HSE University Life

In April The HSE Look is devoted to  presentation of academic achievements. The editors cover the XVI April Conference  – presentations of plenary speakers and impressions of international participants. Keyong Hun Lee, Assistant Professor at the International College of Economics and Finance (ICEF), shares his research projects and experience of working with students at HSE. 

Vitaly Kurennoy, Professor and Head of HSE’s School of Cultural Studies (Faculty of Humanities) gave a presentation entitled ‘Contemporary Cultural Policy in Russia’ on April 22 at Ruhr University Bochum during a joint colloquium of the Department of Eastern European History and a seminar at the Lotman Institute for Russian and Soviet Culture.

The HSE Look reminds about opportunities to find research funding offered by HSE Office for Research Evaluation.

Alexandra Goryaeva, Ekaterina Belozertseva, and Evgenia Tselisheva – Master’s students in the School of Business Informatics – share their impressions of the programme.

On April 11, 2015, Jan Cremers (Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies) gave a lecture on Corporate Law and Worker Participation at the HSE Faculty of Law. The event was organized by the HSE Department of Labour Law and the Friedrich Ebert Foundation.

How often do you think about the environment? Every day? Once a month? Never? The Green HSE movement asks you to think about it at least once a year during its Strawberry event, which takes place from April 22 – 24, 2015. On April 22, Earth Day, founded by the UN in 2009, is celebrated globally. In Moscow, 12 universities, including MSU, MGIMO, RUDN, and Moscow Institute of Architecture, will host events on this day as part of the VuzEcoFest 2015 festival.

Irina Antoshchenkova and Alina Miller are students in the HSE Master’s programme in Applied Economics and Mathematical Methods. From October 2014 to January 2015, they studied as exchange students at Aix-Marseille School of Economics (AMSE). AMSE recently published an interview with the Russian guests.

On the 8th April the Department of Integrated Communications held a Brown Bag Seminar - an informal meeting for 2nd and 3rd year students (specialising in advertising and PR) with representatives of partner companies offering work experience and production training.

HSE Buddies Network is making sure foreign students get plenty of cultural experience while in Russia. This spring they organised a trip to Kazan and introduced foreign students to Russian Orthodox Easter traditions.

On the 10th April 2015 the HSE laboratory for logistical research in St Petersburg and the Makarov University of Maritime and Inland Shipping held the XIV International Applied Research Conference on Contemporary Development Trends in Logistics.

Students from the Faculty of Social Sciences and international Master’s students at HSE Moscow are launching Read Square — a new online magazine in English. Read Square will be updated every three weeks and will offer international insight and opinion on Higher School of Economics news, science and future perspectives in a global world.

Perm hosted the Russian Championship for formation dance, a special type of team competition in which several pairs of dancers synchronously perform a number that typically consists of a series of Latin American dances. The Duet Ensemble, which is made up of three female students from HSE Perm, was the winner.