International Laboratory for Social Integration Research, the Direction for Innovation Management of NRU HSE, along with Russian Disability NGO 'Perspektiva,' launched a new project: realization of a series of collective research with the participation of NPO representatives.
In Pursuit of the African Migrant Experience: HSE Doctoral Student Sheds Light on an Understudied Segment of the Moscow Population
At the recent seminar of the HSE International Laboratory for Social Integration Research, Isaac Olumayowa Oni, HSE doctoral student and lab research assistant, spoke about African migration to Russia. In an interview with HSE News Service, Isaac discussed his research and talked about what it’s like to study at HSE and live in Moscow.
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‘You Are Not Needed Here’: Sub-Saharan African Migrants’ Discriminatory Experiences of the Socio-Economic Environments in Russia
January 28, 2021, a graduate student, assistant researcher at ILSUR, Isaak Olumaeva Oni, presented the results of his research on aspects of African migration to Russia.
Dis/abling public sphere: transformation of public discourse around disability in today's Russia
On the 27th January 2021 Elena Iarskaia-Smirnova and Olga Verbilovich have presented a paper on "Dis/abling public sphere: transformation of public discourse around disability in today's Russia".
Interculturalism - Rhetoric vs Practice
On January 27, the third session of the Diversity Research Laboratory was held on the topic "Interculturalism: politics, ideology, everyday life."
Diversity Research Laboratory. 13 January – 3 March 2021
Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, together with the International Laboratory for Social Integration Research at Moscow’s Higher School of Economics, is launching a course on the study of diversity in society.
Inclusion in a Modern Town: How to Make it Work
Inclusion is becoming more and more popular in society - both as a philosophical concept and as a way of working with communities, as a norm of a new ethics. This term is heard by everyone, but it is not always perceived in the same way by different participants in the process - people with disabilities, public organizers, administrators. On December 10 and 11, 2020, the OMK-Uchastiye Charitable Foundation, which specializes in the development of inclusive culture in the city of Vyksa, Nizhny Novgorod Region, held an online conference “Inclusion in a modern small town: how to make it work?”.