Courses Academic Year 2025-2026

Analytic Philosophy and Pragmatism
Garris Rogonyan | S26 Wed
Artist in Power: The King as Narrator
Dmitry Bykov | SEP – OCT F25
Civic Engagement in Democratic and Authoritarian Regimes
Karine Clément | S26 Tue Fri
Civic Tech and Algorithms for Social Good
Maria Milosh | S26 Thu
Comparative Case Studies within the Disability Rights Movement
Vera Shengeliya | MAR – APR S26
Contemporary Cultural and Literary Theories
Ilya Kalinin | F25 Mon Wed
Diary Film, Auto\Ethnography, and Poetic Film Writing
Masha Godovannaya | S26 Mon Wed
Disability and Human Rights: Activism and Practice
Vera Shengeliya | F25 Tue
Documentary Poetry: Politics of Memory and the ‘Desire for an Archive’
Galina Rymbu | FEB – MAR S26
Ecocritical Reading of Russophone Poetry of the 20th-21st Centuries
Galina Rymbu | MAR – APR S26
Exploring Disability Identity
Vera Shengeliya | FEB – MAR S26
Foundations of Data Analysis
Vera Ivanova | F25 Mon Thu
Freedom of Expression
Denis Skopin | S26 Fri
Geospatial Analysis
Vera Ivanova | S26 Mon
Historical Memory and the Politics of Memory
Yurii Latysh | F25 Fri
Historical Memory during the Russo-Ukrainian War
Yurii Latysh | S26 Mon Thu
History of Globalization since 1300
Victor Apryshchenko | F25 Tue
History of History Painting
Maria Chernysheva | F25 Tue Thu
Introduction to Dialectics
Artemy Magun | F25 Fri
Introduction to Film Language
Masha Godovannaya | F25 Mon Wed
Introduction to Liberal Arts Mathematics
Andrei Rodin | F25 Tue Thu
Literature after The War: Genres, Themes, Challenges
Dmitry Bykov | FEB – MAR S26
Literature and Photography
Larissa Muravieva | MAR – APR S26
Mathematical Introduction to Data Analysis
Andrei Rodin | S26 Tue Thu
Memory and Digital Archives
Tamara Velikodneva | F25 Mon Wed
Modern Theories of Nation and Nationalism
Oleksandr Vasiukov | S26 Mon, Thu
Narrating Trauma
Larissa Muravieva | FEB – MAR S26
Origins of Political Economy
Danila Raskov | F25 Tue Thu
Political Economy of Authoritarianism
Aleksey Gilev | S26 Wed Fri
Practical Data Science: Tools for Social Change
Anastasiia Kulakova | S26 Wed
Practices of Autofiction
Larissa Muravieva | F25 Tue
Russian Folklore: Myth, Rumor, and Cultural Memory
Dmitry Bykov | OCT – NOV F25
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Russian Politics after 1991
Aleksey Gilev | F25 Mon Thu
Sociolinguistics and Sociology of Language
Oleksandr Vasiukov | F25
Sustainable Development: Natural Resources Governance
Pavel Kononenko | F25 Wed
The Politics of Truth and Falsehood
Garris Rogonyan | F25 Mon Thu
The Private Individual in Culture
Maria Chernysheva | S26 Tue Thu
The Right to Remember: Qualitative Research Methods Seminar
Victor Apryshchenko | S26 Wed
Thinking Through Conflict
Michael Allakhverdov | F25 Tue Thu
Time Machines: Clocks in History of Technology and Contemporary Art
Natalia Fedorova | S26 Thu
utopia course
Utopia in Economics and Literature
Danila Raskov | S26 Tue
Visual Media in the Past and Present
Jan Levchenko | F25 Tue Thu
Why Do We Forget? The Politics of Memory
Ilia Venyavkin | MAR – MAY S26
Writers’ Survival Strategies
Dmitry Bykov | MAR – APR S26
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