‘Free Market and Human Rights are Two Parts of a Whole’
On March 6th John Dale, Professor of Sociology at George Mason University, USA, was a guest at the HSE stand at the ‘Education and Career:21st Century’exhibition which took place in Moscow. His speech in front of prospective HSE students at the exhibition was part of the programme of his Moscow visit.
ICEF Research Seminar
On March 4th Maarten Janssen delivered a presentation on ‘Oligopolistic Markets with Sequential Search and Asymmetric Information’at the HSE International College of Economics and Finance Research Seminar. You can watch a video of the event here.
Meeting between Isak Froumin and the Delegation from the University of Erfurt, Germany
On February 18th Isak Froumin, Academic Supervisor of the HSE Institute for the Development of Education, met with a delegation from the University of Erfurt, Germany, at the HSE.
Publicly, over the Atlantic
On December 18th the latest video conference as part of the Master’s programme on ‘The Sociology of the Public Sphere and Social Communications’ took place at the Higher School of Economics. You can watch a video of the event here.
Joint Defense of Vital Interests
On November 24th a French-Russian roundtable discussion entitled ‘Thoughts on Europe’s Geopolitics’, with the participation of Michel Foucher, Director of the Centre for Analysis and Forecasting, French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, took place at the HSE.
‘I Never Went Back to Mexico’
On November 20th a meeting with Fernando Pelaez-Pier, the President of the International Bar Association, took place at the HSE. He answered numerous questions from the students with the help of his colleagues - Akira Kawamura, Vice President, and Tomasz Wardynski, PR Director.
‘Our Student Exchange will not be a One-off Event’
Angelika Nussberger, Director of the Cologne University Institute for Eastern European Law, and Eduard Ivanov, Deputy Dean of the HSE Faculty of Law, told us about the Russian-German seminar on ‘International Legal Problems of Counterterrorism’, which took place at the HSE on November 5th and 6th, as well as about plans for further cooperation between the two universities.
Changing the World for the Better
Recently one of our former students paid a visit to the HSE Nizhny Novgorod branch. This fact would not surprise anyone if we did not take into account that Kaloyan Iliev (and he is the one we are talking about) is a citizen of Austria. Five years ago he spent a year at the Higher School of Economics as part of an international student exchange programme .
HSE Explores Possible Worlds
On October 29th and 30th an international conference on ‘Ontology of Possible Worlds’ took place at the HSE. It was organized by the HSE Faculty of Philosophy together with the University de Caen (Normandy, France).
Noblesse Oblige
Isak Froumin, Academic Supervisor of the HSE Institute for the Development of Education, told us what the status of the National Research University means for the Higher School of Economics and how this status has been gained.
Registration deadline - April 30