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.
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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.
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.
Two-stage Higher Education Looms Large
In Russia according to changes in the Federal Law on Education approved two years ago and coming into effect with the start of the new academic year, the majority of universities will be enrolling students into Bachelor's and Master's programs instead of traditional five-year courses . The HSE Deputy rector Vadim Radayev comments on the innovation for the RIA Novosti correspondent Yulia Medvedovskaya.
TEDxMoscow: Ideas Worth Spreading
On May 24th the first independently organized TED conference in Russia was held at the HSE. The conference was supported by the “Business in RU Style” club and the HSE Business Incubator.
To learn means to compare
A project entitled "Morality and Trust in Old and New Market Economies" has been running since 2007 as a joint research teaching activity included in the MA Program of Applied Social Research of Markets (head - Prof. V. Radaev) at the Higher School of Economics and the Research Institute for Sociology, University of Cologne, Germany.
Some more questions for the Conference participants
Most of the delegates at the 10th International Academic Conference on economic and social development in Russia think the event is a contribution to professional community integration.