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Â鶹´«Ã½ÊÓƵÍøÕ¾ School of Slavonic and East European Studies, the Ostrogorski Centre and the  Francis Skaryna Belarusian Library and Museum invites to the Annual London conference on Belarusian Studies.

The conference will take place on 18–19 February 2020 via Zoom.

The conference serves as a multidisciplinary forum of Belarusian studies in the West and offers a rare networking opportunity for researchers of Belarus.

The Annual London Lecture on Belarusian Studies will be delivered by Professor David Marples from the University of Alberta, Canada. The title is ‘Stalin’s Ghosts, Parasites, and Pandemic – the Roots of the 2020 Uprising in Belarus.’

The draft programme of the conference is available .

To register for the conference please register no later than 16 February 2021. The working language of the conference is English.

The conference organising committee includes Sasha Belavokaya, Peter Braga, Dr Karalina Mackevich, Dr Alena Marková, Prof Yarik Kryvoi (co-chair) and Prof Andrew Wilson (co-chair).

This year the speakers and moderators include (in the order of first apperance):

• Prof Yarik Kryvoi, British Institute of International and Comparative Law, UK
• Prof Andrew Wilson, University College London, UK
• Dr Stephen Hall, University of Cambridge, UK
• Andrei Kalavur, Masaryk University, Czech Republic
• Dr Nataliia Steblyna, Vasyl Stus Donetsk National University, Ukraine
• Yahor Azarkevich, University of Glasgow, UK
• Dr Sándor Földvári, Debrecen University, Hungary
• Ekaterina Pierson-Lyzhina, Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
• Dr Volha Charnysh, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
• Dr Sasha Razor, Museum of Russian Culture, San Francisco, USA
• Aliaksandr Kazakou, Belarus
• Dr Joanna Getka, University of Warsaw, Poland
• Dr Alena Marková, Charles University, Czech Republic
• Aleksandra Pomiecko, University of Manitoba, Canada
• Prof Boris Czerny, University of Caen, France
• Maryna Laurynovich, Charles University, Czech Republic
• Peter Braga, University College London, UK
• Dr Alena Marková, Charles University, Check Republic
• Mark Cinkevich, Belarus
• Lizaveta Dubinka-Hushcha, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
• Dr Karalina Matskievich, Francis Skaryna Belarusian Library and Museum, UK
• Vitali Byl, University of Greifswald, Germany
• Dr Simon Lewis, University of Bremen, Germany
• A.M. LaVey, University of Rhode Island, USA

The conference proceeds will be directed to support scholars in Belarus who face difficulties because of their political views.

For any questions relating to the conference, please email belstudies.conference@gmail.com.