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Special Theme: "Society, Environment and Trust: Towards Sustainable Systems of Governance"

The conference theme is "Sustaining the Future" and the organizers encourage submissions that approach this question from a variety of perspectives. However, the submission of other topics for consideration is welcome and we also encourage sessions within and across a variety of disciplines and fields related to the Social Sciences, including the following streams:

Anthropology
Archaeology
Cultural Studies and Humanities
Economics and Management
Education and Social Welfare
Ethnicity, Difference, Identity
Globalisation and Internationalization
Immigration, Refugees, Race, Nation
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Gender
International Relations
Linguistics
Media and Communications
Natural, Environmental and Health Sciences
Politics, Philosophy, Ethics, Consciousness
Politics, Public Policy and Law Psychology
Cognitive Science and the Behavioural Sciences
Research Methodologies Quantitative and Qualitative
Social History
Sustainability
Teaching and Learning
Technology and Applied Sciences
Other

Abstracts of no more than 250 words should be submitted by the deadline April 1 2013.
All abstracts will be blind reviewed by a voluntary team, and authors will usually be notified of the decision of the reviewers within two weeks of submission.
All accepted authors may have their full paper published in the online conference proceedings. Full text submission is due by July 1 2013.
The deadline for full conference payment for all presenters is May 15 2013.