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Friday, December 5, 2025

Modernism Remodelled: A Transdisciplinary Conference




Modernism Remodelled: A Transdisciplinary Conference
28th February to 1st March 2026
Oxford, United Kingdom

Modernism Remodelled
A Transdisciplinary Conference

Oxford University (and online)
February 28-March 1, 2026

Fees: £180 (in person)
£100 (Online)

Abstract Deadline: December 28, 2025

**Participants interested in attending the conference without presenting a paper are also welcome.


Call for Presentations

This two-day conference seeks to bring together scholars, creatives, and arts-based researchers working on topics related to modernism and/or the contemporary cultural scenes that may have risen from the modernist period, such as literary studies, psychology, musicology, art studies, architecture, philosophy, film studies, media studies and beyond.
If we look at today's cultural, political, and scientific scene, we find that the pandemic, social and political unrest, technological and medical breakthroughs, new trends in poetry, a renewed interest in classicism and mythology (to name a few) resonate with an era not long ago. We detect a familiar pattern, which can be seen as a recurrence of, or maybe even an extension to the modernist period. Perhaps, as designer Ellen Lupton put it, "A second modernism has emerged, reinvigorating the utopian search for universal forms that marked the birth of design as a discourse and a discipline nearly a century earlier."
Thus, we would like to explore the following questions: Can we say that we experiencing a sequel to, or a "second wave" of modernism today? What happened to some of the movements and schools of thought that were born during the modernist period? How have some of them evolved? How have they contributed to the cultural scene today, in both the sciences and the arts?

We aim to come together to explore - and perhaps investigate - the intersections between movements, trends, ideas, sciences and aesthetic methodologies during the modernist period and today.

We welcome 15-minute presentations on comparative studies and research topics related to a full range of approaches to contemporary trends in (but not limited to) the following fields:
- Modernist art movements (surrealism, cubism, impressionism, futurism, vorticism, etc.)
- Breaking away from conventions (in art, science, or everyday life)
- Psychoanalysis and the creative unconscious
- Philosophy and epistemology
- Modernism in music and sound studies
- Literature, poetry, and experimental writing
- Film, media, and visual culture
- Architecture and design
- Spirituality, mysticism, and the search for meaning
- Experimentation with language and form
- Interwar periods and postwar transformations
- The emergence of creative collectives and manifestos
- Modernism's afterlives and its impact on contemporary art and society
- Digital modernisms and AI aesthetics
- Eco-modernism, posthumanism, and sustainability

Presenters can either share academic papers and/or creative work (poetry, prose, photography, music, painting, etc.), as we highly encourage arts-based research. We welcome proposals from scholars, creatives, graduate students, and professionals.

Submission Guidelines: Abstracts should be submitted through https://forms.gle/t99rW5eCZwphfu3W8 by December 28, 2025.

Conference fee (for in person participation) includes:
Tea/coffee breaks on both days, lunch on first day (besides the conference booklet and the amazing intellectul, creative, and networking experiences and opportunities)

Contact Information:
For any inquiries or clarifications, please email us on conferences@labrc.co.uk



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Wednesday, December 3, 2025

Twenty-Fourth International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities, NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Lisbon, Portugal

Twenty-Fourth International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities, NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Lisbon, Portugal
1st to 3rd July 2026
Lisbon, Portugal

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CALL FOR PAPERS
Place: NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Lisbon, Portugal and Online
Format: In-Person (Location) and Online (Asynchronous Content)
Dates: 1-3 July 2026
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PLENARY SPEAKERS
Luis Duarte de Almeida, Professor of Jurisprudence, Nova School of Law, NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal; Honorary Professional Fellow, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Paulo Ferreira de Castro, Associate Professor of Musicology, NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal
Inocencia Mata, Professor of Portuguese language literature and Post-colonial studies, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Teresa Araujo, Professor of Portuguese Studies, NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal
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SPECIAL FOCUS: Beyond Borders: The Role of the Humanities in Reimagining Communities
In a world marked by deepening divides - national, ideological, economic, and epistemological - the question of how communities are formed, sustained, negotiated, and transformed has become urgent. Beyond Borders: The Role of the Humanities in Reimagining Communities, invites scholars to explore the humanities' critical role in interrogating, challenging, and reshaping notions of belonging and exclusion, of walls and bridges, of the individual and the collective.
The traditional concept of community has long been tied to territorial, linguistic, or cultural boundaries.
Reimagining communities beyond borders means not only envisioning new models of human connection but also critically examining the limits and consequences of inherited frameworks.
As the host city, Lisbon embodies the complexities of community-making across space and time. Over the centuries, it has been a point of both departure and arrival, rupture and reinvention - a fitting metaphor for the role of the humanities in our contemporary world.
This theme invites interdisciplinary engagement across fields such as, but not limited to, literature, history, philosophy, gender studies, musicology, digital humanities, and postcolonial studies. Areas of particular interest include:
- Movement and Travel: imaginative processes of perceiving the Other, at the intersection of observation and projection.
- Gendered and Racialized spaces: communities rendered invisible - through anonymity and
informality, or retrospectively through historiographical erasure.
- Communal Structures: concrete forms of collective life (convents, families, guilds), and abstract communities of shared beliefs or identities (diasporic imaginaries, intellectual movements, etc.).
- Circulation and Exchange: material and immaterial goods shaping inclusion, exclusion, the formation of transregional or transhistorical communities.
- Ethics and Coexistence: philosophical and ethical frameworks within and across communities.
- Political Imaginaries: ideological foundations that sustain or challenge forms of belonging.
- Narrative and Community: how language, literary form, and storytelling construct, contest, and reimagine communities across time and geographies.
We welcome proposals from scholars of all disciplinary backgrounds.
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CONFERENCE THEMES
THEME 1: Critical Cultural Studies
THEME 2: Communication and Linguistics Studies
THEME 3: Literary Humanities
THEME 4: Civic, Political, and Community Studies
THEME 5: Past and Present in the Humanistic Education
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JOURNAL
The New Directions in the Humanities Journal Collection is brought together by a common interest in established traditions in the humanities while at the same time developing innovative practices and setting a renewed agenda for their future.

The International Journal of Literary Humanities
Collection Founded: 2003
Title Founded: 2013
ISSN: 2327-7912 (Print) ISSN: 2327-8676 (Online)
Publication Frequency: Quarterly
Indexing: H-Index: 3, Scopus / SJR: 0.12 (2023), Literature (ProQuest), Fuente Académica Plus (EBSCO), Scopus (Elsevier), Ulrich's Periodicals Directory

The International Journal of Humanities Education
Collection Founded: 2003
Title Founded: 2013
ISSN: 2327-0063 (Print) ISSN: 2327-2457 (Online)
Publication Frequency: Biannual
Indexing: H-Index: 4 (2023), Scopus / SJR: 0.13 (2023), Educational Curriculum and Methods (Cabell's), Educational Psychology and Administration (Cabell's), Education Journals (ProQuest), Scopus (Elsevier), Ulrich's Periodicals Directory

The International Journal of Communication and Linguistic Studies
Collection Founded: 2003
Title Founded: 2013
ISSN: 2327-7882 (Print) ISSN: 2327-8617 (Online)
Publication Frequency: Quarterly
Indexing H-Index: 4 (2023), Scopus / SJR: 0.11 (2023), Psychology (Cabell's), Communication Source (EBSCO), Linguistics Database (ProQuest), Scopus (Elsevier), Ulrich's Periodicals Directory

The International Journal of Critical Cultural Studies
Collection Founded: 2003
Title Founded: 2013
ISSN: 2327-0055 (Print) ISSN: 2327-2376 (Online)
Publication Frequency: Biannual
Indexing H-Index: 4 (2023), Scopus / SJR: 0.11 (2023), Scopus (Elsevier), Social Science Journals (ProQuest), Ulrich's Periodicals Directory
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ABOUT US
Founded in 2003, the New Directions in the Humanities Research Network is brought together by a common interest in established traditions in the humanities while at the same time developing innovative practices and setting a renewed agenda for their future. We seek to build an epistemic community where we can make linkages across disciplinary, geographic, and cultural boundaries.
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RELATED CONFERENCES
We also offer related thematic events in our other Research Networks that you might be able to attend in-person. This way we build for our Research Network Members flexible, and at the same time resilient, spaces for communication, engagement, and participation.
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Monday, December 1, 2025

Sixteenth International Conference on Religion and Spirituality in Society, Universidad Antonio Ruiz de Montoya, Lima, Peru


Sixteenth International Conference on Religion and Spirituality in Society, Universidad Antonio Ruiz de Montoya, Lima, Peru
22nd to 23rd June 2026
Lima, Peru

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CALL FOR PAPERS
Place: Universidad Antonio Ruiz de Montoya, Lima, Peru + Online
Format: In-Person (Location) and Online (Asynchronous Content)
Dates: 22-23 June 2026
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PLENARY SPEAKERS
Michael Winkelman, School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University; Director of the Ethnographic Field School in Ensenada, BC, Mexico; Director of the M.P.H. in Community Health
Sofia Chacaltana-Cortez, Full Professor, Antonio Ruiz de Montoya University, Lima, Peru
Chonon Bensho, Indigenous Artist, Shipibo-Konibo, Peruvian Amazon
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SPECIAL FOCUS: Indigenous Spiritualities in Global Perspective
In recent years, the study of indigenous cultures has gained significance beyond the traditional fields of ethnography and anthropology. Thanks to contributions from cognitive sciences such as psychology and neuroscience, religious beliefs have been identified as deeply embedded in the neurophysiological structure of human beings. This, in turn, has helped validate renewed hypotheses related to animism, now understood not as a "primitive" stage but as an intrinsic aspect of how many human groups perceive and relate to the living entities of the planet.
At the same time, growing ecological awareness highlights the need for a shift in the contemporary world's relationship with nature and with human-made artifacts. This perspective reveals a "relational ontology" - not a new concept, but one deeply embedded in indigenous cultures and present in the historical traditions of the Western world.
Ultimately, this way of connecting with all living things, which characterizes many indigenous cultures, extends beyond a purely pragmatic relationship. It is rooted in profound beliefs and ancestral knowledge, forming an integral part of the spirituality and religious practices of these communities.
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CONFERENCE THEMES
THEME 1: Religious Foundations
THEME 2: Religious Community and Socialization
THEME 3: Religious Commonalities and Differences
THEME 4: The Politics of Religion
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JOURNAL
The International Journal of Religion and Spirituality in Society aims to create an intellectual frame of reference for the academic study of religion and spirituality and to create an interdisciplinary conversation on the role of religion and spirituality in society.
Serial Founded: 2011
ISSN: 2154-8633 (Print) ISSN: 2154-8641 (Online)
Publication Frequency: Quarterly
Indexing: Academic Search Alumni Edition (EBSCO), Academic Search Elite (EBSCO), Academic Search Premier (EBSCO), Academic Search Complete (EBSCO), Academic Search International (EBSCO), Biography Reference Bank (EBSCO), Psychology (Cabell's), OmniFile Full Text Mega (EBSCO), OmniFile Full Text Select (EBSCO), Scopus (Elsevier), Sociological Abstracts (ProQuest), Web of Science (Clarivate)
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ABOUT US
Founded in 2011, the Religion in Society Research Network explores the relationship between religion in society and the changing nature of spirituality. We seek to build an epistemic community where we can make linkages across disciplinary, geographic, and cultural boundaries. As a Research Network, we are defined by our scope and concerns and motivated to build strategies for action framed by our shared themes and tensions.
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RELATED CONFERENCES
We also offer related thematic events in our other Research Networks that you might be able to attend in-person. This way we build for our Research Network Members flexible, and at the same time resilient, spaces for communication, engagement, and participation.

View other Common Ground Research Networks conferences:



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