Migration, Adaptation and Memory: 6th International Interdisciplinary Memory Conference

Our repertoire of suggested topics includes but is not limited to:

Arts

• Literature, poetry, film, theatre, etc. as adaptive mediums

• Adaptation through artistic creation and destruction 

• Artistic imagination and adaptation

• Migration as represented in arts

• Art created during migration

• Creative expression through memories

History

• Adaptation across history

• Memory processes in writing history

• Documenting history and memories in migration

Humanitarian work, Governments and NGOs

• Roles and responsibilities

• Management of temporary and transitory spaces

• Project management and evaluation

• Best practices

• Welcome contexts

Medical sciences

• Genetics/epigenetics in adaptation processes

• Neurobiology and biochemistry of adaptation and memory

• Evolutionary approaches to memory, adaptation and migration

• Chronic diseases, memory, and adaptation

Philosophy and Worldviews (Eastern, Western, Indigenous…)

• Epistemology and metaphysics 

• Existential and postmodern adaptation

• Ethics in migratory context

• Philosophy of memory

Political Sciences and Law

• Policies related to migration and adaptation

• Human rights and migration

• Bureaucracy in relation to migration policies

• Judiciary systems

• Political agendas, memory and migration

• Objective vs. subjective memory in politics

• International politics and adaptation

Psychology and Psychiatry

• Mental health and adaptation

• Abnormal behaviors and adaptation

• (Mal)adaptive memory processes

• Social and transcultural psychiatry

• Perception/cognition/attention

• Personality

• Psychoanalysis

Sociology and Anthropology

• Cultural determinants and adaptation

• Race/ethnic identity and adaptation

• Religion, adaptation and migratory experiences

• Gender, adaptation and migratory experiences

• Social networks and adaptation

• Language of adaptation, memory and migration

• Family relations and adaptation

• Urban planning and adaptation

• Diaspora and community development

Economics and Business

• Adaptation and job security

• Private sponsorship and adaptation

• Adaptation in economics (Marxist, Capitalist…)