Organising Committee of the International Congress of Belarusian Studies announces a call for individual applications for the 4th Congress, which will take place on 3-5 October 2014 in Kaunas, Lithuania.
Application deadline – 2 June 2014.
Please fill the online form here: http://icbs.palityka.org/4th-international-congress-of-belarusian-studies.htm
You can find the list of thematic blocks and panels below.
Economics
Problems of Innovative Development of Belarusian Industry
Problems of Transformation and Modernisation of Belarusian Economy
Economy of Belarusian Regions
Political Institutions, National Identity
Local Institutions and Politics in Central and Eastern Europe: the Results of (Un)Democratic Transformation
Political Opposition in the Countries of Former Soviet Union
National Identities in the Politics of Nations of Former Commonwealth (Rzeczpospolita)
International Relations and Foreign Policy
Emerging Powers and Central and Eastern Europe: Missed Opportunities or Overestimated Perspectives?
Armed Conflicts on the Post-Soviet Space in 1990-2014 (the Crimea, Abkhazia, Nagorno-Karabakh etc.)
Middle Europe in the Politics of Great Powers
Belarusian Foreign Policy
State, Civil Society, Science, Education
Current State, Opportunities and Prospects of Science, Education and Academic Community in Belarus
Public Administration and Public Policy in Belarus
Belarusian Civil Society: Current State and Future Prospects
Belarusian Society: Language and Transformation of Informational Space
Linguistic Projects as a Tool for Consolidation of Belarusian Society
Social Networks and Modernisation of Belarus
Twenty Years of Belarusian domain .BY (1994-2014): History and Social Evolution
History
Traditions of Szlachta Self-Government in the History of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (to the 450th Anniversary of Belsk Privilige of 1 July 1564)
The Grand Duchy of Lithuania: From Source to Narration (Problems of Interpretation of Written Heritage)
Typography of Suprasľ and Belarusian Trade of Service Books
Belarus in the Russian Empire ( the End of the 18th – the Beginning of the 20th Centuries)
Violence in the 20th Century: Experience, Consequences, Memory and Heritage
History of Belarus of the 20th Century
Borderland and Borders: from Cartography to Literature
Jews in Belarusian History
Belarusian Diaspora: Trying to Understand the Intellectual Heritage
Belarusian Necropolis Studies
Belarusians in Poland: Past, Present and Future
Literature and Linguistics
Hermeneutical Potential of National Cultures and Multilingual Writing of the Great Duchy of Lithuania
Belarusian Literature: National Tradition and World Context
Literature after “Bum-Bam-Lit”: Art Groups in the End of the 20th – Beginning of the 21st Centuries
Belarusian Toponymy: Problems of Ordering and Standardisation
Belarusian Bible: Problems and Prospects of Academic Translation
Religious Studies
Saints in Belarusian History and Present: Personalities, Places, Texts, Community
Culture, Museums, Architecture, Art
Contemporary Belarusian Culture: Search for New Matrix or Life after Nation?
The Problem of Creation of Catalogue of Representative Works of Belarusian Art of the 20th – 21st Centuries
Management in the Contemporary Cultural Projects
Museums and Problems of Interpretation of Cultural Heritage
Contemporary Architecture of Belarus: Problems of Study and Prospects for Development
Tradition and Post-Tradition in the Cultural Landscape of Belarus
Bagpipes in the North-East Europe: History and Mutual Influence
Conservation and Restoration of Architectural Heritage
Gender Studies
Gender “Rules”: Discources, Policies and Practices
Study of Masculinity: Interdisciplinary Academic Field