In the conference, an interdisciplinary set of scholars is brought together to consider indigenous wisdom from multiple disciplines and to integrate this wisdom with modern knowhow. The speakers were selected for their specialty areas which range from science, history, education, psychology, and anthropology. The purpose of the conference and accompanying books is to bring to a wider audience an awareness of “first ways,” what we know about their effects on flourishing and how to integrate them into modern life for global flourishing. The organizers call for poster contributions to accompany the conference.

Deadline: August 1, 2016

The conference will take place at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, USA from September 11-15, 2016.

Attendees of the conference will have the opportunity to learn about issues such as new drivers of migration, aesthetics and performativity in times of conflict and the represantation of migration in fiction in five different panels.

The confrence will include an introduction by Michael Kelly from the Transdisciplinary Aesthetics Foundation and a concluding roundtable with all participants of the symposium.

There is no registration required for visitors.

The conference will take place at the Auditorium of the Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Zentrum at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin from June 17-18, 2016.

The aim of this international and interdisciplinary conference is to map a new field of relevant questions in the Humanities called Contradiction Studies by focusing on contradictory phenomena and processes in culture and society and by discussing concepts of contradiction in different disciplines in the humanities. This will allow for the understanding of distinct, yet related categories such as oxymoron, antagonism, paradox, antinomy, and their uses in individual disciplines. The discussion also serves to fathom the potential of contradiction as a central paradigm in the humanities in general. The conference aims to address interdisciplinary perspectives on contradictory phenomena – including unresolved and unresolvable contradictions – as well as a broad spectrum of disciplinary interpretations of the term contradiction including art history, educational sciences, cultural and social anthropology, geography, history, linguistics, literary studies, performance studies, philosophy, political science, religious studies, and sociology.

Deadline: June 30, 2016

The conference will take place at the University of Bremen, Germany from February 9-11, 2017.

This conference aims at creating a forum for scientific exchange on the nexus of environment, migration and resilience, bringing together scholars from different disciplines and fields of research (risk and vulnerability studies, migration studies, climate change adaptation, etc.). Attention will be given to interactive formats for critically evaluating and discussing the findings and presentations. They therefore call for the submission of contributions addressing one or several of the following topics and/or questions:

The relevance of migration (and translocality) for adaptation to climate change; conceptualizing and empirically operationalizing the relationships of migration; social resilience and climate change adaptation; how to bridge the divide between social and natural science concepts of resilience; empirical contributions on the relations between environmental change, migration, and transformation in rural areas (of origin); the role of migration in climate change adaptation governance.

Deadline: June 21, 2016

The conference will take place at the University of Bonn, Germany from September 29-30, 2016.

The conference intends to bring together a range of international and local scholars, activists, and artists in order to reframe the way anti-racism and critical race studies are tied to questions of indigeneity and decolonization. For anti-racism and critical race thinkers, it is imperative to challenge liberal articulations that negate the saliency of land, bodies, and knowledges.

By reframing questions on indigeneity and decolonization and asking new ones, the organizers' intention is to foster a robust understanding of indigeneity and decolonial praxis and to complicate ontological claims to the primacy of the Land as a starting point for all decolonial and anti-colonial engagements.

Deadline: June 30, 2016

The conference will take place at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Canada from November 3-5, 2016.

The Balkan region have a long-standing reputation for instability and being a frontier between several powerful empires. They have recently once again become an arena of a power struggle between Russia and the West (the EU and NATO). As these great powers compete to influence the local governments, these very governments are aware of their own weakness, and seek to find a balance between the competing power blocs.

The goal of the conference is to investgate the cause of this position and what effects it has on the development in these countries.

Deadline: September 15, 2016

The conference will take place at the Institute for European and Globalization Studies in Zagreb, Croatia on November 17, 2016.

The conference is designed to address challenges and opportunities of recent migratory processes to and from the EU, and in doing so, foster academic exchange and evidence-based policy making in the field. A two-day conference is envisaged as a unique opportunity for international and local scholars to come together to share their research findings to foster our understanding of migration from a broader inter-regional perspective.

Deadline: July 15, 2016

The conference will take place at the Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University Center for Interdisciplinary Programmes and Research Development in Tbilisi, Georgia for two days in the last week of September 2016.

This conference aims to provide opportunities for PhD/postdoctoral fellows working on Asia to present their research and to improve their theoretical and especially methodological approaches. The broad objectives of the conference will be to foster collaboration and the creation of trans-disciplinary research projects on Asia, while discussing common issues that transcend our areas of study: the necessity and possibility of articulating disciplinary knowledge and area studies, as well as the necessity and possibility of applying theories (often of predominantly Western origins) to a local context (non-Western).

Deadline: July 15, 2016

The conference will take place at the Young Researchers Office in Asian studies in Paris, France from December 5-6, 2016.

The tasks expected from the Research Assistant is to continue the project’s work on building a strategic research agenda on European cultural heritage and European identity/ies, draft project reports and policy texts; contribute to dissemination activities for the project and the project’s online platform and develop contacts with the stakeholder communities among others.

Applicants should hold a PhD in Sociology, Cultural Studies or a related discipline, or have at least 4 years of research experience after their MA and thematic expertise on European identity, European cultural heritage, European modernity.

Deadline: June 30, 2016

Both institutions expect fellows to participate in their academic life, and to give one presentation on their research project. Applicants to ZMO are asked to state with which of the institute’s four research groups in its current research programme "Muslim Worlds – World of Islam?" they would wish to be affiliated during their stay (please indicate one clear preference). Information on the groups and research programme is available from the institute’s website.

The call is open to senior researchers and recent postdocs in the humanities and the social sciences. They are invited to apply for a monthly stipend and a period of stay that should not exceed two months.

Deadline: August 14, 2016.