Annual Lithuanian Political Science Conference “The Echoes of Polycrisis in Lithuania and the World”

The war in Ukraine that shaken the European security architecture; violent storms and all-devouring fires as harbingers of an impending climate apocalypse; intractable price leaps and a general post-pandemic economic recession; intensifying global migration flows; aggressive and spreading authoritarian regimes; the development of artificial intelligence and other advanced technologies threatening to transform human, state, and societal relations. These signs testify that we are witnessing a multifaceted (or poly-) crisis.

These and other circumstances not only raise existential challenges to contemporary democracies, and rule-based global order but necessitate Lithuania, like other small states, to closely monitor these changes and seek the best ways to respond to them. It is also valuable to expand the scope of analysis to assess how the same global phenomena are perceived in different regions.

To consider these questions, the Association of Lithuanian Political Scientists and the Institute of International Relations and Political Science at Vilnius University invite to the two-day annual Lithuanian Political Science Conference.

The conference will take place on November 30 – December 1, 2023 at the Institute of International Relations and Political Science (Vokiečių str. 10, Vilnius).

The keynote speech “NATO’s New Front: Allied Deterrence Comes to the Baltic States” will be delivered by Prof. Maria Mälksoo (University of Copenhagen, Denmark). The programme of the conference will consist of 13 panels, featuring paper presentations by Lithuanian and foreign scholars on their latest research.

To participate in the conference, please register in advance by filling in the registration form.