International and Interdisciplinary Scientific Congress on Merging the Humanities, Physical and Social Sciences
April 24 – 27, 2018
Vilnius University Kaunas Faculty
Muitines str. 8, Kaunas LT 44280, Lithuania
The Congress is dedicated to discuss changes in different societies, varied sectors and perse environments and to foster dialogue between academicians, researchers and practitioners on the impact of interdisciplinarity in the humanities, physical and social sciences as well as on the development, interpretation and presentation of scientific change and the future of university studies.
The selected quality papers of the “FIHUSO-2018 Congress” will be double-blind reviewed and published in a range of scientific journals:
As a Supplement issue of International Journal of Scholarly Papers “TRANSFORMATIONS IN BUSINESS & ECONOMICS" -ISI ISI Web of Science, EBSCO, SCOPUS databases.
"PARTIAL ANSWERS" - an international, peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary journal that focuses on the study of literature and the history of ideas -EBSCOhost, Elsevier BV, Gale, OCLC. ProQuest, Thomson Reuters Web of Science databases.
RESPECTUS PHILOLOGICUS - dedicated to cognitive analysis of discourses (fiction, political, scientific, etc.), cognitive strategies of translation, rhetorical problems of communication, semiotic analysis of text, and the analysis of political, social and cultural phenomena in different social environments - Arianta, Central and Eastern European Online Library, DRJI, EBSCOhost Research Databases, Index Copernicus, Information Matrix for the Analysis of Journals, UlrichsWeb, Central and Eastern European Online Library and other databases.
Keynote Speakers
PROF. KIRSTEN MALMKJÆR - the founder of European Society for Translation Studies (EST), 20th CETRA Chair Professor 18-29 August 2008, Catholic University of Leuven, (University of Leicester).
PROF. LÄMSÄ ANNA-MAIJA - a member of research group "Organisational Ethics, Leadership and HRM (ETHOS)", Professor of human resource management, University of Jyväskylä, School of Business and Economics.
PROF. K. R. SOWMYA
Head of Department of Management Studies
Rajalakshmi Engineering College
Chennai, Tamilnadu, India
PROF. LILIAN SOARES OUTTES WANDERLEY
Federal University of Pernambuco (Brazil)
Business Administration, Business Ethics, Behavioural Economics
PROF. VLADO DIMOVSKI, member of European Academy of Sciences and Arts, former Minister for Labor, Family and Social Affairs, a full professor of management and organizational theory at the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Economics, Slovenia.
PROF. DANGUOLĖ MIKULĖNIENĖ
Head of the Geolinguistics Center of the Lithuanian Language Institute
Professor at Vilnius University Kaunas Faculty
PAULIUS ASTROMSKIS
Attorney, solicitor, partner, specialising in business agreements and corporate law
Lecturer at Vytautas Magnus University Faculty of Law
We encourage other researchers to become Keynote speakers, too.
Call for Papers
International and Interdisciplinary Scientific Congress on Merging the Humanities, Physical and Social Sciences FIHUSO-2018 is to be held on April 24 – 27, 2018 at Vilnius University Kaunas Faculty, Lithuania.
Scholars are encouraged to submit papers and abstracts on the following (but not limited) sections:
- Texts and Contexts: Tradition and Perspectives
- Information Society and University Studies
- Business development challenge
s - Culture and Creativity
- Social and Inpidual Expression of Gender
- Creative Industries and Innovations
- Science Voyages: Explore, Create and Celebrate (Creativity Workshops)
Sessions will be formed following the standard congress guidelines
Congress Registration
Registration to the congress is fully approved after the payment of participation fee only. The fee covers participation, coffee breaks, lunch, gala dinner, documentation and the material of the congress.
PAYMENT INFO
Company title: Vilnius university
Company code: 211950810
VAT code: LT119508113
Address: Universiteto str. 3, Vilnius, LT-01513, Lithuania
Bank Name: AB SEB BANKAS
Account no.: LT207044060006728725 (for foreign participants only)
SWIFT code: CBVI LT 2X
Payment purpose: Participants Name and Surname, KnF -2018-04-0001*
* NB! Please be sure you wrote the conference number (KnF -2018-04-0001) into the payment purpose. It is important for confirming the registration!
** In case you need the invoice, please write an email with attached copy of payment order and details for invoice (organisation name / person's name and surname, organisation identification number, address, email address and contact phone number) to . The invoice will be withdrawn during the congress or we will send it by e-mail after the event.
No matter whether the paper is single authored or multi-authored, if you would like to have the paper published in the conference proceedings, you need to pay registration fee for each paper.
In case the paper is multi-authored and more than one author would like to attend the conference, each attendee needs to make registration and pays the registration fee.
The conference registration fee covers admission to all conference sessions, one conference program booklet, one conference abstract in USB flash drive, lunches, and coffee breaks.
Unpaid manuscripts will be treated as withdrawn.
Cancellation Policy for the Congress.
All cancellations and refund requests must be made in writing to the Registration Secretariat ().
IMPORTANT DATES
Deadline for abstract submission: February 5, 2018.
Notification about abstract acceptance: February 12, 2018.
€ 100 Early Registration Rate: Before December 18, 2017.
€ 80 Early Registration Rate for Doctoral Students: Before December 18, 2017.
Admission to conference sessions
Congress abstracts (USB flash drive)
Congress package
€ 120 Regular Registration Rate: After December 18, 2017
€ 100 Regular Registration Rate for Doctoral Students: After December 18, 2017.
Admission to conference sessions
Congress abstracts (USB flash drive)
Congress package
Deadline for paper submission: May 28, 2018
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
General Chair
Prof. dr. Virginija Jurėnienė (Vilnius University, Lithuania)
Vice General Chairs
- Prof. dr. Loreta Ulvydienė (Vilnius University, Lithuania)
- Assoc. Prof. Rita Baranauskienė (Vilnius University, Lithuania)
Members
- Audrius Lopata (Vilnius University, Lithuania)
- Ingrida Šarkiūnaitė (Vilnius University, Lithuania)
- Olga Soudlenkova (Minsk State Linguistic University, Belarus)
- Aistė Urbonienė (Vilnius University, Lithuania)
- Skirmantė Biržietienė (Vilnius University, Lithuania)
- Eglė Gabrėnaitė (Vilnius University, Lithuania)
- Eglė Keturakienė (Vilnius University, Lithuania)
- Martynas Radzevičius (Vilnius University, Lithuania)
- Prof. Jurgita Kerevičienė (Vilnius University, Lithuania)
- Ingrida Griesienė ((Vilnius University, Lithuania)
- Raimonda Agnė Medeišienė (Vilnius University, Lithuania)
- Remigijus Ščerbauskas (
- Vilnius University, Lithuania)
Secretariat
- Lekt. Dovilė Jankauskaitė
- Inga Vaitkevičiūtė
- Inga Navickaitė
- Rasa Poškuvienė
HISTORY
The 1st International and Interdisciplinary Scientific Conference on Merging Physical Sciences, the Humanities and Social Sciences FI HU SO-2007 was organized by the academic community of Vilnius University Kaunas Faculty of Humanities under the leadership of Professor dr. (HP) Dainora GRUNDEY (1968–2012) in May, 2007.