Public lecture by Dr. Masha Cerovic – Reflections on โRussian Anatoliaโ: Imperial Colonization Projects in Western Armenia (1877โ1916)
On 16th of April, the lecture โRussian Anatolia: Russian Imperial Colonization Projects of Western Armenia (1877โ1916)โ was delivered by Dr. Masha Cerovic, Associate Professor at the รcole des hautes รฉtudes en sciences sociales (EHESS) and Director of the Centre for Russian, Caucasian, Eastern European and Central Asian Studies (CERCEC). The event featured a thoughtful and […]
Sergei Shtyrkovโs review was published in “Iran and the Caucasus” Brill journal
Sergei Shtyrkov, Director of Anthropological Programs at YCIE, published a review of Richard Foltz’s book, The Ossetes: Modern-Day Scythians of the Caucasus (London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023), in the journal Iran and the Caucasus by Brill. The review is available here.
Jeanne Korminaโs article was selected as one of two winners of the Association for the Study of Eastern Christian History and Cultureโs 2024 Best Article Prize.
Jeanne Korminaโs article “‘The church should know its place’: The passions and the interests of urban struggle in post-atheist Russia” (History and Anthropology 2021, volume 32 (5), pp. 574-595) was selected as one of two winners of the Association for the Study of Eastern Christian History and Cultureโs 2024 Best Article Prize. In her case […]
Iurii Agafonovโs New Paper in Scientometrics
Iurii Agafonov, a Research Fellow at the Yerevan Center for International Education (YCIE), has co-authored a paper published in Scientometrics. The article, titled โIndependent Russian Medical Science: Is There Any?โ uses scientometric analysis to examine the evolution of Russian medical research in international journals in recent years and explores the role of international collaboration in […]
Iurii Agafonovโs New Paper on The Russia Program Website of GWU
Iurii Agafonov, a Research Fellow at the Yerevan Center for International Education (YCIE), has published an online paper on The Russia Program website of George Washington University. The article, titled โSources and Trends in Russian Foreign Policy Discourse: A Quantitative Text Analysis of Key Conceptsโ, employs quantitative text analysis and examines how key concepts are […]
Vladimir Gelโmanโs New Publication in the โRussian Historyโ Journal
Political Scientist Vladimir Gelโman, an associate researcher at the Yerevan Center for International Education (YCIE), has recently published his latest article in the “Russian History” Journal, titled “Escape from Political Freedom: The Constitutional Crisis of 1993 and Russiaโs Political Trajectory.” It examines how the crisis marked a significant turn towards personalist authoritarianism in Russia, driven […]
Political Scientist Vladimir Gelโman will Conduct 2 Intensive Courses in YCIE
Yerevan Center for International Education (YCIE) starts 2024 with several intensive courses, the most notable of which are the two courses by Vladimir Gelโman, a Russian political scientist, professor at the University of Helsinki, and currently an associate researcher at YCIE. Ahead of the spring semester, the following online courses start on February 9: 1โค […]
Summarizing the International Conference About the Greater Caucasus
On November 1-2 the international conference โSetting and Overcoming Borders: the Greater Caucasus in Regional and Global History, XVIII-XX centuriesโ was held in Yerevan. In the framework of the conference, historians discussed the Greater Caucasus as a border space with many cultural, social, and political valences. The discussion revolved not only around the borders delineated […]
Open Vacancy at YCIE: Academic Director
The Yerevan Center for International Education of the European University at Saint Petersburg (YCIE/E-Center) is seeking a qualified individual to serve as its inaugural Academic Director. Qualifications The successful candidate will be a self-starter, with strong interpersonal and organizational skills, and the ability to work well with diverse international populations. Full-time residence in Yerevan or […]
VIDEO: Why Humanities Need Data Analysis (or do they)?
On August 17, the E-Center hosted Danil Skorinkin, a computer literary scholar, digital humanities coordinator at the University of Potsdam (Germany) and editor-in-chief of sysblok.ru independent media. The title of the lecture already suggests what he was talking about: after all, what does digital technology give to a person who studies humanities, literature, art or […]
What, Where, When? Briefly about Kolonitskyโs lectures in Yerevan
Last week E-center hosted Boris Kolonitsky, professor of the faculty of history at European University at St. Petersburg. He gave public lectures on historical and historical-political topics, in Yerevan.Briefly about it;On 27th May Kolonitsky presented a public lecture titled โโThe forgotten war? The Memory of World War I in the USSR and the Post-Soviet Spaceโโ […]
Series of Public Lectures from the Institute of the Rule of Law EUSP Took Place in Yerevan
On March 14-16, Yerevan hosted a series of public lectures by the researchers of the Institute for the Rule of Law (IRL) at the European University at St. Petersburg. Since 2009, the researchers of the Institute have been engaged in empirical research on law enforcement practices in modern Russia. IRL studies law as the behavior […]
