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Adrian A. Selin

  • Adrian A. Selin has been at HSE University since 2012.

Education and Degrees

  • 2010

    Doctor of Sciences* in National History
    RAS Institute of History in Saint Petersburg
    Thesis Title: Novgorod Society in early Seventeenth century: Prosopographical Study Society

  • 1998

    Candidate of Sciences* (PhD) in Historiography, Source Study and Methods of Historical Research
    Thesis Title: Historical Geography of Novgorod Land 16-18th cc. Vodskaja pyatina. Southern District

  • 1998

    Doctoral programme in History
    RAS Institute of History in Saint Petersburg

  • 1994

    Degree in History
    St Petersburg State University, historical

* Candidate of Sciences
According to the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) 2011, Candidate of Sciences belongs to ISCED level 8 - "doctoral or equivalent", together with PhD, DPhil, D.Lit, D.Sc, LL.D, Doctorate or similar. Candidate of Sciences allows its holders to reach the level of the Associate Professor.
* Doctor of Sciences
A post-doctoral degree called Doctor of Sciences is given to reflect second advanced research qualifications or higher doctorates in ISCED 2011.

Responsibilities

Academic Director of BA programm "History"

Academic Supervision

for a degree of Candidate of Science
1

Kukushkin K. V. «Borderlands of Rus', Lithuania and other Baltic States in 14-16th cc.»

Troyanovskij K. V. «Russian Empire Policy on estateless shlyachta of Eastern Provinces. 1795‑1870»

Courses (2023/2024)

Courses (2022/2023)

Courses (2021/2022)

Courses (2020/2021)

Courses (2019/2020)

Courses (2018/2019)

Courses (2017/2018)

Editorial board membership

  • 2020: Member of the Editorial Board, Древняя Русь. Вопросы медиевистики.

  • 2019: Member of the Editorial Board, Wschodni Rosznik Humanistyszni.

  • 2016: Member of the Editorial Board, Вестник Санкт-Петербургского университета. Серия 2. История (Vestnik Sankt-Peterburgskogo Universiteta, Istoriya).

  • 2015: Member of the Editorial Board, Rossica Antiqua.

Conferences

  • 2019
    Комплексный подход к изучению Древней Руси (Москва). Presentation: Комплекс документов о переговорах осени - зимы 1592/93 г. в Тявзине
  • Первый международный петербургский исторический форум (Санкт-Петербург). Presentation: «Изгнанные из Ливонии»: об устройстве помещиков «старых» и «новых немецких городов» после Плюсского перемирия
  • Legal Innovativeness in Central and Eastern Europe (Москва). Presentation: Novgorod the Great Court Instances in 1584-1616

  • Русь, Россия: Средневековье и Новое время (Москва). Presentation: Карьера «московского немчина» Ээриики Антинпойка: от переводчика до военного комиссара

  • Переводчики и переводы в России конца XVI – начала XVIII столетий (Москва). Presentation: Олфер Северов: Переводчик новгородского Разряда в 1611–1617 гг.
  • 2014
    XV Апрельская международная научная конференция «Модернизация экономики и общества», (Москва). Presentation: Социальная динамика малых групп в шведско-русском приграничье после 1617 г.
  • The Congress of Nordic Historians (Йоэнсуу). Presentation: "Border archaeology”. Landscape marks and local legend of 17th century Russian-Swedish borderline
  • First World Conference of the Association for Borderland Studies (Йоэнсуу). Presentation: Crossing the border in Transparent borderland: 17th Century Ingria Case
  • Кириллические и глаголические памятники в Швеции (Санкт-Петербург). Presentation: Многообразие русских документов XVI-XVII вв., опубликованных онлайн за последние 5 лет
  • International Congress of Belarusian Studies (Каунас). Presentation: Lithuanian Borderland in 1609: View from Smolensk Chancellery
  • Элиты раннего Нового времени: биографический анализ и социальная динамика (Санкт-Петербург). Presentation: Элитные группы Российского государства Нового времени (XVI-XVIII вв.). Проект создания сетевого ресурса
  • Ладога и проблемы древней и средневековой истории Северной Евразии (Старая Ладога). Presentation: Неизвестная работа Б. Д. Грекова о Старой Ладоге
  • 2013
    Борьба за Юго-Восточную Прибалтику в средневековье и новое время (Санкт-Петербург). Presentation: Отголоски борьбы за Прибалтику: Осажденный Смоленск: возвращаясь к комплексу документов «Смоленского архива» 1609-1611 гг.
  • Urban variation (Гетеборг). Presentation: Small fortresses - ostrozhki in Early Modern North West Russia: new step in urbanism or new military technique

Publications97

Digital Catalogue of the Stockholm Smolensk Archives

Project supported by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond in 2014-2016. Project providedby Elisabeth Löfstrand (Stockholm University), Per Ambrosiani (Umeå University), Adrian Selin (NRU-HSE-St.Petersburg)
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‘I Have Big Plans for This Year’

The HSE University-St Petersburg editorial office congratulates all its readers on the beginning of the academic year. May it bring you lots of pleasant discoveries and inspiration! To mark the occasion, we talked to students and professors of the campus about their plans for the year—in science, careers, extracurricular activities and beyond.

'If You've Completed a Hard Route, It Doesn't Mean You Should Give Up Your Training'

On February 8, HSE University-St Petersburg celebrates the Day of Russian Science. We congratulate all researchers and wish them continued openness to new discoveries. To mark the occasion, we talked to scientists about the sources of their inspiration, moments of anxiety, and having fun.

How HSE University-St Petersburg Spent 2022

The year is slowly coming to an end. It is high time to remember the major achievements of the campus, its staff and students and thank each other for our joint efforts and stamina. Read on to find out about the activities of the campus over the last year. And Happy New Year! May you have enough energy and inspiration for new achievements!

Research seminar: "Why and how to translate foreigner's notes about Early modern Russia (on example Peter Petreius's books)"

On October 2, the first meeting of the research group was held in the new academic year. Alexander Tolstikov, Associate Professor of Petrozavodsk University, presented a paper "Why and how to translate foreigner's notes about Early modern Russia (on example Peter Petreius's books)". 

International Conference "Languages of Describing the Social in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times"

On September 16-17, 2021, the international conference "Languages of Describing the Social in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times" was held on the basis of the History Department of the NRU HSE of St. Petersburg and with the assistance of the Research and Training Group "Languages of Describing the Other in Early Modern Europe: Social Contexts and Interpretation Repertoires". The conference was attended by scientists from around the world and students of Russian universities during 5 sections held in full-time, online and hybrid formats, 29 reports were made, where the speakers raised the topics of describing various social phenomena in different countries in the Early Modern period.

Research seminar: the image of "Other" in Japan and "civilizing policy" in England in 16th – 17th centuries 

On February 11, during the session of the Research Group “Languages for Describing the Other in Early Modern Europe: Social Contexts and Repertoires of Interpretation” two master students of the Department of History of the Higher School of Economics, Saint Petersburg, presented their papers. 

Twelth meeting of research group: the image of Other on the example of french periodics and enlish colonial "travelogues"  

On january 28th another meeting of the research group «Languages for Describing the Other in Early Modern Europe: Social Contexts and Repertoires of Interpretation» was held. 

Final meeting of the research group and research seminar "Prussia as a Nation: Strategies for Representation of Origin in Prussian Historical Writing of the 16th and early 17th Cen."

On December 11, at 18:00, the final meeting of the research group and the research seminar were simultaneously held. The meeting began with the report "?" by Associate Professor of Tomsk State University Anton Kotov. After that the members of the research group discussed the structure of the report and all possible prospects for the development of the group.

The tenth meeting of research group: discussion of preprint's drafts

On November 13, at 18:00, a regular meeting of research group was held on the ZOOM online platform. The participants discussed preprints' drafts.

Research seminar «Ireland and the Irish in the imperial project of late Tudors: mythologeme, practices of describing and paths of incorporation»

On Novermber 2 at the eleventh session of the research seminar “Languages for Describing the Other in Early Modern Europe: Social Contexts and Repertoires of Interpretation” a PhD student of Saint Petersburg State University Evgenii Tishunin presented his paper «Ireland and the Irish in the imperial project of late Tudors: mythologeme, practices of describing and paths of incorporation»

Research seminar: “”Latvians” in Livonia, Ingria and Karelia: describing diversity in early modern time”.

On October 2, during the tenth session of the research seminar “Languages for Describing the Other in Early Modern Europe: Social Contexts and Repertoires of Interpretation” a PhD student of Saint Petersburg State University Dmitry Verkhovtcev presented his paper “”Latvians” in Livonia, Ingria and Karelia: describing diversity in early modern time”.

The nineth meeting of research group: discussing the results and assignment of preprint-groups

On September 18, during the ninth session of the research seminar “Languages for Describing the Other in Early Modern Europe: Social Contexts and Repertoires of Interpretation” the participants presented their research reports and created three new groups which will be preparing the preprints. 

The seventh meeting of recearch group 

On June 2, 6 PM on the ninth seminar of the research group “Languages for Describing the Other in Early Modern Europe: Social Contexts and Repertoires of Interpretation” Maxim Shkil, Alena Kuznetsova, Daria Zubkova presented a report on the images of the Other in the works by the English diplomat Paul Raycout, the English merchant and traveler Peter Mundy and the Italian cartographer and diplomat Pietro Coppo. 

The sixth meeting of research group 

On 13 May 2020, on the seventh seminar of the research group “Languages for Describing the Other in Early Modern Europe: Social Contexts and Repertoires of Interpretation” Gleb Paromonov and Julia Zakrzhevskaya presented a research report about peculiarities of the image of Muscovites in the seventeenth century in the works of Peter Petreius and Johan Sparwenfeld, two Swedish authors of profound academic background.

The fifth meeting of research group 

On 29 April 2020, on the sixth seminar of the research group “Languages for Describing the Other in Early Modern Europe: Social Contexts and Repertoires of Interpretation” Alexei Vovin, the visiting scholar of National Research University Higher School of Economics, Saint Petersburg, presented a paper “The image of the ‘Other’ in Pskov Chronicles”.

The forth meeting of research group 

On 15 April 2020 on the seminar of the research group “Languages for Describing the Other in Early Modern Europe: Social Contexts and Repertoires of Interpretation” Sergey Baigushev, Alexandra Shisterova and Irina Yakovleva presented preliminary results of their study into the image of the Irish in early Stuart sources on the basis of the texts by Fynes Moryson and John Davies. 

Research seminar “The War of the Sons of the Light against the Sons of Darkness: The Other in Abrahamic Religions in Antiquity ”

On 8 April, 2020, the online session “The War of the Sons of the Light against the Sons of Darkness: The Other in Abrahamic Religions in Antiquity ” from the series of the seminars of the research group “Languages for Describing the Other in Early Modern Europe: Social Contexts and Repertoires of Interpretation” was held.

Third seminar of the research group

Third seminar: topics of discussion, papers, transformation of the notion of ‘barbarian’ in Greek culture from Homer to Aristotle, workshop on Classical sources

Research seminar “Self-government and organization of foreign formation regiments in Russian military service in 1630-1634”

On February 12, 2020, Oleg Rusakovskiy, the research associate of National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, presented a paper about the main sources related to the activities of foreign formation regiments in Muscovy in 1630-1634.

The second meeting of the research and academic group

Second meeting: what was discussed at the meeting. Reporting activity. Frederick Barth, Rogers Brubaker - Ethnic Groups or Ethnicity Without Groups?

Formation of the new research and academic group at the History Department

With pleasure, we inform you, that a new research and academic group associated with Medieval Studies will appear at the St. Petersburg Department of History.
In 2020-2021 the research and academic group

Season's Greetings from Alexander Semyonov, Chair of the Department of History

Conference “Receptions and Representations of Revolts in Early Modern Diplomacy IV: Borderlands”

At the kind invitation of Prof. Malte Griesse, head of the international research group “Revolts as communicative events” in the University of Konstanz, Germany, the representatives of the Department of history Prof. Adrian Selin and PhD student Kuzma Kukushkin took part in the conference “Receptions and Representations of Revolts in Early Modern Diplomacy IV: Borderlands”, held at the Sixty-first annual meeting of the Renaissance Society of America in Berlin (26/03/2015 - 28/03/2015). The meeting itself attracted more than 3000 participants from different countries. The conference was attended by more than 30 researchers from the UK, Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands and Russia.

Russian Swedish Border in Ingria, 17th century: Historical-Geographical Study

Center for Historical Research started the project "Russian Swedish Border in Ingria, 17th century: Historical-Geographical Study" (Head of the Project - Prof. Adrian Selin, participants: senior research fellow Ivan Sablin, trainee-researcher Kuzma Kukushkin).