[Commlist] PLACES conference

*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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