Innovations in the Social Sciences and Humanities

4^th and 5^th of October 2019.
Ho Chi Minh City, Socialist Republic of Viet Nam

 

See a video of the conference:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyxIThzmd8k&feature=youtu.be

See the conference reported on TV news HTV9

http://www.htv.com.vn/hoi-thao-quoc-te-ve-de-tai-khoa-hoc-xa-hoi-va-nhan-van-1

 

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https://issh2019.tdtu.edu.vn/news/conference

 

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Opening day

The Sessions

 

 

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Agenda

Agenda and Abstracts

 

The conference "Innovations in the Social Sciences and Humanities" is organised by Ton Duc Thang University jointly with scholars at five other universities: 

The University of Trieste, Italy; 

Universität Leipzig, Germany; 

National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan;

University of Warwick, United Kingdom;

College of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences at Purdue University Northwest, USA;

 

The co-ordination is by the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities

of Ton Duc Thang University, Socialist Republic of Viet Nam.

 

Conference Venue - Ton Duc Thang University 
Address: 19 Nguyen Huu Tho Street, Tan Phong Ward, District 7, Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam

 

Keynote Speakers:

• Professor Joyce C.H. Liu (National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan)
• Professor Ursula Rao (Universität Leipzig, Germany)
• Professor Stephen Muecke (The University of Adelaide)
• Professor Elaine Carey (CHESS: Purdue University Northwest);

 

The conference themes are organised in three overlapping streams

(section chairs will report back to the other streams at the end of each day):

 

1. Innovations in Public Engagement

• Memory and Public history
• Problems of Representation for and by who?
• Knowledge and Inquiries

2. Historical/contemporary practices and policies

• New approaches in studies of social conflict issues
• Perspectives on new methods, inquiries, engagements.
• Rethinking the tools of scholarship in new times.
• Tourism studies, international, national, local/global cultural markets.

3. Innovations of methodology, training and new skills for the future

• New studies of production and consumption of place
• Education and national futures, continuity, start-up, renewal, change.
• Ecology and environment, people, animals, plants

 

 

Publishing opportunities

Accepted and presented abstracts/papers will be published in the conference proceeding. Presenters of full papers will have opportunities to publish their papers in either a special issue of the journal Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (ISI H-index 17), in Social Identities, or in a special book-length volume of essays from the University of Trieste Press. For the conferecne proceedigns volume youmay still purchase a digital copy Pleasee see: here.