10th – 14th February 2014 HSE will hold the International Week.

12th February  at 17.00 Associate Professor Simo Mikkonen (the University of Jyväskylä, Finland) will hold a public lecture History as interpretation: from national to transnational history". The lecture will concentrate on the nature of history, discuss how historical knowledge is formed and how it is a result of interpretation rather than given facts. History is always a construction of the past rather than clear facts. This is both a strength, but also a source of several misuses. National historiography has particularly strongly supported political uses of history, still relevant today. One recent development in the historical scholarship that will be discussed in this lecture, is the transcending beyond national borders and limitations. Historical scholarship used to be essentially national, but has recently started to grow beyond empires and nation-states.

11th February at 17.00  Associate Professor of the Faculty of History Julia Lajus will hold a public lecture “Role of the Neva River in the history of St. Petersburg".  

The program also includes presentation of a new Master international program “A Usable Past: Applied and Interdisciplinary History” which will open at the Faculty of History in 2015. The presentation will be held 13th February at 14.30
The language of the week is English. All the event will take place at Souiza Pechatnikov, 16.  
The program is available at  http://spb.hse.ru/en/news/106018091.html