First day of the conference!

5th International Annual Research Conference started this Monday in HSE, Moscow. The first day of the conference showed that the event attracted the record number of scientists from foreign countries, ranging from Argentina to Japan and the Middle East!

We are happy to announce that the 5th International Annual Research Conference “Cultural and Economic Changes under Cross-National Perspective” started this Monday in HSE, Moscow. It is the anniversary conference for the Laboratory and many renown scientists, old friends of LCSR and some interesting new participants came there to take part in the event. The researches feel enthusiastic to present their studies to the scientific international audience and discuss the current researches of LCSR research fellows, associate researches and invited guests.

Monday started with opening speech by Evgeny Yasin, Maria Yudkevich, Andrey Melville, Alexander Chepurenko and welcoming words from Ronald Inglehart and Eduard Ponarin. Then Ronald Inglehart gave a lecture about Modernization and Inequality highlighting that during the past 25 years, the publics of most countries have been placing increasingly strong emphasis on the need for greater income equality. On the second lecture Marita Carballo (Social and Political Academy of Argentina, Argentina) told the audience about the concepts of happiness, defined the term “subjective wellbeing” and showed how these two dimensions of people`s life can be connected to the development of public policy in countries.

The first day of the conference showed that the event attracted the record number of researches from foreign countries, ranging from Argentina to Japan and the Middle East, as well as the number of Russian guests was considerable.

We are really proud of the first day and looking forward to see you on our Conference!