It is a truism to say that ours is a period of crises. COVID-19 has massively destabilized the world, but the pandemic has not been the only upheaval hanging over us in recent years. The Great Recession of 2008 and its continuing aftermath, and the existential threat of climate change, are other major crises that have contributed to the apocalyptic zeitgeist of the early twenty-first century. The populist wave that has swept the world amid confusion sown by the volatility of neoliberal capitalism and fertilized by mushrooming conspiracy theories has further entrenched the catastrophist mood both in academia and society at large. However, while dysfunctional and oppressive in many ways, a time like this also provides a window of opportunity to rethink and redesign our politics, economy, social relations and relationship with nature. As we emerge from a long period of lockdowns, curfews, and personal losses, there are more questions than ever about the direction that the global community should take in order to advance a fairer, more inclusive, and balanced world. Through interdisciplinary debate and exchange of knowledge, the Fifteenth Global Studies conference will offer the participants plenty of food for thought and point to several ways out of the mess we are in.
Topics we hope to explore include but are not limited to:
The Fifteenth Global Studies Conference 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
“Multimodality in qualitative research”
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”
Professor, International Politics, Richmond, The American International University in London, United Kingdom
Assistant Professor, Institute for European Studies, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
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 Milan, Italy
University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
The 2022 Online-Only Emerging Scholar Award recipients are as follows:
University of California, Irvine, USA
Hull University, UK
Athens, Greece
