Conference Topics

  • Conference Title:

    17th Academic International Conference on Social Sciences and Humanities

  • Conference Dates:

    15th-16th, April 2024

  • Deadline for Abstract:

    11th March 2024

  • Venue:

    University of British Columbia, The Liu Institute, Vancouver, Canada

17th Academic International Conference on Social Sciences and Humanities

AICSSH encourage submissions within Social Sciences studies and Humanities and across a variety of related disciplines and fields. Papers may address, but are not restricted to, the main theme from any of the following sub-themes. Unlisted but related sub-topics are also acceptable.

Anthropology

  • Culture, Health and Illness
  • Medical, physical and psychological Anthropology
  • Women and Health: Anthropological and International Perspectives
  • Economics of Health care
  • Special need children and their families
  • Health Psychology
  • Sociology of Health care systems
  • Organisational anthropology
  • Human Rights: Anthropological perspectives
  • Anthropology of social movements
  • Urban anthropology

Work and Employment Relations

  • Gender relations in comparative perspective
  • Race, Ethnicity and Nation: Anthropological Approaches to Collective Identity
  • Modern workplace and employment relationships
  • Employment and wages in the global economy
  • Culture, resources and power
  • Labour relations and labour market policy
  • Migrant labour and HRM strategies
  • Social partnership, HRM and employment
  • Workforce diversity, equality and intersectionality
  • Temporary work, mobility and crisis of worker representation (trade unions)
  • Transnational mobility and temporary staffing agencies
  • Migrant women’s empowerment
  • Relationship between paid and unpaid work
  • Informal economies

Religious Studies

  • Contemporary religion and society
  • Ethnicity, race and religion
  • Islamic studies
  • Contemporary Judaism
  • Asian religions and traditions
  • Indigenous religions
  • Inter-religious relations

Law and International Relations

  • Culture, Religion and World Politics
  • International Labour Law
  • International Human Rights Law
  • Environment and Climate Change Law
  • Public and Private International Law

Psychology

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Brain and Behaviour
  • Industrial and organizational psychology
  • Personality
  • Social, Community and Cross-cultural Psychology
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Experimental Psychology
  • Social Psychology of Health
  • Business/Occupational Psychology

Sociology

  • Crime and Socio-legal Studies
  • Social stratification
  • Political sociology
  • Urban, Rural and Industrial Sociology
  • Stratification, work and labour markets
  • Sociology of the family, childhood and gender
  • Social stratification, social mobility and social class
  • Race and ethnicity
  • Childhood development and schooling
  • Immigration and ethnicity
  • Social Policy, Social Work and Social legislation

Language, Linguistics and Literature

  • Relationship between linguistic and literary studies
  • Semantics
  • Dialect and literature
  • Literature, Religion and Art
  • Bilingualism, Grammar and Word use
  • Phonetics and Phonology
  • Film and visual culture and linguistics

Information Sciences

  • Theories of information
  • Information behavior
  • Informal information seeking serendipitous information and browsing
  • Information systems and their use in creativity and innovation
  • Information resources and technology
  • Human information behavior
  • Comics Studies, library and informational science
  • Historic development and adoption of Open Access publishing