Yasin Conference

                                                         

25th YASIN (APRIL) INTERNATIONAL ACADEMIC CONFERENCE ON ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT

Dear colleagues,

HSE University is pleased to announce a call for applications to present academic reports at the 25th Yasin (April) International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development (hereinafter, the “25th Yasin Conference” or the “Conference”).

All events on the 25th Yasin Conference programme will take place in Moscow from April 15 till 18, 2025.

The Conference programme will focus on the following key academic themes:

  • Economics;
  • Human Capital and Society;
  • Instrumental Methods and Models in Management and the Social Sciences;
  • Foresight Research;
  • International Relations.

Applications to present academic reports at the Conference should be submitted in accordance with the following thematic sections:

Under the academic theme of Economics:

  • Macroeconomics and Economic Growth;
  • Methodology of Economic Sciences;
  • Theoretical Economics;
  • Firms and Markets;
  • Finance and Banking.

 Under the academic theme of Human Capital and Society:

  • Social Policy and Healthcare;
  • Demography and Labour Markets;
  • Political Processes;
  • Sociology;
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Under the academic theme of Instrumental Methods and Models in Management and the Social Sciences:

  • Instrumental Methods in Economic and Social Research;
  • Management.

Under the academic theme of Foresight Research:

  • Russia’s Growth Scenarios in the Context of a Rapidly Changing External Environment;
  • New Models and Methods for Technological and Socioeconomic Forecasting;
  • International Symposium on “Foresight Research Amid Rapid Global Change”.

 Under the academic theme of International Relations:

  • Ideas and Civilizations in a Multipolar World;
  • The World Economy;
  • Asian Studies.

The deadline for filing applications to present academic reports at the Conference is Monday, January 20, 2025. In addition, applications will also be accepted to register for the Conference as an attendee: from Russian citizens – by Thursday, April 10, 2025; from foreign citizens – by Monday, March 10, 2025. More information is available in the Participants section of the Conference webpage at: https://conf.hse.ru/en/2025/application.

The events on the Conference programme will be held in Russian or English. Certain discussions will be held in a bilingual format with simultaneous interpretation provided.

The Conference will take place mainly in a live, face-to-face format. However, in exceptional cases, the Programme Committee retains the right to invite certain speakers and participants to join discussions online.

How can I apply to present an individual academic report at the Conference?

Reports delivered under specific thematic sections must describe the results of original research performed with the use of contemporary methodologies. Report presentations should last from 15 to 20 minutes.

The final deadline for online filing of applications to present reports via the HSE University Conference system is Monday, January 20, 2025.

All applications must be accompanied by detailed abstracts. Please see the requirements for formatting academic report abstracts below:

  • The abstract must clearly state the issue at hand, as well as the level at which it has been analysed, the selected research methods, and the key findings, as well as their novelty and validity;
  • The abstract format should be either Word or RTF;
  • The character count should be between 3,000 and 7,000 characters;
  • For Russian-language reports, the accompanying abstracts must be written in both Russian and English, while English-language reports require abstracts in English only.

Speakers may present one individual report and a maximum of two co-authored reports.

How can I submit a group application?

A team of authors filing individual applications, which are duly registered in the HSE University Conference system, may file a request with the Programme Committee, by Monday, January 20, 2025, to present their reports at the same session. For this purpose, they must submit a group application form via the HSE University Conference system.

Group applications should meet the following requirements:

  • from at least two up to a maximum of five reports to be delivered during the given session;
  • no more than two reports presented by representatives of the same organisation;
  • all individual applications of group members must be registered in the Conference system.

Please note that an application to present a single report with co-authors is deemed an individual application and will not be considered as a group application.

Once applications have been submitted for the respective thematic sections of the Conference, individual sessions will be put together for each thematic section. Each session will last for 90 minutes.  The Programme Committee may take into consideration proposals concerning the content of specific sessions during the expert review of applications stage and in the process of drawing up the final Conference programme.

Expert reviews of applications

Applications will be selected in three stages as follows:

  1. First, all applications that do not meet the aforementioned formatting criteria will be excluded;
  2. Second, expert assessments of report abstracts will be performed, with a specific focus on verifying the novelty and validity of findings (an application may be reassigned to another thematic section by decision of the head of the given expert group);
  3. Third, the Programme Committee will make its final decisions on the inclusion of reports in the Conference programme based on the expert assessments.

Results of the expert review and confirmation of an applicant’s participation

Applicants will be informed of the decisions to include their reports in the programme of the 25th Yasin Conference, or to decline their applications, as soon as the respective expert review results are available, but no later than by Wednesday, March 19, 2025.

Authors of reports selected for presentation at the Conference must confirm (RSVP) their participation by Wednesday, March 26, 2025 (inclusive), via their personal account in the HSE University Conference system, and then, by Friday, April 4, 2025 (inclusive), upload their presentation slides in English to their personal account. This process is a mandatory prerequisite for including reports in the final version of the programme.

Registration fees

The Conference registration fee for both presenters and attendees is RUB 3,000.

The following participants will be exempt from the registration fee:

  • Students and PhD students from any university (upon presentation of their student ID and completing the registration process);
  • HSE University staff members (upon presentation of their staff ID badge and completing the registration process);
  • Participants who were individually invited by the Conference Programme Committee (e.g., honorary academic presenters, moderators, speakers at roundtables, discussion participants, and other Conference guests).

Detailed information on how to pay the registration fee is available in the Registration Fee Payments section of the Conference webpage at: https://conf.hse.ru/en/2025/fees.