Shortlist of the Next International Congress of Belarusian Studies Award for the Best Scholarly Publication

Dear colleagues,

The shortlist of the next International Congress of Belarusian Studies Award for the best scholarly publication has been announced.

The final winners will be selected and the award ceremony will take place on 8 October 2016 during the Sixth International Congress of Belarusian Studies in Kaunas (Lithuania).

The award is presented with the financial support of the Belarusian Charitable Fund (London, United Kingdom) and the Kipel family (USA).

List of Congress Award experts (http://icbs.palityka.org/premija-kanhresa/spis-ekspertau-premii-kangresa/)
HISTORY
Monographs
Volkau, Mikola.

Artillery of Nesvizh Castle.

Minsk: Andrei Yanushkevich, 2015. — 188 pp.

Grusha, Alexander.

Documentary Writing of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (late fourteenth – first third of the sixteenth century). – Minsk: Belaruskaya Navuka, 2015. – 465 pp.

Liseichykau, Dzianis.

The Priest in Belarusian Society: A Prosopography of the Uniate Clergy, 1596―1839. — Minsk: Belarus, 2015.

Rein, Leonid.

Kings and Pawns: Collaboration in Belarus during the Second World War.

Smolensk: Inbelkult, 2015.

Sahanovich, Henadz.

Grunwald in Belarusian History.

An Attempt to Analyze a Political Myth.

Minsk: Medysont, 2015.

Slizh, Natallia.

Marital and Extramarital Relations of the Nobility of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries.

Smolensk: Inbelkult, 2015.

Charniakevich, Andrei. The Birth of Belarusian Hrodna.

Minsk: Publisher A.M.

Yanushkevich, 2015. 172 pp.

Articles
Kananovich, Uladzimir.

The Genealogy of the Princes Glinski: Memory of the Past as a Weapon of Political Struggle // ARCHE. 2015. No. 9.

pp. 195-218.

Liakhouski, Uladzimir; Nashchynets, Kanstantsin.

Smuggling in the BSSR in the 1920s-1930s: A Socio-Economic Dimension // ARCHE. 2015. No. 11.

pp. 293-323.

Martyniuk, Alexey.

Who First Pronounced “White Rus’” in Latin and German, and When? // Alba Ruscia: Belarusian Lands at the Crossroads of Cultures and Civilizations (Tenth-Sixteenth Centuries).

General editor A.V.

Martyniuk.

Moscow, 2015.

pp. 27-38.

Pushkin, Ihar.

The Self-Determination of Belarusians in Mahiliou during the First World War //
Białoruskie Zeszyty Historyczne / Belarusian Historical Collection.

Z. 43. 2015.

pp. 158-184.

HUMANITIES
Monographs
Avilin, Tsimafei.

Between Heaven and Earth: Ethnoastronomy.

Vilnius: Tekhnalogiya, 2015. 260 pp.

Malei, Aliaksandr.

The Vitebsk “Square”.

An Artistic Study of the Nonconformist Movement of Artists in Vitebsk and Minsk (1987–2000).

Minsk: Ekonompress, 2015. 332 pp.

Martsinovich, Dzianis.

Women in the Life of Uladzimir Karatkevich.

Minsk: Chatyry Chvertsi, 2014. 114 pp.

Nekrashevich-Karotkaya, Zhanna.

The Multilingual Literature of Belarus in the Context of Current Literary Studies Concepts.

Minsk: BSU, 2015. – 207 pp.

Trus, Mikola.

Maksim Bahdanovich: Codes of Life and Creativity. – Minsk: BSTU, 2015. – 179 pp.

Shauchanka, Hanna.

The Poetry of Antoni Gorecki and the Formation of the Romantic Tradition in the Polish-Language Literature of Belarus in the Nineteenth Century.

Minsk: Knihazbor, 2015.

Articles
Bahdanovich, Iryna.

The Polish-Language Poem Krakow by Adela of Ustronie as a “Key” to Solving the Authorship of the Poem Stepmother // Studia Białorutenistyczne. 9/2015.

pp. 149-163.

Brusevich, Anatol.

The Existential Journey of Edik Mazko // Białorutenistyka Białostocka. – 2014. – Vol. 6. – pp. 135–151.

Zhuk, Ihar. “In the Fog” by Vasil Bykau: Three Theses toward a Grammar of the Narrative Intrigue of the Novella // Studia Białorutenistyczne. 9/2015.

pp. 181-202.

Kazlouskaya-Doda, Yadviga.

Gender Forms of the Modern Belarusian Language Based on Materials from the Newspaper “Zviazda” // Belarusian-Polish Linguistic, Literary, Historical, and Cultural Connections.

Edited by

I.E. Bahdanovich. — Minsk: Knihazbor, 2015. — pp. 46-69.

Lobach, Uladzimir.

The Phenomenon of War in the Mythopoetic Worldview of Belarusians // Belarusian Folklore: Materials and Studies.

Scholarly collection.

Issue 1. – Minsk: Navuka, 2014. – pp. 58-91.

SOCIAL AND POLITICAL SCIENCES
Monographs
Kryvashei, Dzmitry.

State Cultural Policy in Belarus (1991-2010).

Minsk: Belaruskaya Navuka, 2014. – 521 pp.

Kuchinskaya, Volha.

The Politics of Invisibility: Public Knowledge about Radiation Health Effects after Chernobyl.

MIT Press, 2014. 264 p.

Rusakovich, Andrei.

Germany in Belarus’s Foreign Policy (1990-2012).

Minsk: RIPO, 2015. 423 pp.

Sakalova, Halina.

The Labour Market of the Republic of Belarus in Sociological Perspective.

General editor

H.

N.

Sokolova.

Minsk: Belorusskaya Nauka, 2014.

Sasunkievich, Volha.

Informal Trade, Gender and the Border Experience.

Ashgate, 2015. 240 p.

Smirnova, Razalia.

The Fate of the Belarusian Province: A Sociological Analysis.

General editor

R.

A.

Smirnova.

Minsk: Belorusskaya Nauka, 2015.

Articles
Astapava, Anastasiya.

Why All Dictators Have Moustaches: Political Jokes in Contemporary Belarus // Humor 2015; 28(1): 71–91.

Vasilevich, Hanna.

Eastern Partnership Initiative: 5 Year Results and Future Perspectives // in: Bátor, Peter. – Ondrejcsák, Róbert. (eds.): Panorama of global security environment 2014.

Center for European and North Atlantic Affairs (CENAA), Bratislava 2015, pp. 27-39.

Vasilevich, Natallia.

Knowingly Unequal: Church and State in Belarus during the Period of Consolidated Authoritarianism // ARCHE. No. 4. 2015.

pp. 216-253.

Gapova, Elena.

Suffering and the Search for Meaning: The Moral Revolutions of Svetlana Alexievich // Neprikosnovennyi Zapas. 2015. No. 1.

Novikau, Aliaksandr.

The evolution of the environmental movement in Belarus: from Chernobyl to global climate change // Environmental Sociology (2015), 1:2, 92-101.

Prysmakova, Palina.

Why Does China Invest in Belarus?

Billions of Loans from Perspective of Chinese Local Governments // Belarusian Political Science Review.

Volume 3, 2014-2015.

Yarashevich, Viachaslau.

Political Economy of Modern Belarus: Going Against Mainstream? // Europe-Asia Studies (2014), 66:10, 1703-1734.

POLISH-LANGUAGE MONOGRAPHS ON BELARUSIAN TOPICS
(2011-2015)
Antoniewicz, Marceli.

Protoplaści książąt Radziwiłłów.

Dzieje mitu i meandry historiografii., Warszawa: Wydawnictwo DiG, 2011.

Barszczewska Nina, Jankowiak Mirosław.

Dialektologia białoruska.

Warszawa 2012. 308 s.

Cichoracki, Piotr.

Województwo poleskie 1921-1939.

Z dziejów politycznych. Łomianki, 2014.

Czwołek, Arkadiusz.

Piórem i buławą: Działalność polityczna Lwa Sapiehy kanclerza litewskiego, wojewody wileńskiego.

Toruń: Wydawnictwo naukowe UMK, 2012. 734 s.

Engelking, Anna.

Kołchoźnicy.

Antropologiczne studium tożsamości wsi białoruskiej przełomu XX i XXI wieku.

Toruń: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika, 2012. 858 s.

Kowalski, Mariusz.

Księstwa Rzeczpospolitej.

Państwo magnackie jako region polityczny.

Warszawa: IGiPZ PAN, 2013. 396 pp.

Mironowicz, Eugeniusz.

Wojna wszystkich ze wszystkimi, Białoruś 1941-1944.

Avalon, 2015. 243 s.

Siwek, Beata.

Wolność ukrzyżowana.

Rzecz o białoruskim dramacie i teatrze.

Lublin: KUL, 2011, 412 s.
Śleszyński, Wojciech.

Województwo Poleskie.

Avalon, 2014. 336 s.

Zielecka-Mikołajczyk, Wioletta.

Prawosławni i unici w Rzeczypospolitej XVI-XVIII wieku wobec życia i śmierci w świetle testamentów.

Warszawa, Neriton, 2014.