Call for Participation: 4th SOSS Research Conference

4th SOSS Research Conference, 18-20 April 2022

2nd Call for Participation

(Panels/Papers)

Transitions, Transformations, and Transdisciplinarity:  Doing Social Sciences in the Time of Disruptions and Accelerating Planetary Changes

In the Social Sciences, change has been regarded as the one constant phenomenon underpinning social processes. The speed, depth, and breadth by which change unfolds in recent time, however, have been unsettling chains of relations at a planetary scale and across spheres of living, challenging the social sciences to act, think, and offer new paradigms of understanding. 

From the halls of power to the mushrooms at the ends of the Earth, conditions are rapidly shifting in ways that disrupt, if not, upend lifeways, skill sets, production and supply networks, knowledge systems, hierarchies, ideological orders, spatial formations, and ecological balance. Meteoric advances in smart technologies, widespread transnational urbanization, hyper financial flows, wealth reconcentration, soaring consumption demands, mobility and migration, and unfettered growth targets are calling for a multitude of social science engagements.

In pursuit of growth, human and environmental resources are pushed to the limits triggering a web of socio-ecological crises spanning from climate change, polluted ecosystem to unchartered levels of emergencies. The post-pandemic world coupled with widening gulf of inequality in an altered biosphere poses new challenges to communities as well as the means by which to think about them scientifically.

Transdisciplinary interconnections of knowledge and deep time human experience and responses to changing ecosystems, biospheres, and geographies offer an analysis of social process and shifting thinking in an era of global, translocal disruption and alteration. Doing so will allow for a better exploration of measures and improvements, and to identify workable solutions for this time of disruptions and altered worlds. Thus, helping to bring societies closer through sophisticated means of forging solidarities, technological innovations, and trading connections, but also unravel the forces that divide humanity along economic, political, social, racial, ethnic, religious, and economic lines.

The social sciences and associated communities of practice are called upon to better understand the causes, processes, undercurrents, and consequences of global crises and their impact on the human condition most especially in, on, and across the localities of the Global South.

The School of Social Sciences cordially invites colleagues and researchers working on current topics in the social sciences to submit proposals for conference panels and presentations. The 4th SOSS Research Conference will be held online. Please visit the SOSS Research Conference website at: https://sossconference.wixsite.com/soss-admu

The registration fee is PHP 1500 / USD 35 for non-student participants and PHP 750 / USD 17 for students. Early Bird rates of PHP 1200 / USD 28 for non-student and PHP 600 / USD 14 for student participants apply for payments made until March 31, 2022. Details on the payment channels are attached and can be found on the conference website.

Please submit your proposals for panel discussions and presentations with title and abstract (max. 300 words; English, Filipino and other major Filipino languages accepted). Panel and paper abstract proposals can be submitted directly on the conference website https://sossconference.wixsite.com/soss-admu/submissions. Submission forms can also be downloaded at https://bit.ly/SOSS-RC4-Forms and sent to the following email address: conference.soss@ateneo.edu. Deadline for panel proposals is 19 February 2022, individual paper proposals can be submitted until 28 February 2022.

ADMU Bills Payment & WebPay Instructions for SOSS Research Conference Fees is attached below (download).