New Directions in the Humanities Research Network

📢 Proposal Submissions Now Open

Proposal submissions are now open for the Twenty-Fifth International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities, an international conference hosted by the Sveučilište u Splitu - University of Split

The conference invites scholars and practitioners to submit proposals presenting current research and ideas for discussion with an international, interdisciplinary audience.

🗓 Early Submission deadline: 29 November 2026
🔗 Submit your proposal: https://tinyurl.com/2xj74cup

Designed for global participation. 2027 Imagining Human Worlds combines live online sessions with asynchronous presentation pages and discussion spaces, making room for participants across time zones. Join shared moments of live exchange while keeping the conversation open before, during, and after the symposium.

🔗 Plan your participation: https://tinyurl.com/3y9ad3se

New Edition in Paperback: "Destination Unknown: Sustainable Travel and Ethical Tourism", Carolin Lusby.

Tourism: the good, the bad and the ugly. Often hailed as a smokeless industry, international travel grew to unprecedented levels pre-pandemic. Unchecked development and overtourism led to negative consequences for residents and impacted cultural and natural resources. As tourism rebounds, it’s important to acknowledge the ways in which the pandemic gave us an opportunity to envision a sustainable industry. This book discusses international tourism and the ways in which it brings us together. Contributions from expert authors around the world highlight both current issues in tourism, as well as ways it can be developed more ethically and equitably; ultimately increasing the well-being of the planet and people. Creating spaces for encounters, protecting natural resources, volunteering ethically, traveling to discover one’s ethnic roots, vernacular design, cultural tourism and community involvement are all part of this meaningful discourse as we envision a resilient and beneficial tourism industry.

Order: https://doi.org/10.18848/978-1-86335-236-9/CGP

New Hardback: "Global Game, Local Meanings: Sport, Cultures and Communities in a Changing World", Sam Duncan, Lucas Santos, Thomas Heenan.

Global Game, Local Meanings explores the dynamic relationship between global sporting systems and the diverse local cultures in which they are embedded. This edited collection brings together interdisciplinary research that examines how sport, physical activity and informal play – whether as practice, institution, spectacle, or industry – both shape and are shaped by local identities, political priorities, and cultural values.

Sport is a global phenomenon, governed by powerful transnational organisations and consumed across borders through mass media and digital platforms. Yet its impact is deeply local. In communities across the world, sport and physical activity can foster belonging, build identity, and reflect complex histories of inclusion and exclusion, and resistance and pride. This volume brings together scholars working across sociology, politics, education, management, and cultural and environmental studies to investigate how global logics of sport intersect with the distinct social, cultural, and ecological contexts in which sport and physical activity are played, taught, governed and experienced.

Order: https://doi.org/10.18848/SPRTBI/B35

2027 Imagining Human Worlds is hosted by the Common Ground Media Lab, an interdisciplinary research and design environment exploring how knowledge, creativity, communication, and learning are shaped through media, technology, and digital exchange. The symposium is part of this broader Knowledge Experience work.

🔗 Learn more: https://tinyurl.com/5b6kja37

New Edition in Paperback: "Party Food: A Partisan History of Food & Farming Policy in America", Rebecca Harris.

“Voting with your fork” is a common mantra for those concerned with food politics. However, real voting requires one to choose between Democrats and Republicans—and most food voters do not know the partisan history of food politics. Party Food is written for farmers and foodies who want to understand the political history of food policy. Harris is a political scientist who is also a commercial farmer. Her expertise in both fields offers fresh, professional insight into the lay of the land in American food politics. In Party Food, Harris unpacks the political foundations of contemporary farm policy and expertly explains the “team sport” of partisan politics as it plays out in the food politics landscape. In Party Food, she introduces the Democratic and Republican Heroes (and Villains!) of food politics, and offers an accessible insight into each political party’s policy “menu” and team play in Presidential and Congressional politics. In this way, Party Food offers foodies and farmers a food politics primer on Democrats & Republicans and fills an important gap in the food politics discussion.

Order: https://doi.org/10.18848/978-1-86335-248-2/CGP

The International Award for Excellence for the New Direction in the Humanities Journal Collection, is Bernard Franco for the article titled “The Landscape as Image of Fiction: About a Literary Knowledge”.

You can read more about the article and the journal award here:
https://tinyurl.com/3ad5wpdd

Introducing 2027 Imagining Human Worlds, part of the Common Ground Imagining Futures Series, taking place 27–28 January 2027 online on the CGScholar Symposium Platform. This symposium brings together work across humanities, learning, digital pedagogy, religion, ethics, cultural meaning, and human-centered technologies. Save the date for a new space of exchange focused on human worlds.

🔗 Learn more: https://tinyurl.com/mprmf2yk

⏳ The Countdown is Over ⏳Tomorrow, we’ll start with inspiring sessions, thought-provoking discussions, and opportunities to connect with fellow attendees. We can’t wait to welcome you!

📍 Location: NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Lisbon, Portugal
�🗓️ Dates: 1-3 July 2026

🔗 Last-minute details? Check here: https://tinyurl.com/3ndwj8zp