YCIE is delighted to announce that registration is now open for the second annual Y-Conference, taking place May 22–24, 2026, at the ibis Hotel, 5/1 Northern Ave, Yerevan. The Y-Conference brings together scholars who work in or focus on the Caucasus and Eurasia to present their latest research and discuss their ongoing projects. Conceived as an inclusive and safe space, the conference fosters dialogue across academic disciplines and national borders—a gathering where new concepts and collaborative projects can emerge and take shape. The theme of the second Y-Conference is SPACES. We envision an interdisciplinary exploration of this fundamental and conceptually rich category of the social sciences and humanities. Space is never neutral; it is always produced, contested, inhabited, imagined, and politicized. From Henri Lefebvre’s The Production of Space to Doreen Massey’s For Space, scholars have long emphasized that space is not merely a container in which social life unfolds—it is constitutive of social life itself. In this sense, the Y-Conference’s focus on “SPACES” invites scholars to engage with space as a theoretical object, a lived experience, and a site of power, memory, resistance, and transformation.