Tag "conferences & seminars"

Speaker Aya Ben-Yaakov, Research Fellow at MRC Cognition and Brain Science Unit, University of Cambridge.

A panel session on “Modernizing Welfare in Russia and Other Post-Soviet States: Deinstitutionalization, Inclusion, and Agency” was successfully organized and held by the International Laboratory of Social Integration Studies (ILSIS) at the XXII April International Scientific Conference on Economic and Social Development to be held on 21 April, 2021 via Microsoft Team Platform in order to interact with presenters and participants from different parts of the world.

On April 22, 2021, Maksim Murakaev, an employee of the laboratory, participated in a workshop about scientific communications for employees of international laboratories, organized by the PR block of the Higher School of Economics.

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.

On the 1st of April at 12:00 is taking place a new seminar of the research group 'Inclusive society: a comparative analysis of the structural conditions and of the opinions of insiders in Russia and in the neighbouring countries.' During the seminar we are discussing the problems of inclusive education in Kazakhstan and we are presenting the first results of a survey conducted among parents and teachers.

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.

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.