It was organized with the support of the working group 01 «Local Global relations» (WG01) of the International Sociological Association (ISA) and the Institute of Socio-Political Research of the RAS and was held in preparation for the International Sociological Forum, due to be held in July, 2020, in Porto Alegre (Brasil).
Colleagues from Poland, Slovenia, Serbia, Ukraine, Russia and Belorussia participated in the Conference.
RSUH was represented by Professor Natalya Velikaya, President of the 01 Working Group and Chair of the Department of Political Sociology and Social Technologies, Dr. Roman Anisimov from the Department of Theory and History of Sociology, Dr. Anna Kucherenkova, from the Department of Applied Sociology and Dr. Andrey Khokhlov from the Department of Political Sociology and Social Technologies.