Area of Interest
We invite papers on themes including but not restricted to the following:
Track 1: Media and Communication Studies
• AI, Deepfakes, and Media Trust Erosion
• Algorithmic Bias • Cybersecurity
• Media Visibility and Authenticity
• Misinformation Ecologies
• Surveillance, Privacy, and Tech Vulnerabilities
• Technological Access and Digital Divide
• Techno-Utopianism
• Vulnerable Communities in Popular Media
• Visualising Vulnerability on Screen
Track 2: Social Sciences
• Behavioural Economics: Consumer Vulnerability
• Borders, Belonging, Migration, and Displacement
• Communities and Resistance
• Cultural Homogenisation
• Disaster and Risk Management
• Ecological Knowledge and Environmental Insecurity
• Economic Inequality
• Education and Social Mobility
• Food Security and Agricultural Justice
• Gig Economy
• Market/Consumer Exploitation
• Urban Vulnerabilities and Inequities
Track 3: Literature and Philosophy
• Biopolitics • Decolonising the Curriculum
• Linguistic Vulnerability
• Poetics of Exile, Displacement, and Statelessness
• Poetics of Pain and Resistance
• Posthuman and the Vulnerable Body
• Precarity: Ecological, Social, Political, Gender, Caste, and Class
• Resilience in Indigenous Storytelling
• Trauma Narratives
• Tribal Narratives
• War Narratives
Track 4: Gender and Cultural Studies
• Bodies and Identities
• Cultural Homogenisation
• Embodied Vulnerabilities
• Intersectional Vulnerabilities
• Marginalised Cultures
• Gender and Folk Cultures
• Gendered Infrastructures and Institutions
Track 5: Psychology and Health Humanities
• Global Health and Pandemics
• Health Disparities
• Mental Health and Resilience
• Vulnerability Across the Lifespan
Track 6: Commerce, Management and Legal Studies
• Behavioural Economics: Consumer Vulnerability
• Market/Consumer Exploitation
• State Violence and Legal Vulnerabilities
• Violence and Human Rights
Track 7: Art and Design
• Affective Vulnerabilities
• AI Art and Creative Exposure
• Space and Urbanity
• Theorizing Vulnerability in Art and Design