The NIH Social, Behavioral, and Economic Health Impacts of COVID-19 initiative invites you to a spring webinar event for two half-days on April 27–28, 2022. This virtual event will bring together more than 45 grantees to further connect researchers and foster collaboration opportunities. Presentations will cover COVID-19-related research topics, including social networks, biological correlates, impacts on disadvantaged populations, mortality and morbidity, family impacts, mitigation efforts, interventions, and more. Visit the website to register and view the webinar agenda.
The Seventeenth International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences will be held on the theme “At the Crossroads of Paradigms: Considering Heterodoxy in the Social Sciences” at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens-School of Philosophy in Athens, Greece, on July 21–23, 2022. The Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Research Network is brought together by a common interest in disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches, within and across the various social sciences, and between the social, natural, and applied sciences. For more information, visit the website.
The Fifteenth Global Studies Conference will be held on the theme of “What to Make of Crises: Emerging Methods, Principles, Actions” at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens-School of Philosophy in Athens, Greece on July 21–23, 2022. The Global Studies Research Network is devoted to mapping and interpreting past and emerging trends and patterns in globalization. For more information, visit the website.
The Twelfth International Conference on Food Studies will be held on the theme of “Imagining the Edible: Food, Creativity, and the Arts” at Marymount Manhattan College in New York City on October 22–23, 2022. The Food Studies Research Network is brought together around a common interest to explore new possibilities for sustainable food production and human nutrition, and the associated impacts of food systems on culture. Visit the website for more information.
The Civil Sphere Working Group is planning a meeting for 2023 in Germany. Composed of theorists and empirical social scientists who share the goal of developing and revising Civil Sphere Theory, the working group conferences every other year and sustains an ongoing discussion via the CSWG website, which includes papers, comments, and other news.
