PROGRAM
The Tenth International Congress of Belarusian Studies
September 30 – October 2, Kaunas (Lithuania)
 

Friday. September 30, 2022

09.00-10.00 Registration – Park Inn, K. Donelaičio 27

10.00-13.00 Plenary Session – Park Inn, K. Donelaičio 27 (11.00-11.30 Coffee break)

13.00-15.00 Lunch

15.00-16.30 Work in Sections

16.30-17.00 Coffee break

17.00-19.00 Lunch

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Saturday. October 1, 2022

10.00-11.30 Work in Sections

11.30-12.00 Coffee break

12.00-13.00 Work in Sections

13.00-15.00 Lunch

15.00-16.30 Work in Sections

16.30-17.00 Coffee break

17.00-19.00 Presentations and Round Tables – Vytautas Magnus University, Putvinskio 23

19.30-21.00 Congress Award Ceremony. Reception – BLC, Donelaičio 62

Sunday. October 2, 2022

10.00-12.00 Work in Sections

12.00-13.00 Congress Summary – Vytautas Magnus University, Daukanto 28, Small Hall (room #205)

13.00-15.00 Lunch

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Sections and Panels

​1. International relations. Regional security. Foreign policy

• Belarus between Russia and Ukraine: what can IR theories clarify?

• Rethinking sovereignty: the consequences of domestic political crisis and war in Ukraine for Belarusian statehood

• Aggressor, partner, mediator, peacemaker: the dynamics of Belarus - Ukraine relations, 2014-2022

• Nation-state facing the challenges of globalization and Russian neo-imperialism: content, problems, prospects

2. Politics. Political Institutions

• Constitutional and political reform in Belarus according to the authorities' scenario: structural changes in 2020 and possible scenarios

• Alternative perspectives on democratic constitutional and political reforms

• Society's Interests in Public Administration: interaction between citizens and state, civic participation and public services 

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3. Society and Social Institutions

• Civil Society Studies

• Contemporary Urban Solidarity: Vertical and Horizontal Dimension

• Belarusian identity: between national heroism and collective guilt

• Television, social networks and social environment. Features of media consumption in contemporary Belarus

• Under the auspices of the Year of Historical Memory: politics of memory in contemporary Belarus

4. Economics

• Economic sanctions: short-term and long-term consequences for Belarus and the region

• The war in Ukraine - direct consequences for the economic relations between Belarus and Ukraine

• Rethinking ESG as Part of the New Normal: Business Impact in the Context of Dictatorial Regimes, Civil Unrests and Wars

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5. Political philosophy

• Belarusian political philosophy after 1991

• Autonomy, Democracy, Revolution (100th anniversary of Cornelius Castoriadis' birth: 1922 - 2022)

6. Education and science

• Higher education in the digital age

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7. History of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania

• "Habits of glorious ancestors": war, army, society and law in the GDL

• Problems of research and publication of the historical sources of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania: from ego documents to institutional archives

8. History of the 20th century

• The entangled history of revolutions in East-Central Europe, 1917-1923

• Informal Social and Cultural Practices in the BSSR and in other ‘real socialism’ countries (1950s-1980s)

• Poland and Belarus in the Second World War

• Poland and Russia in the historical destiny of Ukraine-Lithuania-Belarus (ULB) in the 19th-21st centuries: biographical session

• History of Belarusian national and state symbols (20th-21st centuries)

9. Philology

• Contemporary Belarusian literature in the context of European literature (on the example of the Jerzy Giedroyc Literary Prize)

• Belarusian literature in the world: languages of original texts and translations

• Belarusian vector in the practices of Ukrainian linguists 

• Belarusian literary manifestos of the 1980s and 1990s 

• Belarusian glottodidactics: problems of teaching Belarusian as a foreign language

• Belarusian literature of the 19th century: problems of interpretation, source and attribution

• Homeland - Belarus?

10. Historical and cultural heritage

• Architectural and artistic heritage of the BSSR in light of contemporary practices (1991-2022)

• Jews and Jewish heritage after the Holocaust (Belarus, Poland, Ukraine)

• Historical and Cultural Heritage of the Belarusian-Ukrainian Border: Problems of Preservation, Broadcasting and Interpretation

• Bagpipes in Europe: history, influences and revival

• Oriental, antique and medieval studies in Belarus

11. Culture and cultural studies

• Human rights in the cultural sphere and cultural rights in Belarus

• Beauty in folk culture: sacrum, eros, kitsch

• New media and future patterns in the perspective of transformation of cultural practices and communities 

• No Politics without Aesthetics! F for Fake

• Belarusian Art of Turbulent Times

12. Church and religion

• Churches and Christians in the Belarusian Political Crisis

13. War studies

• Cultural wars on the lands of Belarus and Ukraine as an element of hybrid wars of the 21st century

• Military Science, Military History and Defence Studies

• War and tangible cultural heritage: destroy and create 

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