Common Ground Research Networks

🌍 One Registration. Two Interconnected Conferences. One Shared Conversation on Sustainable Futures.

Join the combined 2027 gathering of the: Climate Change: Impacts & Responses Research Network, On Sustainability Research Network

Taking place together at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, these co-located conferences create expanded opportunities for interdisciplinary dialogue, shared sessions, networking, and collaborative exchange across climate, sustainability, policy, design, infrastructure, culture, and social transformation.

✅ Register for one conference and participate across the broader shared program experience.
✅ Attend keynote and plenary sessions spanning both research networks.
✅ Connect with researchers, practitioners, designers, educators, policymakers, and industry leaders working toward sustainable futures.
✅ Present your work within your primary network while engaging a wider interdisciplinary audience.

Together, the conferences create a larger international knowledge community focused on innovation, resilience, sustainability, and planetary futures.

“The International Journal of Architectonic, Spatial, and Environmental Design” publishes interdisciplinary work on human configurations of the environment and the interactions among constructed, social, and natural worlds. Bringing together researchers, teachers, and practitioners, the journal creates space for inquiry that moves between empirical and theoretical work, research and application, and the ideal and the pragmatic.

Attending to private, public, communal, and commercial space alike, the journal supports critical reflection on the forms, systems, and relations through which environments are imagined, designed, inhabited, and transformed.

Join us for the Sixteenth International Conference on Health, Wellness & Society, taking place 9–11 September 2026 at the University of Guadalajara, México.

This year’s special focus, “Nourishing Societies: Bridging Nutrition, Wellness, and Sustainability for a Healthier Future,” invites scholars, researchers, practitioners, and educators to explore the connections between food systems, public health, wellbeing, and sustainable futures.

The conference welcomes presentations in English and Spanish.

Acompáñenos en el XVI Congreso Internacional de Salud, Bienestar y Sociedad, que tendrá lugar del 9 al 11 de septiembre de 2026 en la Universidad de Guadalajara, México.

El enfoque especial de este año, “Sociedades saludables: Uniendo nutrición, bienestar y sostenibilidad para un futuro más sano,” invita a académicos, investigadores, profesionales y educadores a explorar las conexiones entre los sistemas alimentarios, la salud pública, el bienestar y los futuros sostenibles.

El congreso acepta presentaciones en inglés y español.

We look forward to welcoming an international community for dialogue, research exchange, and collaboration.

Esperamos dar la bienvenida a una comunidad internacional para el diálogo, el intercambio de investigaciones y la colaboración.

Discover a new contribution to food studies and Indigenous knowledge scholarship.

In “Sociobiology of Indigenous Foods and Food Systems”, Matthew C. Ogwu offers an interdisciplinary exploration of Indigenous foodways as dynamic sociobiological systems shaped across generations through ecological knowledge, cultural practice, and community life. Moving across regions and traditions, the book examines the relationships between food, sustainability, biodiversity, justice, and sovereignty, while highlighting the enduring significance of Indigenous knowledge in addressing contemporary global challenges.

This volume will be of interest to scholars and practitioners working across food studies, sustainability, anthropology, development, ecology, and Indigenous studies.

Do not miss plenary speaker Luís Duarte de Almeida at the Twenty-Fourth International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities, 1–3 July 2026 in Lisbon, Portugal, and online.

A Professor at NOVA University of Lisbon, Duarte de Almeida will present “Law is a Foreign Language (that You’ll Likely Never Learn)”, offering a thought-provoking contribution to this year’s special focus, Beyond Borders: The Role of the Humanities in Navigating Complexity.

Join us at the NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities for conversations that explore how the humanities help us interpret, question, and respond to an increasingly complex world.

Lisbon, Portugal + Online
1–3 July 2026

The International Journal of The Image provides a cross-disciplinary forum for examining the nature of images and the processes of image-making in their empirical, normative, and imaginative dimensions. The journal invites inquiry into the ways images represent, mediate, and transform the worlds they inhabit, while attending to their cultural, technological, political, and epistemological conditions.

Positioned within an increasingly multimodal landscape, the journal fosters critical dialogue on how images and image-making operate across fields and practices, opening space for sustained reflection on perception, interpretation, and representation.

“A World of Contradictions: Culture and Identity in the Roiling of Globalization” offers a timely examination of the cultural, political, and social tensions that shape contemporary global life. Bringing together diverse scholarly perspectives, the volume explores how identity is formed, contested, and transformed amid the uneven dynamics of globalization.

This collection contributes to ongoing conversations in global studies, cultural analysis, and social theory, attending to the contradictions that emerge where local histories, transnational processes, and shifting forms of belonging intersect.

Do not miss plenary speaker David Humphreys at the Twenty-Second International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic & Social Sustainability, 20–22 April 2026 in Rhodes, Greece, and online.

Emeritus Professor of Environmental Policy at The Open University, UK, Humphreys brings a powerful critical lens to questions of environmental governance, sustainability, and planetary futures. As part of our 2026 special focus, “Unseen Unsustainability: Addressing Hidden Risks to Long-Term Wellbeing for All,” his plenary will explore the everyday practices that degrade our planetary home, asking what remains hidden in plain sight and what it will take to respond.

📍 The University of the Aegean, Rhodes, Greece
📅 20–22 April 2026
✨ There’s still time to register.

What does a more inclusive museum look like?

The International Journal of the Inclusive Museum explores how museums can respond to changing audiences, historical legacies, and new possibilities for participation, representation, and engagement.

A space for research, practice, and conversation across museum studies, curatorship, community engagement, and cultural policy.

We are pleased to announce the new paperback edition of “Modernity: Religious and Ethical Perspectives” by Nicos Mouzelis.

In this volume, Mouzelis offers a rigorous sociological interrogation of the defining features of modern societies, specifically focusing on the macro-social processes of population incorporation into the nation-state and the top-down differentiation of institutional spheres. By tracing the expansion of individualization from the social apex to its base, the author provides a nuanced framework for understanding the transition from traditional religious hierarchies to contemporary forms of individual seekers and religious syncretism.

Drawing a vital distinction between the rationalized disenchantment of the modern world and the burgeoning movements toward a partial re-enchantment, this work explores the rise of antifoundationalist ethics and the shift toward the divine within us. Mouzelis concludes with a critical comparative analysis of traditional religious authoritarianism and modern theocratic regimes.

Available now for scholars and students of social theory and the sociology of religion. Order the new paperback edition from the CGScholar Bookstore.