Europe 2015. Effect of perestroika: regimes and risks of polyphonic knowledge

XVII Annual International Scientific Student Conference
“Europe 2015. Effect of perestroika: regimes and risks of polyphonic knowledge”.
May 15-16, 2015
Vilnius, Lithuania
Organizer: European Humanities University.

The following sections are planned as part of the conference:

• Contemporary social theory: perspectives in the situation of conceptual polyphony
• History at the turn of epochs: challenges of the past / diversity of the future
• Gender turn in social knowledge: different research strategies and forms of interpreting the sociality
• Reconstructing the knowledge: big data, analytical platforms, visualization and other challenges of digital humanities
• Popularization of urbanism and new professional identities
• “Perestroika” and design: was there “perestroika” in design?
• Processes of “perestroika” in political and economic relations in Central and Eastern Europe and the Baltic states
• Place of the historical heritage of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in today’s Eastern Europe
• Results of public administration reforms and new challenges for effective implementation of public policy in countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the Baltic states
• Development perspectives of private law in the European Union and CIS countries
• Constitutionalism and legal instruments of human rights protection in Central and Eastern European states
• Right to oblivion: social and legal practices and mechanisms of constructing the post-Soviet rupture
• Religion and processes of modernization in Eastern Europe
• Practical psychology in post-Soviet region: peculiarities of genealogy and development perspectives
• Modes of working with heritage: shift of paradigms
• Social challenges of today’s biotechnologies
• Science and technology ± bright future
• Art before and after perestroika
• Media culture: technological and social “perestroika”
• Cinema in the context of digital culture: technology, esthetics and new receptive practices
• New look: vision as a cultural technology
• Soviet project between construction and reconstruction (perestroika)