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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."

Gabriella Leelee Enchill (Research intern at International Laboratory for Social Integration Research) engaged in Archipelago ’25 Tech Expo at Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology. The forum was held on 7^th-17^th August, 2025; themed “Within the Framework of the International Forum on the Development of Unmanned Systems”.

Gabriella Leelee Enchill (Research intern at International Laboratory for Social Integration Research) attended a world forum large scale meeting being held by the International Organization for Eurasian Cooperation in Moscow. The forum was held on 20^th-21^st August, 2025; themed “New Era, New Ways”.

Applications are now open for participation in the conference “Comorbidity Field 2.0: Sociocultural Dimensions of Health, Illness, and Medicine”, which will be held from October 31 to November 1, 2025, at the HSE St. Petersburg School of Arts and Humanities.

International Research Conference “Interaction. Integration. Inclusion: From Reflection to Action,” held from August 5–7, 2025

On February 27-28, 2025, the international conference "Game Design and Game Studies: Ontology of Video Games" was held, organized by the School of Design and the Graduate School of Art and Design of the National Research University Higher School of Economics, at which Egor Novgorodov, a research intern at the ILSIR, spoke.

On June 20, 2024 a seminar was held on the topic "Emotional labour of nurses in the COVID-19 pandemic: the results of a qualitative study", organized within the framework of the Research Group "Doctor-nurse-patient relationship: between professional authority and the powers of consumers of medical services".

The 9^th African Population Conference themed «Road to 2030: Leveraging Africa’s human capital to achieve transformation in a world of uncertainty» was held between 20^th – 24^th May, 2024 at the BICC international conference center, Lilongwe, Malawi.