Courses Spring – Fall 2026

AI for Social Research
Damir Malikov | F26 Sat
Analytic Philosophy and Pragmatism
Garris Rogonyan | S26 Wed
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
Cultural Revolution of the 1920s – 1930s: Political Theory, Social Practices, Artistic Forms
Ilya Kalinin | F26 Mon Wed
Diary Film, Auto\Ethnography, and Poetic Film Writing
Masha Godovannaya | S26 Mon Wed
Disability and Human Rights: Activism and Practice in the Modern World
Vera Shengeliya | F26 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
Freedom of Expression
Denis Skopin | S26 Fri
Geospatial Analysis
Vera Ivanova | S26 Mon
Historical Memory and the Politics of Memory
Yurii Latysh | F26 Fri
Historical Memory during the Russo-Ukrainian War
Yurii Latysh | S26 Mon Thu
Ilf and Petrov: A Slow Reading of the Soviet Epic
Dmitry Bykov | SEP – OCT F26
Introduction to Film Language
Masha Godovannaya | F26 Mon Wed
Introduction to Liberal Arts Mathematics
Andrei Rodin | F26 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
Mimesis in the Art and Thought of the Renaissance
Maria Chernysheva | F26 Tue Thu
Models of Many-Worlds. Connected by Belts and Roads
Natalia Fedorova | Sum 26 Tue Thu
Modern Literary Essay: A Form Open to the World
Galina Rymbu | F26 Wed Fri
Modern Theories of Nation and Nationalism
Oleksandr Vasiukov | S26 Mon, Thu
Narrating Trauma
Larissa Muravieva | FEB – MAR S26
Origins of Political Economy
Danila Raskov | F26 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 | F26 Tue
Sociolinguistics and Sociology of Language
Oleksandr Vasiukov | F26 Wed Fri
Soviet Origins of Contemporary Russia
Aleksey Gilev | F26 Tue Fri
Sustainable Development: Natural Resources Governance
Pavel Kononenko | F26 Tue Thu
The Poetics of the Kitchen in World Literature
Dmitry Bykov | NOV – DEC F26
The Politics of Truth and Falsehoods
Garris Rogonyan | F26 Tue Fri
The Private Individual in Culture
Maria Chernysheva | S26 Tue Thu
The Right to Remember: Qualitative Research Methods Seminar
Victor Apryshchenko | S26 Wed
Time Machines: Clocks in History of Technology and Contemporary Art
Natalia Fedorova | S26 Thu
Understanding Human Behavior
Michael Allakhverdov | F26 Tue Thu
utopia course
Utopia in Economics and Literature
Danila Raskov | S26 Tue
Valid Data for Social Science Research
Vera Ivanova | F26 Mon
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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