General Topics

Consilience and Inclusion: Scientific and Cultural Encounters

As the world is becoming more global, urgent issues have emerged from how to sustain the local and status quo while incorporating the global and innovative in almost every aspect of individual life, society and nationhood. At the same time, scientists and other academic researchers have tried to assess and address such micro- and macro-level challenges from interdisciplinary and multicultural perspectives. The 2015 AHLiST Conference will focus on how individuals, social groups, ethnic minorities, state and national entities respond to the notion of inclusion and consilience such as:

-what to be negotiated and studied: scientific and cultural encounters

-whom to be included and what to be studied: theories and concepts

-how to be integrated and distinguished: convergence versus divergence

-how to handle technical, economic and social changes: adaptation and sustainability

-how to assess what works: measurement and accountability mechanisms or policies

-how to decipher complexity and intricacy: interdisciplinary and new technologies

-how to prepare for new and future challenges: post-global/capital/human/modern responses

-what to be learned from the past and history: innovative contextualization and methodologies

DEADLINE for Submission is June 15, 2015
FOR PARTICULAR FIELDS OF INTEREST, PLEASE READ BELOW.
Possible topics and areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
1. History

Track I: Interdisciplinary Approaches to History 2. History

Track II: Diversity, Mobility and Encounters 3. History Track III: New Technologies and Archiving Systems 4. Literature Track I: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Literature 5. Literature Track II: Single or Comparative Author Studies
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6. Literature

Track III: Computer Mediated Communication and Digital Humanities Studies 7. Science and Technology Track I: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Science and Technology 8. Science and Technology

Track II: Paleography and Pattern Recognition 9. Science and Technology

Track III: Digitizing Projects and Document Image Analysis 10. Area Studies

Track I: Caribbean Studies and Interdisciplinary Approaches 11. Area Studies

Track II: Mediterranean Studies and Interdisciplinary Approaches 12. Film Studies

Track: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Film 13. Linguistics Track: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Linguistics 14. Political Science Track: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Political Science 15. Social Sciences Track: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Social Sciences 16. Open Topic Track
Submission Guidelines

*All presenters must be members of the Association by conference time. *

Abstract submissions should be sent to https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ahlist2015. (If you have any question, please contact us at [email protected].)
Submissions can be in ENGLISH, ESPAÑOL or PORTUGUÊS.

All submission should represent original work done by the authors.

There will be two options to propose/submit: i) panel proposal; ii) individual paper.
I. Panel Proposal (Session Proposal with three of more papers): If you plan to propose a panel/session, please include the title of the panel and the names of presenters; a panel abstract of 150-250 words; a separate page with the names of presenters, their contact information (mailing address, phone number, and email) and institutional affiliation(s), the titles of their presentations; and a 250- word abstract for each paper. Panels will be one hour and fifteen minutes long. Presenters for a panel will be asked to submit their abstract and information separately.
II. Individual Proposal Each author can use one of the following submissions to propose: a) abstract; b) work-in-progress paper; c) full paper. a. Abstract A title and 250 words (double-spaced and 12 fonts) b. Work-in-progress A structured proposal of about 1,000 words (double- spaced and 12 fonts) including purpose, methodology/approach, findings, research limitations/implications, and originality/value. A reference list is required. Tables or figures should be placed in the appendix after the reference list if needed. c. Full Paper Full paper submissions must not be published, accepted for publication, or be under consideration for publication elsewhere. Authors should limit their initial submissions to approximately 20-25 double-spaced pages in 12- point font with appropriate margins, inclusive of all materials (i.e., references, figures, tables and appendices). In preparing for the full papers, please reference the author’s guidelines. If full papers are not formatted accordingly, they will not be considered or reviewed by AHLiST.