CYS Participated in VI International Scientific Conference 'Interaction. Integration. Inclusion'
Centre staff participated in conference ''Interaction. Integration. Inclusion: at the crossroads of knowledge and values' 2026 with the reports on perseption of the future from the youth, on modern practices of masculinity and ethical questions in studies of prison inmates.
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In August 5-8 was held VI International Scientific Conference 'Interaction. Integration. Inclusion: at the crossroads of knowledge and values'. The event was organised in online format by International Laboratory for Social Integration Research at HSE University,. Conference of the year 2026 is focused on understanding the interconnections between different values and formes of knowledge in conditions of developing segmentation of society and reconceptualisation of interaction forms between the government, the society and the people. Participants sicussed what knowledge and which values become more important in different cnditions and discussion stages, and how the subjectivity, pro-active attitude and co-participation are manifested in the research process.
The researchers from the Centre for youth Studies presented reports in a range of thematic sessions.
Centre director Elena Omelchenko took part in a conversation about research practices where methodological decisions are at the same time the ethical ones. The report 'Another Time, Another Place, Another Us. A Retrospective Look at the Sensitivity of Prison Studies' based on the articleе co-written with Albina Garifzianova, associate professor at the Department of General and Ethnic Sociology at Kazan Federal University, offers a retrospective view of sensitive areas of the interview process at the private institutions. The empirical base contains interviews with women prisoners who's identity and survival strategies are viewed through the lens of the specifics of whole prison complex. Special attention is placed on context like time and place of the fieldwork. The result of the analysis is a discribed spectre behavioral tactics of the interviewer — from the neutrality of emotion to unnessasary solidarity.
Besides that director particcipated also as a section superviser. 'From the future to the present: youth, knowledge, agency' was a discussion of how young people construct and interpret their present which then defines future and what knowledge and skills allows the youth to save agency at the highly unstable environment.
Intern researcher Mikhail Samulev explored the topic of constructing masculinity for a modern man of various ages in the discussion about 'gender dynamics and social policies'. The report 'A man (should not) be slightly more handsome than a primate: masculinity in narratives about bodily practices among men of two generations (X and Z)' raises the issue of multiplicity of various contemporary models of masculinity and the tensions between them. Special dynamic of this tension stems from the generational angle. The are stable differences in health-preserving behavior between generations X (40-58) and Z (19-25). On the basis of analysis were constructed 3 models of masculinity which are present for observed generations of men: normative (more in character for older generation), hybrid and caring (where the last two are present in both X and Z groups). For men with normative model self-care practices are limited to functional neatness and reduced to basic hygiene procedures. Hard borders are placed that do not allow aesthetic purposes (which are assosiated with femininity). Hybrid masculinity is tied to normative male characteristics (such as agression, pride) expressed in a constant environment of competitiveness where self-care is allowed to exist as an investment in a balnce between 'absence' and 'exceess'. Caring masculinity is expressed through emotional openness and percieving self-care as a 'want' targeted at constructing one's comfort state.
