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Martin Carnoy, Professor at the Stanford University (USA) and Academic Supervisor of the HSE International Laboratory for Educational Policy Research, told us about some of the tasks and plans for the Laboratory.
Martin Carnoy, Professor at the Stanford University (USA) and Academic Supervisor of the HSE International Laboratory for Educational Policy Research, told us about some of the tasks and plans for the Laboratory.
John Nye, Professor at George Mason University (USA), who has recently become the Academic Supervisor of the HSE’s International Laboratory for Institutional Analysis of Economic Reforms, told us about his view of the laboratory’s activity.
The second methodological seminar of LCSS took place on March 24, 2011. The lecture “The History and the Methodology of Comparative Cross-national Social Studies” was delivered by Anna Andreenkova, PhD, assistant director of CESSI, director of European Social Study in Russia.
The first workshop “Culture matters” of The International Scientifical-Educational Laboratory of Socio-Cultural Research took place on 15th March in Higher School of Economics. The guest of this workshop was Don W. Prince, the director of The Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) in CIS.
Eduard Ponarin: In Kazan I had a meeting with the colleagues from the Institute of Modernization Studies. This is a new institution that is being created right now. The first discussion of this idea with the principal of the Kazan University happened in September 2010, and they plan to sign all the papers this March.
On March 10, 2011 the first LCSS seminar was held in Moscow. The first topic of discussion was the confrontation between Right and Left in Europe, the economist Alexei Zaharov was the first speaker. the Head of Laboratory, Prof. Eduard Ponarin, gave an assessment of the event.
On March 10, 2011 the HSE Faculty of Sociology hosted the first Laboratory for Comparative Social Studies workshop (LCSS). The report "Nationalism and ethnic discrimination: a review of quantitative research" was made by Alexei Zaharov, LCSS research fellow.
On February 1st a new Laboratory for Strategic Behaviour and Institutional Design Studies opened at the HSE. Maarten Janssen, Academic Supervisor of the Laboratory and prominent expert in microeconomics, and Alexey Parakhonyak, Laboratory Head, told us about the role of the new department.