Deadline:
July 02, 2025
Program Starts: July 02, 2025
Program Ends: July 04, 2025
Location(s)
Spain
Malaga
Overview
Each year the International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences draws a diverse group of participants from all over the world. Our Program Development team draws on this diversity to craft a rich and distinctive conference experience.
Details
Founded in 2006, the Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Research Network is brought together by a common interest in disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches, within and across the various social sciences, and between the social, natural and applied sciences. 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 Twentieth International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences calls for research addressing the following annual themes and special focus:
2025 Special Focus—Minds and Machines: Artificial Intelligence, Algorithms, Ethics, and Order in Global Society
- THEME 1: SOCIAL AND COMMUNITY STUDIES
- THEME 2: CIVIC AND POLITICAL STUDIES
- THEME 3: CULTURAL STUDIES
- THEME 4: GLOBAL STUDIES
- THEME 5: ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
- THEME 6: ORGANIZATIONAL STUDIES
- THEME 7: EDUCATIONAL STUDIES
- THEME 8: COMMUNICATION
Thomas Kuhn taught us that knowledge does not necessarily follow a simple path of incremental progress. Revolutions frequently take place when old paradigms are discredited and replaced by new models for the description and interpretation of the world. These revolutions are generally of an endogenous nature, with the change coming about as a result of the constant intellectual effort of scientists and theorists.
Yet changes in thinking are also often precipitated by outside forces. The cumulative effect of successive crises of relevance and applicability compels a revision of the existing paths of dependence and opens up fresh perspectives.
It seems eminently reasonable to suggest that we are currently living in just such a moment of potential paradigm change, one where old truths have lost their vitality and new ones have not yet been born. This awareness stimulates cognitive curiosity and creates a fertile ground for new ideas to be sown and paradigms germinated. Some of the ideas may have been with us already for a long time, circulating on the fringes of mainstream academic life, while others take enter the centre, helping reshape old intuitions. This gives us the chance to revive the social sciences, but also presents new risks related to the apparent attractiveness of simple interpretations and solutions.
How can we ensure that heterodoxies in social sciences lead to fertile new trends rather than intellectual dead-ends? We will focus precisely on these problems in Athens, one of the civilizational sources for the systematic reflection on humanity, its thinking, and its place in the world.
Opportunity is About
Eligibility
Candidates should be from:
Description of Ideal Candidate
Available to full-time students.
Dates
Deadline: July 02, 2025
Program starts:
July 02, 2025
Program ends:
July 04, 2025
Program Starts: July 02, 2025
Program Ends: July 04, 2025
Cost/funding for participants
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Internships, scholarships, student conferences and competitions.
