International Interdisciplinary Conference

This interdisciplinary conference invites scholars to explore the topic of achieving stability during unstable times. A significant aspect of society, stability impacts the reliability and predictability of institutions and of human interaction, and therefore the degree of individual and social well-being. Since the global community has experienced challenges to stability, an examination of stability from various perspectives feels necessary. We hope to bring together discourses drawing from various narratives, be they political, economic, environmental, cultural, historical, medical, philosophical, or literary. The goal of this conference is to foster dialog on the mechanisms of stability; its relation to balance and causation; its effect on policies, social norms, and the environment; the social processes serving to provide legitimate explanations for stabilizing or destabilizing policies; forms of instability; achieving stability during unstable times; achieving professional stability when rapid technological advances and automatization result in the replacement of workers around the globe; maintaining a stable view of subjectivity, citizenship, and rights of individuals with the advance of sentient androids such as Sophia, who received Saudi Arabian citizenship in 2017 and has been an Innovation Ambassador for the United Nations Development Program; parenting challenges during unstable times; and ways to promote personal and social stability. We encourage particularly scholars to reflect on ways in which various institutions of higher education have sought to achieve stability throughout and in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic as well as to set directions for the future with regard to maintaining stability through challenging times. With great pleasure, we invite scholars from across disciplines to join stimulating conversations on the importance of stability, ways in which to achieve or work toward stability, the effects of instability, the ethics of achieving/striving for stability in stable or unstable times, and more.

Panel proposals, as well as undergraduate student proposals, should include the above information for all proposed individual papers.

The accepted submissions will be clustered around their common topics and areas of interest. As is typical of multidisciplinary conferences, the final program, released about three weeks before the conference, will mirror the research agendas of the delegates rather than a pre-conceived list of arbitrary topics.

We invite submissions for 20-minute presentations, circa 300 words (excluding references)no later than March15,2023. Your name and affiliation should be included in the body of your email.