On January 21, Ivan Ninenko, former associate Director of NGO "Transparency International - Russia", lecturer at Miami University, took part in the "Culture Matters" research seminar with the a report on "How people make moral decisions: experimental methods in studies of dehumanization and prejudice".
On December 22, Marina V. Kotova Candidate of Sciences (PhD) in Psychology, Senior Researcher of International laboratory for Socio-Cultural Research, senior lecturer, School of Psychology, (Department of Social Sciences, HSE), took part in the "Culture Matters" research seminar with the report on "Socio-psychological factors of the adoption of the policy of multiculturalism in Russia".
Speaker: Panos M. Pardalos (CAO, University of Florida, USA & LATNA, Higher School of Economics, Russia) Title: Constrained Subspace Classifier for High Dimensional Datasets
On December 17 Evgenia A. Golman Candidate of Sciences (PhD) in Sociology, lecturer, School of Sociology (Faculty of Social Sciences, HSE) took part in the "Culture Matters" research seminar with the report on "The body as a project in personal narratives of women: between subordination and resistance from embodiment".
Speaker: Herve Moulin (Donald J. Robertson Chair of Economics at the Adam Smith Business School at the University of Glasgow) Title: Fair Division and Counterfactual-proofness
On 24 November John Berry (Chief Researcher Fellow of our laboratory, Professor of Queens University, Canada) took part in the «Culture matters» research seminar with the report on "Patterns and determinants of immigrants' sense of belonging to Canada and their source country, and relationships with their well-being".
Reading aloud may seem like a trivial task to a literate adult, which it is not. Reading a word aloud entails a multitude of different processes (identifying printed symbols, converting them into phonological representations and selecting the appropriate one, blending the sounds together, among others). It is not surprising that for many children, learning to read turns out to be a long and effortful process.
On November 12 Dina Birman (PhD, Associate Professor at School of Education and Human Development, University of Miami, Editor-in-chief of the journal "International Journal of Intercultural Relations") took part in the «Culture matters» research seminar with the report on "Acculturation and Adaptation of Russian immigrants in the U.S.".
