HSE University Life

Giving a presentation at a research conference, especially in a different city, and all the more so in a different country, is an important event in the life of any philology student. Viktoria Buyanovskaya, third-year HSE philology student, told us about her presentation at the University of Oxford.

This summer, Milena Rubleva, a fourth-year student of Journalism at HSE, presented a visualization of her study at the Connected Life 2016: Collective Action and the Internet Conference. She told the HSE News Service about the conference that was hosted by PhD students at the Oxford Internet Institute, which is part of the University of Oxford.

On July 14-17 the annual international conference and festival Popsophia was held in Pesaro, Italy.  This time the event was dedicated to the problems of war and violence in contemporary philosophy and took place in the fortress built by Costanzo Sforza.

Irina Gluschenko, Associate Professor at the School of Cultural Studies, took part in the conference ‘Food and Culture. History, Society, Communication’ where she presented her report ‘Modernizzazione in cucina. L'esperienza Sovietica’ (Modernising Cuisine: The Soviet Experience).

Elena Kardanova, the director of the Centre of Education Quality Monitoring, and Alina Ivanova, junior research fellow of the same centre, have participated in the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) held in Washington, DC. The conference dedicated to ‘Public Scholarship to Educate Diverse Democracies’ took place on April 7–12 and gathered around 14000 participants from all over the world.

Andrey Yelizarov, Professor at the School of Electronic Engineering and doctoral student Ruslan Shaimardanov presented two reports at the 10th German Microwave Conference GeMiC 2016 that was held on March 14-16 at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany.

January 17 - 23, 2016, Alexander Lukin, Head of the School of International Affairs, spoke at some universities and influential research centres in Delhi on an academic trip to India.

On August 3rd-7th 2015, Elena Kochetkova, Senior Lecturer at the Department of History took part in the 17th World Economic History Congress in Kyoto, Japan.