5th LCSR International Annual Research Conference: Cultural and Economic changes under cross-national perspective

Laboratory for Comparative Social Research (LCSR NRU HSE) announces a call for the 5^thInternational Annual Research Conference “Cultural and Economic changes under cross-national perspective”, which will take place from November 15 - 20, 2015, in Moscow. The conference aims at developing empirical quantitative comparative (cross-country and cross-regional) studies in social science.

The conference topics are:

• Social Well-Being and Happiness
• Social Solidarity and Welfare States
• Trust and Social Capital
• Nationalism, Ethnicity and Migration
• Gender Attitudes and Work
• Family Formation and Values
• Religiosity and Tolerance
• Bribery and Corruption
• Democracy and Voting Behaviour

Keynote speakers are:

• Ronald Inglehart (NRU HSE, University of Michigan)
• Christian Welzel  (Leuphana University, NRU HSE)
• Eduard Ponarin (NRU HSE) 
• Alejandro Moreno (ITAM Mexico, Former President of the World Association for Public Opinion Research)

The deadline for application is August 15, 2015. The notification of acceptance will be given by August 25.

The application should meet the following requirements:

• Author(s) name(s) including affiliation and e-mail;
• Title of proposal, 3 – 5 keywords and abstract (250 words);
• The paper should be empirical and analyze processes of social change in a comparative perspective (more than 5 countries) using quantitative methods;
• The paper should address one or several topics of the conference

Accommodation will be provided by LCSR.

Conference fee is 100 euro.

You can find more information at our website: http://lcsr.hse.ru/en/conference2015

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