Imperial Nation
On March 13, 2014, Ronald Suny, Professor of Social and Political History at the University of Michigan and Emeritus Professor of Political Science and History at the University of Chicago, delivered a public lecture at the HSE Saint Petersburg.
HSE Students Named Best Actors at Naples Theatre Festival
The play La Folie Positive, performed by the HSE Le Defi student theatre, took top honors at the Francophone festival Rideau Rouge, which took place in Naples, Italy.
HSE Perm Faculty and Students Attend OSTIS-2014
Faculty and students of the HSE Faculty of Business Informatics in Perm took part in the IV International Scientific and Technical Conference ‘Open Semantic Technology for Intelligent Systems’ (OSTIS-2014).
Communication 4 Future Award for Sergey Zverev
11-12 March, 2014, in Davos, at the 5th World Communication Forum, where traditionally, winners of the Communication for Future Davos Award (C4F) are announced, Sergey Zverev, Head of the HSE School of Integrated Communications, was awarded C4F in the ‘Titan of the Future’ nomination.
Olympic Debates at the HSE Perm
A videoconference Let’s Talk Olympics was held at the HSE Perm. It was organized for students of the HSE and California University of Pennsylvania.
HSE Students Joined the Olympic Games in Sochi
More than 160 HSE students are helping to organize the Winter Olympic Games broadcast from Sochi.
HRH The Princess Royal Visits the HSE
On February 4, 2014, Princess Anne, Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal, who is leading the UK delegation to the Sochi Olympics, visited the Higher School of Economics International College of Economics and Finance.
Russian Universities Must Become More Attractive to Foreign Lecturers
On January 31, 2014, at the HSE, the first meeting took place of university representatives participating in the global competitiveness programme 5/100. The group discussed the problems of recruiting lecturers from the international labour market.
Seminars on Football Economics Start at the HSE
A new weekly seminar, ‘Football Economics’, headed by Konstantin Sonin* and Dmitry Dagaev, is starting at the HSE. The first session will take place on January 28, 2014. The seminar aims to look at how the professional football industry works.
Brazil is Coming Closer
On January 17, 2014, Elena Vasina, Director of the Translation Centre at the University of Sao Paulo will read a lecture on ‘Brazil: Politics, Culture, Language’ at the HSE in Nizhny Novgorod. The lecture is happening as part of the cooperation agreement between the two universities, signed in October 2013.