Winners of the 2015 Congress Prize for Best Academic Publication announced

On 8 October 2016, during the Sixth International Congress of Belarusian Studies, the Congress Prize for the best academic publication of 2015 was awarded in a formal ceremony.

The prize was financially supported by the Belarus Charitable Trust (London), the Belarusian Institute of Arts and Sciences in America, and the Kipiel family (USA).

List of winners.

History 

Monographs

Hrusha, Aliaksandr. Documentary Writing of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (late 14th – first third of the 16th century). Minsk: Belaruskaya Navuka, 2015. 465 pp.

Articles

Kananovich, Uladzimir. The genealogy of the Glinski princes: memory of the past as a weapon of political struggle // ARCHE. 2015. No. 9. pp. 195-218.

Humanities

Monographs

Avilin, Tsіmafei. Between Heaven and Earth: Ethnoastronomy. Vilnius: Tekhnalogiya, 2015. 260 pp.

Articles

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

Kuchinskaya, Olga. The Politics of Invisibility: Public Knowledge about Radiation Health Effects after Chernobyl. MIT Press, 2014. 264 p.

Articles

Vasilevich, Natallia. Knowingly unequal: Church and state in Belarus under consolidated authoritarianism // ARCHE. No. 4. 2015. pp. 216-253.

Honorary Prize for the best Polish-language monograph on Belarusian topics (2011-2015)

 

Engelking, Anna. Kołchoźnicy. Antropologiczne studium tożsamości wsi białoruskiej przełomu XX i XXI wieku. Toruń: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika, 2012. 858 pp.