Working Materials of the First International Congress

The working materials of the First International Congress of Belarusian Studies have been published. The Congress took place on 23-25 September 2011 in Kaunas, Lithuania, and brought together around 200 scholars from different countries.
We are pleased to present the electronic version of the publication.

Contents (pdf)

Principles of transliteration (pdf)

Section 1. The Grand Duchy of Lithuania: fact and idea (pdf)

Section 2. The Belarusian model: summarising two decades (pdf)

Section 3. Foreign policy and regional interaction (pdf)

Section 4. The nation in Central and Eastern Europe: community and identity (pdf)

Section 5. Memory and the relevance of the past: Belarus and Central and Eastern Europe (pdf)

Section 6. Belarusian culture: strategies in contemporary society (pdf)

Section 7. Social and media strategies (pdf)

Section 8. The politics of diversity in Central and Eastern Europe (pdf)