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Scholars from School of Philology discussed the poetics of fantasy

Professor of the School of Philology spoke about the Russification of Patriotism during the Crimean War, 1853-56

The lecture 'Pre-Mongol Rus through the epighraphy: the recent discoveries' took place on the 4th of February

A new issue of 'Old Cinema' programme was devoted to Russian playwright Nikolai Erdman

An interview with professor Oleg Lekmanov, the author of a new Mandelstam's biography

As 2015 drew to a close, a panel of qualified judges was busy deciding on the results of HSE’s Student Research Competition. Out of nearly a thousand submissions in 17 different fields, a jury selected 94 prize recipients, all of which demonstrate how broad and complex the research interests of HSE’s students are.

In an interview with the Higher School of Economics organised by the HSE School of Philology, the artist Erik Bulatov discussed his life and artwork.

In 2016, the Higher School of Economics will be the first Russian university to become an associate member of a large project being carried out by the Freie Universität Berlin’s Dahlem Humanities Center. The project, entitled the Thematic Network Principles of Cultural Dynamics, aims to strengthen international cooperation in humanities research. Its objective is to study the factors that affect the cultural processes in the history of humanity’s development. 

On November 11^th,  Alexey Vdovin, Associate Professor at the School of Philology presented a report ‘Between Hegel and George Sand: How Russian Critics and Writers Invented Peasants in the 19th Century Fiction’ at the Institute for Slavic Studies. 

November 17^th, 17.00. «Flaubert,  L’Education sentimentale — Balzac,  Le Père Goriot. On the French Realists’ Transformation of the  Bildungsroman»  
November 19^th, 18.00. «Network theory of cultural production».

Both lectures will be in English.