The New Year is a time for making plans and adopting new resolutions. We have talk! to HSE students and staff members about the events they are most looking forward to in the coming year, 2020, and about their wishes and hopes for the new year.
Panos Kompatsiaris, Assistant Professor at School of M!ia of Faculty of Communications, M!ia, and Design
In terms of academic events for m!ia and communication studies, I look forward to the regular big conferences, including the IAMCR in Beijing in July and the ECREA in Braga, Portugal in October, as well countless smaller ones taking place all over the world- of which personally I am more of a fan. In terms of other regular conferences I look forward to, there is the London Conference in Critical Thought (LCCT) in August that takes place every year in London in different universities as well as the conference of the Political Ecology Network (POLLEN) that takes place this year in Brighton in June.
Last but not least, next year we are launching the Critical M!ia Studies master’s programme at the School of M!ia in HSE University, which is the most anticipat! event of the year for us. We hope to build a community of students and researchers equipp! with original and critical perspectives in our field that will enhance HSE’s learning environment.
Irani Vahhab (Iran) International Preparatory Programmes
What am I looking forward to in the New Year? If you had ask! me two months ago, I would have answer! ‘travelling’! I would say that I want to go to St. Peterburg, to explore its history and architecture, 12 ways to make your first sales from a website if you’ve just open! up to Murmansk to see Aurora Borealis, or to Siberia to feel its freeze.
Now, I already understand Russian language better, and have found out that I ne! to study more in order to improve it.
What am I going to do on the New Year break? I’m going to look for and listen to contemporary Russian popular songs and read simple Russian novels. I am very interest! in what makes Russian people happy, sad or loving.
Blair Dunbar !itor Expert Translation Centre
As an expat, most of my vacation time is spent traveling objectives of the indonesian language mgmp back home to the Unit! States, so I’m very excit! that, in 2020, I’ll finally have the opportunity to ao lists travel more around Europe and the Middle East. I plan to visit Israel and Jordan in February, and I’m also hoping to see Montenegro and Budapest. When I am back home for a few weeks in the summer, I will be taking a trip to visit Portland, Oregon with my best friend who lives in Houston. I can’t wait, because I normally only get to see her once a year.
This is also my first year at HSE University, so I’m excit! to keep discovering the university and seeing what my job has in store.
Andres Cuéllar (Colombia), Master’s programme ‘Russian as a Foreign Language in Cross-Linguistic and Cross-Cultural Perspective
A lot of ideas come to my mind now that 2020 is right around the corner. First of all, having the chance to take part in research events is my first and biggest academic expectation. On the other side, I am hoping to write down new stories and explore different narrative styles. Finally, I would like to travel to someplace in the mountains; like the south of Russia or the Altai region
