Integrated Humanities Schools ‘Humanus’

Research Adviser

PhD, Professor, Academic Supervisor at the HSE International Centre for the History and Sociology of World War II and Its Consequences, Professor at Georgetown University
H-index: 7

ACADEMIC Leader

Alexey Rutkevich

Doctor of Sciences in Philosophy, Dean of the HSE Faculty of Humanities, Chief Research Fellow at the HSE Poletayev Institute for Theoretical and Historical Studies in the Humanities

Strategic Academic Unit Structure and Management System

Consortium of Integrated Humanities Schools «Humanus» belongs to the first type of HSE Strategic Academic Units.

Management Committee (Heads of Key Units):

Alexey Rutkevich

Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, Professor, School of Philosophy; chief research fellow at IGITI

Mikhail Boytsov

Deputy dean for research, professor, School of History, Head, Center for Medieval Studies

Alexander Kamenskii

Head, Professor, School of History, chief research fellow at IGITI

Vitaly Kurennoy

Head, Professor, School of Cultural Studies

Alexander Filippov

Head of the Centre for Fundamental Sociology, Professor, School of Philosophy

Dmitry Nosov

First deputy dean, professor, School of Philosophy

Elena Penskaja

Head, Professor, School of Philology

Ekaterina Rakhilina

Head, Professor, School of Linguistics

Irina Savelieva

Head of IGITI, Professor, School of History

Vladimir Porus

Head, Professor, School of Philosophy

International Advisory Council:

Bart Geurts, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, Netherlands;
Valerie A. Kivelson, Thomas N. Tentler Collegiate Professor; Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA;
Joachim Küpper, Freie Universitat Berlin, Berlin, Germany;
Nikolay Plotnikov, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, Germany
Maria Polinsky, Professor of Linguistics at Harvard University, co-director of the Maryland Language Science Center (LSC), USA;
Elise K. Wirtschafter, Professor, California State Technological University at Pamona, USA.

Goal

To achieve global recognition in the humanities for research conducted at HSE in the fields of philosophy, philology, history, linguistics, and cultural studies; to strengthen HSE’s leadership in those fields in Russian academia.

Main Objectives

To bring research in digital humanities and the comparative study of cultural and linguistic transformations at historical turning points to an international level;
To monitor the sociolinguistic aspects of Russian language and its variations in the former Soviet republics and other foreign countries where Russian diasporas exist;
To strenthen leadership in Russia and promote in world science the HSE advanced studies in philosophy and metodology of science; in human sciences; in exploring peculiarities of medieval European cultures; in the history of World War II; in social and cultural development as well as social and linguistic situation in Russia in comparison with other countries;
To provide expertise and scientific and methodological support to the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation for teaching humanities as part of general education, to support internet resources for the Russian language and for other languages spoken in Russia;
To advance humanities education at HSE through open educational platforms and summer schools in Russian studies; a series of educational lectures in museums, libraries and other public places; the organization of double-degree Master’s and other doctoral programs in cooperation with European universities; to strengthen the humanities component within the education program at HSE.

Main Anticipated Deliverables

Internationally significant results in digital humanities and comparative communicational conflict studies published in top-field international peer-reviewed academic journals;
Achieving a leading position in Russia in the philosophy of science by combining the traditions of analytical and continental philosophy; in the history of World War II; in the analysis of the ethical problems of the war;
Serving as Russia’s leading internationally competitive center in research on the values and structures of the world order and on the transformation of the Soviet and post-Soviet culture;
Support and development of linguistic internet resources for Russian and other languages, creation and advancement of internet resources providing the most up-to-date information on the contemporary Russian language including the Russian National Corpus; methodological support of All-Russian Olympiads of High School Students in literature and social studies;
Designing and publishing online courses in philosophy, cultural studies, history, philology and linguistics on Coursera and on Russia's National Open Education Platform;
Launching new double-degree Master’s programs in philosophy, philology and history in cooperation with Paris-Sorbonne University, University of Cologne, University of Warsaw and Free University of Berlin as well as introducing a joint doctoral program with Paris-Sorbonne University;
Creating and delivering cross-disciplinary courses in humanities for students from different HSE faculties.
Confirming HSE’s international academic reputation by entering the Top 200 in the QS World University Rankings by Faculty: Arts & Humanities, QS World University Rankings by Subject: History subject rating, the Top 150 QS World University Rankings by Subject: Philosophy, and the Top 100 QS World University Rankings by Subject: Linguistics.

Key Subdivisions and Associated Units:

Faculty of Humanities:

School of History (Scientific-Educational Laboratory of Medieval Studies; Center for Source Studies).
School of Philology (Laboratory of Linguo-Semiotic Studies; Laboratory of Linguistic Conflictology and Modern Communication; Osip Mandelstam Center).
School of Philosophy
School of Cultural Studies
School of Linguistics
Centre for Fundamental Sociology

Divisions associated with the Faculty of Humanities:

Roadmap

Grant Proposal (PDF, 673 Kb)

Roadmap (DOCX, 120 Kb)

Key Educational Programs and Their Development

Stategic Academic Unit offers six undergraduate programs (1380 students, 78 of them are international students) and nine active (348 students, 34 of them are international students) and three opening Master’s programs. In the academic year 2016/17, the Faculty of Humanities will introduce cross-disciplinary minors at the undergraduate level. These minors will stimulate the development of new fields of science and education: Religious Studies, Ancient Studies, etc.

These educational programs are directly related to Stategic Academic Unit’s main fields of research and will bring the educational process closer to the main vectors of scholarly research and strengthen the research output. For example:

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Master’s program Computational Linguistics

Master’s program Applied Cultural Studies

Doctoral program in Philosophy

Key Research Projects and Their Development

HSE subdivisions that are part of the Consortium employ a considerable number of well-known scholars in the fields of fundamental and computer linguistics, the history of philosophy and logic, literary and applied cultural studies, medieval studies and the history of World War II. These and other groups of researchers have extensive international connections, which young scholars and students can benefit from. International conferences are held on a regular basis and the number of publications in international peer-reviewed academic journals is constantly growing. The Consortium activities will lead to the creation of an electronic dictionary of the Russian language in standardized computer-readable format, new forms of collaboration in the field of intelligence and culture, the correlation of local and European readings of Russian history, and the formation of a unified concept field of analysis for scientific rationality.

1. A New History of the Human Sciences.

2. Linguistic Technologies in the Era of Digital Revolution.

3. Russian Empire in a global perspective

4. Literature vs. Society: Language, Text, and Communication.

5. Scientific Rationality: Contemporary Development Strategies.

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