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The goal of the conference is to examine a diverse range of issues regarding the relations of Belarus with its neighbors, including political and economic ties, cultural links, historical stereotypes, and interaction with the nationalities, confessions, cultural groups and NGOs that make up Belarusian civil society.

Papers should address the following issues:

• How do Belarusians view their neighbors: cultural and historic stereotypes
• Alone or together? Conflicting nation-building on the territory of first Rzeczpospolita in the 20th century
• Belarus’ economy in a regional context: ‘Assembly Line’ or ‘Europe’s North Korea’?
• Belarus and its neighbors: what is going wrong?
• Is Belarus a failed state? Public policy choices and civil society roles from a regional perspective
• Belarus: any chances for Europeanization?

How to apply:

Conference participants are invited to send an application form and paper abstract (maximum 250 words) by e-mail to: conference@civicspaceinstitute.org.pl

Abstract submission deadline: November 13, 2011

Notification of accepted applicants: November 20, 2011

Organizing Committee:

• The Judge Jerzy Stępień, Director of the Institute of Civic Space and Public Policy, Łazarski University
• Aleś Łahviniec, Director of the Center for Belarusian Research, Institute of Civic Space and Public Policy, Łazarski University
• Tatsiana Čulickaja, PhD candidate, Lecturer at European Humanities University (EHU), currently a Fellow at the Center for Belarusian Research, Institute of Civic Space and Public Policy
• Stephan Malerius, Head of the Belarus Country Office of the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung
• Katsiaryna Radzko, Project Manager, Belarus Country Office of the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung
• Natallia Slizh, PhD, Fellow at the Center for Belarusian Research, Institute of Civic Space and Public Policy
• Anatol Trafimchyk, PhD, Fellow at the Center for Belarusian Research, Institute of Civic Space and Public Policy
• Anna Grudzińska, Project Manager, Institute of Civic Space and Public Policy, Łazarski University

No conference fee

Organizers provide conference lunch, but do not reimburse travel and accommodation costs.

Contact us: conference@civicspaceinstitute.org.pl