New Programme Allows Foreign Scholars to Teach at HSE Remotely
Thanks to a recently launched programme for visiting scholars, HSE University will host a large number of international scholars and scientists who will teach or conduct research at HSE. In the 2020/21 academic year, about a hundred colleagues from foreign universities will work remotely at HSE under civil law contracts. HSE First Vice Rector Vadim Radaev told the HSE News Service about the new programme.
Dr Sean Guillory Held a Seminar About Podcasts at HSE University
Dr. Sean Guillory has came to Higher School of Economics on Week to explain how he launched the podcast and how you can start your own podcast just using PC and an internet access.
Anja Žnidaršič's visit to ANR-Lab
Anja Žnidaršič' (PhD, University of Maribor, Slovenia) has visited ANR-Lab according to the HSE International Scholar's Visit Program.
Mini-course on Geophisics
The second week of April at the Department of Fundamental Mathematics for students EP "Mathematics" was associated with effective work, and not only because of the usual schedule.
Lecture by Australian professor Mark Beeson on the topic «Power transition dilemma in the US-China relations»
Mark Beeson is a political scientist from Australia, Professor of Murdoch University specializing in the field of international politics in the Asia-Pacific, international affairs, US-China relations, foreign policy of Australia, regional security.
The public lecture "The Baltic Sea as a Borderland" of Michael North(University of Greifswald).
On the 19th of November, Michael North presented a public lecture in the laboratory of environmental and technological history. He shared the results of his recent study on the Baltic Sea as a borderland.
Prof. Michael Nort, Graysfald University, did a series of lectures and seminars for master's students in "Applied and Interdisciplinary History"
The first and second year students of the international master’s programme “Applied and Interdisciplinary History “Usable Pasts” met with Michael North, a German historian, Professor and Chair of Modern History department at Graysfald University.
Fernando Tejerina Gaite and Felix Lopez Iturriaga at Master’s Programme in Finance
Between October 1st and 3rd, two professors from the University of Valladolid (Spain), Fernando Tejerina Gaite and Felix Lopez Iturriaga, delivered lectures for 1st and 2nd year Master’s students in Finance.
Digital Humanities Create New Opportunities for Faculty and Students Alike
On October 3, the School of History and the HSE Centre for Digital Humanities, with support from the Teaching Excellence Initiative, held a lecture by Dr. Andrew Janco (Haverford College, USA) entitled ‘Engaging Students in the Humanities and Sciences through Digital Scholarship Projects.’ Covering methods for engaging students in project-based research in the digital humanities, the lecture aimed to demonstrate the benefits of researchers working with students as co-investigators with their own research interests and agenda.
HSE Seminar on Political Economy: Andrea Matozzi (European University Institute) about the Voter Turnout with Peer Punishment
Andrea Matozzi introduced a model of turnout where social norms, strategically chosen by competing political parties, determine voters' turnout. Social norms must be enforced through costly peer monitoring and punishment. When the cost of enforcement of social norms is low, the larger party is always advantaged.