Interdisciplinary conference "Comorbid Field 3.0: Social Well-being, Health and Medicine in Multiple Contexts" will be held on 3-5 December, 2026 in offline and online formats at the HSE University.

Applications are now open for participation in the conference “Comorbidity Field 2.0: Sociocultural Dimensions of Health, Illness, and Medicine”, which will be held from October 31 to November 1, 2025, at the HSE St. Petersburg School of Arts and Humanities.

Pietro A. Shakarian, research fellow at the Centre for Historical Research at HSE – St. Petersburg, published a new article in the journal Europe-Asia Studies, entitled Towards a More Perfect Union? Anastas Mikoyan and Nationality Policy Reform in the Soviet Union, 1954–1964.

On December 6, the Centre for Historical Research held a seminar with a lecture by Dr. Stefan Gužvica (Associate Professor of the Department of History, HSE St. Petersburg.) entitled “Leninism before Lenin? Understanding the Revolutionary Conjuncture on the Periphery”.

In this interview, we speak with Yagiz Ali Yildiz, who is specializing in the history of the Communist International and left-radical movement. Yagiz has recently applied for the Postdoctoral Programme at the Center for Historical Research and shared his past scientific experience with the future plans.

On 20 July 2024, Pietro A. Shakarian, postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Historical Research at HSE in Petersburg, presented at the International Armenological Congress at the Matenadaran in Yerevan. Dr. Shakarian’s talk was entitled “From St. Petersburg to Syunik: Advancing Armenian Studies in Russia’s Northern Capital”. The presentation explored the current state of historical-scientific studies related to Armenia and the Caucasus in St. Petersburg.

The article "What Is Our People’s Guilt? Wanderers, Ritual Murder, and the Boundaries of Russianness in the Late Russian Empire" by Igor Kuziner, Junior Fellow Research at Centre for Historical Research, was published in May issue of "Ab Imperio".

On April 30, Dr. Arturo Zoffmann Rodriguez, a researcher and lecturer at the Institute of Contemporary History (IHC) at the NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities/ IN2PAST, in Lisbon, Portugal, presented his book "The Spanish Anarchists and the Russian Revolution, 1917–24: Anguish and Enthusiasm" in the framework of the regular research seminar of the Center for Historical Research and the Department of History.

On February 16, Dr. Paula Montero, professor of anthropology at the State University of São Paulo and senior researcher at the Brazilian Center of Analysis and Planning, gave the paper "Syncretism and pluralism in the configuration of religious diversity in Brazil" as part of the regular research seminar of the Center for Historical Research and the Department of History.

On December 22, Dr. Alexander Titov, lecturer on the Queen's University Belfast, gave an open lecture about the processes of "nationalization" of imperial territories in Northeast Asia in the late 19th to early 20th century. The event was organized within the framework of the regular research seminar held by the Center for Historical Research and the Department of History.