Eighteenth International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences

  • Agency in an Era of Displacement and Social Change
  • 19-21 July 2023
  • Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK + Online

Research Network Chairs

Marcin Galent

Marcin Galent

Assistant Professor, Institute for European Studies, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland

(English)

Dr. Kyoko Ito-Morales

Dr. Kyoko Ito-Morales

Universidad de Granada, Granada, España

(Spanish)

Dr. Jerónimo Morales-Cabezas

Dr. Jerónimo Morales-Cabezas

Universidad de Granada, Granada, España

(Spanish)

Research Network Co-Chair

Rafal Soborski

Rafal Soborski

Associate Professor, International Politics, Richmond, The American International University in London, UK

Local Conference Chairs

Scott Sworts

Scott Sworts

Oxford Brooks University, United Kingdom

Supriya Akerkar

Supriya Akerkar

Oxford Brooks University, United Kingdom

2023 Plenary Speakers

The Eighteenth International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences featured plenary sessions by some of the world's leading thinkers and innovators in the field.

Eunice Goes

Eunice Goes

Professor of Politics, Richmond University, London, UK

"Voice, Voice and More Voice: Building Countervailing Power in the Age of the Polycrisis"

Joern Langhorst

Joern Langhorst

Associate Professor, University of Colorado Denver, USA

"The Right to Place: Landscape, Identity, Conflict and Agency in Anthropocene"

Robin Mansell

Robin Mansell

Professor Emerita, Department of Media and Communications, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK

"Geopolitical Intersections with Everyday Life in a Digital World"

Elzbieta Korolczuk

Elzbieta Korolczuk

Warsaw University, Poland

Michał P. Garapich

Michał P. Garapich

University of Roehampton, UK

William Allchorn

William Allchorn

Adjunct Associate Professor, American University, London, UK

Emerging Scholar Awardees

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. Emerging Scholars perform a critical role in the conference by chairing the parallel sessions, providing technical assistance in the sessions, and presenting their own research papers. The 2023 Emerging Scholar Award Recipients are as follows:

Alberto Ernesto Lopez Carrion

Alberto Ernesto Lopez Carrion

University of Valencia, Spain

(In-Person)

Kate Mc Auliff

Kate Mc Auliff

Oxford Brookes University, UK

(In-Person)

Dana Betts

Dana Betts

New Brunswick Community College, Canada

(In-Person)

Anastasia Biggs

Anastasia Biggs

Colorado Technical University, USA

(In-Person)

Jennifer Arias Sweeney

Jennifer Arias Sweeney

Northwestern University and Stevenson High School, USA

(In-Person)

Keri M. Guilbault, Ed.D.

Keri M. Guilbault, Ed.D.

Johns Hopkins University, USA

(Online Only)

Chloe Paré-Anastasiadou

Chloe Paré-Anastasiadou

Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Global Arts, Japan

(Online Only)

Swetha Anand

Swetha Anand

University of Minnesota, USA

(Online Only)

Haiyi Cheng

Haiyi Cheng

Renmin University of China, China

(Online Only)

Fabio Andrés Medina Ostos

Fabio Andrés Medina Ostos

Universidad Central, Colombia

(Online Only)

J. Mohorčich

J. Mohorčich

Lehman College, USA

(Online Only)

​Simón Ruiz-Martínez

​Simón Ruiz-Martínez

Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Colombia

(Online Only)

Dosol Nissi Lee

Dosol Nissi Lee

University of Copenhagen/Center for Advanced Migration Studies (AMIS) and Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (NIAS), Denmark

(Online Only)

Anna Rimkus

Anna Rimkus

University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA

(Online Only)

Conference Partner