Tag "ideas & experience"
'Scientist's Code': Alexandra Pakhomova on Kuzmin's Diary, Detective Approach to Texts and Anthropology of Scents
We continue introducing prospective students to the professors of HSE University-St Petersburg. Alexandra Pakhomova, a philologist and anthropologist, delivers courses in the bachelor's and master's programmes at the Department of Philology. She will be your guide to the world of folklore, semiotics and the Russian literature of the 20th century. Find out why it is important to find a good thesis supervisor, what philologists and detectives have in common and what scents can tell about the past in the interview with Alexandra Pakhomova.
'Get a Ticket': Varvara Gurko on Her Exchange Studies in Indonesia
Varvara Gurko is a fourth-year student of the Bachelor's programme 'Philology'. This year, under the international academic mobility programme, she went to Indonesia where she spent a semester at the Universitas Indonesia. Find out which course was the most memorable for Varvara, how she was studying Indonesian in Indonesian and what places she managed to visit in the interview.