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.
The Seventeenth International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences featured plenary sessions by some of the world’s leading thinkers and innovators in the field.
Economist, Assistant Professor, Jagiellonian University, Poland
“In search of a new Daedalus. Heterodox economics as a radical and realistic approach to global contradictions”
Lecturer in Sociology, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, United Kingdom
Profesor, Universidad de Granada, Granada, España
(Spanish)
Senior Research Fellow, LSE IDEAS, England
"Are Multilateralism and Collective Security Possible in an Authoritarian World?"
Faculty of Spanish Language and Literature, School of Philosophy, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
“La recepción de la historia española e hispanoamericana en Grecia: el papel de la prensa a la aproximación histórica”
(Spanish)
Associate Professor of Interculturality & Diversity in Education, University of Patras, Greece
“Intercultural Education: Time for a New Paradigm?”
Director of Florida Cultural Resources, Inc., former State Folklorist & Director of the Florida Folklife Program
“Greek music in America: An examination of musical change and identity”
Adjunct Professor of Classics, Department of Linguistic and Intercultural Studies of the University of Thessaly
“Evaluating phronesis as the effectiveness of teacher's professional development, using the Delphi method”
Assistant Professor of Urban Folklore, Faculty of Philology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
“Interdisciplinary approaches to the study of material culture and social life in Greek urban space”
Professor of Counselling Psychology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
“A participatory multimodal study of social issues in the city of Eleusis: Community exploration and mobilization”
Cultural Anthropologist - Architect Engineer
Professor of Architecture & Design Anthropology, Departments of Interior Design & Graphic Design, AKTO Art & Design College-Middlesex University, Athens Campus.
"Design Anthropology: A Contemporary Encounter”
Assistant Professor, Institute for European Studies, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
(English)
Universidad de Granada, Granada, España
(Spanish)
Universidad de Granada, Granada, España
(Spanish)
Vassiliki Chryssanthopoulou, Conference Chair, Associate Professor, Department of Philology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Assistant Professor, Department of Philology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Associate Professor of Interculturality & Diversity in Education, University of Patras, Greece
For each conference, a small number of Emerging Scholar Awards are given to outstanding graduate students and emerging scholars who have an active research interest in the conference themes. 2022 In-Person Emerging Scholar Award recipients are as follows:
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Georgia State University, USA
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greeceg
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
The 2022 Online-Only Emerging Scholar Award recipients are as follows:
Independent Scholar and Consultant, USA
University of Delhi, India
Mahatma Gandhi University, India
Visiting Associate Professor, The Ohio State University, USA
The University of Texas at San Antonio, USA
Athens, Greece
