Twenty-Fourth International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities
- Beyond Borders: The Role of the Humanities in Reimagining Communities
- 1-3 July 2026
- NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Lisbon, Portugal + Online
The Twenty-Fourth International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities featured plenary sessions by some of the world’s leading thinkers and innovators in the field.
Professor of Jurisprudence, Nova School of Law, NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal; Honorary Professional Fellow, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
"Law is a Foreign Language (that You'll Likely Never Learn)"
(English)
Associate Professor of Musicology, NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal
"On Belonging: What I Learned from Music"
(English)
Professor of Portuguese Studies, NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal
(Spanish)
Associate Professor of Philology, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
"La simbiosfera: comunidades sostenibles y el horizonte ético de los videojuegos"
(Spanish)
Full Professor, Department of History, NOVA University Lisbon, Portugal
"Publishing as a fluid practice"
(English)
Senior Lecturer, Central and East European Studies, Glasgow University
"Travel Writing and Social Change: Creating a Community of Readers"
(English)
Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Researcher, INET-md, NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Lisbon, Portugal
For each conference, a small number of Emerging Scholar Awards are given to outstanding graduate students and emerging scholars who have an active research interest in the conference themes. Emerging Scholars perform a critical role in the conference by chairing the parallel sessions, providing technical assistance in the sessions, and presenting their own research papers. The 2026 Emerging Scholar Award Recipients are as follows:
CETAPS/NOVA-FCSH, Portugal
(In-Person)
London School of Economics and Political Science, London
(In-Person)
University of Calgary, Canada
(In-Person)
The American University in Cairo, Egypt
(In-Person)
NOVA FCSH, Portugal
(In-Person)
University of Lisbon, Portugal
(In-Person)
The University of Alabama, United States
(Online Only)
University of Almería, Spain
(Online Only)
Georgian University of Public Affairs (GIPA), Georgia
(Online Only)
English and Foreign Languages University, India
(Online Only)
University of London, United Kingdom
(Online Only)
Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj Napoca, Romania
(Online Only)
Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, India
(Online Only)
Chung Yuan Christian University, Taiwan
(Online Only)
Sorbonne University, France
(Online Only)
Universidad del Valle, Colombia
(Online Only)
Lisbon, Portugal
