Twelfth International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences
- 2017 Special Focus: Cross-Cultural and Global Research as Interdisciplinary Practice
- 26–28 July 2017
- International Conference Center, Hiroshima, Japan
Days of paper presentations, workshops/interactive sessions, posters, and colloquia.
Delegates from all over the world who attended the Twelfth International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences.
Countries represented.
Ideally, disciplines represent fields of profound and detailed content knowledge. With each containing networks of professional practice, forms of discourse, and areas of work; these communities also legitimate themselves by their domains of publication and public communication, sites of learning, and experiences of apprenticeship within the disciplinary community. At the epicenter of all this, “discipline” delineates the boundaries of the intellectual community. By outlining methodologies of particular areas with both rigorous and concentrated intellectual effort; the various frames of reference can be used to interpret the world. Despite their aspiration to general applicability, all too often disciplines become “nationalized” or located within frames of reference bounded by country, language, or culture. In large part, this is an effect of the professional framing of intellectual life. In what ways might these boundaries bind our epistemic frames for understanding the social aspect of the social sciences? If the practice of intellectual life has implications for not just interpreting the world, but in indirect and direct ways changing it, to what extent does this also demand a global view on the doing of the social sciences?
The Twelfth International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences featured plenary sessions by some of the world’s leading thinkers and innovators in the field.
University of Granada, Granada, Spain
"Good Practices in Bilingual Education in Spain"
Hiroshima Peace Institute, Hiroshima City University, Hiroshima, Japan
"Discourses of Nuclear Competence and Disaster"
Professor, Hiroshima City University
"Judging Nuclear Issues in Hiroshima: A Challenge to Interdisciplinary Research on an Unsettled Past for an Alternative Future"
For each conference, a small number of Emerging Scholar Awards are given to outstanding graduate students and emerging scholars who have an active academic interest in the conference area. The Award with its accompanying responsibilities provides a strong professional development opportunity for early career academics. The 2017 Emerging Scholar Awardees are listed below.
National University of Colombia, Colombia
University of Delaware, USA
Brandeis University, China
University of Otago, New Zealand
George Mason University, USA
The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
University of Cambridge, UK
Kyushu University, Japan
FATA Research Centre, Pakistan
Washington University in St. Louis, USA
University of Minnesota,Twin Cities, USA
University of Washington, USA
Bogor Agricultural University, Indonesia
Universitas Budi Luhur, Indonesia
Virginia Tech, USA
National University of Singapore, Singapore
Pondicherry Central University, India
Virtual Posters present preliminary results of work or projects that lend themselves to visual representations. Download the posters below.
Lightning Talks are 5-minute “flash” video presentations. Click the button below to view the videos on our YouTube channel.