INFORMATION LETTER
THE THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
«COMMUNICATION IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES, HUMANITIES, ECONOMICS, AND EDUCATION»
Belarusian State University announces the Third international conference “Communication in the Social Sciences, Humanities, Economics, and Education” to be held in Minsk
(March 29-31, 2012)
Conference presentations in the following fields are welcomed:
Theory of Communication
•Problems of communication in social theory
•Information society: criteria, problems, perspectives
•Theory of electronic communication
•Semiotics of social communications
Mass Communication
•Mass communication in modern society
•Mass Communication and Public Opinion
•Convergence in the media and new media
•Mass communication and the ICTs
•Regulation of mass communication in the Internet
•Electronic social networks: merging boundaries between public and private domains
Social Communications
•Communication in the public sectors and in the NGOs
•International communications
•Communications in the health care sector
•Communications in the social sphere
•Communications in culture
•Political communication
•Risk and crisis communication
•Gender dimension of communication
•Speech and cross-cultural communication
Communication in Organizations
•Communication within organizations
•Communication technologies in business and social management
•Network communications in business, education, and science
•Marketing communications
•Analytics and information research in organizations
•Communications in the innovative entrepreneurship
•Interorganizational communications in the R&D sector
•коммуникации в сфере инновационного предпринимательства
•межорганизационные коммуникации в сфере исследований и разработок
Communication Studies
•Methods and methodology of communication studies
•Applied studies of communication
Communication in Education
•ICTs in education
•Communication strategies in teaching
•Information environment in education and science
•Education in Communications
Psychology of Communications
•Psychology of interpersonal communication
•Psychology of communication in organizations
•Psychology of media influence
The sections will be defined according to the proposals received.
Deadline for sending proposals and presentation texts – December 20, 2011.
Please send your proposal and presentation text by e-mail to the Organizing Committee (, Cc: ).
Proposals should include: 1) Name of the author(s); 2) Degree, titles; 3) Topic of presentation; 4) Organization, position; 5) City, Country; 6) Contact address and telephone; 7) Thematic field of the conference; 8) Please indicate whether hotel reservation is needed.
Guidelines to the presentation texts: up to 2 pages; MSWord 97-2003; Font 14; Times New Roman; Interval 1.2; all fields 25 mm; no page numbers;no references;no footnotes.
A book of conference presentations is planned for the publication before the conference. The Organizing Committee retains the right to reject proposals and materials published in the conference book.
Conference working languages: Russian, Belarusian, English.
The conference will include round tables, master classes, and seminars along the topics of conference. Proposals for round tables, master classes, and seminars are welcomed. Proposals should include the title and idea of the event (up to 1 page).
Deadline for proposals: December 20, 2011.
The conference fee is $20. The conference fee is non-refundable and should be paid no sooner than a confirmation letter of acceptance is received.
Travel and accommodation are covered by the participants.
Head of the Organizing Committee – Prof. Dr. Anatoly Rubanau, Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences, Belarusian State University.
Head of the Programme Committee – Dr. Olga Tereshchenko, PhD, Head of the Chair of Social Communication, Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences, Belarusian State University.
Secretary of the Organizing Committee – Tatiana Petukhova.
Contact telephone: (+375) 17 2597039, (+375) 17 2597060.
Contact e-mails: ; .