The scientific and practical conference Manipulation of Public Consciousness and Information and Social Security in Contemporary Ukrainian Society

Event start: 2026-04-15

Last date: 2026-03-20

Ministry of education and science of Ukraine Sumy State University

Department of Germanic Philology

Dear colleagues!

We invite you to participate in the scientific and practical conference Manipulation of Public Consciousness and Information and Social Security in Contemporary Ukrainian Society (Certificate issued by the State Scientific Institution "Ukrainian Institute of Scientific and Technical Expertise and Information" No. 798 of 11 November 2025) which is held online on the basis of the Department of Germanic Philology of Sumy State University on April 15, 2026.

The main areas in which the conference is planned to work:

Innovative technologies of manipulative influence on public
Cognitive and pragmatic strategies of manipulative
Ethical, social, and psychological dimensions of linguistic
Language education and critical thinking as means of counteracting
Manipulation in intercultural communication and
Mass media in the digital age: tools of manipulation and methods of
Social networks as platforms for manipulation in the modernized
Legal protection of Ukrainian society from "harmful" information and propaganda in the context of contemporary realities.

Conference languages: Ukrainian, English, German.

The plenary and sectional sessions will be held on the Zoom platform (the link will be sent to the email address provided in the registration form on the eve of the conference).

The conference materials will be published in an electronic proceedings volume (PDF format) after the conference and posted on the website of the Department of Germanic Philology of the Faculty of FPSC of Sumy State University in the the section "Research Work", as well as emailed to all participants.

Each participant will receive an electronic certificate of participation in the conference.

To participate in the conference, you have to fill out an application with information about the authors https://forms.gle/yZ2ksSvEYeNzqcH8A and send an email with the information below to the following address by March 20, 2026 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Highly desirable to write your full name both in the email name and in the file name.

Responsible person for holding the conference is Oksana Brovkina, PhD in Philology, Associate Professor, senior lecturer of the Department of Germanic philology.

PARTICIPATION IN THE CONFERENCE IS FREE OF CHARGE

REQUIREMENTS FOR ABSTRACTS

The number of authors must not exceed
The length of the paper should be 2‐4 pages of A4
The file format must be .doc or .docx.
Page orientation:
Font: Times New Roman, size 14; line spacing – 5; paragraph indent – 1.25 cm; margins – 2 cm on all sides.
Quotation marks in the text: « ».
Tables: the title should be placed above the table; font size – 14; line spacing – 1.5; left alignment.
Figures must be grouped into a single graphic object; the caption should be placed below the figure; font size – 14; line spacing – 1.5; center alignment.
The sequence of material presentation should be as follows: the author’s (authors’) surname and initials; academic degree and/or academic title (if available), position; place of work or study (official full name of the institution); city. The title of the abstract is given after a line break. See Sample 1.
Abstracts authored by students must be submitted under the academic supervision of a faculty After the list of references, the supervisor’s full name, academic degree, academic title, and place of work should be indicated. See Sample 2.
The list of references should be arranged in alphabetical order and formatted according to APA Style 7 requirements. In-text references should be provided in parentheses, e.g. (Malaniuk, 2023).

The conference materials will be published in the authors’ original version. The authors bear full responsibility for the academic content and quality of the submitted materials. The Organizing Committee reserves the right to reject abstracts submitted in violation of these requirements or after the established deadline.

Organizing Committee Address: Department of Germanic Philology, Room T-107, Sumy State University, 116 Kharkivska St., 40000 Sumy, Ukraine.

Contact person:

Oksana Brovkina, PhD in Philology, Associate Professor, Senior Lecturer at the Department of Germanic Philology (tel. +380 66 463 4962).

Sample 1:

Ivanna Ivanenko

ORCID: 0000 1111 2222 3333 (if the author does not have an ORCID iD, it can be obtained at https://orcid.org/ )

PhD in Philology

Associate Professor, Department of Germanic Philology Sumy State University

Sumy, Ukraine

Contemporary Trends in the Development of Linguistic and Communicative Studies

Text, text, text.

List of references

Бровкіна О. В., Ракітіна О. В. (2023) Формування неологізмів у англомовному військовому дискурсі. Науковий вісник Херсонського державного університету. Серія «Германістика та міжкультурна комунікація». DOI: 10.32999/ksu2663-3426/2023-2-4.

Іграк К. (2017) «Емоційно забравлені елементи військової лексики». Взято 25 березня 2025 року з https://www.lingstud.od.ua/archive/2017/25/9.pdf

Поліщук Н. (2023) «Військова термінолексика в мові сучасних медіа». Взято

25 березня 2025 року https://termvisnyk.iul- nasu.org.ua/wpcontent/uploads/sites/11/2023/06/12.pdf

Sample 2:

Mykhailo Mykhailenko

ORCID: 0000 1111 2222 3333 (if the author does not have an ORCID iD, it can be obtained at https://orcid.org/ )

Student, Sumy State University Sumy, Ukraine

Innovative technologies for manipulating public consciousness

Text, text, text.

List of references

Андрухович Ю. «Рекреації». Взято 25 березня 2025 року з https://www.ukrlib.com.ua/books/printit.php?tid=14240

Supervisor: I. I. Ivanenko, PhD in Philology, Associate Professor, Department of Germanic Philology, Sumy State University.