October 7 at 17.00. Allan Little (BBC News special correspondent) and Charlie Taylor (Executive Producer of “The War That Changed The World”) will give a presentation on “Representations of the Past and Current History in Media” at the regular Research Seminar "Boundaries of History" of the Center for Historical Research and the Department of History of the Higher School of Economics in Saint Petersburg.
September 25, at 18.00. Pascale Siegrist (MPhil, Cambridge; PhD student and research fellow, University of Konstanz) will give a presentation on «Reclus and Russia: Anarchism, World History and Geographic Determinism» at the regular Research Seminar "Boundaries of History" of the Center for Historical Research and the Department of History of the Higher School of Economics in Saint Petersburg.
On October 1–4, 2014, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Saint Petersburg, will host the university's first history student conference.
September 4, at 18.00. Professor of Modern European History Anthony Heywood from the University of Aberdeen will give a talk on "Mobilisation", "Chaos" and "Crisis": Terminological Reflections on the Russian Empire's Great War, 1914-1917" at the regular Research Seminar "Boundaries of History" of the Center for Historical Research and the Department of History of the Higher School of Economics in Saint Petersburg.
August 23, 2014. The Department of History of Higher School of Economics in St. Petersburg held the first workshop within the framework of the international research project “Comparative Historical Studies of Empire and Nationalism.” Professor Ronald Suny (University of Michigan and HSE-SPb) and Professor Alexander Semyonov (HSE-SPb) chaired the workshop that was focused on “Society and Politics in the Time of Imperial Crisis.”
Associated professor Julia Lajus, associated professor Alexandra Bekasova, associated professor Marina Loskutova, and junior research fellow Elena Kochetkova took part in the Second World Congress of Environmental History. The event was held in July, 2014 at the Minho university in Guimarães (Portugal). The aim of the congress was providing scholars with a space for discussions on topics related to environmental history.
The article "Law between Revolution and Tradition: Russian and Finnish Revolutionary Legal Acts, 1917–18" by Tatiana Borisova (co-authored with Jukka Siro), an Associate Professor of the Faculty of History, was published in Comparative Legal History which is the leading peer-reviewed international journal of legal history.
21-14 July Associate Professor Julia Lajus taught a course “Introduction to History of Science and Technology” in the framework of the Summer University at NRU HSE in Moscow.
Ivan Sablin worked on his thesis “Buryat-Mongol, Buddhist, and Socialist: Transcultural Spaces and Boundary Construction in Post-Imperial Asia, 1917–1923” at the Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context” at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, where he was part of the Graduate Program for Transcultural Studies.
