Annual Lithuanian Political Science Conference “The Year of Elections: Lithuania, Europe, the World”
2024-11-25
2024 may be called “the year of elections”: the Lithuanian voters are fulfilling their civic duty by voting in the presidential and parliamentary elections, and, along with the rest of the citizens of the European Union, has expressed their will by electing the new Members of the European Parliament. This year, people who cast their ballot are redrawing the political map in more than 70 countries around the world, from Taiwan or India to the United Kingdom and the United States of America. The campaigns and results of these elections have highlighted the challenges of democratic resilience and the changes in domestic and foreign policy in countries around the world.
Where will Lithuania stand in this changing global context, and what impact will the outcomes of the national elections have on the country’s political, social, economic, and cultural future? What are the implications of the increasing polarization within countries and internationally for the state of democracy and decision-making processes? How are the 2024 elections affected by global processes and how will the outcome of these elections in different parts of the world affect the global order?
To consider these questions, the Institute of International Relations and Political Science of Vilnius University invite to the two-day Annual Lithuanian Political Science Conference. The keynote speeches will be delivered by prof. Allan Sikk (University College London, United Kingdom), „Bringing the People Back In: From an Organisational to an Evolutionary Paradigm in Party Studies“ and prof. Jan Claas Behrends (Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History in Potsdam, Germany), „Russia going from Totalitarianism back to Totalitarianism – Stalin to Putin“.
The conference will consist of 12 panels, featuring paper presentations by Lithuanian and foreign scholars on their latest research. The first day of the conference will be closed by a discussion between researchers and current as well as former Members of the Lithuanian Parliament “Between Elections and Representation: Whose Voice is Heard in the Parliament?”
Date: December 5-6, 2024
Venue: Institute of International Relations and Political Science of Vilnius University (Vokiečių str. 10, Vilnius).
The rooms and times of the panels are specified in the conference program.
To participate in the conference, please register in advance here.
More information and the program of the conference can be found here.
