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The GES-2 Community Center, together with the International Laboratory for Social Integration Studies at the National Research University Higher School of Economics, announces the start of accepting applications for the Third Annual Interdisciplinary Conference “Exploring the Deaf Community”. The event will take place from October 17 to 19, 2025, and will focus on the diversity of life experiences of the deaf community, including understudied groups such as deaf-blind people, late-onset deafened people, hearing parents of deaf children, and others.

An article by Angelina Bobrova and co-authors titled "Internet meme transformation rules: A view from Peirce’s semiotics" has been published in the journal Empedocles: European Journal for the Philosophy of Communication.

In the journal "BioSystems", an article by Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen and Vera Shumilina, titled "Synechism 2.0: Contours of a new theory of continuity in bioengineering," has been published.

Evgeny Knyazev Begins Training in the Fourth Cohort of the Management Talent Pool Development Program in Science, Technology, and Higher Education at Sirius Federal Territory

The journal "Epistemology and Philosophy of Science" published an article by intern researcher Ivan Sobolev "The Gricean Approach to Utterance Felicity Conditions."

We invite you to take part in the competition for the vacancy of a research intern for the project ‘Institutions, Human Capital and Regional Development: Historical Analysis and Contemporary Challenges’, supervised by A. P. Kazun.

Anastas Karagadaev, a graduate of the master’s programme ‘Science, Technology and Innovation Management and Policy’ at the Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge (ISSEK) at HSE University, achieved significant career success even during his student years. Back then, he actively participated in the Laboratory for Science and Technology Studies at ISSEK and founded his own start-up. Currently, he is working on developing projectswithin the Russia–China Centre for Innovation Cooperation in Nanjing.

Asya Karimova, a Junior Research Fellow of the Center for sociocultural research, took part in the International Conference “VECTORS 2025”

On March 6, 2025, the ILSIR hosted a scientific and practical discussion entitled "Are Outsiders Allowed to Enter? Definitions and Challenges of an Inclusive Society". The meeting featured speeches by invited experts from the Donor Forum and MTS. The event was attended by students, postgraduates, researchers and teachers from the National Research University Higher School of Economics and Moscow State Pedagogical University.

On February 27-28, 2025, the international conference "Game Design and Game Studies: Ontology of Video Games" was held, organized by the School of Design and the Graduate School of Art and Design of the National Research University Higher School of Economics, at which Egor Novgorodov, a research intern at the ILSIR, spoke.