September 3 – October 17 In recent years, medical schools have been more and more integrating humanity courses in their curricula. The reason: equip future physicians with skills and competencies useful to improve the doctor-patient relationship; provide a better understanding of delicate ethical questions; enable them to maintain their professional identity in the face of the […]

Evgeny Grishin, duskin drum, Peter Jones   From 16th of April until 6th of June open course “Visions of the Past, Histories of the Future in Historical & Sci-Fi Films” will be taught at the School of Advanced Studies. The course is open, so everybody is welcome. Participants will receive a certificate of the course […]

Are you looking for an opportunity to expand your intellectual and cultural world while completing your undergraduate education at an innovative international undergraduate degree program taught in English? We are looking for outgoing, intellectually engaged English-speaking students to study at the School of Advanced Studies (SAS) at the University of Tyumen in Siberia, Russia. This scholarship is open […]

Open lecture by Alexei Grinbaum “The Ethical Value of Chance for Autonomous Systems” Domestic robots become informers, conversational agents insult their interlocutors. Worse still, computer systems participate in human conflicts and sometimes even provoke them. On March 18, 2018, an autonomous Uber car killed a woman crossing the street in a city in Arizona. This […]

This presentation will describe various types of social diversity (historical, economic, linguistic, geographic, religious, genetic, cultural, etc.) and their impact on economic, social and political outcomes, such as growth, institutional development, investment, conflicts, inequality, etc. The focus will be on the understanding of concepts of diversity and polarization, their measurement and evaluation, derivation of diversity […]

We are excited to announce the 2019 School of Advanced Studies (SAS) third faculty search competition. Finalists, PhDs currently working in research universities in 14 countries, will get together for a Project Design Session where they self-organize into multidisciplinary teams, design and defend collective multidisciplinary research projects. The teams whose projects will promise most valuable […]

From 4th of February until 28th of March 2019  open course “History of Photography: Technology, Document, Art” will be taught at the School of Advanced Studies. The course is open, so everybody is welcome. Participants will receive a certificate of the course completion issued by SAS if they attend regularly. Monday and Thursday from 7 p.m. […]

From 5th of November until 27th of December 2018 open course “Time and Time Travel” will be taught at the School of Advanced Studies. The course is open, so everybody is welcome. Participants will receive a certificate of the course completion issued by SAS if they attend regularly. Tuesday and Thursday from 7 p.m. to […]

During the period from Oct. 15 to Oct. 25, 2018, all the SAS first-year students are taking part in an educational internship in Saint Petersburg. “The City As a Text” is a special educational course wrapping up the first module in SAS. The aim of the course is to learn how to apply skills acquired […]

August 20, 10:00—20:00, SAS   NEMOSKVA Project A strategic project for the development of contemporary culture in the Russian regions. Its goal is to build horizontal links, to promote regional artists and curators, to study the current situation in the regions through professional dialogue and creating new possibilities for international partnership. More about the project […]

  On 16-17 June SAS will host its 3rd annual “Disciplinary Landscape” forum; the topic of this year is “CRITICAL THINKING IN ACADEMIA TODAY”. It will bring together 16 participants from 10 universities in 6 countries, including Jonathan Becker, Andrew Wachtel, Andrei Volkov, Froumin Isak. The description & program of the forum is available here. Most events are open […]

6th open faculty research seminar   February 16, 19.00—21.00 Address: ul. 8 Marta, 2/1 Free admission, no registration needed, working language is English   Seminar program Giacomo Andreoletti (PhD in Philosophy and Human Sciences, State University of Milan, Italy) “The Metaphysics of Time Travel” In this talk I will provide a general survey of the main […]

  “Reforms and the State” – an open discussion in the framework of the Global Issues core course at SAS. Pavel Demidov is the head of the Department of Communication Policy of the Center for Strategic Research Foundation. He is also an adviser of Alexey Kudrin, ex-Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation, and one […]

5th open faculty research seminar. November 17, 19.00-21.00 Address: ul. 8 Marta, 2/1 Free admission, everyone is welcome. The seminar is conducted in English. Seminar program   Anne Mulhall (PhD in Comparative Literature (Cultural and Critical Theory focus), King’s College London, Great Britain) “Work in Crisis in the French Literature of the Office” Focusing on […]

“The City as Text” is a special educational module that constitutes the final part of the core “Writing and Thinking” course. All SAS students and professors will spend ten days in St. Petersburg on an educational journey. The course is designed to expand students’ understanding of the concept of text and supplement their educational experience […]

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Sept. 8, Lenina st., 23, room 501, 17.00 – 21.00 Free admission, everyone is welcome. The seminar is conducted in English.   Seminar program Louis Vervoort (PhD in Physics, Université de Marseille; PhD in Philosophy, University of Montreal) “Does Chance Hide Necessity? An investigation at the interface of philosophy and physics” In this presentation I […]

Mikhail Drugov is a professor at New Economic School (Moscow). He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Toulouse (2006), and has been a Posdoctoral Research Fellow at University of Oxford, and an Assistant Professor at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Drugov has also worked at the University of Warwick (UK) and Northwestern […]

We invite applications for participation in a master-class to be conducted by Dutch media theorist and internet critic and activist Geert Lovink who is leading the Institute of Network Cultures in Amsterdam. The two day master-class is divided into six sessions and engages with the following topics: Introduction on State of Art of Internet Criticism […]

  The most informative and exciting moments of the plenary sessions were selected out of the 15 hour video broadcast of the Project Design Session for the School of Advanced Studies. We are grateful to Ekaterina Selikhovkina for this digest. The candidates self-organized into multidisciplinary teams and proposed collective research projects, for instance: Sustainable 21st Century: […]