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A Turn to Belarus: Ideas, Methods and Concepts.
Preliminary thematic structure of the Congress
History
(social history, political history, economic history):
- Grand Duchy of Lithuania: Politics, System of Government, Law and International Relations
- Lingua et Natio: Ethnicity Problem in Middle Ages and Early Modern Time (Grand Duchy of Lithuania Case)
- Modernisation, Industrialisation and Political Transformation: Belarus in the 19th-20th Centuries
Humanities:
- Contemporary Belarusian Culture
- Contemporary Belarusian Art: discourse, theory, practice
- Belarusian Cinema: Reinterpretation of the “Soviet” and Problems of Post-Soviet Period
- Belarusian Literature: Translation, Publication and Research
- Belarusian Bible: Problems and Prospects of Academic Translation
- Theological Thought: Historical and Social Context, Research Problems and Prospects for Development
Social sciences (political science, political economy, international relations, European studies):
- Institutions of Belarusian Politics, 1990-2012
- Belarus in the System of Bilateral Relations
- European Studies in Belarusian context
- Belarus: Challenges of Economic and Political Modernization
Economics:
- Issues of Belarusian Economy Transformation
Interdisciplinary fields (memory policy, contemporary history, social and political theory, urban studies, religion studies, gender studies):
- Diversities of (Post)Communism in Central and Eastern Europe
- City, Urbanization, City Dwellers: Historical Urban Studies
- Social and Humanitarian Knowledge: Change of Research Paradigms
- Religion Studies in Belarus: Gains of Two Decades and Prospects for Development
- Gender Policies and Practices in Belarus
- Theorization of gender in Belarusian humanities
Panels for practical problems :
- Reform of Belarusian Education System: Practices and Intellectual Background
- Belarusian Civil Society studies