Department of History

Professor Sergey Glebov, Visiting Professor of History Department HSE Saint-Petersburg spoke on “Classical Eurasianism at the crossroads of political and cultural history”

Professor Sergey Glebov (Assistant Professor of History, Smith College and Amherst College, Visiting Professor of History Department HSE Saint-Petersburg, editor of Ab Imperio Journal) presented his work in a talk called “Classical Eurasianism at the crossroads of political and cultural history” at the seminar “Studies of humans as socio-political aspects (XIX - 1^st half of the XX cc.)” (IGITI).

Research & Expertise discussions

April 24, 2015

The Language of Diplomacy: Germany and the Soviet Union in the 20th Century

H-Soz-Kult, one of the most popular online moderated information and communication platforms in history in Europe, has recently published a review-essay of Dr. Dietmar Wulff. The review-essay is entitled ” The Language of Diplomacy: Germany and the Soviet Union in the 20th Century”.

Research & Expertise

April 12, 2015

Russian Swedish Border in Ingria, 17th century: Historical-Geographical Study

Center for Historical Research started the project "Russian Swedish Border in Ingria, 17th century: Historical-Geographical Study" (Head of the Project - Prof. Adrian Selin, participants: senior research fellow Ivan Sablin, trainee-researcher Kuzma Kukushkin).

April 10, 2015

Collaboration and exchange between the Department of History, National Research University Higher School of Economics, and the Smith College (USA)

The application by the Department of History, National Research University Higher School of Economics, for the collaboration and exchange with the Smith College (USA), was accepted by the Eurasia Foundation that implements the US-Russia University Partnership Program (UPP).

April 03, 2015

"They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else": A History of the Armenian Genocide

Princeton University Press has recently published a new book by Professor Ronald Suny, Head of the International Research Project “Comparative Historical Studies of Empire and Nationalism”. The book is entitled "They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else": A History of the Armenian Genocide.

professors publications

April 02, 2015

The Centre for Historical Research received a grant from The “Fund of Boris N. Yeltsin

The “Fund of the First Russian President Boris N. Yeltsin” generously awarded a grant to the Centre for Historical Research to hold a research project on diaries of Teimuraz Georgievich Stepanov-Mamaladze.

Community

March 31, 2015

British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies Annual Conference

Fellows of the Center for Historical Research and participants of the International Research Project “Comparative Historical Studies of Empire and Nationalism” Gayle Lonergan, Sergei Glebov, and Ivan Sablin participated in the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies Annual Conference which is taking place on March 28–30, 2015, at the University of Cambridge.

Community

March 29, 2015

Cooperation with Cambridge University

Ivan Sablin, senior lecturer of the Department of History and member of the project, participated in the conference Emergent Trends on the China – Russia Border which was held on March 16–17, 2015, by the international research project Where Rising Powers Meet: China and Russia at Their North Asian Border at Cambridge University.

March 18, 2015

HSE Petersburg Historians and Social Researchers at the XVI April Conference on Social and Economic Development

With less than a month until the XVI International April Conference opens in Moscow, academics from HSE St Petersburg are preparing sections and seminars on a broad range of research topics from space exploration in pre-revolutionary Russia to contemporary happiness and work.

Research & Expertise conferences & seminars history

March 13, 2015

Postdoctoral research positions. Deadline: April 1, 2015

The Higher School of Economics Centre for Historical Research in St. Petersburg, Russia and the Department of History in St. Petersburg invites applications for postdoctoral research position in the field of comparative history of nationalism and empire in the region of Eastern Europe and Eurasia.

March 05, 2015

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