Vectors Conference 2023

Vectors Conference 2023

“Vectors 2023” is an annual Shaninka’s conference for graduate students, which will be held from 21th to 23rd of April. We invite scholars to take part in panels on political science, social studies, history, psychology, culture studies, educational, and multidisciplinary panels. 

For many people, student science is just a preparatory stage on their way to the “adult” academic life. However, in practice, things are slightly different, and all the things that characterize the student practices of scientific communication (it's equitable discussion, cross-disciplinary dialogue, openness to alternative opinion etc.) constitute a serious competition to the classical academy.

The “Vectors” conference, which is annually held in Shaninka, aims at rethinking traditional academic formats of interaction between students and experts in various fields and at strengthening the professional identity of young researchers. By uniting enthusiastic and critically-minded intellectuals, “Vectors” builds bridges between communities, theories and practices that are different, at first sight, but need each other. Together, we create science that helps us not only look towards the future, but also shape it on our own.

“Vectors’' claims to include students and young professionals to the broad context of relevant social and economic research. Having different academic backgrounds, or just contemplating science as a prospective field of (self)development, the participants will share their experience, try to challenge themselves as public experts, and learn to think independently and critically to seek and find the language to describe complex processes that occur in the modern world.

Save the dates:

Dates of the event: April, 21-23
Applications deadline: Маrch, 15
Applications feedback till: March, 25
All panels that involve participation of foreign researchers are listed below. For the full list of panels included Russian-speaking only, see the version of the webpage in Russian.

Panel

Field

Participation format

Apply to 

Public Sphere: the Latest Transformation

Political science

Offline, online

public.sphere.section@gmail.com

Overcoming Boundaries, Constructing Differences: Cultural and Symbolic Dimensions of Inequality

Social studies

Offline, online

mkucheryavaya@hse.ru

«What We Do in the Shadows»: Studies of the Shadow Economy

Social studies

Offline, online

vectors@universitas.ru

subject: Vectors 23_04

"Pain to the Doctor Strives": Towards Social Studies of Health and (Bio-)Medicine

Social studies

Offline, online

vectors@universitas.ru

subject: Vectors 23_05

Social studies

Online

vectors@universitas.ru

subject: Vectors 23_10

Know thyself. The methodology of field research in Russian social anthropology

Social studies

Offline, online

vectors@universitas.ru

subject: Vectors 23_16

Neurodiversity: Current issues in research and  counselling practice

Psychology

Offline, online

vectors@universitas.ru

subject: Vectors 23_06

Behavioural political economy

Psychology

Online

vectors@universitas.ru

subject: Vectors 23_07

Issues and trends in Higher Education: is life overtaking the dream?

Education

Offline, online

mxn@universitas.ru

Non-oblivion. History in the Public Sphere: Education, Culture, Media

History

Offline, online

vectors@universitas.ru

subject: Vectors 23_08

Decolonising the heritage: Russian context (The organizers did not provide abstracts, so the section was cancelled)

Culture

Offline, online

heritage.and.museum.conference@gmail.com

Where and Why: Crucial Questions of Geophilosophy

Philosophy

Offline, online

geophilosophy.vectors@gmail.com

Soviet philosophy: Between scientific rationality and ideology

Philosophy

Online

vectors@universitas.ru

subject: Vectors 23_18

The Question of Life and Death: Contact with Inevitable in Death Studies (interdisciplinary section)

Multidisciplinary

Offline, online

vectors@universitas.ru

subject: Vectors 23_09

Visual thinking and visual practices in the contexts of education and psychological design

Multidisciplinary

Offline, online

vectors@universitas.ru

subject: Vectors 23_17

Power, sex, hierarchy: psychoanalysis as public science

Multidisciplinary

Offline, online

ymarkova@eu.spb.ru

subject: Vectors 23


How to apply?

  1. Choose the panel according to your interest.
  2. Prepare the abstracts (up to 500 words). Please be sure that the abstracts include a detailed research request, indication of the approach and/or the method, and the essence of the proposed idea.
  3. Email the application to the address of the panel organizing team (put in the table above).
  4. Please indicate the following in your application:
  • Your full name
  • The subject of your paper
  • Your affiliation and the researcher status (bachelor, master, or, postgraduate student, independent researcher, practitioner, etc.
  • Your email and phone number
  • Abstracts (up to 500 words)

We regret to inform you that accommodation and travel costs are not covered by the host. Most of the panels provide the opportunity of online participation. Following the conference, the book of abstracts with ISBN will be published.

Organizing committee:

Anastasia Pliner, head of the committee
Anna Kareva, programme coordination
Evgeniy Karyakin, fundraising and legal support
Ekaterina Vladimirova, project management 
Valentina Reshetova, coordination of volunteers 
Nikolai Nakhshunov, PR and partners

Contact us:

vectors@universitas.ru
Organizing and cooperation: Anastasia Pliner (Telegram)
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