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Address:
190068 Saint Petersburg
123 Griboedov channel, Room 123

Phone:+7 (812)786-92-49

Postal address:
190068 Saint Petersburg
123 Griboedov channel

Administration

Department Head – Adrian A. Selin

Academic Supervisor – Evgeniy Anisimov

Public lectures by the faculty of the department of history

Public lectures

Research

About the Department

The Department of History was created in 2012. The overarching goal of the department is systematic development of the field of global, comparative, and transnational history as a potent tool of overcoming the limitations of national history canon, fostering interdisciplinary dialogue in the field of social sciences and humanities, and brining new public relevance to historical knowledge. The department mission includes the development of new type of historical undergraduate and graduate education in Russia and pioneering new research fields in Russian historiography in dialogue with the global historical profession.

Publications

Book

Shared Images: A History of American Art in the Soviet Union during the Cold War

Chunikhin K.

De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2025.

Article

‘The Thaw’ in the Arctic: constructing Mirny as a Soviet Arctic city of a new type

Kalemeneva E.

Urban history. 2025. Vol. 52. No. 2. P. 283-300.

Book chapter

The Women Who Count: Gendering Calculations in the Soviet Atomic Project

Orlova G., Kasatkina A.

In bk.: Women, Gender, and Technosciences, 1900–2020. A Beard to Govern. Routledge, 2025. Ch. 7. P. 123-140.

Working paper

The Image of the Past in Ciro Spontone’s ‘Historia Della Transilvania’

Khvalkov E., Levin F., Кузнецова А. Д.

Working Papers of Humanities. WP. Издательский дом НИУ ВШЭ, 2021

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Instructors

Рахманова Лидия Яковлевна

Ryzhkov, Aleksei

Ssorin-Chaikov, Nikolai

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Abstract

Anthropology of belief and knowledge seek an understanding of an understanding: it aims at grasping what people across cultures admit to be true. How various systems of knowledge and belief distinguish the rational and the irrational? What is sense and senselessness? How are knowledge, belief, intuition and revelation distinguished in different social and cultural contexts? How are epistemologies related to aesthetics, ethics, moral order and everyday knowledge practices, and how are they embedded in forms of society that that articulate and constitute? We consider these questions by drawing on detailed ethnographies of science and religion. Cases that we explore range from studies of witchcraft and shamanism to laboratory and computer science, from conspiracy theories to knowledge about climate change and different religions.

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