Shortlist for the Award of the International Congress of Belarusian Studies

 

The shortlist of the Award of the International Congress of Belarusian Studies has been announced. The award was announced in three nominations: social sciences (political science, sociology), humanities (philosophy, philology, linguistics, art history), and history.

The professional evaluation of the publications was carried out with the support of the EuroBelarus consortium.

The situation in the nominations is as follows. In each category, the authors’ names are listed alphabetically:

Social and Political Sciences

Elena Gapova
National Knowledge and International Recognition: Post-Soviet Academia in the Struggle for Symbolic Markets. Ab Imperio: Studies of New Imperial History and Nationalism in the Post-Soviet Space. 2011, No. 4: 289–323.

Anastasia Kelnik
Regulation of Internal Population Migration in the Context of Regional Development of the Republic of Belarus. Minsk: Belaruskaya Navuka, 2012. – 161 p.

Aliaksandr Kurianovich
The Supreme Soviet in the Political Life of Belarus: Formation, Features of Activity, Finale (1990–1996) // A.V. Kurianovich. – Minsk: Tesei, 2012. – 2nd ed. – 206 p.

Aliaksei Lastouski
Russo-Centrism as an Ideological Project of Belarusian Identity // Belarusian Political Science Review # 1, 2011: 23–44.

Iryna Lashuk, Aksana Shelest
The Symbolic and Communicative Dimension of the Language Practices of Belarusian Poles // Political Sphere No. 16–17, 2011: 24–49.

Vadzim Smok
The Regional Political Elite of Belarus and Poland: A Comparative Analysis of Hrodna Region and Podlaskie Voivodeship // Political Sphere No. 16–17, 2011: 157–178.

Tatsiana Shchurko
“Compulsory Motherhood”: The Reproductive Body of a Woman as an Object of State Regulation, Based on the Newspaper Sovetskaya Belorussiya // Laboratorium. 2012. No. 2: 69–90.

Dzianis Yurchak
Belarus–Ukraine: 20 Years of Interstate Relations. Monograph. Vitebsk. 2012. – 279 p.

 

Humanities

Iryna Dubianetskaya
The Vanished God of a Vanished People: Existential Chaos in Hittite Mythology. Homo Historicus. 2012: 297–330.

Ihar Zaprudski
On the Road to Parnassus: Attribution Studies and Questions of Reception of Nineteenth-Century Belarusian Literature. — Minsk: BSU Publishing House.

Uladzislau Ivanou
Feminisation of nomina agentis in the Belarusian Language and the Problem of Colonisation // Political Sphere No. 16–17, 2011, 72–86.

Iryna Mikheeva
Political and Sociocultural Foundations of the Ideologeme “The Fourth Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth” // Political Sphere, No. 16–17, 2011: 144–156.

Tatsiana Ramza
Belarusian Colloquial Speech: Current State / T.R. Ramza. – Minsk: Vysh. shk., 2011. – 221 p.

Ivan Saverchanka
Poetics and Semiotics of Belarusian Publicistic Literature of the Sixteenth–Seventeenth Centuries / I.V. Saverchanka. – Minsk: Belaruskaya Navuka, 2012. – 463 p.

Aliaksandr Sarna
Sarna A.Ya. Image and Medium: Visual Text in Mass Communication: Collection of Articles. – Minsk: Chetyre Chetverti Publishing House, 2012. – 208 p.

 

History

Andrei Kazakevich, Andrei Asadchy
Starting to Write in Belarusian. The Regional and Social Composition of the Belarusian Revival, 1880–1918 (late nineteenth – early twentieth century). Political Sphere. 2011, No. 16–17 (1–2). Pp. 87–114.

Dzianis Liseichykau
The Everyday Life of a Uniate Parish Priest in the Belarusian-Lithuanian Lands, 1720–1839. Minsk: Medysont, 2011. 198 p.

Aleh Litskevich
The Poisoning of Prince Skirgaila in Kyiv (1395). Historical Commentary and the Problem of Authorship of the Second Part of the “Chronicle of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania” // ARCHE. 2011. No. 3. Pp. 8–52.

Dzmitry Matveichyk
Driven from Their Native Land: Post-November Emigration from Belarus and Lithuania (1830s–1870s). Minsk: Limarius, 2011. 197 p.

Volha Sabaleuskaya
Everyday Life of the Jews of Belarus in the Late Eighteenth and First Half of the Nineteenth Century. – Hrodna, Yanka Kupala State University of Hrodna, 2012. – 444 p.

Aliaksandr Smalianchuk
The Kraj Idea and the Belarusian National Movement in Western Belarus in the 1920s–1930s. Homo Historicus, 2012: 380–407.

Aliaksei Shalanda
Symbols and Coats of Arms of the Lands of Belarus in the Tenth–Eighteenth Centuries: Heraldic and Sphragistic Essays. — Minsk: Belaruskaya Navuka. 2012. – 182 p.

 

Below we present the list of experts who were members of the jury. Experts whose own works were submitted for the competition did not evaluate their own texts:

Social and Political Sciences

Aliaksei Lastouski, Candidate of Sociological Sciences, Political Sphere Institute (Belarus – Lithuania)
Andrei Kazakevich, PhD, Political Sphere Institute, Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas (Belarus – Lithuania)
Viachaslau Pazniak, Candidate of Historical Sciences, Wider Europe (Belarus)
Kiril Haiduk, PhD in Economics, Institute for Privatisation and Management – IPM (Belarus)
Larisa Titarenko, Doctor of Sociological Sciences, Belarusian State University (Belarus)
Tatsiana Vadalazhskaya, Candidate of Sociological Sciences, Agency for Humanitarian Technologies – Centre for Social Innovations (Belarus)
Uladzimir Abushenka, Candidate of Sociological Sciences, Institute of Sociology of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus (Belarus)
Uladzimir Matskevich, methodologist, Agency for Humanitarian Technologies – Centre for Social Innovations (Belarus)
Juraj Marušiak, PhD, Institute of Political Science, Slovak Academy of Sciences

Humanities

Valer Yevarouski, Candidate of Philosophical Sciences, Institute of Philosophy of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus (Belarus)
Valiantsin Akudovich, philosopher, Belarusian Collegium (Belarus)
Volha Shparaha, Candidate of Philosophical Sciences, New Europe, European Humanities University (Belarus – Lithuania)
Ihar Babkou, Candidate of Philosophical Sciences, Institute of Philosophy of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus (Belarus)
Iryna Dubianetskaya, Doctor of Sacred Theology, Belarusian Collegium (Belarus)
Kurt Woolhiser, PhD, Brandeis University (USA)
Lena Prents, art historian, art curator, Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus (Germany)
Pavel Barkouski, Candidate of Philosophical Sciences, Belarusian State University (Belarus)
Sergei Kovalev, Doctor of Philological Sciences, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University (Belarus – Poland)
Tatsiana Shchyttsova, Doctor of Philosophical Sciences, Topos journal, European Humanities University (Belarus – Lithuania)

History

Aleh Dziarnovich, Candidate of Historical Sciences, Institute of History of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus (Belarus)
Ales Krautsevich, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Historical Almanac journal (Belarus)
Ales Pashkevich, Candidate of Historical Sciences, Arche journal (Belarus)
Ales Smalianchuk, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences (Belarus – Poland)
Andrei Katliarchuk, PhD in History, Södertörn University (Sweden)
Valiantsin Holubeu, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Institute of History of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus (Belarus)
Henadz Sahanovich, Candidate of Historical Sciences, Belarusian Historical Review journal (Belarus)
Dorota Michaluk, Dr. hab., Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń (Poland)
Mikhail Dolbilov, Candidate of Historical Sciences, University of Maryland (Russia – USA)