Department of History

Centers and Peripheries in Imagination and Action

What are national and imperial boundaries in the field of law and why do they matter for past and present? These were the key questions of the panel ‘Centers and Peripheries in Imagination and Action: Three Eurasian Examples’ at the Convention of American Society of Legal History in Toronto, October, 27-30, 2016.

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November 09, 2016

Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov gave Key Note Address at the opening of the X Siberian Studies Conference

October, 24 Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov gave Key Note Address “Headman's outrage: towards the anthropology of emotions and affect in Northern Siberia” at the opening of the X Siberian Studies Conference "Passion for Life: Emotions. Feelings and Perception in the North and Siberia”
The conference is organized by the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnology of the Russian Academy of Science (Kunstkamera) and Russian Geographical Society (24-26 October 2016)

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October 24, 2016

Tatiana Borisova Gave a Lectire in the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History

On October 17, Tatiana Borisova was invited by the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History (Frankfurt Am Mein) to give a lecture "Power Politics and the Problem of the Originality of Russian Law in Late Imperial Russia"

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October 18, 2016

Participants of the Project "Comparative Historical Studies of Empire and Nationalism" are organizing a Roundtable at the 48th Convention of the ASEEES

The Head of the Working group of the International Research Project "Comparative Historical Studies of Empire and Nationalism" Professor Alexander Semyonov, the Head of the Project Professor Ronald G.Suny, and the member of the working group postdoc, junior research fellow Anton Kotenko will participate in the 48th annual Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) in Washington, DC, on Novermber 17-20th.

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October 13, 2016

The Book by Ronald Suny Won the Prestigious Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize

The book by Prof. Ronald Grigor Suny (Head of the International Research Project "Comparative Historical Studies of Empire and Nationalism") “They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else”: A History of the Armenian Genocide" has won the Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize.

Research & Expertise publications Officially

October 13, 2016

Lectures on Ocean Science Politics to Give HSE Exposure to Modern Anthropology

Stefan Helmreich, Professor and Elting E. Morison Chair in the Department of Anthropology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, visited HSE Moscow and HSE St Petersburg from September 25 – October 4, 2016 and delivered a series of lectures and led a discussion on the politics of contemporary ocean science. He also took part in the round table'Soundscape in the Anthropology of Science and Art' during the Days of Ethnographic Cinema festival organized by the HSE School of Cultural Studies.

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October 10, 2016

7th international conference of the European Society for the History of Science (ESHS)

On September 22-24, 2016, the faculty members of the History Department, Associate Professor Julia Lajus and Associate Professor Marina Loskutova took part in the 7th international conference of the European Society for the History of Science (ESHS), which took place in Prague.

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October 10, 2016

The summer School “The Topography of Imperial Power: The Political and Cultural Space of Saint Petersburg” is opened

Today there took place an opening ceremony of the International Summer School “The Topography of Imperial Power: The Political and Cultural Space of Saint Petersburg”. It was organized by the Department of History, HSE in St. Petersburg.

On Campus history

September 06, 2016

Alexander Semyonov has taken up the position of a visiting fellow at the University of Regensburg

Professor and Сhair of the History Department Alexander Semyonov has taken up the position of a visiting fellow at the University of Regensburg (Germany).

Research & Expertise achievements history

July 20, 2016

The Article by Associate Professor I.V. Sablin and Student A. Korobeynikov"Buryat-Mongol and Alash autonomous movements before the Soviets, 1905-1917"

On June 15, 2016 an article by Associate Professor I.V. Sablin and third-year student A. Korobeynikov "Buryat-Mongol and Alash autonomous movements before the Soviets, 1905-1917" was published in AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples.

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June 17, 2016

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