Multinational State and Policy Towards Different Ethnic and Cultural Groups
On May 5, the fourth meeting of the "Laboratory for Diversity Research" was held. It was dedicated to the theme of "Multinational state".
What is Disability − Biological or Social Characteristic?
On February 24, at the Diversity Research Laboratory, a graduate student of New York University, Alexandra Kurlenkova, spoke about the main models of interpreting disability and the problem of ableism.
What does it mean to be an adult?
On February 17, a lesson on Age Construction and Ageism was held at the Diversity Research Laboratory. Nadezhda Nartova, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Youth Studies in NRU HSE, told about what 'adulthood' is.
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.
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."