International conference Riga Readings in Social Sciences (RRSS) announces call for papers

The conference will explore different transformations of civic society and various dimensions of inequality in contemporary Europe. It will uncover how financial crisis in 2008 and migration processes in Europe have influenced society, economics, politics, media and culture. The conference welcomes papers from political science, sociology, communication studies, information and library sciences. Contributions from interdisciplinary areas of studies (regional development, human development, memory studies, gender studies, etc.) are also welcome.  Ph.D. students are encouraged to submit proposals. Paper proposals must include: ·         Name, institutional affiliation, position and e-mail address of the participant ·         Title of the abstract ·         Keywords (max 5) ·         An abstract of 200-400 words This information should be sent to the conference contact Laura Ardava (Laura.Ardava@lu.lv) till September 15, 2017. Registration information will be available on the conference website www.rrss2017.lu.lv. Participation fee: 45 EUR All participants will be invited to submit their papers. Selected papers will be published in the RRSS proceedings. ASPRI is the research institute of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Latvia. Since its creation in 2004, the task of ASPRI has been to coordinate interdisciplinary research projects involving the academic staff and graduate students of the four departments in the faculty, which are political science, sociology, communication studies, information and library sciences. Number of leading scholars, researchers and scientific assistants work in the institute. The director of the institute is Professor Aija Zobena.