Call for individual applications to participate in the 4th International Congress of Belarusian Studies. Application deadline: 2 June 2014.

The Organising Committee of the International Congress of Belarusian Studies announces a call for individual applications for panels and sections of the 4th Congress, which will take place on 3-5 October 2014 in Kaunas, Lithuania.

The application deadline is 2 June 2014.

Registration form link: http://icbs.palityka.org/4th-international-congress-of-belarusian-studies.htm

Below is a list of thematic blocks and panels:

 

Economics

Problems of innovative development in Belarusian industry

Problems of transformation and modernisation of the Belarusian economy

The economy of Belarusian regions

 

Political institutions, national identity

Local institutions and politics in Central and Eastern Europe: the outcomes of (non-)democratic transformations

Political opposition in the countries of the former Soviet Union

National identity in the politics of the countries of the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

 

International relations and foreign policy

“New superpowers” and Central and Eastern Europe: unrealised opportunities or overestimated prospects?

Armed conflicts in the post-Soviet space in 1990-2014 (Crimea, Abkhazia, Nagorno-Karabakh, etc.)

Central Europe in the politics of great powers

Belarusian foreign policy

 

The state, civil society, science, education

The state, opportunities and prospects of science, education and the academic community in Belarus

Public administration and public policy in Belarus

Belarusian civil society: current state and prospects

 

Belarusian society: language and the transformation of the information space

Linguistic projects as a means of consolidating Belarusian society

Social networks and the modernisation of Belarus

Twenty years of the Belarusian internet (1994-2014): history and social evolution

 

History

Traditions of noble self-government in the history of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (marking the 450th anniversary of the Bielsk Privilege of 1 July 1564)

The Grand Duchy of Lithuania: from source to narrative (problems of interpreting the written heritage)

The Supraśl printing house and the trade in church books in Belarus

Belarus within the Russian Empire (late 18th – early 20th century)

Violence in the 20th century: experience, consequences, memory and legacy

History of Belarus in the 20th century

Borderlands and borders: from cartography to literature

Jews in the context of Belarusian history

The Belarusian diaspora: interpreting the intellectual heritage

Belarusian necropolistics

Belarusians in Poland: past, present and future

 

Literature, linguistics

The hermeneutic potential of national cultures and the multilingual writing of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania

Belarusian literature: national tradition and global context

Literature after “Bum-Bam-Lit”: creative currents of the late 20th and early 21st centuries

Belarusian toponymy: problems of ordering and standardisation

The Belarusian Bible: problems and prospects of scholarly translation

 

Religious studies

Saints in Belarusian history and the present: individuals, places, texts, community

 

Culture, museum studies, architecture, art

Contemporary Belarusian culture: the search for a new matrix or life after the nation?

The problem of creating a catalogue of representative works of Belarus of the 20th and 21st centuries

Management in contemporary cultural projects

Museum work and protection of historical and cultural heritage

Contemporary architecture of Belarus: problems of study and prospects for development

Tradition and post-tradition in the cultural landscape of Belarus

Bagpipes in north-eastern Europe: history and mutual influences

Protection and restoration of architectural heritage

 

Gender studies

Gender “rules”: discourses, policies and practices

Masculinity studies: an interdisciplinary academic field