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Area of Intrest
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