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A student online school-conference in mathematics has been held at the Nizhny Novgorod campus of the Higher School of Economics.

On the 30s of March 2021 head of the laboratory, Elena Iarskaia-Smirnova presented at the HSE open seminar on education a lecture on the origins and transformation of the concepts of 'integration' and 'inclusion' in social theory, social policy, and the agenda of social movements.

An open educational HSE seminar will take place online on March 30, 16:00. Link for registration and broadcasting: https://events.webinar.ru/1116217/6105071.

From February 4 to March 20, the School of Linguistics hosted a series of lectures on the foundations of language evolution. The course was read by Damian Blasi, the member of Linguistic Convergence Laboratory, an author and co-author of works on fundamental problems in creole linguistics, linguistic symbolism and the history of linguistic diversity. In his lectures Damian Blasi considered both the main aspects of the theory of the language evolution, as well as more narrow topics, such as the structure of animal communication systems and their differences from human language, the time of the speech appearance in humans, biological and genetic foundations of language ability, multilingualism, and models of linguistic evolution.

Researchers at the HSE Institute for Cognitive Neurosciences have studied how transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) affects the primary motor cortex during and after stimulation. Scientists have shown that tACS affects the cortex only during online use (during stimulation). The article was published in Scientific Reports.

At 1-6 of March Novosibirsk hosted an international conference "Dynamics in Siberia", which was attended by the laboratory of dynamical systems and applications staff and students of the Faculty of Informatics, Mathematics and Computer Science.

On March 4, the regular seminar of the Modern Demography series was held. At the seminar, Samin Aref (research scientist, Laboratory of Digital and Computational Demography, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Germany) presented "Studies on the migration of researchers and the academic life course using bibliometric data"

Nina Zdorova together with her co-authors participated in the conference «Indigenous languages of Russia in contact with Russian»

On February 24, at the Diversity Research Laboratory, a graduate student of New York University, Alexandra Kurlenkova, spoke about the main models of interpreting disability and the problem of ableism.