Call for papers: The Vienna Conference on the Social Sciences, 13-17 November 2026, Vienna, Austria. Deadline: 30 July 2026.
International Academic Forum (IAFOR) Vienna 2026 is part of the IAFOR European City Conference Series and is a dual conference event featuring the Vienna Conference on Arts and Humanities (VCAH2026) alongside the Vienna Conference on the Social Sciences (VCSS2026). The event provides an essential comparative and contrastive space for people to engage in multidisciplinary research across borders of nation, culture, discipline, and professions.
IAFOR’s conference programme provides an essential comparative and contrastive space for people to engage in multidisciplinary research across borders of nation, culture, discipline, and professions. They encourage mixed approaches and methodologies, combining theory and practice between and across the disciplines, and look to harness the collective intelligence of our International Academic Forum in addressing some of the most pressing issues of our time. Through the implementation of new formats in conference programme over the last year, including Intelligence Briefings, Keynote Interviews, and The Forum, they gather insights into what has been discussed at the theoretical and policy levels, identify the challenges, and the outlook for best practices in tackling global contemporary issues, which have been identified as the themes for 2025-2029. These are international, intercultural, and interdisciplinary, and include:
- Technology and Artificial Intelligence
- Humanity and Human Intelligence
- Global Citizenship and Education for Peace
- Leadership
These four themes can be seen as standalone themes, but they are also very much in conversation with each other. Themes may be seen as corollaries, complementary, or in opposition / juxtaposition with each other. The themes can be considered as widely as possible and are designed, in keeping with IAFOR’s mission, to encourage ideas across the disciplines.
Center for Intercultural Dialogue 