Research & Expertise
'Scientist's Code': Ekaterina Kalemeneva on Modernist Projects in the Arctic, Khrushchev-Era Houses and Similarity between Historians and Gold Diggers
Before the start of the academic year, we keep introducing you to the professors of HSE University-St Petersburg. Ekaterina Kalemeneva supervises the Department of History and teaches Bachelor's and Master's students. In her research, she focuses on historical urban studies, Soviet urban development and the Thaw era. We talked to the Candidate of Historical Sciences about the projects of modernist cities in the Arctic and the changes entailed by the construction of the Khrushchev-Era houses.
'Scientist's Code': Adrian Selin on Novgorodians during the Time of Trouble, Harm from Positivism and Historian's Tasks
If you attended a meeting with HSE University-St Petersburg at least once, you must have met Adrian Selin, an academic supervisor of the Bachelor's programme 'History' and the dean of the School of Arts and Humanities. Usually, he talks about HSE University-St Petersburg but today, we are going to tell you about him and the job of a historian. Find out what prosopography is, why the Time of Trouble is interesting and why it is useless to look for Rurik's remains in the interview with the doctor of historical science.
VII International Research Conference “Usable Pasts”
Applications for participation in the VII International Scientific Conference “Usable Pasts”, organized by the Department of History of the Higher School of Economics – St. Petersburg and the Student Scientific Society, are open.