2011 CISR News
28/03/2011 Joint seminar with the Center 'Res Public' (European University at St.-Petersburg) and the Urban Studies subdivision of CISR: theoretical and empirical approaches to investigation of a city
28/03/2011 Report published on the results of international research addressing the economic and social aspects of so-called 'media space'
26/03/2011 Report published on 'Art - (social) science' seminar - interdisciplinary projects: public presentations and creative designs at the intersection of social science and modern art
25/03/2011 Disscusion on the topic 'Space and city in the works of Lefebvre: Marxism with a human face'
18/03/2011 Presentation by Ekaterina Sotnikova and Dmitri Zhikharevich on navigation in the subway
11/03/2011 Training course by Tatiana Zimenkova on methods of objective hermeneutics analysis
09/03/2011 Presentation of new CISR research area 'Interdiciplinary projects: art-science'
09/03/2011 Informational seminar by the German Academic Exchange Service
02/03/2011 Seminar 'City information science - the Urbanist, Designer, Sociologist and Programmer's tool'
02/03/2011 Seminar by Aleksandr Zamaraev 'Nostalgia and its discursive study'
25/02/2011 Lecture by Oleg Pachenkov "Public city space in the face of calls for modernity: mobility, estheticism and the 'abuse of publicity'"
22/02/2011 Lecture by Soili Nystén-Haarala "Flexibility in International Project Contracting"
21/02/2011 CISR forest certification group registered as consultant to the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC)
15/02/2011 Introduction of new interdisciplinary research area "Society and Rights" and seminar by Svetlana Tulaeva "Forest auctions in Russia: how anticorruption laws promote the growth of corrupt practices"
05/02/2011 CISR presentations at conference "Social politics in the context of Russia's transforming society: reforms and daily routines" (Higher School of Economics, Moscow)
27/01/2011 Lecture by Oleg Pachenkov Dependent city: what keeps the 'cultural capital' from becoming a 'creative city'?"
20/01/2011 Annual CISR Reporting Session (20-21 January 2011)
2010 CISR News
10/12/2010 Lecture by Vladimir Davydov 'The use of mobile and fixed constructions by inhabitants of the Evens village in North Baikal'
29/11/2010 Lecture by Natalia Savelieva 'The economics of selflessness'
29/10/2010 Review of Edmund Muskie Graduate Fellowship Program
25/10/2010 Lecture by Ivan Salvo 'The phenomenon of dissent in modern Russia'
23/09/2010 Research seminar 'Is it possible to queer in Russia?'
04/09/2010 Round table 'Poetics for sale: do Russian intellectual journals follow corporate styles of writing?'
02/07/2010 Congratulations to CISR researcher Maria Tysiachniouk on her victories in two scientific competitions!
04/06/2010 Ninth seminar in the series 'Studies of ethnicity, nationalism and migration'- 'Sex far away from home: is everything allowed? The problems and risks concerning sexual health among migrant workers from Central Asia in St. Petersburg'
03/05/2010 Tatiana Safonovoi's new article published
30/04/2010 Seminar by I. Gololobov 'Tales from the basement' on the sociology of popular music
28/04/2010 Eighth seminar in the series 'Studies of ethnicity, nationalism and migration'-'After P. Nor or the pendulum of political memory after 11 September 2001'
25/04/2010 International seminar 'Public city spaces in the context of mobilization and esthetics: answering the call of modernity'
23/04/2010 Lecture by Galina Gorlovka 'On the form of the unspeakable: a personal story of silence in the USSR'
07/04/2010 Premier of the documentary film 'Bilingual'
04/04/2010 Commemorative medal awarded CISR by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC)
26/03/2010 Seventh seminar in the series 'Studies of ethnicity, nationalism and migration'-'An analysis of the functioning of the dating service industry in modern Russia'
18/03/2010 Lecture by Andre Vozyanov 'Aggressive city: the politics of noise, noise disparity and the tactics of noise opposition in Rostov-on-Don'
01/03/2010 Sixth seminar in the series 'Studies of ethnicity, nationalism and migration'-'Social organization of the steady student-stream: why after the collapse of the USSR educational migration from Kazakhstan to Russia did not stop'
15/02/2010 The Center for Independent Sociological Research offers 'internships for Students, PhD students, Researchers'
11/02/2010 The journal LABORATORIUM announces an opening for chief editor
02/02/2010 Fifth seminar in the series 'Studies of ethnicity, nationalism and migration'-'Gypsies in Russia - romantic myths on a background of total discrimination'
21/01/2010 The collected work "Making Bodies, Persons and Families. Normalizing Reproductive Technologies in Russia, Switzerland and Germany" published in LIT-Verlag
19/01/2010 Annual CISR Reporting Session
2009 CISR News
11/12/2009 Fourth seminar in the series 'Studies of ethnicity, nationalism and migration'-'Debates on the politics of migration in France - a lesson for Russia?'
10/12/2009 Presentation of the series 'Qualitative methods in the social sciences' and the second book in the series 'Leave in order to stay. Sociology in the field'
26/11/2009 Third seminar in the series 'Studies of ethnicity, nationalism and migration'-'How do we understand 'discrimination' and 'racism'?'
15/11/2009 Call for papers: Compilation of urban studies research articles
03/11/2009 Second seminar in the series 'Studies of ethnicity, nationalism and migration'-'Child-migrants in Petersburg schools: on 'traditional' ethnic stereotypes and the anthropologist's position'
13/10/2009 New CISR publication 'Leave in order to stay. Sociologist in the field'
12/10/2009 International conference 'Youth participation in society as a goal and method for civic education in Russia and Europe'
09/09/2009 Opening of the seminar series 'Studies of ethnicity, nationalism and migration'
08/09/2009 Seminar 'LAND and ETHNIC CONFLICT in Israel/Palestine'
08/09/2009 ATTENTION! Website reconstruction in progress
07/07/2009 The passing of Andrei Grigorevich Zdravomyslov
28/05/2009 International conference 'The Russian field: view from abroad'
19/05/2009 Lecture and dissertation discussion by Maria Tysyachniuk 'Transnational space and institutional change in localities: Scientific-industrial coalition networks as agents of institutional change'
15/05/2009 Scientific conference 'Differing opinions in the USSR and Russia (1945-2008)
23/04/2009 Event series 'Forest certification and the rights of citizens'
20/04/2009 Seventh biographical reading in memory of V. V. Iofe 'The right to your name: Biography of the 20th century'
18/04/2009 International conference 'Internationalization, trust and the multi-polar control of natural resources'
15/04/2009 Seminar by Anatonina Kulyasova and Maria Tysyachniuk
17/03/2009 Seminar-presentation on the topic 'Software tools for the organization, examination and analysis of qualitative information'
12/03/2009 Presentation by Petr Meilakhs 'Injected but not infected: how New York IV drug users avoid HIV and Hepatitis C'
02/03/2009 Roundtable 'The visual in the social sciences'
25/02/2009 Seminar 'Approaching the ethnographic dangers of comprehensive schools: case-study 'skeleton school''
16/02/2009 Presentation by Galina Orlova 'To see geologically: preliminary thoughts on specialized viewpoints, professional vision and visual knowledge'
02/02/2009 Lecture by Markus Kaiser and Zoya Soloveva 'Who from Germany is returning to Russia?'
17/01/2009 Annual CISR Reporting Session