We are delighted to invite the international Global South Studies community to the International Symposium on Global South Studies 2024 that takes place at Thai Binh Duong University, Nha Trang City, Vietnam from 19 to 22 August 2024 with online participation options.

International Symposium on Global South Studies 2024 strives to disrupt mainstream discourses and scholarship framed by euro/western-centric perspectives, opening opportunities to amplify the unrecognized voices of Global South scholars. The symposium’s main theme will be:

CENTRALIZING THE SOUTH IN THE GLOBAL CONTEXT:

TROUBLING WHAT’S KNOWN & RE-IMAGINING WHAT’S UNKNOWN

We are particularly interested in works that contribute to re/shaping the scholarship of Global South studies, addressing burgeoning and intensive topics discussed widely by international scholars and critical thinkers, whose work transcends and disrupts the public and academic understanding of non-western societies and cultures.

Topics that draw our attention feature emerging and context-specific issues in various Global South landscapes of being, becoming, and shifting, which require interdisciplinary lenses to look at, inquire about, and put into a critical discourse. By emphasizing the importance of interdisciplinary research paradigms, we welcome work that is quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods in focus and demonstrates a concentration on offering a critical analysis of what it means by Global South from different perspectives: history and philosophy, cultural studies, social theory, psychology, education, arts, media and communication, linguistics, business and economics, management and development, gender and sexuality, ethnic studies, etc.

Our academic initiative aims to become an innovative and critical space that encourages interdisciplinary dialogue in the context of Global South research. In the long term, our vision is to host an annual convention that gathers diverse scholars interested in Global South issues, especially in the arts, humanities, and social sciences.

We look forward to welcoming the international Global South Studies community to one of Vietnam’s best-located campuses for a lively and welcoming gathering – Thai Binh Duong University, Nha Trang City, Khanh Hoa Province, Vietnam.

Please read our Call for Papers for detailed information before submitting your abstract proposals.