Petr V. Rezvykh

HSE University’s new combined Master’s-PHD track programme received 212 applications from first-year master’s students this year. Of these, 45 students were admitted to the track to study at a combined total of 17 doctoral schools at HSE. The combined Master's-PhD track, which was launched just this year, provides a new form of support for students who study in state-funded slots and intend to pursue careers in academia.

The Faculty of Humanities is now accepting applications to its new Master’s programme, ‘Germanica: History and Modernity’ for the fall of 2020. The programme gives students a wide-ranging knowledge of the German-speaking regions of the world—Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. The programme is taught in Russian and German. Applicants’ proficiency of German will be verified upon admission. Professor Petr Rezvykh, the programme’s Academic Supervisor, discusses the features of the programme.

On May 23-25 in Tomsk, an international conference "Cultural Transfer: History, Language, Society" took place. The conference was organised by Tomsk State University and Conference of Rectors of Italian universities (CRUI) in cooperation with National Research University Higher School of Economics, National Research Novosibirsk State University, Ural Federal University, National Research Nizhniy Novgorod State University, University of Siena, University of Turin and University of Naples L’Orientale.

If you are interested in attending a conference at HSE, there is always something going on. In fact, one of the University’s conferences aimed at young researchers is quite special, as it held neither in Russian nor in English, but in German. Less than half a month apart from HSE’s April Conference, the international conference Welt und Wissenschaft (‘World and Science’) was held for the 4^th time. The HSE Looktalked to one of the organizers, Yulia Pasko, Associate Professor of the Department of German Language, about how they involve students and faculty in the development of this tight-knit academic community.

Volker Bialas, a famous German philosopher, wrote a review of the book "Sygkepleriazein. Schelling und die Kepler-Rezeption im 19. Jahrhundert" by Petr Rezvykh and Paul Ziche. The review was published in "Journal for the History of Astronomy."

On September 9, 2016, VI Poletayev Memorial Readings entitled "Natual Sciences and Humanities: New Interaction (Dis)Order" were held at the Higher School of Economics. Among the participants were two guest speakers: Karl Hall from Central European University (Budapest) and Kornelius Borck from Lübeck University (Lübeck).