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From October 21 to 24, 2025, the 23rd Conference on International Exchange of Professionals took place in Shanghai and Beijing, bringing together more than 7,000 scientists and experts from around the world. HSE University was represented by Ivan Arzhantsev, Dean of the Faculty of Computer Science, and Vasily Gromov, Head of the Laboratory for Semantic Analysis of the Centre for Language and Semantic Technologies.

On October 20-21, the Smirnov House in Moscow hosted the scientific and practical conference  "Philanthropy: Science and Practice  ," organized by the Vladimir Potanin Charitable Foundation. Konstantin Obukhov, a senior research fellow at the ILSIR, delivered a presentation.

The Centre for the Study of Native Languages at Dagestan State University (DSU) is actively engaged in researching the many languages spoken by the peoples of Dagestan. The republic has 14 official state languages, many of which have their own dialects and varieties. Scholars from Dagestan plan to adopt corpus-based methods of linguistic research used at HSE University and intend to collaborate with HSE’s Linguistic Convergence Laboratory. The HSE News Service spoke with the centre’s Director, Prof. Marina Gasanova, who is currently undertaking a research placement at HSE University.

The 102nd meeting of the "Formal Philosophy" research and theory seminar was held on October 22.

The International Laboratory of Intangible-driven Economy at HSE University conducted a professional development course titled "Advanced Econometrics: Striving for Causality" as part of the "International Academic Cooperation" project. The course was held online from September 24 to October 22, 2025, and consisted of ten academic sessions distributed over six weeks of intensive training.

Ivan Pylytsyn and Ivan Sobolev have secured spots in the integrated Master's-to-PhD program starting in 2025.

On October 20, 2025, at a meeting of the International Laboratory for Social Integration Studies at the Higher School of Economics, Maxim Pavlovich Kotelnikov, a postgraduate student at the HSE International Laboratory for Social Integration Studies, held a pre-defense of his candidate's dissertation on the topic "Literary practices as a resource for transforming the biographical projects of young men from families with low socioeconomic status."

Elena Dragalina-Chernaya made a presentation titled "Artefactual Agency Between Eliminativism and Essentialism" at the XVI International Ontological Congress, which was held under the patronage of UNESCO in the Basque Country (San Sebastián, Spain; Saint-Jean-de-Luz, France) from October 7 to 11.

On October 18, a session of the scientific-educational seminar "Mathematical Logic and category theory" took place, where Paolo Mancosu spoke.

The School of Politics and Governance of HSE University’s Faculty of Social Sciences held a preliminary discussion of the PhD paper of the International Laboratory for Digital Transformation for Public Administration Research Assistant Ivan Makarov.