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Petr Parshakov chaired the track “Intellectual capital of individuals, groups and organizations”

Dmitry Kirpishchikov presented the work "Does directors' social capital deal with economic policy uncertainty to raisecorporate investments?"

Joint postgraduate seminars of the HSE and the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) were held on October 28 and 29, 2021.

On October 28 Bastian Jaeger (PhD, Assistant Professor, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands) took part in the "Culture matters" research seminar with the report "What are first impressions based on? Why lab experiments don’t give the answer".

Eduard Ponarin has decided to leave the position of the head of the Ronald F. Inglehart Laboratory for Comparative Social Research. Since October 1^st, 2021, Boris Sokolov, Senior Research Fellow, has taken over the responsibility.

In October 2021, under the guidance of Andrey Zyryanov, a practical course on diffusion-tensor tractography was held at the Center for Language and Brain. 

Researches of the Center for Language and Brain told the Journal Commersant about the difference in reading among different Russian-speaking people.

Radio Queen's University chatted with Professor John W. Berry about his lengthy and distinguished research and his election to the Royal Society as a Fellow.

In October, a two-day seminar entitled ‘Ageing and frailty in Norway and Russia’ was held by HSE University’s International Laboratory for Population and Health.  In addition to purely demographic results concerning the changing age structure of the population and growing life expectancy, most presentations were devoted to the comparative assessment of physical and cognitive status among elderly people, cardiovascular aging, as well as social and medical support for the elderly. We spoke with the organizers and participants of the seminar about their research findings and the implications for society and public health.