The Planet in the 21st Century: We’ll have to Negotiate
On September 24th a roundtable discussion on ‘Geopolitical Consequences of the Financial Crisis. A New World Financial Order?’ took place at the HSE. It was organized by the ‘Liberalnaya Missiya'(‘Liberal Mission') Foundation and during the event Deepak Lal, Yegor Gaidar, Vladimir Mau and Evgeniy Yasin discussed what’s going on in the world.
HSE and Stanford Students are Similar in Many Ways
Between September 10th and 16th,‘Stanford Week’organized by the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs took place at the HSE. Leading Stanford professors conducted short courses of lectures and master classes for students. Below is a selection of their comments about the event .
Students in World Politics
Mark Manuilov, a second-year student of the HSE Faculty of Management master’s course, told us about a new student initiative –a Russian-American forum involving the HSE, several other Moscow universities and Stanford University. Mark is one of the students who organized this project.
Stanford Week at the HSE
Between September 10th and 16th the Stanford Week organized by the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs will be held at the HSE.
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Recently the 17th International Conference on Conceptual Structures (ICCS 2009) was held at the HSE. As part of this event, mathematicians, programmers, linguists and philosophers discussed principles and methods of concept representation and processing. We talked to the conference organizers and some participants about the cumulative effect of interdisciplinary research, potential for graphic representation of knowledge and some architectural surprises of the Russian capital!
HSE is One of the Top Three
In July the Higher School of Economics moved up to third position among Russian universities in the Webometrics international ranking. In January the HSE was fourth.
Stanford + HSE: Endless Possibilities for Co-operation
On July 28th a meeting between HSE and the U.S. Department of Education representatives took place, dedicated to the ongoing collaborative project between the Higher School of Economics and Stanford University.
CNN’s visit to the HSE Employment Fair
CNN’s Mathew Chance discusses job prospects with recent grads from the HSE in the period of economic recession in Russia.
“The EU in the G8: Making its Voice Heard, Leading by Example, Promoting Consensus and Coordinated Actions for Global Public Good”
Conference held to discuss preliminary findings of a Jean Monnet project “EU as a Global Transformative Power: European Way to Creating Global Public Good through Partnerships and Rule Based Multilateral Institutions”.
Cogito ergo sum
On June 4th-6th the III International CAS-NES Workshop «Rationality, behaviour and experiments» took place. It was organized by the HSE Center for Advanced Studies.