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Public lectures
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.
Gökarıksel S., Gontarska O., Hilmar T. et al.
L.: Routledge, 2023.
Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History. 2024. Vol. 25. No. 3. P. 644-658.
In bk.: Sweden, Russia, and the 1617 Peace of Stolbovo. Vol. 14. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2024. P. 99-118.
Khvalkov E., Levin F., Кузнецова А. Д.
Working Papers of Humanities. WP. Издательский дом НИУ ВШЭ, 2021
The Department of History is pleased to announce a course by Professor Sergey Glebov (Smith College and Amherst College, USA) "Colonization in Russian and American History: A comparative Perspective" for undergraduate students (2nd and 3rd year). Format: video lectures via Skype followed by arrival of Professor Sergey Glebov to HSE - Saint-Petersburg in May for assessment of students.
This course is supported by the U.S. Consulate General in St. Petersburg.
Timeframe: 8th of April - 27th of May (video lectures); end of May - assessment (colloquium)
Venue: 17 Promyshlennaya St.
Language: English
On successful completion of the course students will be awarded with 2 ECTS credits.
Summary of the course:
In the modern period, two continents became the playgrounds for massive colonizaitons: America and Eurasia. In both cases, the rise of modern states enabled conquest and settlement of enormous spaces, previously inhabited by thin populations of nomadic and semi-nomadic peoples. This class explores aspects of these colonization processes and introduces the students to main historical questions pertaining to colonization history. We will explore different patterns of colonization (from fur trade to agricultural settler capitalism), the ways in which the rising US and Russian Empire dealt with native populations, and discuss how the US and Russian intellectuals imagined the role of colonization in their respective histories.