Conference Topics

Conference Title                      2nd International Conference on Social Sciences, Education and Humanities
Conference Dates                    27th-29th April 2020
Deadline for Abstract              2nd March 2020
Conference Venue                   University of British Columbia, The Liu Institute, Vancouver, Canada
ICSSEH encourage submissions within Social Sciences studies, Education 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.

Education

  • Education, Equality and Development
  • Education for inclusion and citizenship
  • Disability and inclusion in international contexts
  • Marginalised children, youth and adults’ participation in education
  • Urban and rural education
  • Human rights and international education
  • Securitizaition, surveillance and youth studies
  • Disadvantaged Youth
  • Peace and conflict studies in education
  • Migration and refugee studies in education
  • Educational Leadership and Policy
  • Evaluation and strategies for educational Change
  • Pedagogy, Language and Culture in Education
  • Pedagogy and empowerment
  • Psychology and Education
  • Science, Technology and Education
  • Education management and administration

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

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