The Laboratory for Comparative Social Research of the National Research University Higher School of Economics announces a call for the 10th LCSR International Workshop, which will be held within the XXI April International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development. It will take place in Moscow from the 6th till the 10th of April 2020. The submission deadline is December 20, 2019.

Workshop topics include but are not limited to:

• human values and cultural change
• gender (in)equality and gender attitudes
• subjective well-being and happiness
• trust, social capital, and corruption
• tolerance, nationalism, and migration
• political regimes and institutions
• populism and conservatism in Europe and Russia
• value polarization in Europe and Russia
• religion and secularization
• cross-cultural data collection and analysis

Keynote speakers are:

Christian Welzel LCSR HSE, Russia; Leuphana University, Germany

Ronald F. Inglehart LCSR HSE, Russia; University of Michigan, USA

Hanspeter Kriesi LCSR HSE, Russia; European University Institute, Italy

Working language is English. The submission deadline is December 20, 2019. The notification of acceptance will be sent by January 20, 2020.

Please submit to lcsr.event@hse.ru the following documents:

1. 2 pages Curriculum Vitae;
2. 5 pages Project Description: title, abstract of 250 words, main goal, brief literature review, main hypotheses, data description, methodology, and preliminary results (Template for Proposal)
3. your application should meet the following requirements: (1) the paper should be empirical and comparative (more than 2-3 countries/country regions) using quantitative methods; (2) the topic of the paper should address one of the workshop’s topics or the topics of the LCSR.

The participation is free of charge. LCSR has an opportunity to cover travel and accommodation expenses for the best papers.