MIGRATION- 2025 - MIGRATION, ADAPTATION AND MEMORY - 8th International Interdisciplinary Conference

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Category interdisciplinary, international, memory, migration, food, affects, trauma, psychology, sociology, identity, culture, arts, film studies, literature, social sciences, borders

Deadline: May 15, 2025 | Date: June 05, 2025-June 06, 2025

Venue/Country: Gdansk, Poland

Updated: 2025-04-11 22:28:01 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

​CFP:

​ How do we remember and represent our migration experiences? Who is involved in these processes? How does history remember these events? What helps migrants and societies to adapt? The significance of these and related questions have made their way into our daily lives, from the refugee crisis to policy decisions, individual psychotherapy to (re)building identities, communities, and memories.

During the conference, we are going to turn our attention to processes that are integral to human experience: migration, adaptation, and memory. We are interested in all aspects of migration and adaptation, in their individual and collective dimensions, in the past and in the present-day world. We would like to examine the role of memory, the processes of migrating and adapting to various dynamic life circumstances, across time, space, culture, language, and discipline.

Therefore, we strive to represent and discuss the crossroads of migration, adaptation, and memory in their multiple representations: psychological, social, historical, cultural, philosophical, religious, neurological, organizational, methodological, economic, political, and many others. We will also devote considerable attention to how these phenomena appear and transform in artistic practices: literature, film, theatre, and visual arts. This is why we invite researchers representing various academic disciplines: anthropology, history, psychiatry, psychology, psychoanalysis, sociology, politics, philosophy, economics, law, literary studies, theatre studies, film studies, design, project management, memory studies, migration studies, consciousness studies, dream studies, gender studies, postcolonial studies, medical sciences, cognitive sciences, and urban studies, to name a few.

Different forms of presentations are encouraged, including case studies, theoretical inquiries, personal reflections, problem-oriented arguments, comparative analyses, and creative expressions.

​We will be happy to hear from experienced scholars and young academics, doctoral and graduate students, as well as professionals from various disciplines. We also invite all persons interested in participating in the conference as listeners, without giving a presentation.

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

​ I. 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

II. History

Adaptation across history

Memory processes in writing history

Documenting history and memories in migration

III. 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

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IV. Psychology and Psychiatry

Mental health and adaptation

Abnormal behaviors and adaptation

(Mal)adaptive memory processes

Social and transcultural psychiatry

Perception/cognition/attention

Personality

Psychoanalysis

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V. 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

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VI. Humanitarian work, Governments and NGOs

Roles and responsibilities

Management of temporary and transitory spaces

Project management and evaluation

Best practices

Welcome contexts

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VII. Philosophy and Worldviews (Eastern, Western, Indigenous...)

Epistemology and metaphysics

Existential and postmodern adaptation

Ethics in migratory context

Philosophy of memory

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VIII. 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

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IX. Economics

Adaptation and job security

Private sponsorship and adaptation

Please submit abstracts (no longer than 300 words) of your proposed 20-minute presentations or together with a short biographical note, by 15 May 2025 to: migrationconferenceofficegmail.com.