Topics of interest for submission include, but not limited to:

Business

• Accounting I (Audit/Financial/Tax/ AIS)

• Accounting II (Cost/Managerial)

• Business Law and Business Ethics

• Public Policy in Business / Business Strategy

• Cases, Workshops, Special Sessions

• E-Business

• Economics I (Macro/ Micro theory)

• Economics II (Applied and Empirical Research)

• Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management

• Innovation and Entrepreneurship

• Finance I (Financial Market, Derivatives, Investments)

• Finance II (Financial Institutions, Corporate Finance)

• Innovative Teaching I (Curriculum Design, Electronic Resources)

• International and Global Business/Economics

• Management and Organizational Behavior

• Management Information Systems

• Marketing/ e-Marketing

• Logistics and Transportation

• Production and Operations Management

• Quantitative Methods and Management Science

• Student Papers in all Fields of Business and Economics

• Supply Chain Management and Quality control

Social Sciences

• Teaching and Learning the Arts

• Arts Policy, Management and Advocacy

• Arts Theory and Criticism

• Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts

• Visual Arts Practices

• Performing Arts Practices: Theater, Dance, Music

• Literary Arts Practices

• Media Arts Practices: Television, Multimedia, Digital, Online and Other New Media

• Other Arts

• Media, Film Studies, Theatre, Communication

• Aesthetics, Design

• Language, Linguistics

• Knowledge

• Philosophy, Ethics, Consciousness

• History, Historiography

• Literature/Literary Studies

• Political Science, Politics

• Teaching and Learning

• Globalisation

• Ethnicity, Difference, Identity

• Immigration, Refugees, Race, Nation

• First Nations and Indigenous Peoples

• Sexuality, Gender, Families

• Religion, Spirituality

• Cyberspace, Technology

• Science, Environment and the Humanities

• Other Humanities

• Sociology: concepts and practices

• Geographical perspectives on spaces and flows

• What are the behavioral sciences?

• Psychology of the social

• Where mind meets world: cognitive science as interdisciplinary practice

• Economics as social science

• Sociology and history: the dynamics of synchrony and diachrony

• Philosophy’s place in the social sciences

• Social welfare studies as interdisciplinary practice

• Health in community

• Horizons of interest: agenda setting in the social sciences

• Research and knowledge in action: the applied social sciences

• Social sciences for the professions

• Social sciences for social welfare

• Accounting for inequalities: poverty and exclusion

• Social breakdown: dysfunction, crime, conflict, violence

• Social sciences addressing social crisis points

• Technologies in and for the social

• Economics, politics and their social effects: investment, ownership, risk, productivity, competition, regulation and deregulation, public accountability, stakeholders, trust, worklife, resource distribution, consumption, wellbeing, living standards

• Commonalities, differences and relationships between the social and the natural sciences: research methodologies, professional practices and ethical positions

• Research methodologies involving ‘human subjects’

• The social sciences in the applied sciences and professions: engineering, architecture, planning, computing, tourism, law, health

• Political science as disciplinary practice

• Investigating public policy

• Law as a social science

• Criminology as social science

• Public health

• Social sciences in the service of social policy: risks and rewards

• Social transformations: structure and agency in social dynamics

• Accounting for the dynamics of citizenship, participation and inclusion

• Trust, social capital, social cohesion and social welfare

• Politics in, and of, the social sciences

• Interdisciplinary perspectives on politics, public policy, governance, citizenship and nationality

• Security and insecurity, conflict and cohesion, war and peace, terror and anti-terror

• The neo-liberal state and its critics

• Policy measures: assessing social need and social effectiveness

• Of human lifeways: anthropology in its contexts

• Of human lifecourses: family, childhood, youth, parenting and aging

• Of human origins: paleontology, primate evolution, physical anthropology

• Ethnographic methods

• Social meanings: language, linguistics, discourse, text

• Cultural studies as a constitutive field

• Social science stances: modernism and postmodernism; structuralism and poststructuralism

• Where humanities and social sciences meet

• Social structure and human culture: the sociological and the anthropological

• Interdisciplinary perspectives on human differences

• Identities in social science: generational, gender, sexuality, ethnic, diasporic

• Perspectives on, and voices of, difference: multiculturalism and feminism

• Religion and the human sciences

• Health, wellbeing and culture

• Human movement: migration, refugees, undocumented migrants

• The dynamics of globalization, diaspora and diversity

• Globalized economics: inequalities, development, ‘free’ and ‘fair’ trade

• Developed and developing worlds

• Inequalities in international perspective

• Poverty and global justice

• Human rights in global perspective

• The local and the global

• The natural and the social: interdisciplinary studies

• Human environments

• Sustainability as a focus of interdisciplinary study

• Health and the environment

• People, place and time: human demography

• Environmental governance: consumption, waste, economic ‘externalities’, sustainability, environmental equity

• Human interests in the natural sciences: the politics of the environment

• Management as social science

• Culture in organizations

• Technology and work

• The social dynamics of organizations

• Human resource management

• Workers’ rights

• Corporate governance

• Organizational and social sustainability

• Corporate social responsibility

• Knowledge ecologies: embedded knowledge in the organizational setting

• Tacit and explicit knowledge

• Private and public knowledge

• Scenario building and futures forecasting

• Organizational change

• Education as a social science

• The learning sciences as an interdisciplinary endeavor

• Action research: the logistics and ethics of interventionary social science

• Teaching and learning the social studies

• History teaching and learning

• Economics teaching and learning

• Geography teaching and learning

• Technology in learning and learning about technology

• Media studies as social science

• Communications as a social science

• Information and communications technologies

• The social web: the internet in its social context

• Human-computer interactions

• Literacies as a social learning experience