School of Philological Studies

‘Poetry Keeps Coming Back to the Question of Life and Death’

The HSE School of Philology is organising a new university project, Poet in Residence. The first poet to take up the post is Alexander Kushner. In October he came to talk to students about what poetry is concerned with and promised students he would comment on their verses in the future.

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October 28, 2015

Konstantin Polivanov at Conference in Stanford

Konstantin Polivanov, Associate Professor at the School of Philology took part in the international conference ‘Poetry and Politics in the 20th Century: Boris Pasternak, His Family, and His Novel Doctor Zhivago’.

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October 15, 2015

Gasan Gusejnov at Congress of Slavists at Giessen University

Gasan Gusejnov, Professor at the School of Philology presented a report at the opening ceremony of the Congress of Slavists at Giessen University, Germany.

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October 13, 2015

Debating the Next Nobel Laureate

On October 8, 2015, the winner of this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature will be announced. The favourites among bookmakers are the Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami, Belarusian author Svetlana Alexievich, and Kenya’s Ngugi wa Thiong’o. Maya Kucherskaya, Professor in the HSE School of Philology, shares her opinions on the most likely contenders.

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October 07, 2015

New Article by Ekaterina Boltunova

The article 'Imperial Throne Halls and Discourse of Power in the Topography of Early Modern Russia (late 17th–18th centuries)' by Ekaterina Boltunova, Associate Professor at the School of Philology, was published in the collection 'The Emperor's House: Palaces from Augustus to the Age of Absolutism' issued by De Gruyter.

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October 04, 2015

Transnational Russian Culture

On August 28-29 the international seminar ‘Transnational Russian Culture’ was held at the University of Helsinki. The researchers from Finland, Estonia, Germany, the USA, Israel and Russia took part in the event.

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September 23, 2015

The Holy Fools Symposium in Munich

Sergey Ivanov, Professor at the School of Philology took part in the international symposium ‘The Holy Fools’ as co-organizer of the event. The symposium was held on September 11-12 at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. Ivanov presented the report ‘Holy Foolery as an Ambiguous Sanctity by Nicon of the Black Mount’.

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September 16, 2015

Monography by Sergey Ivanov Translated into Czech

Czech publishing house ‘Pavel Mervart’ issued the translation of the monography ‘Holy Fools: A Cultural History’ by Sergey Ivanov, Professor at the School of Philology.

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September 04, 2015

Congress of the International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies

Ekaterina Boltunova, Associate Professor at the School of Philology organized the section ‘Marketing of Self / Self-Marketing: Strategies of Behavior and Self-Representation in the 18th Century Russia’ at the Fourteenth Congress of the International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, that took place in Rotterdam in July.

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September 01, 2015

Konstantin Polivanov Delivered an Open Lecture in Riga

On August 12 Konstantin Polivanov, Associate Professor at the School of Philology delivered an open lecture on the novel ‘Doctor Zhivago’ by Boris Pasternak in Riga, Latvia.

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August 24, 2015

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