We summon all to be a part of a shared responsibility of discussing the future of the world we inhabit to the 9th Maltepe University International Student Congress on Humanities and Social Sciences (HUMSOS).
We invite BA/MA and Ph.D. students majoring in multiple disciplines of social sciences and humanities, law, communication and education to re-imagine the world and a more democratic and sustainable future. The main theme of our congress will be “Towards Sustainable Societies: Prospects and Retrospects”.
Following the UN sustainable development goals of 2023 , this congress will raise questions to attendees and aims to discuss and find solutions following these main questions:
- What is the goal of sustainable development?
- Why is sustainable development so often associated with protecting the environment?
- Does sustainable development apply to all spheres of activity?
- How does sustainable development make economic sense for society?
- What principles of sustainable development must be taken into account by the public administration?
- What can I do, as a citizen, for development to be more sustainable?
- How we can strengthen efforts to protect and safeguard the world’s cultural and natural heritage?
- How we can enhance property rights and access to land and natural resources to women can contribute to reduce gender inequalities, improve their livelihood options and poverty status?
- How we can promote mechanisms for raising capacity for effective climate change-related planning and management in least developed countries and small island developing States, including focusing on women, youth and local and marginalized communities?
OPTIONAL TOPICS:
- Access to Justice
- Brand Activism
- Building Social Dialogue
- Challenges for Communication for Sustainable Development in Society
- Communication of Sustainability
- Corporate Social Responsibility
- Cross-Cultural Communication
- Cultural Policies for Sustainable Development
- Data Privacy Ethics in Communication Technologies
- Debates on Middle Classes in the Post-pandemic Period
- Education for Sustainable Development
- Energy Decarbonization with Universal Access to Energy
- Environmental Law
- Equal Access to Information and Communication Technologies
- Gender Equality and Law
- Gender-Sensitive Communication
- Global Climate Change and Its Social Costs
- Green Logistics for Sustainable Development
- Health Communication
- Human Rights and Human Dignity
- Impact of Logistics and Supply Chain Management on Sustainable Development
- Importance of Public Relations in Corporate Sustainability
- Media Ethics
- Mental Healthcare, Well-being and Prosperity
- Poverty, Income Distribution and Growth
- Prospects for Biodiversity and Sustainable Ecosystem
- Renewable Energy Law
- State, Civil Society and Democracy
- Sustainability Governance
- Sustainable Food Systems and Healthy Nutrition
- Sustainable Institutions for National Development Policies
- Sustainable Land Management and Agricultural Policies
- Tackling Hate Speech on Social Media Platforms
- The Law of War
- The Privatization of the Health and Human Services
- Unemployment and Precariousness: Prospects for Equal and Fair Distributive Policies
- Urban and Peri-urban Development
- Water as a Human Right
- Women's Empowerment in Workplace, Marketplace and Community
