Innovations in the Social Sciences and Humanities 

17^th and 18^th of December 2021.Ho Chi Minh City, Socialist Republic of Viet Nam

Submission Guidelines

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:

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  Submission process and basis for inclusion.

• Authors are invited to submit unpublished, original work as full conference paper of 3,000 to at most 5,000 words including abstract and references.
• Manuscripts should be compiled in the following order: title page (including acknowledgements as well as Funding and grant-awarding bodies); abstract; keywords; main text; references; appendices (as appropriate); table(s) with caption(s) (on individual pages); figure caption(s) (as a list).
• Abstracts of approximately 200 words are required for all manuscripts submitted.
• Each manuscript should include 5 to 6 keywords listed in alphabetical order. 
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• Editorial Procedures
• Selected conference papers will be published in a special issue of a journal such as Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (IACS), ISSN - 14649373, 14698447,  ISI indexed journal or Social Identities - Scopus index ISSN: 1350-4630
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• Conference languages: English
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• All submitted abstracts/ papers will go through a blind peer review process and those accepted will be published in conference proceedings.

List of Topics

• The conference themes are organised in three overlapping streams

  (section chairs will report back to the other streams at the end of each day):

• Innovations in Tourism
  • Exploiting Tourism Resources
  • Human Resources in Tourism
  • New Types of Tourism
  • New Trends in Tourism Management
• Innovations in Media Sociology/Anthropology
  • Social Structures and Development
  • Urban Migration
  • Media Ethnography
  • Communication Anthropology
• Innovations in Social Work 
  • The role of the social work profession in the context of Covid-19
  • Training and practising social work in the context of Covid-19
  • Social needs for the social work profession

Invited Speakers

• Prof. Abhijit Roy, Jadavpur University
• Prof. Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research
• Prof. Arnab Chaudhury, Higher School of Economic University Moscow
• Prof. Jonathan Beller, Pratt Institute, New York
• Prof. Nikos Papastergiadis, University of Melbourne
• Prof. Scott McQuire, University of Melbourne
• Prof. Ishita Banerjee, El Colegio de México
• Prof. Saurabh Dube, El Colegio de México
• Prof. Kuan-Hsing Chen, Inter Asia Cultural Studies
• Prof. You-De Dai, National Chi Nan University
• Prof. Dr. Cuong Bui The, Vietnam Academic Social Sciences
• Prof. Nguyen Huu Minh – Vietnam Sociological Association

Publication

ISSH2021 papers will be published in the Conference Proceedings

Accepted abstracts/papers will be published in the 2^nd ISSH-2021 proceedings volume which has the ISBN publication Index – 978-0-9945391-6-8 of ISBN Agency of Australia and will be submitted for indexing with the Clarivate ISI Web of Science conference proceedings citation index (the ISSH-2019 Proceedings were indexed in the CPCI database).

After the conference, those papers which meet academic requirements from those abstracted and presented at ISSH-2021, will then be selected and invited by the editorial team for extension and rewriting for possible publication in journals such as: Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (ISI), Review of Radical Political Economics (ISI), Social Identities (Scopus), or Thesis Eleven (Scopus), for blind peer review and publication.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to issh2021@tdtu.edu.vn or to johnhutnyk@tdtu.edu.vn

Organizers

Organizers

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• Conference spokesperson Assoc. Prof. Lê Thị Mai, Ph.D
• Committee chair: Assoc. Prof. John Hutnyk, Ph.D
• Committee secretary: Dr Đặng Thị Kim Phụng, Ph.D
• Conference proceedings: Nguyễn Minh Huân, Ph.D

Co-Organisers:

• Prof. Abhijit Roy, Jadavpur University
• Prof. Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research
• Prof. Arnab Chaudhury, Higher School of Economic University Moscow
• Prof. Jonathan Beller, Pratt Institute, New York
• Prof. Nikos Papastergiadis, University of Melbourne
• Prof. Scott McQuire, University of Melbourne
• Prof. Ishita Banerjee, Collegio de Mexico
• Prof. Saurabh Banerjee, Collegio de Mexico

Scientific Committee

• Prof. Abhijit Roy, Jadavpur University, India
• Prof. Pal Ahluwalia, Vice Chancellor University of the South Pacific
• Prof. Jonathan Beller, Pratt Institute, New York
• Prof. Arnab Chaudhury, Higher School of Economic University Moscow
• Prof. Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental Institute, Delhi
• Prof. Nikos Papastergiadis, University of Melbourne
• Prof. Ishita Banerjee, Collegio de Mexico
• Prof. Saurabh Dube, Collegio de Mexico
• Dr. Joe Buckley, Independent Scholar, UK
• Dr. Asli Telli, Universität Siegen, Germany
• Dr. Ken Fero, Regents University, London
• Dr. Trevor Hogan, Independent Scholar, Singapore
• Prof. Nguyễn Hữu Minh – Vietnam Sociological Association
• Prof. Bùi Thế Cường, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences
• Assoc. Prof. John Hutnyk, Ton Duc Thang University
• Assoc. Prof. Lê Thi Mai, Ton Duc Thang University
• Dr. Đặng Thị Kim Phụng, Ton Duc Thang University
• Dr. Nguyễn Thị Đỗ Quyên, Ton Duc Thang University
• Dr. Nguyễn Minh Huân, Ton Duc Thang University

SPONSORS:

The 2nd conference "Innovations in the Social Sciences and Humanities" is organised by Ton Duc Thang University jointly with scholars at six other universities: 

University of the South Pacific;

Jadavpur University in India;

Higher School of Economic University Moscow in Russia;

Pratt Institute in USA;

College of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences at Purdue University Northwest, USA;

The Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.

The co-ordination is by the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities

of Ton Duc Thang University, Socialist Republic of Viet Nam.

Conference Venue - Ton Duc Thang University Address: 19 Nguyen Huu Tho Street, Tan Phong Ward, District 7, Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam