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On November, 23rd, the Department of Sociology of St. Petersburg State University, together with the Centre for German and European Studies, was hosting the third seminar of the autumn session of the ongoing event “The Scientific Wednesdays”, on the topic "Digitalization of fashion in the modern symbolic economy." SESL members Denis Bulygin and Ilya Musabirov presented results of their research on the seminar.

From the beginning of this academic year the Laboratory welcomes a new research intern – Marica Sharashenidze. She has recently earned her degree from Rice University in Houston, Texas. Marica majored in Sociology and minored in Medical studies. This year she came to the Laboratory of Sociology in Education and Science to conduct a research project focusing on second generation migrant students in Saint Petersburg schools. Marica found the Laboratory while looking for scientific papers on migrants and considered some of its English-language publications relevant. After that she asked D. A. Aleksandrov if there were opportunities to get a research internship in the Laboratory. We talked to Marica about how does it feel to be a sociologist in America and asked about her research plans in Russia.

On the 21st of October 2016, at the meeting of the Department of Sociology, St. Petersburg School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Ksenia Tenisheva held her preliminary Ph.D. Thesis defense.

Recently we made an acquaintance with a new research assistant of SESL, Marika Sharashenidze. And she is beautiful, too! On the 17th of October, at a scheduled SESL seminar, she presented the results of her ethnographic research, “Clothing as Symbol and Meaning in A Houston Bar: What clothing choice for bar goers reveals.”

On the 13th of October, 2016, Stephen Kerr, Professor of Education of the College of Education at the University of Washington, gave a lecture to the staff and guests of SESL. The Professor was talking about the role of education analytics in effective functioning of distance education, and how online courses can compensate for the shortcomings of full-time education, with the University of Washington as an example.

The Council of Young Scientists of the Department of Sociology of St. Petersburg State University and the Center for German and European Studies invite for the final seminar of the autumn session “Scientific Wednesdays” on the topic “Ethnic stereotyping and social exclusion in school”, which will take place on Wednesday, December 21, 2016, at 19:00.

The Head of the Laboratory gave a comment to a news resource “Lenta.ru” about whether children can continue the work of their parents at the same high level, and on the difference between nepotism and dynasties.

Earlier this year a SESL student Sasha Koptyaeva has been enrolled to a Master program at the Linköping University in Sweden. She shares her first impressions with us.