Call for nominations for the Congress Award for the Best Scholarly Publication (until 10.4.22)

The Organising Committee of the International Congress of Belarusian Studies announces a call for nominations for the Award for the Best Scholarly Publication in the social sciences and humanities based on the results of 2021.

The purpose of the award is to recognise the best achievements in the social, political, and humanitarian sciences, to encourage research work, and to contribute to improving the quality of scholarly research.

We invite representatives of the academic community to nominate the best scholarly publications for the Award and to contribute to popularising the achievements of Belarusian science and honouring their authors for their accomplishments.

Proposals may be submitted to [email protected] until 10 April 2022.

The award ceremony will take place on 1 October 2022 during the 10th International Congress of Belarusian Studies in Kaunas (Lithuania).

The sponsors of the Award are the Belarusian Charitable Trust (London) and the Kipel family (USA).

The Award is announced in three nominations: – History; – Humanities; – Social sciences: political science, sociology.

This year an additional competition is being announced for the best Polish-language monograph by a foreign author on Belarusian topics (2016–2021).

For the first time, a competition will also be held for foreign authors for the best English-language article on Belarusian social and political topics (2019–2021).

Two separate competitions are being held for scholarly monographs and articles.