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.
On 7-9 September 2023, Dr Rūta Brazienė, Chief researcher, and Justina Krauledaitė, a PhD student at the LCSS at the Institute of Sociology of the LCSS, participated in the prestigious 21 st ESPAnet Annual Conference.
On 5th May, 2023 Giedrė Plepytė-Davidavičienė defended her doctoral dissertation entitled “Social Construction of Happiness in Self-Help Teachers‘ Narratives in Lithuania”.
The International Conference “Changes and Perspectives of Tourism in a Reshaped World” is organised by the Institute of Sociology at the Lithuanian Centre for Social Sciences (Vilnius, Lithuania).
Institute of Sociology of the Lithuanian Centre for Social Sciences has organized a seminar „Housing as a social right: situation in the EU and Lithuania“.
The International Sociological Association (ISA) Research Committee 19 (RC19) “Poverty, Social Welfare and Social Policy” annual conference this year was organized by the Institute of Sociology of the Lithuanian Center for Social Sciences. The conference took place in Vilnius on August 24-26, 2022. Scientists from Canada, the USA, Estonia, Italy, Israel, Japan, Norway, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, the Czech Republic, Italy, Ireland, the Netherlands, and Lithuania presented and discussed their latest research. The conference was organized in a hybrid format, which involved a mixture of in-person and remote attendees. Congratulations to the conference organizing committee for a very successful conference! The conference program can be found here. The conference was financed by the Research Council of Lithuania, financing agreement: S-MOR-22-20.