Exploring History’s Influence on Our Present: A Round Table Discussion
On October 5th, join us for an engaging round table discussion featuring a panel of esteemed experts, including the Gagarin fellow, Ilya Kalinin.
Category: Blog
“The Smolny that everyone knew no longer exists.”
Denis Skopin – about changes in Russian universities and hope for alternative online projects
The slow, painful death of liberal arts in Russia
Pola Lem, writing for Times Higher Education, examines the challenges faced by the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences and sheds light on the “Smolny Beyond Borders” initiative.
Reclaiming Voice: Reflections from a Russian Experience
September 3, Artemy Magun presented at the the 119th APSA’s Annual Meeting.
Does your university say ‘Sieg Heil,’ but you still want to study?
The DOXA team asked the instructors of “Smolny Beyond Borders” to recommend one text related to their courses to potential students.
A new Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences in Montenegro is enrolling students
Our colleagues and allies from Shaninka are launching the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences in Montenegro. The enrollment for the first year continues until September 1.
History of The Andrew Gagarin Center for Civil Society and Human Rights
The Andrew Gagarin Center for Civil Society and Human Rights at Smolny College of St.
Petersburg State University was a stronghold of human rights teaching, innovative research,
and networking among human rights activists, scholars, and academics in Russia and globally.
Multi-party Conflict Simulation, 16-17 September
Engage in a group exercise on negotiation and conflict resolution at Freie Universität Berlin.
Proofs and solutions, according to Kolmogorov
Andrei Rodin’s talk at the 17th International Congress on Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science and Technology in Benos-Aires.
Narrative Fissures
Larissa Muravieva explores the limits of representation of traumatic experience and ways of expressing the inexpressible.