The 9th NORSA Conference “Regional Outcomes of Global Challenges in the Nordic Countries” organised by the Institute of Sociology at the Lithuanian Centre for Social Sciences, in partnership with Vilnius University and the Nordic Division of the Regional Studies Association, took place in Vilnius between 2nd– 3rd May 2024.
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Collective contract coverage research in the sectors of care, central public administration and waste collection was the main focus of researchers from the CEECAW project consortium, who met at a field seminar in Belgrade (Serbia) on September 4-5, 2024.
In March 21–23 Dmytro Mamaiev, PhD student of the LCSS Institute of Sociology, participated in Symposium “Heritage and Sustainability“ at the University of Gothenburg (Sweden). He has delivered presentation on the importance of researching a ways how to recover and secure Ukrainian heritage given the times of the full-scale war.
Dr. Jolanta Aidukaitė and dr. Rūta Ubarevičienė have successfully completed the Horizon 2020 project EuSocialCit “European Social Citizenship”. The project aimed to provide alternative policy scenarios to strengthen European social citizenship by comparing and contrasting concrete policy scenarios for reinforcing European social citizenship. The LSMC SI part of the project was related to the analysis and the assessment of housing policy and housing rights in Europe.
Please submit your application and the required documents for admission to doctoral studies by 4:00 PM on August 27, 2024.
On October 17–19, the Institute hosted a visit of scientists from the COST Action CA19129 “Decolonising Development: Research, Teaching and Practice”, including Dr. Haley McEwen (USA / Sweden), Dr. Svitlana Babenko (Ukraine / Sweden), and Dr. Ana Cristina Pereira, aka Kitty Furtado (Portugal).
In September 28–29, Margarita Gedvilaitė-Kordušienė participated in the Socio-gerontechnology Network’s 5th Annual Meeting at the Open University of the Netherlands in Utrecht. Entitled “Theorising Ageing in a Digital World”, the conference welcomed over 80 scholars from around the world. The meeting brought together critical scholarship on ageing and technology from various social sciences and humanities perspectives – including STS, age studies, social and critical gerontology, media studies, critical design studies, and many others.