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Siarhei Liubimau is an Associate Professor in the Academic Department of Social Sciences at the European Humanities University (EHU). He serves as the Coordinator of the Laboratory of Critical Urbanism, focusing on applied urban research. His work bridges urban sociology, critical theory, and digitalization studies. Education: PhD in Sociology from the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences (2010). Teaching areas include Language and Thinking, Professional Terminology in English (Cities and Digitalization), and City and Communication. Research interests center on urban sociology, critical urbanism, sociology of digitalization, borders/boundaries, and social theory. Key projects explore nuclear towns (e.g., Visaginas), post-Soviet urban infrastructure, and transnational urban border dynamics. He has authored monographs like Mapping Visaginas and contributed to peer-reviewed journals such as Europa Regional and Studia nad Granicami . Professional activities include coordinating international conferences (e.g., 2022 EHU anniversary conference) and participating in EU-funded projects. He has presented at venues like the Baltic Conference on Environmental Humanities and the German Historical Institute in Warsaw. Laboratory of Critical Urbanism initiatives include the World Urban Forum presentation (2022) and Erasmus+ exchanges. Active in public intellectual work, he critiques authoritarian digital politics (Belarus case studies) and reimagines urban futures through planetary urbanization frameworks.

• Urban Sociology
• Critical Urbanism
• Sociology of Digitalization
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Aistis Žekevičius is an active Junior Researcher at the Lithuanian Culture Research Institute in Vilnius, having recently completed his doctoral studies with a 2024 PhD dissertation titled "Biopolitics and Race: Interactions, Critiques, Overcoming" under Prof. Audronė Žukauskaitė's supervision. His position situates him within Lithuania's national research infrastructure focused on cultural and philosophical inquiry. His research program critically engages with five interconnected domains: Biopolitics : Analyzing power structures managing populations through race, pandemic responses, and extraction Planetary thinking : Examining global-scale ecological and political challenges beyond anthropocentrism Postcolonialism : Investigating enduring colonial legacies in contemporary governance Posthumanism : Exploring technological and ecological transformations of human subjectivity Algorithmic governmentality : Studying digital systems' role in shaping biopower and resistance Dr. Žekevičius secured significant research funding as a core participant in the Research Council of Lithuania's project "Immunity and Contagion: Transformations of Biopolitics in the Time of Pandemic" (2021-2024), which produced critical analyses of how pandemic conditions reconfigured racialized biopolitical strategies. His scholarly output demonstrates consistent contribution to philosophical discourse through publications in Athena: filosofijos studijos, with recent work connecting algorithmic systems to historical biopolitical frameworks and exposing continuities in racial governance during health crises.

• biopolitics
• planetary thinking
• postcolonialism
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