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[Commlist] PLACES conference

Tue Dec 08 16:06:31 GMT 2020



*PLACES = Politics, Psychology, Law, Anthropology, Communication, Economics and Business, Sociology* This year's conference is dedicated to social science research during a pandemic, entitled: Transforming the social fabric: visions and futures at times of SARS-CoV-2 and other global challenges 30 years after the “end of history”, history is still taking place, so the need to retrieve the future persists, too. PLACES 2021 will explore a variety of topical issues - from global anxieties shaped by experience of the pandemic in almost all spheres of public life and contemporary uncertainties stirred by rising inequality, to a lack of vision regarding the future of social fabric and populism and fragility of democracy globally and in Central and Eastern Europe, in particular.

Representatives of various academic fields will look at the challenges to a global future and search for answers to vital questions:
-	How are social sciences capable of grasping unexpected pandemic phenomena?
- How is the current global crisis reshaping social welfare, political institutions and various communication processes? - How is democracy functioning in times of a “plague” and climate change? Is it diminishing, or are we witnessing a new form of limited democracy? Who and how are democratic institutions transforming? - What new forms of participation, networks of meaning and collective identities have come into existence? In what ways do societies manage the balance between freedom and security?

These and many other questions will be addressed and debated in several interdisciplinary academic sessions. Using different research methodologies and presenting new studies, PLACES 2021 will check on the potential of social sciences to shape future challenges and offer academically-based solutions in times of growing collective irrationality, boosted by populism.
 *Important Deadlines*
Abstract submission deadline: 15 December 2020 Abstract notification of acceptance sent by: 29 January 2021 Presentations upload in the online system: 1 March 2021 Registration deadline (presenting authors): 1 March 2021 Registration deadline for participants: 18 March 2021


*More information:  https://rw2021.rsu.lv/conferences/places
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