HSE University Life

ECOSUD 2015, the 10 th  International Conference on Ecosystems and Sustainable Development, has taken place in Valencia. HSE St Petersburg was represented by Tatyana Grishchenko, Assistant Professor at the St Petersburg School of Economics and Management and academic supervisor of its management programme.

A review of the book prepared by Fabio Sabatini (LCSR associate researcher) was published in the Journal of Economic Literature.

Associate Professor in HSE Perm’s Foreign Languages Department, Marina Sheveleva has been named a finalist in the Fulbright Faculty Development Program competition. She will spend six months living and working at Montclair Public Research University (US).

From June 18 – 20, 2015, the 19th Annual Conference of the International Society for New Institutional Economics (ISNIE) took place at Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Andrei Yakovlev, Director of the HSE Institute for Industrial and Market Studies (IIMS) and the HSE International Center for the Study of Institutions and Development (ICSID), Ekaterina Borisova, ISCID leading research fellow, and Michael Rochlitz, Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences, spoke at the conference.

Faculty of Computer Science Instructor Sergey Bartunov is beginning a three-month internship at DeepMind, a research division of Google. During his time with the company, Bartunov will develop new neural network architectures and methods.

Ekaterina Ageeva, third year student on the Fundamental and Computational Linguistics programme at the HSE Faculty of Humanities participated in the international conference on machine translation and presented her paper.

From March 24-28, 2015, Toronto (Canada) hosted the TESOL 2015 International Convention and English Language Expo. It drew more than 5,600 professionals from 91 countries who planned to cross borders and build bridges. There were more than 1,000 academic sessions offered in Toronto. Aida Rodomanchenko, Head of learning and teaching office at the School of Foreign Languages at HSE was the only speaker from Russia. Her talk was entitled 'Roundtable Discussion as an Alternative to a Traditional Oral Examination'.

From April 10-14, 2015, Manchester (UK) hosted the 49 th  annual IATEFL conference. About 3,000 delegates attended the conference, and over 400 presentations were given.  English-language coordinator at the HSE’s International College of Economics and Finance (ICEF) Elena Velikaya gave a talk entitled Teaching English at an Economic University: Looking for New Perspectives.

Julia Lajus, Associate Professor at the History Department and Senior Research Fellow, Center for Historical Research of the Higher School of Economics in Saint Petersburg, became a participant from Near Neighbour Countries in the project of the European network COST – Action IS1403 'Oceans Past Platform (OPP)'.

Alexander Lukin, Head of the School of International Affairs took part in the International Symposium on ‘BRICS-II: Institutionalization & Macau’, which took place on May 6-7 in Macau, Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China.

On March 16-20 Mikhail Antonov, Associate Professor at the Department of Theory and History of Law and State and Sergei Akopov, Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science delivered a series of lectures in English and French on legal and political system of the Russian Federation during the conference orgaznised by HSE partner university Science Po Aix-en-Provence.

The Office of Public Relations and Online Media has launched a monitoring of publications about the research results of HSE’s faculty members