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The purpose of the project: informing the public about urgent problems of regional studies and increasing the professional competence of students.
Description of the project: expert seminars "Contemporary area studies" are regular online meetings. Duration 80 minutes: 40 minutes - presentation of the main speaker and 40 minutes session of questions and answers, in which experts take part on the topic of the presentation.
Target audience: applicants, students, graduate students, researchers, university staff, experts, politicians, diplomats, and all those who are interested in the development of the current situation in the regions and countries of the world, culture, and history. The core audience of the expert seminars are depending on the announced topic of the meeting.
Theoretical significance of the project: Seminars allow you to supplement with practical and theoretical knowledge those areas of regional research that are not sufficiently covered in Russia and abroad. It allows getting a comprehensive overview of the directions, nature and dynamics of the development of different countries and regions in the modern world.
Specialists wishing to take part in the project Expert seminars "Contemporary area studies" and make a presentation can contact the project coordinator Murad Sadygzade (msadygzade@hse.ru).
Seminars topics:
On Thursday, May 14, the regular online seminar was held as part of the project “Contemporary Area Studies” organised by the School of International Regional Studies of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, HSE University. This time, a lecture “India as a Great Power” was delivered by Sergey Ivanovich Lunev, professor at the HSE Department of World Economy and International Affairs, professor at the Department of Oriental Studies, Moscow State Institute of International Relations.
The Impact of COVID-19 on the New World Order” from Dr. Samir Saran, President of the Observer Research Foundation (ORF)
On Thursday, 23rd of April seventh online meeting with international expert Tetsuya Toyoda, Director of the Institute for Asian Studies and Regional Collaboration at Akita International University (Japan) was held in the framework of the project of the School of International Regional Studies of HSE University. The topic of the discussion was “Japan and COVID-19”.
On April 14, 2020, within the framework of the online project "Expert Seminars: Topical Issues of Regional Studies" of the Department of Foreign Regional Studies of the Higher School of Economics, an online meeting was held with the leading orientalist of the Russian Federation Vitaly Vyacheslavovich Naumkin. The seminar was prepared jointly with the base department of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences NRU HSE and the Russian Middle East Association.
The online project "Expert Seminars: Topical Issues of Regional Studies" was launched on March 27, 2020.
The HSE Department of Foreign Regional Studies, together with the Russian Association of the Middle East, held an online meeting with Dr. Imad Rizk, Director of the Institute for Strategic and Communication Studies in Lebanon (Isticharia-ISCS)
On April 9, 2020, within the framework of the online project "Expert Seminars: Topical Issues of Regional Studies" of the Department of Foreign Regional Studies of the Higher School of Economics, a meeting was held with Vladimir Vyacheslavovich Malyavin, professor, famous sinologist, thinker of the 20th century.
On April 6, 2020, as part of the online project "Expert Seminars: Topical Issues of Regional Studies" of the Department of Foreign Regional Studies of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs of the Higher School of Economics, the fourth online meeting with a foreign expert, organized jointly with the Russian Association of the Middle East, took place.
Dr. Hani Suleiman Kerba, manager of the Arab Center for Research and Development (Cairo, Egypt), spoke at the seminar. At the meeting, the issue of the experience of combating the coronavirus of the leading countries and, in particular, Egypt, was discussed.
The third online meeting within the online project of the HSE Department of Foreign Regional Studies "Expert Seminars: Topical Issues of Regional Studies" with international experts Dr. Nasim Khan Achakzai and Professor Hamid Khan from Pakistan. Dr. Achakzai is the Executive Director of the Center for Sustainable Development Research and Practice at the University of Lahore (Pakistan).
The special guest of the seminar was Dr. Wakar Rizvi, Pakistani-Canadian journalist, TV presenter and political scientist. During the meeting, one of the most pressing problems of COVID-19 was discussed in the Q&A mode.