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ASASWEI INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
University of the Free State, 10-12 September 2025 (in person)
Submission Deadline: 30 April 2025
In a world facing increasing social inequalities, environmental crises, and geopolitical conflicts, the role of social work and related disciplines has never been more vital. As communities grapple with challenges such as climate change, forced displacement, poverty, and human rights violations, social workers, educators, and researchers must actively engage in solutions that promote justice, peace, and sustainability. This international conference provides a platform for critical reflection, knowledge-sharing, and action-oriented discussions on how social work education, research, and practice can drive transformative change in addressing these global issues. This conference theme recognises the interconnectedness of social and environmental justice, peacebuilding, and sustainable development. It highlights the importance of integrating green social work perspectives, conflict resolution strategies, and development frameworks into social work education, policy, and field interventions. As the world strives to meet the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), social work must evolve to respond effectively to these global challenges. Learn more.
Key Focus Areas:
- Socia, economic, and Environmental Justice
- Peacebuilding and Conflict Resolution
- Sustainable Development and Social Work
- Teaching and Research, and Practice for Social Change
Theme—Advancing Social, Economic and Environmental Justice, Peace building, and Sustainable Development through teaching, research and practice
Call for Papers
Annual Conference of the Peace and Justice Studies Association
Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, USA, 9-12 October 2025
Submission Deadline: 1 May 2025
This year’s conference focuses on the theme of temporality and peacebuilding – we are interested in scholarship that traces the trajectories of peace-oriented social movements in the past and present. We are also envisioning the future of peacebuilding efforts, both locally and globally and seeking to illuminate the importance of intergenerational organizing, faith-based understandings of peace, and interdisciplinary approaches to studying conflict transformation.
Our conference convenes during the emergence of a new Presidential administration and a time of political and social turmoil, raising questions about peacebuilding in the U.S. and around the world. Also, the rise of American white Christian nationalism, as well as far-right populism globally, is alarming. Yet, rich histories of resistance, whether through Indigenous practices, racial justice movements, peace churches, or other peace and justice currents, provide hope and deserve our attention as researchers and educators. Learn more, read the call for papers and submit a proposal.
Call for Papers
Research in Social Movements, Conflict, and Change (RSMCC)
Submission Deadline: 1 May 2025
This volume welcomes any submissions related to coalition-building, working across difference and inequality, intersectionality practices, and/or solidarity building across divides. By “coalitions,” we envision discussions related to both coalitions between formal organizations, such as SMOs, as well as coalition-building within groups and organizations. Of the latter, we are interested in studies of diversity and inclusion in social movements and approaches that take intersectionality into account. We are open to a variety of methodologies, including but not limited to quantitative studies as well as qualitative studies such as ethnographies, case studies, interview-based research, mixed methods, and archival work. We seek both historical and contemporary studies, from all parts of the globe. As part of RSMCC’s commitment to publish scholarly works with implications for building a more socially just and peaceful world, we would also be enthused to receive first-person accounts from activists or peace builders describing coalition efforts that have worked in the field, as well as those that have not. Read the full call for papers.
Call for Papers
Preserving Democracy: How the U.S. Can Protect Democracy Amidst Constitutional Challenges
Volume 26, Issue 3 of the Nevada Law Journal
Submission Deadline: 16 May 2025
The Nevada Law Journal invites submissions for its upcoming symposium issue, Preserving Democracy: How the U.S. Can Protect Democracy Amidst Constitutional Challenges. This symposium will explore the threats to our democracy, consider the constitutional and statutory reforms necessary to restore and protect democratic governance, and the implications of these solutions for our society, nation, and world. We are seeking papers from scholars regarding this topic for publication with the opportunity for an in-person or virtual symposium event. We invite interested parties to submit abstracts of at least 375 words; we welcome longer summaries and draft papers. The abstracts should be proposals for articles of less than 30,000 words. Submissions should be sent to Alisson Rodriguez, Symposium Editor, at rodri245@unlv.nevada.edu with the subject line “NLJ Call for Papers.” Abstracts are due May 16, 2025. Read the full call for papers.
Call for Papers
Fifteenth International Conference on Health, Wellness & Society
University of Granada, Granada, Spain + Online, 4-5 September 2025
Submission Deadline: 4 June 2025
Founded in 2011, the Health, Wellness, & Society Research Network is brought together by a common concern in the fields of human health and wellness, and in particular their social interconnections and implications. We seek to build an epistemic community where we can make linkages across disciplinary, geographic, and cultural boundaries. As a Research Network, we are defined by our scope and concerns and motivated to build strategies for action framed by our shared themes and tensions. The application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and information management systems (Big Data-BD), combined with advancements in computing capacity, robotics integration, and the Internet of Things (IoT), represents a new technological revolution. This revolution has profound implications for all human relationships, particularly in Medicine and Health Sciences. These new technologies enable us to move towards Personalized, Precision, Predictive, Preventive, Participatory, and Population-based (6P) healthcare. Learn more about submission and registration.
2025 Special Focus—Emotional vs Artificial Intelligence: A Paradigm Shift in Healthcare?
Tenth International Conference on Communication & Media Studies
Hosted by Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris, France
11-12 September 2025
Call for Papers
Twenty-Second International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic & Social Sustainability
University of the Aegean, Rhodes, Greece + Online, 20-22 April 2026
Submission Deadline: 20 June 2025
Climate change has become the predominant focus of environmental discussions. However, the current discourse often suffers from “carbon myopia,” a “carbon tunnel vision,” overlooking the interconnected and equally pressing challenges that threaten the stability of our natural systems. Beyond the critical issues of biodiversity loss and freshwater depletion, a broader range of urgent threats exists, which are less visible but pose severe risks to long-term wellbeing for all (sustainability).
While there are a range of both hidden social and environmental issues, this year's theme highlights these overlooked yet urgent environmental challenges. In turn we emphasize the need for a more holistic approach to organizational decision-making, including government and corporate strategies to include all these foundational issues as hard parameters. To secure long-term wellbeing for all, it is crucial to expand our focus beyond carbon emissions and integrate these hidden risks into our organizational frameworks, ensuring that the health of all environmental systems are respected and addressed if we are to achieve a state where our collective wellbeing is assured. Learn more about submission and registration.
2026 Special Focus—Unseen Sustainability: Addressing Hidden Risks to Long-Term Wellbeing for All
Call for Papers
Mid-South Sociological Association Annual Meeting
North Augusta, South Carolina, 15-18 October 2025
Submission Deadline: 1 September 2025
Globally, in a world of interlocking networks, the likelihood that most residents will experience a major disaster in their lifetimes is increasing significantly. Whether caused by natural, technological, synergistic, social, cyber, or new means, disasters are becoming more complex, frequent, stronger, longer-lasting, and more devastating in their impacts. As each disaster receives only limited national attention, the extended, slow recovery process forces change and transition at all levels of society, reshaping the pathways forward. Disasters force endings and offer new beginnings. Their destruction spotlights human losses, community ties, deep social change, power dynamics, gender inequalities, wealth and poverty disparities, as well as themes of security, insecurity, and civil rights across varied geographies and cyberspaces. For this conference, we encourage you to submit papers around the theme of disaster with a focus on the humanistic impacts, to understand the texture of loss, the emergence of care and love amidst such devastation, and the process of recovery in a myriad of social and cultural contexts. We are also interested in ways disaster concepts and theorization can apply to new social contexts, expanding our understanding of the theories and bridge the gap between disciplines and perspectives. Learn more about submission and registration.
2025 Special Focus—Disasters: Understanding the Textures of Loss, Love, and Recovery Amidst Forced Social Change
Call for Papers
"Police Response to Violence Against Women"
Policing: An International Journal
Submission Deadline: 1 October 2025
This special issue seeks to address contemporary challenges, highlight unexplored areas, and identify innovative police responses to violence against women across the world. While there is an established academic literature on violence against women, the issue remains prevalent and unresolved despite initiatives from the United Nations, the World Health Organization, and country specific responses. The World Health Organization estimates 1:3 women worldwide have been subjected to physical and/or sexual violence. Violence against women continues to have serious implications for public health and human rights across the globe. This special issue explores police practices across different countries and cultures, highlights universal challenges, and identifies successful strategies. Read the full call for papers.
Call for Papers
Work and Family Researchers Network
Concordia University in Montreal, Canada, 17-20 June 2026
Submission Deadline: 1 November 2025
The next Work and Family Researchers Network Conference will be held June 17-20, 2026 at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. The conference theme is Centering Care Across the Life Course. More than 500 stakeholders in the work-family field are anticipated to attend, with a dynamic program focused on meaningful exchanges. Submissions open in July and close November 1, 2025. More information can be found at the conference website.
2026 Special Focus—Centering Care Across the Life Course
Call for Applications
Call for Applications
Ad Hoc Advisory Group on Research and Data Practices
Submission Deadline: 6 June 2025
The Commission has decided to establish the Ad Hoc Advisory Group on Research and Data Practices as an ad hoc advisory group to the Commission. Having adopted a formal charter for the Ad Hoc Advisory Group on Research and Data Practices, the Commission is constituting the at-large membership of the advisory group under that charter. The Commission hereby invites any individual who is eligible to be appointed to the at-large membership of the Ad Hoc Advisory Group on Research and Data Practices to apply by sending a letter of interest and resume to the Commission as indicated in the ADDRESSES section below. Application materials should be received by the Commission not later than June 6, 2025. Read the call for applications and apply.
Call for Chapters
Call for Chapters
Meaning and Interpretation in Research: Nuance, Objectivity and the Ethics of Reason
Submission Deadline: 7 May 2025
This call for chapters is for a multidisciplinary book on meaning and interpretation in research. The book will explore the dimensions of semantics and hermeneutics in text-based qualitative and quantitative research across multiple disciplines. It will offer a rigorous and comprehensive discussion, critique, and defence of research methodologies that seek out truth and objectivity and the key primary and secondary data analysis methods in which text-based researchers situate their contributions to knowledge and their claims of research impact. There are many books on research in the public domain. However, few of these are differentiated by the linguistic and phenomenological disciplines of semantics and hermeneutics. These disciplines have long converged in postmodernism and post-structuralism (e.g., Lyotard, 1984; Culler, 1982, 1992; Harland, 2003; Butler, 2006), reader-response criticism (Tompkins, 1980; Freund, 2013; Greenham, 2019), and deconstruction (e.g., Derrida, 2016). However, in these areas – and in contrast to the possibility of truth and objectivity found in foundationalism (e.g. Kripke, 1982), speech-act theory (Vanhoozer, 2002; Searle, 2005), structuralism (e.g., Kant, 1781, 1787; Frege, 1892; Saussure, 1916; Levi-Strauss, 1967), in pragmatists such as Nicholas Rescher (e.g. 1997) and through the reflexiveness during coding and categorising in grounded theory (e.g., Glaser & Strauss, 1967; Charmaz, 2013) - both meaning and interpretation are presented as hopelessly subjective because of the structure of the sign and of its supposed disengagement from, or arbitrary alignment with, its object (signified, writer, etc.). By contrast, and with an eye on such perennial debates, this book should focus the attention of social science and business management researchers (but researchers in humanities, education, and media and communications will find these discussions useful, and could animate them) on the striking impact of the above arguments (regarding the scope, extent, and place of human subjectivity on meaning and interpretation in text-based research) on the credibility of their research findings, conclusions and recommendations. This impact, which is often overlooked or downplayed, should be rationalised for researcher claims of validity and reliability to be authentically legitimate and tenable. Read the full call for chapters.
Call for Chapters
Far-Right and Fascism
Submission Deadline: 25 May 2025
For Routledge’s Far-Right and Fascism series, this volume critically explores how both alternative media (or alt-tech) and mainstream platforms like Facebook and X/Twitter are used by the far-right movement, and how this use influences the public through disinformation and often-tacit acceptance of fascist ideology, especially connecting to mainstream platforms that many people use for personal, social, and professional purposes. We seek scholars, activists, and early career researchers across the disciplines to share their research and theoretical frameworks on alternative and mainstream far-right media, especially concerning anti-intellectualism and fascism in digital spaces. With the increasing popularity of alternative media platforms like Bitchute and Gab prior to the 2024 US Election, and changes made in major platforms offering users “free speech” that includes hate speech or disinformation, these outlets offer users the opportunity to share, socialize, and identify with far-right extremism. The implications include influencing people to support conspiracy theories against social policies that aim to protect human rights while also sustaining anti-intellectualism and hatred through the digital ecosystem. From MAGA subculture and Tradwife influencers to white Christian nationalist websites, this volume examines critical aspects of digital social spaces that destigmatize far-right ideologies and their connection to acts of terrorism.
Read the full call. Please send an abstract (500-700 words) of your proposed contribution, CV(optional), and a brief biography (100-150 words) by May 25, 2025. We will email you if your proposal has been accepted or rejected by June 25, 2025. If accepted, you will be asked to submit the full draft of the manuscript by October 25, 2025. Please send chapter proposals, inquiries, or questions to Fullek5@unlv.nevada.edu.
Call for Chapters
De Gruyter Handbook on Religion and Social Change
Submission Deadline: 1 June 2025
The editors invite proposals to contribute to the De Gruyter Handbook on Religion and Social Change, co-edited by Jeyoul Choi, Victoria Machado, Nelson Marin Alarcon, and Anna Peterson. The Handbook is a unique initiative that brings together authors from diverse disciplines to provide a broad overview of classic and emerging issues in the study of religion and social change. We are looking for authors of chapters of about 4000-6000 words on the following topics:
- Religion, social change, race, and racism
- Religion, women, gender, and sexuality
- Religion, war, and peace
- Religion, social change, and education
We anticipate a deadline for draft chapters by June 1, 2025, but extensions are possible. If you have any questions or would like to submit a chapter proposal, please contact Anna Peterson at annap@ufl.edu.
Ongoing Calls
Call for Manuscripts
African Educational Research Journal (AERJ)
African Educational Research Journal (AERJ) is a peer-reviewed open access journal which publishes high-quality articles in all areas of Education. African Educational Research Journal publishes original empirical and theoretical studies and analyses in education that constitute significant contributions to the understanding and/or improvement of educational processes and outcomes.
AERJ is currently accepting manuscripts for publication. Send manuscript attached as MS word to aerj.submit@netjournals.org or aerj.submit@gmail.com.
All manuscripts are reviewed by qualified reviewers and the review outcomes are sent back within two to three weeks of receipt of the article. Following acceptance, the paper will be published in the next available issue.
Call for Proposals
Sociology of Race and Ethnicity
The Sociology of Race and Ethnicity series provides a venue for international, pioneering scholarship that moves our understanding of race, racism, ethnicity, and ethnic oppression forward. The series features books that engage in contemporary social issues in a meaningful way, advocating intervention and action in social justice and social transformation. While theoretically and empirically grounded in sociology, books in this series intersect a wide array of social sciences (geography, history, political science, anthropology, philosophy). We seek book proposals that accomplish the dual goals of speaking to the public square and pushing the intellectual conversation forward. To inquire about publishing in the series, please contact Mick Gusinde-Duffy at mickgd@uga.edu.
Conferences and Events
Real Time Chicago Lecture Series - NHP Foundation: Reinventing Affordable Housing One Community at a Time
UIC Great Cities Institute (412 S Peoria St, Suite 400, Chicago, IL 60607)
30 April 2025 at 1pm CDT
We’re excited to invite you to the fourth session of the Spring 2025 Real Time Chicago Lecture Series, featuring a powerful conversation with leaders from the NHP Foundation and its subsidiary, Operation Pathways:
• Veronica Gonzalez, Assistant Vice President, NHP Foundation
• Eva Thibaudeau-Graczyk, Director of Supportive Housing, Operation Pathways
• Carmen Correa, Resident Services Coordinator, Operation Pathways
This session will explore how NHP Foundation—a national nonprofit real estate corporation—is driving change by acquiring, preserving, redeveloping, and constructing affordable housing across 16 states and the District of Columbia. With a portfolio of over 8,000 affordable housing units located throughout Connecticut, D.C., Florida, Illinois, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Missouri, North Carolina, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia, NHP is committed to ensuring housing remains accessible, stable, and service-enriched for families and individuals across the country.
At the heart of this mission is Operation Pathways, a CORES-certified resident services provider that brings an innovative, in-house approach to supportive services. Through four key program areas—Academic Achievement, Financial Stability, Healthier Living, and Aging in Place—Operation Pathways empowers residents to pursue personal goals while improving long-term quality of life. Their model emphasizes impactful, customized programming delivered by Resident Services Coordinators who assess and respond to the evolving needs of each community.
In this session, our speakers will share how their work is reinventing affordable housing one community at a time—not just as physical spaces, but as platforms for upward mobility, community wellness, and resident empowerment. They’ll offer insights on aligning housing development with social supports, building strong local partnerships, and applying data-informed strategies that center equity, dignity, and long-term sustainability.
Don’t miss this opportunity to hear how NHP and Operation Pathways are blending bricks, mortar, and mission to reshape the future of housing.
First Homosexuals Symposium
Alliance Française de Chicago
9-10 May 2025
Join us for a two-day symposium expanding on the groundbreaking exhibition The First Homosexuals: The Birth of a New Identity, 1869-1939. The program features scholars in queer art history from around the world. The symposium will begin with a keynote lecture by Jonathan D. Katz, curator of The First Homosexuals, followed by five panels organized by geographic location. Presentations will explore the Indigenous cultures of Latin America and Meiji period reformations in Japan to examinations of lesbian subcultures across Canada, France, and Poland. Each panel will be followed by a brief Q&A session with the audience. Guests of all backgrounds, including academics, artists, students, and the general public are welcome. Learn more and register.
Law and Society Annual Meeting
Chicago, Illinois, USA
22-25 May 2025
The LSA Annual Meeting will take place in Chicago, Illinois, USA, from May 22-25, 2025. The conference will be held at the Hyatt Regency. This meeting will be an entirely in-person meeting. Previous Annual Meetings have brought more than 2,500 participants from over 60 countries across 6 continents. Learn more.
Twentieth International Conference on the Arts in Society
Center for the Arts in Society, Carnegie Mellon University,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
28-30 May 2025
The Twentieth International Conference on the Arts in Society offers an interdisciplinary forum for discussion of the role of the arts in society. It is a place for critical engagement, examination, and experimentation, developing ideas that connect the arts to their contexts in the world – on stage, in studios and theaters, in classrooms, in museums and galleries, on the streets and in communities. We seek to build an epistemic community where we can make linkages across disciplinary, geographic, and cultural boundaries. As a Research Network, we are defined by our scope and concerns and motivated to build strategies for action framed by our shared themes and tensions.Tenth International Conference on Communication & Media Studies
Center for the Arts in Society, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA + Online
28-30 May 2025
“The Art of Hospitality” invites explorations of the possibilities and limits of hospitality, belonging, and gathering through human and non-human entities, mobile and fixed bodies, temporary and permanent spaces. The sites, gestures, acts, and relationships of welcoming or gathering contain power dynamics that reflect financial, social, political, speculative, or imagined currencies, often with burdens and expectations of reciprocity and gratitude. Sites and gestures of hospitality can be found in life, work, art, architecture, design, theater, performance, leisure, and study: these places and acts invite and even demand critique. “The Art of Hospitality” solicits contributions that interrogate these dynamics. Join us in Pittsburgh, the Steel City, whose three rivers have hosted humans in friendship and conflict for centuries, and whose ongoing occupation of Indigenous land invites reflections on sovereignty and power. Read the full call for papers.
2025 Special Focus—The Art of Hospitality
Twenty-Fifth International Conference on Diversity in Organizations, Communities and Nations
Hosted by University of Nicosia, Nicosia, Cyprus
11-13 June 2025
This conference aims to shed light on the challenges that leaders encounter when navigating cultural differences and identify prospects for creating more inclusive and effective leadership strategies. Intercultural leadership, which emphasizes empathy, cultural intelligence, and adaptability, can mitigate conflicts and misunderstandings that arise from cultural disparities.
The conference will delve into the impact of VUCA on leadership paradigms, examining how globalization, technological advancements, and geopolitical shifts further complicate the interplay between cultures. Participants will also analyze intercultural leadership case studies and success stories in diverse industries, illuminating best practices and practical approaches.
Discussions will center on empowering leaders to embrace diversity, harness cultural nuances, and foster an inclusive environment that capitalizes on the strengths of a multicultural workforce. Through workshops and interactive sessions, attendees will gain insights, tools, and frameworks to overcome intercultural challenges, leading to more cohesive and adaptive organizations in an ever-changing world. Learn more and register.
Fifteenth International Conference on Religion & Spirituality in Society
Hosted by Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
19-20 June 2025
Twenty-third International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities
University of Hawaii, Hilo, Hawaii, USA + Online
25-27 June 2025
"Oceanic Journeys: Multicultural Approaches in Publishing Practices" centers on the exploration of how diverse cultural perspectives influence and shape the publishing industry. This focus addresses the intersection of global cultures in the creation, dissemination, and reception of published works, emphasizing the importance of inclusive and representative content. By examining the formation of social knowledge, the impacts of digital disruptions, and the historical and social ramifications of publishing, the conference aims to highlight the transformative power of multicultural approaches. It seeks to uncover how these approaches not only enrich the publishing landscape but also promote social justice, cultural exchange, and community identity. Through this lens, the conference will delve into current challenges and opportunities, such as digital inequality, intellectual property rights, and sustainable practices, fostering a comprehensive understanding of the evolving role of publishing in a multicultural world. Learn more about registration.
2025 Special Focus—Oceanic Journeys: Multicultural Approaches in Publishing Practices
Sixteenth International Conference on Sport & Society
Hosted by Monash University in Melbourne, Australia
2-4 July 2025
The Sixteenth International Conference on Sport & Society will delve into the politics of globalisation and how it reshapes sports, as well as its complex relations with local cultures and cities. Sport is both a cultural practice and a global product. As a cultural practice, sport brings people together and creates a sense of belonging. It also contributes to individuals’ wellbeing and the development of physical and social skills. As a global product, sport is shaped by global economic flows and practices that monetise fan engagement and commodify athletes' labour. The confluence of sport as a cultural practice and a global product creates tensions and fractures as to how communities shape sports to become a force for social good locally.
The Special Focus of the Sixteenth International Conference on Sport & Society delves into these tensions and fractures and invites submissions that examines the roles of global sports and how they are re-contextualised within local cultures and communities. Learn more about registration and calls.
Twentieth International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences
Hosted by University of Málaga, Málaga, Spain
2-4 July 2025
All presenters are also encouraged to submit their paper to the companion journal collection, the Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Journal Collection. Find out more about the journal collection.
We welcome the submission of proposals at any time of the year. The dates below serve as a guideline for proposal submission based on our corresponding registration deadlines. All proposals will be reviewed within two to four weeks of submission.
Sixteenth International Conference on Sport and Society
Hosted by Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
2-4 July 2025
The Sixteenth International Conference on Sport & Society will delve into the politics of globalisation and how it reshapes sports, as well as its complex relations with local cultures and cities. Sport is both a cultural practice and a global product. As a cultural practice, sport brings people together and creates a sense of belonging. It also contributes to individuals’ wellbeing and the development of physical and social skills. As a global product, sport is shaped by global economic flows and practices that monetise fan engagement and commodify athletes' labour. The confluence of sport as a cultural practice and a global product creates tensions and fractures as to how communities shape sports to become a force for social good locally.
The Special Focus of the Sixteenth International Conference on Sport & Society delves into these tensions and fractures and invites submissions that examines the roles of global sports and how they are re-contextualised within local cultures and communities. Learn more about registration.
2025 Special Focus—Global Sports, Local Cultures
Eighteenth Global Studies Conference
Hosted by University of Málaga, Málaga, Spain
2-4 July 2025
Founded in 2008, the Global Studies Research Network is devoted to mapping and interpreting past and emerging trends and patterns in globalization. We aim to traverse a broad terrain, sometimes technically and other times socially oriented, sometimes theoretical and other times practical in their perspective, and sometimes reflecting dispassionate analysis while at other times suggesting interested strategies for action. Our aim is to build an epistemic community where we can make linkages across disciplinary, geographic, and cultural boundaries. At the Eigthteenth Global Studies Conference, we embrace a multidisciplinary approach to navigate the complexities of AI in a manner that prioritizes human dignity and environmental stewardship. This endeavor is not only technological, but also of necessity profoundly ethical and political one. It calls for a collective commitment to redefining the principles and practices that will guide the future of AI governance. Read the full call for papers.
2025 Special Focus—Minds and Machines: Artificial Intelligence, Algorithms, Ethics, and Order in Global Society
Thirty-Second International Conference on Learning
University of Granada in Granada, Spain
8-10 July 2025
The arrival of generative AI has precipitated a panic among some educators while prompting qualified enthusiasm from others. Ask a GPTs (Generative Pre-Trained Transformer) to take a high-stakes select response test, and it will generally pass or even excel. Prompt it to write a five-paragraph essay on any topic, and it will produce a well-written if dull and predictable response, at least as good or better than a student’s response. Here comes a cheating bonanza: unless strictly proctored, there’s no reliable way to tell whether a student response has been generated by AI, especially with a few extra tricks in written text such as adding some typos or awkward expressions. What to do? How to put generative AI to good use?
In addition to the broad range of regular themes addressing educational and social change at The Learner Conference, this year we will have a special theme exploring the implications and applications artificial intelligence in education generally, and GPTs in particular. Presentations addressing this special theme will examine the differences between machine and human learning and the ways in which machines can complement human learning. Some of the questions we will address are: What are supervised, unsupervised and reinforcement machine learning? Will mechanical intelligence ever be able to replicate or exceed human intelligence? What are the practical applications of learning analytics and artificial intelligence in learning management systems and other educational tools? What are the implications for diversity, equity and inclusion? Learn more about registration.
Eighteenth International Conference on the Inclusive Museum
Hosted by University of San Jorge, Zaragoza, Spain
15-17 September 2025
Founded in 2008, The Inclusive Museum Research Network is brought together by a shared concern for the future role of the museum and how it can become more inclusive. We seek to build an epistemic community where we can make linkages across disciplinary, geographic, and cultural boundaries. As a Research Network, we are defined by our scope and concerns and motivated to build strategies for action framed by our shared themes and tensions. Learn more about registration.
Fifteenth International Conference on Food Studies
Hosted by University of Pretoria in Pretoria, South Africa and Online
8-10 October 2025
The Fifteenth International Conference on Food Studies, “Fed Up: Learning From Tradition, Imagining New Futures,” will be hosted in the vibrant heart of Pretoria, South Africa. The conference is dedicated to unraveling the intricate threads of food, culture, and sustainability that shape not only our local landscapes but also the global food discourse. In a world marked by abundance and scarcity, this conference serves as a forum to explore the multifaceted dimensions of food in contemporary society, transcending borders and boundaries.
We invite scholars, practitioners, policymakers, and food enthusiasts to join us to engage with renowned experts and thought leaders. Foster cross-cultural collaborations and share innovative research. Gain insights into South Africa's culinary heritage and its global impact. And be part of shaping sustainable and equitable food futures. Together, let's embark on a culinary journey that transcends boundaries, unlocking the wisdom of tradition and harnessing the power of imagination to pave the way for a more sustainable, nourishing, and inclusive world. Prepare to be inspired, challenged, and nourished in mind and body. We look forward to welcoming you to this transformative conference. Learn more about registration.
2025 Special Focus—Fed Up: Learning From the Past, Imagining New Futures
Aging and Social Change: Fifteenth Interdisciplinary Conference
Linköping University, Norrköping, Sweden + Online
22-24 October 2025
The 15th Ageing and Social Change Conference, hosted by Linköping University, offers a platform for interdisciplinary and international discussions. It will be held at Linköping University's Campus Norrköping, Sweden. The conference will feature plenary lectures by international speakers who will discuss ageing, intergenerational solidarity, and the polycrisis, highlighting tensions and new directions in research and policy. The program will present a variety of symposia, individual sessions, and plenary panels to enable attendees to explore a wide range of interdisciplinary aspects of ageing and later life. Read the full call for papers.
2025 Special Focus—Aging, Intergenerational Solidarity and the Polycrisis
Twentieth International Conference on Design Principles and Practices
Sapienza University of Rome, Italy + Online
25-27 February 2026
The Twentieth International Conference on Design Principles & Practices offers an interdisciplinary forum to explore the meaning and purpose of design. Our aim is to build an epistemic community where we can make linkages across disciplinary, geographic, and cultural boundaries. The 20th anniversary of DPP provides a valuable opportunity to assess how well our principles and practices have performed and to envision how Design must adapt to meet the challenges of the near future. This moment invites us to reinforce Design’s cultural role as a catalyst for meaningful, lasting change. We call on researchers across all domains of Design to explore the concept of Time, reflecting on its influence in any aspect of Design practice or research. What changes would you advocate for in the next 20 years? Learn more about registration.
2025 Special Focus—Design Across Time
Participants
Teaching About Race
Nominations
LaborTech
As part of our mission to promote scholarship and activism towards more equitable forms of labor and technology, LaborTech is announcing a call for three awards: Book, Graduate Student Paper, and Social Justice. These will honor projects which:
- have distinctive intellectual merit or activist impact;
- advance the knowledge about labor and technology in the global society; and
- address our core focus on labor and technology and which may simultaneously address feminism, anti-racism, and/or transnationalism.
Works from all disciplines and methodologies are eligible for nomination. Nominations are open to members and non-members of LaborTech. We welcome self-nominations especially, but also nominations from publishers, colleagues, and others familiar with the projects. We encourage submissions from women, people of color, queer communities, and those from the global south. LaborTech executive board members and committee chairs, as well as books published in our Labor and Technology series with MIT Press, are ineligible for these awards.
Winners receive a small cash award and a certificate (which we hope to expand further in years ahead, as we are still a growing nonprofit organization :). In addition, we offer our infrastructural supports at LaborTech to promote visibility of your projects: by connecting with our globally dispersed expert members; by making a video of winners and distributing it both in and outside of our network to enhance public attention and exposure; and by creating a space and opportunity for sharing your work at out end of year virtual celebration. Winners will be announced in December.
The deadline for submissions is June 1, 2025. Send questions to labortechresearchnetwork@gmail.com. See below for separate criteria and instructions for the various awards.
