Campus news at HSE University

Antonios Platsas, a specialist in Comparative Legal Studies, European Law and International Law, is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law. He has been at the Higher School of Economics since 2014. Recently, he sat down with the HSE news service to speak about his teaching and research, as well as his impressions on living and working in Moscow.

arrows were broken during the year in exercises by Spiritum Saeculorum, the HSE historical reenactment club.

From October 9-14, the HSE will become one of the screening venues for the 360° 4^th Contemporary Science Film Festival. The festival offers a platform for films that talk about scientific and academic research in an accessible way – comprehensible for a general audience. After each screening, there will be a discussion with specialists. This is our guide to the HSE screenings and talks.

In the 1950s, a golden candlestick was found in the ventilation system in one of the rooms of this building – a reminder of the fact that it was initially a jewellery factory. During the Soviet era, the building housed a leather and footwear training school, dormitory and a continuing education institute for engineering and technical personnel.

On October 3, 2014, the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts is opening the exhibition ‘British Design: From William Morris to the Digital Revolution,’ prepared by the Moscow Design Museum. The exhibition will feature an educational programme, in which the HSE Faculty of Design is partnering with the two museums.

Iftekhar Hasan, Professor of Finance and Economics at Fordham University and Managing Editor of the Journal of Financial Stability, recently led a workshop for fourth-year undergraduate students in the HSE’s Faculty of Economics on ‘Banks and Banking Operations’. Professor Hasan's research interests cover financial institutions, corporate finance, capital markets and entrepreneurial finance, among other areas.

gold medals were won by the HSE Dance Club at a tap dance championship held in Moscow. 

Building No. 12 on Malaya Pionerskaya Ulitsa has a complicated history. Residents of neighbourhoods and even some university staff members believe that a women's prison once stood here. This is not true. Before the revolution, it was the Olovyanishnikov merchants’ factory, which produced expensive church vessels. In the 1920s, the Geodesy Optical and Mechanical Plant had already found a new home at this location. This is where the first Soviet model camera Leica was manufactured, which was to become the best in the world, although that never came to be.