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On January 31, 2025 at 14:00 in the IMEMO conference hall a meeting of the Scientific and Theoretical Seminar of Center for Comparative Socio-Economic and Political Studies was held.

The meeting is dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the birth of Sergey Petrovich PEREGUDOV, Dr. of Science (History), Professor, Chief Research Fellow of IMEMO, Maestro of Russian political science, lead researcher of the political landscape of modern Great Britain.

Topic of the meeting: Country Studies in the Context of Analyzing Contemporary Social Development: Priorities and Prospects of Russian British Studies.

Questions for discussion (in roundtable format):

• Country studies in the context of ongoing systemic transformations of the information field and structure of the modern world order.
• The role of country studies in conceptualizing the problems of modern social development and forming the corresponding research agenda.
• Comprehension of national development models and alternative theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of countries and regions of the modern world: the British “case”.
• The influence of the contemporary political agenda on the formation of priorities in the study of the history of Great Britain.
• Subjective dimension of country studies: the British experience.

Program of the session:

• 1.    Irina Semenenko, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Deputy Director for Scientific Work of IMEMO. Scientist, Teacher, Senior Comrade. On the Directions of Research Laid Down by Sergey Peregudov and his Scientific Heritage in the Context of the Development of Modern Country Studies;
• 2.    Irina Prokhorenko, Dr. of Science (Politics), Head of the Department of International Political Problems of IMEMO. Imperatives of Country Studies in Various Contexts;
• 3.    Natalia Lapina, Dr. of Science (Politics), Head of the Department for Global Issues of the Institute of Scientific Information for Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences (INION). Is there a Crisis of Country Studies in Modern Russia?;
• 4.    Elena Ananieva, Cand. of Science (Philosophy), Head of UK Studies Center of the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Party and Political System of the United Kingdom in the First Quarter of the XXI Century;
• 5.    Tatyana Labutina, Dr. of Science (History), Professor, Chief Research Fellow of the Institute of World History of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Innovative Research in Modern English Studies;
• 6.    Elena Susloparova, Dr. of Science (History), Associate Professor of the Department of Modern and Contemporary History of the Faculty of History, Lomonosov Moscow State University. Studies of Modern Britain in the Post-Soviet Period;
• 7.    Elena Khakhalkina, Dr. of Science (History), Professor, Tomsk State University. Great Britain between European and National Identity: Experience for Other Countries;
• 8.    Inna Podkolzina, Cand. of Science (Economics), Senior Researcher of Center for European Studies of IMEMO. Economic Research in the Context of Analyzing Social Development: British Dimension;
• 9.    Elena Kharitonova, Cand. of Science (Politics), Senior Researcher, Head of the British Research Group of the Center for European Studies of IMEMO. New Methods of Country Studies: Opportunities and Limitations;
• 10.    Questions and discussion.

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