Proceedings of the International Conference Riga Readings in Social Sciences

Abstract

Conference Proceedings of the International Conference Riga Readings in Social Sciences (RRSS). The Advanced Social and Political Research Institute, Faculty of Social sciences, University of Latvia annually organizes the international scientific conference Riga Readings in Social Sciences. The 1st RRSS conference (November 23, 2017) explored different transformations of civic society and various dimensions of inequality in contemporary Europe. Key-note speeches were devoted to the different aspects of social inequality. The 2nd RRSS conference (November 22-23, 2018) Baltic Sea Region: Hundred Years On. Contributions from interdisciplinary areas of studies (regional development, human development, memory studies, gender studies, social anthropology etc.) were accepted from researchers not only from the Baltic region, but also from University of Oxford (UK), Yale University (USA), University of Hamburg (Germany), Nazarbayev University (Khazahstan), University of California, Berkeley (USA). Articles of several early career researchers and doctoral students are represented in the Proceedings of the 1st and the 2nd RRSS.