Days of paper presentations, workshops/interactive sessions, posters, and colloquia.
Delegates from all over the world who attended the Fourteenth International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences.
Countries represented.
Perhaps because it is a relatively new field, most of the literature about globalization illustrates a tendency toward a framework of global flows without acknowledging that this form of accumulation reveals the re-appropriation of local environments . Like any social change, globalization does not occur uniformly. In addition, the resignification of the local dimension does not necessarily reflect the strength of this new capitalism but, rather, the human need for association, identification, and cultural preservation.
Reality is a social construction and, by extension, is constantly shifting. Thus, social groups are not immune to the prevailing Universalist tendencies. With that in mind, global dynamics cannot be explained without considering local manifestations and how the latter relate to the former. Therefore, the social sciences cannot continue proceeding from theoretical monotheisms , but should do so by means of being transdisciplinary. Since the end of the 1970s, we have been witnessing, much more than in the past, the expression of highly diversified and fragmented realities under a theoretical and growing approach pretending otherwise. The only certainty is that there are no unique procedures, and the scientific world should remain open to alternative points of view and to the different ways in which globalization is expressed.
Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, México
The Fourteenth International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences featured sessions by some of the world's leading thinkers and innovators in the field.
Professor, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, México
Universidad Veracruzana, México
"Linguistic and cultural fluxes: Going back and forth between Mexico and The United States"
Benemérita Autonomous University of Puebla, Mexico
Professor of Political Science, Director of the Institute for Leadership Studies, and President of the Global Policy Institute, Loyola Marymount University, California, USA
"The Challenges of Illiberal Democracy to Liberal Democracy in the Age of Globalization: Populism and Democratic Distemper as Threats to Stability"
Benemérita Autonomous University of Puebla, Mexico
Department of Sociology, University of Essex, England
"Colonialism and Non-University Human Rights: The Ongoing Hypocricies of Western Liberalism"
Professor, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Unidad Xochimilco, Mexico
For each conference, a small number of Emerging Scholar Awards are given to outstanding graduate students and emerging scholars who have an active academic interest in the conference area. The Award, with its accompanying responsibilities provides a strong professional development opportunity for early career academics. The 2019 Emerging Scholar Awardees are listed below.
PhD Candidate in Global Inclusion and Social Development, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Faculty member, PUP Department of Communication Research College of Communication, Polytechnic University of the Philippines
Utah Valley University, USA
Fielding Graduate University, USA
University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Tribhuvan University, Nepal
Walden University, USA
Mexico City, Mexico
Virtual Posters present preliminary results of work or projects that lend themselves to visual representations. Download the posters below.
Lightning Talks are 5-minute "flash" video presentations. Click the button below to view the videos on our YouTube channel.
