Description
During the conference, we are going to turn our attention to processes that are integral to human experience: migration, adaptation, and memory. We are interested in all aspects of migration and adaptation, in their individual and collective dimensions, in the past and in the present-day world. We would like to examine the role of memory, the processes of migrating and adapting to various dynamic life circumstances, across time, space, culture, language, and discipline.
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Important Dates
Draft paper submission deadline：2019-04-30
Abstract submission deadline：2019-04-30
Call for paper description
Deadline for paper proposals: 30 April 2019
Notification of acceptance: 3 May 2019
Deadline for registration: 28 May 2019
The conference language is English.
Topics of submission
Our repertoire of suggested topics includes but is not limited to:
I. Arts
- Literature, poetry, film, theatre, etc. as adaptive mediums
- Adaptation through artistic creation and destruction
- Artistic imagination and adaptation
- Migration as represented in arts
- Art created during migration
- Creative expression through memories
II. History
- Adaptation across history
- Memory processes in writing history
- Documenting history and memories in migration
III. Humanitarian work, Governments and NGOs
- Roles and responsibilities
- Management of temporary and transitory spaces
- Project management and evaluation
- Best practices
- Welcome contexts
IV. Medical sciences
- Genetics/epigenetics in adaptation processes
- Neurobiology and biochemistry of adaptation and memory
- Evolutionary approaches to memory, adaptation and migration
- Chronic diseases, memory, and adaptation
V. Philosophy and Worldviews (Eastern, Western, Indigenous...)
- Epistemology and metaphysics
- Existential and postmodern adaptation
- Ethics in migratory context
- Philosophy of memory
VI. Political Sciences and Law
- Policies related to migration and adaptation
- Human rights and migration
- Bureaucracy in relation to migration policies
- Judiciary systems
- Political agendas, memory and migration
- Objective vs. subjective memory in politics
- International politics and adaptation
VII. Psychology and Psychiatry
- Mental health and adaptation
- Abnormal behaviors and adaptation
- (Mal)adaptive memory processes
- Social and transcultural psychiatry
- Perception/cognition/attention
- Personality
- Psychoanalysis
VIII. Sociology and Anthropology
- Cultural determinants and adaptation
- Race/ethnic identity and adaptation
- Religion, adaptation and migratory experiences
- Gender, adaptation and migratory experiences
- Social networks and adaptation
- Language of adaptation, memory and migration
- Family relations and adaptation
- Urban planning and adaptation
- Diaspora and community development
IX. Economics and Business
- Adaptation and job security
- Private sponsorship and adaptation
- Adaptation in economics (Marxist, Capitalist…)