The International Conference "Innovations in the Social Sciences and Humanities" October 2019

Faculty of Social Sciences & Humanities, Ton Duc Thang Universsity, will organize the International Conference "Innovations in the Social Sciences and Humanities" October 2019. This is the 3rd International Conference that will be organized at TDTU, and will be co-organized with 5 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 conference webiste: http://issh2019.tdtu.edu.vn/

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
• Tourism studies, international, national, local/global cultural markets.
• Education and national futures, continuity, start-up, renewal, change.
• Ecology and environment, people, animals, plants

Keynote Speakers:

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

For more information, please contact: issh2019@tdtu.edu.vn