This international and interdisciplinary conference will bring together a range of academics and practitioners to discuss new directions of research and discovery in Global Studies. As with IAFOR’s other events, Global2017 will afford the opportunity for renewing old acquaintances, making new contacts, and networking across higher education and beyond.

Barcelona is one of the most exciting cosmopolitan hubs in the Mediterranean and indeed in Europe. Well known for its architecture, from the Roman to the Contemporary, as well as its food and culture, Barcelona has a long history in hosting major international conferences in all areas of study and work. Barcelona is the place to be for Global Studies. In recent decades it has become a multicultural, multilingual city and is a major attraction for tourists and business people. It is here that one can discuss “the global” with ease in a city which has, over the centuries, established trade routes with the Far East and around the Mediterranean as well as with Europe and Latin America. Its inhabitants are of diverse origins, making the city an ideal location for discussions of both the local and the global in a space which is unique and which has fostered the humanities and sciences in its historical development as a global hub.

The IAFOR International Conference on Global Studies 2017 will again be held alongside The IAFOR International Conference on the City 2017. Registration for either of these conferences will allow participants to attend sessions in the other.
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Conference Theme

The conference theme for GLOBAL2017 is “Global Realities: Precarious Survival and Belonging”, and the organisers encourage submissions that approach this theme from a variety of perspectives. However, the submission of other topics for consideration is welcome and we also encourage sessions across a variety of interdisciplinary and theoretical perspectives.

Submissions are organised into the following thematic streams:

Black Feminism
Legal Studies
Race Theory
Geography
History
Cultural Studies
Education / Pedagogy
Gender Studies / Feminist Theory
Gerontology/ Ageing Studies
Geology /Earth Sciences/ Social Geography
Justice Studies/ including Wild Law
Linguistics, Language and Cultural Studies
Literary Studies / All genres/ Theory
Media Studies
Medical Studies / Nursing / Health and Well-being
Postcolonial Studies
Orientalism
Political Philosophy
Political Theory
Queer Theory
Social Criticism
Sociology
Psychology
Visual Culture
Women’s Studies
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Submit your research and join the discussion. Abstracts of no more than 250 words should be submitted by February 28, 2017.

To submit an abstract, please log into the IAFOR Submission System:

http://iafor.org/iafor/iafor-submission-system/login.php

For more information on Global2017, please visit the conference website:

http://iafor.org/conferences/global2017/

We look forward to seeing you in Barcelona!