Days of paper presentations, workshops/interactive sessions, posters, and colloquia.
Delegates from all over the world who attended the Seventeenth International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities.
Countries represented.
What is the role of Humanities in the journey to the Fourth Industrial Revolution? How important are humanistic disciplines for the kinds of challenges we face in a coming era, supposedly defined by a highly dynamic phase of industrial and social restructuring, where the adaptive capacity of societies needs to be enhanced by specific skills, with techno-social dependencies. What is the role of the Humanities in building cognitive competences, and new professional paths? What can we bring to a new lexicon of: open innovation, co-innovation, co-creation, not only as the “convergence” of peoples, but also machines, with ontologies.
The special focus of the 2019 International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities seeks to unveil the importance of SSH disciplines to the major STEM disciplines (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics). The future of our planet requires co-creation mechanisms that re-conduct ideas in fundamentally different ways, in order to result in significant value to society, organizations, products, services and business. The conference will explore how the Humanities can contribute to this future.
The Seventeenth International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities featured plenary sessions by some of the world’s leading thinkers and innovators in the field.
European Alliance for Social Sciences and Humanities, Director, Brussels, Belgium
Complutense University of Madrid, Professor, Madrid, Spain
"Innovation, Education, and Humanities for the World 4.0: What's the Track?"
Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
"STEM to STEAM: Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) at the Crossroads Between Art, Science, and Technology"
For each conference, a small number of Emerging Scholar Awards are given to outstanding graduate students and emerging scholars who have an active academic interest in the conference area. The Award, with its accompanying responsibilities provides a strong professional development opportunity for early career academics. The 2019 Emerging Scholar Awardees are listed below.
University of Barcelona, Spain
Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia
University of Costa Rica, Costa Rica
University of Colorado Boulder, USA
Clark Atlanta University, USA
Lamar University, USA
Tel Aviv University, Israel
Clark Atlanta University, USA
Granada, Spain
Madrid, Spain
Paris, France
University of Granada, Spain
Virtual Posters present preliminary results of work or projects that lend themselves to visual representations. Download the posters below.
Lightning Talks are 5-minute "flash" video presentations. Click the button below to view the videos on our YouTube channel.
