Seminar by Bulat Gilfanov
On November 21, a seminar was held at the International Laboratory for Social Integration Research, National Reaserach University, HSE, dedicated to the discussion of Bulat Gilfanov's dissertation on the topic: "Involving People with Disabilities in Entrepreneurship: Barriers and Resources."
Elena Iarskaya-Smirnova and Igor Novikov spoke at the session "Entrepreneurship and Self-Employment of People with Disabilities: Realities and Opportunities" as part of the "Open for All" Forum!
On November 25, the Cyberdom space in Moscow hosted a session titled "Entrepreneurship and Self-Employment for People with Disabilities: Realities and Opportunities," organized as part of the All-Russian Inclusive Forum "Open for All." Among the participants were Elena Yarskaya-Smirnova, head of our laboratory, and Igor Novikov, research intern at ILSIR and head of Everland.
The staff of the Moscow Institute of Sociology organized a round table at the VII All-Russian Sociological Congress
From November 12 to 14, 2025, the 7th All-Russian Sociological Congress "Sociology and Society: The Formation and Functioning of Public Memory" was held in Moscow. On November 13, as part of the congress, staff from the International Laboratory for Social Integration Research (ILSIR) held Roundtable Discussion #13, "Are Outsiders Allowed? Definitions and Challenges of an Inclusive Society."
The almanac "Exploring the Deaf Community:1" was shortlisted for the Grushin Prize.
On Sociologist's Day, November 14, the Shaninka Library hosted the awards ceremony for the BA Grushin Book Sociology Prize. Among this year's nominees was the almanac "Exploring the Deaf Community: 1," published following the conference "What Does It Mean to Be Deaf: New Challenges for the Community," edited by Nikita Bolshakov, leading research fellow at the International Laboratory for Social Integration Research, and Vlad Kolesnikov, curator of the GES-2 Community Center.
Natalia Bulchenko participated in the interdisciplinary conference "Comorbidity Field 2.0: Sociocultural Dimensions of Health, Illness, and Medicine"
On October 31, 2025, Natalia Vasilievna Bulchenko, a research intern at the Moscow Literary Institute for Social Studies and a second-year postgraduate student at the HSE Graduate School of Sociological Sciences, presented a paper at the interdisciplinary conference "Comorbidity Field 2.0: Sociocultural Dimensions of Health, Illness, and Medicine," organized by the HSE St. Petersburg School of Humanities and Arts, the HSE Faculty of Humanities, the HSE Ronald Franklin Inglehart Laboratory for Comparative Social Research, the Student Research Society of the Department of History of the HSE St. Petersburg School of Humanities and Arts, and the HSE Research and Study Group "History of Russian Psychiatry: New Approaches to Study."
The 3rd Interdisciplinary Conference "Exploring the Deaf Community – 2025: On the Periphery of Attention" was held at the GES-2 Community Center.
From October 17-19, 2025, the 3rd Interdisciplinary Conference "Studying the Deaf Community – 2025: On the Periphery of Attention" was held at the GES-2 Community Center. It was organized with the participation of the International Laboratory for Social Integration Research. Speakers from 20 countries participating, presenting over 90 papers on the culture, languages, and experiences of the deaf community. The RDC-2025 laboratory team also presented four studies prepared over the past year. These studies focused on the social structure of deaf society, the formation of deaf identity in bilingual education based on the archives of a Moscow gymnasium, sign singing in deaf culture and its perception by deaf and hard of hearing people, and clubs as a center for the development of deaf culture.
Tatyana Larkina received a grant to write a manuscript from the Khamovniki Foundation for Historical and Cultural Studies.
Starting November 1, 2025, with the support of the Khamovniki Foundation for Social Research, a project will begin. As a result, our laboratory's junior research fellow, Tatyana Larkina, will describe the daily work routines of Russian teachers, reveal the social drama of teaching, and demonstrate how employees of general education organizations repeatedly make numerous choices in situations of value conflicts and contradictory and uncertain demands on their professional roles.
Konstantin Obukhov took part in the scientific and practical conference "Philanthropy: Science and Practice"
On October 20-21, the Smirnov House in Moscow hosted the scientific and practical conference "Philanthropy: Science and Practice ," organized by the Vladimir Potanin Charitable Foundation. Konstantin Obukhov, a senior research fellow at the ILSIR, delivered a presentation.
Congratulations to Maxim Kotelnikov on the successful pre-defense of his PhD dissertation!
On October 20, 2025, at a meeting of the International Laboratory for Social Integration Studies at the Higher School of Economics, Maxim Pavlovich Kotelnikov, a postgraduate student at the HSE International Laboratory for Social Integration Studies, held a pre-defense of his candidate's dissertation on the topic "Literary practices as a resource for transforming the biographical projects of young men from families with low socioeconomic status."