HSE University Life

The Director of the HSE Centre for Source Studies presented his research on the role of ‘administrative entrepreneurs’ in the development of early education and other state institutions in Russia under Peter the Great.

From April 1 – 2, 2016 a delegation from the Russian Ministry of Education and Science, headed by Deputy Minister Liudmila Ogorodova, visited Athens.

On April 4th, 2016, the 14th Spacecraft Charging Technology Conference took place in Noordwijk, the Netherlands. Vladimir Saenko, Professor at MIEM School of Electronic Engineering, presented a report on ‘External and Internal Spacecraft Charging Effects and Mitigation Techniques. Russia’s Approach’.

On April 7th, 2016 Dr. Hein Win Zaw, Officer of the Embassy of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar in the Russian Federation, gave a lecture on the development of Russian-Myanmar cooperation in education. The event was held at HSE and organized as part of the methodological seminar of the School of Asian Studies.

From April 7 – 10, 2016, the 74th annual Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA) Conference took place in Chicago. The MPSA Conference is one of the most respected events in the political scientists’ professional community. Papers in over than 80 sections in various political science research areas were presented at the conference. The conference attracted over 6,000 political scientists, economists and sociologists from 70 countries, including Nikita Savin, lecturer at the HSE School of Political Science.

The article ‘Developing instruments to assess and compare the quality of engineering education: the case of China and Russia’ by the group of IOE staff members (Elena Kardanova, Prashant Loyalka,  Igor Chirikov, Ekaterina ENchikova) was published on the online platform of the journal ‘Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education’ issued by Taylor & Francis.

Ekaterina Rakhilina, Head of the School of Linguistics, and Valentina Apresyan, Associate Professor at the School of Linguistics, delivered a series of lectures on Russian and English semantics and semantic typology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Peking University from March 30 to April 2.

Evgeniya Golman, lecturer at the School of Sociology Department of General Sociology, spoke at one of the largest recent interdisciplinary conferences on body studies, ‘Doing the Body in the 21 st  Century.’

On March 14th, 2016, an Russian-American seminar on social entrepreneurship and social innovation was held at the Centre for Social Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation Studies. Jeffrey Robinson, Alexandra Moskovskaya, Alexander Chepurenko and several Russian social entrepreneurs took part in the event.

On March 8-9 the forum ‘Communication on Top — Davos’ brought together best world specialists in communication studies.

On March 12-13 Marina Bobrik-Froemke and Roman Krivko, Associate Professors at the School of Linguistics, took part in the conference on ancient Slavic studies that was held in Germany.

Andrey Yelizarov, Professor at the School of Electronic Engineering and doctoral student Ruslan Shaimardanov presented two reports at the 10th German Microwave Conference GeMiC 2016 that was held on March 14-16 at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany.