Abstract call is open for resilience-themed session by the FRONT programme at AIS2025 in Oulu
We are happy to tell that the 47th Association for Interdisciplinary Studies Conference (AIS2025): Shaping the Future in the Era of Polycrisis will be held in June 4-6, 2025, at the University of Oulu, Finland. FRONT research programme organizes an open resilience-themed session at the conference, and the Abstract Call is open until 14th of February 2025, 23:59 (UTC+2, Eastern European Time).
It is possible to submit an abstract for an open session or submit an independent abstract. To start, familiarize yourself with the Open sessions. More information about the Abstract Call and the abstract submission form can be found on the conference website. The author(s) of the accepted abstracts will be invited to present their work at the conference, and their abstracts will be published on the conference website.
The international conference is intended for all those involved with multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary research and teaching. The conference is co-organized by University of Oulu and Oulu University of Applied Sciences, and FRONT research programme is one of the organizers. Submit your abstract on the web page.
For whom is the abstract call
The AIS25 Organizing Committee invites an international array of advanced scholars, emerging academics, trainers, educators, administrative staff, graduate students, funders, education policy makers, artists, and other professionals to address the conference theme with interdisciplinary approaches, creative problem-solving and knowledge creation. Early career scholars and graduate students are especially encouraged to submit proposals.
For AIS25, we invite contributions from all fields and research cultures, ranging from local interdisciplinary and interprofessional projects to large international and global projects. The conference invites you to discuss the complexities, systemic approaches on interdisciplinarity and the era of polycrisis affecting entire systems whether they are biological, social, technical, medical, digital, cultural or any other.
Join us to share the best practices of shared knowledge-building without forgetting the more theoretical foundations of inter- and transdisciplinary knowledge creation.
Join our session “Interdisciplinary Resilience Research in the Era of Polycrisis”
At AIS2025, we have open session with resilience theme, organized by FRONT research programme, titled Interdisciplinary Resilience Research in the Era of Polycrisis.
Resilience has become an important framework for thinking about the relationship between people, nature, and change, and how to guide and transform our way of living towards enhancing sustainability. It is assumed that resilience approaches could strive to pragmatically change our relationship with nature in ways that would lead to more sustainable futures (Grove, 2018). There is a plethora of ways to understand what resilience means, how to study and measure it, and how it relates to sustainability in different socio-ecological contexts and scales. In general, resilience refers to the capacity of a unit or a system to prepare for, respond to, and recover from external or internal adverse events and shocks, while maintaining their capacity to function and develop (Folke, 2016).
Resilience is a highly complex set of relationships, and its research has become increasingly critical but also challenging due to the multitude of changes, shocks, and related risks. These are estimated to be further intensified in the future, forming complex polycrises that integrate myriad emergent crises, such as climate change, sixth mass extinction, financial insecurity, and global shifts in geopolitics, among others. All this calls for interdisciplinary research and multiscalar analysis on how we understand resilience and how can study it in various socio-ecological research contexts. This session provides a platform for interdisciplinary discussions on resilience research in the context of the ongoing and intensifying polycrisis. The session welcomes both conceptual papers and empirical case studies.
The session is based on a short opening introduction and individual scientific oral presentations. After each presentation there will be a short period of time to provide comments and/or questions from the audience. In addition, the session is used as a platform for an edited book process. The session is sponsored by the FRONT Research Program. Conveners, FRONT research programme, University of Oulu: Jarkko Saarinen, Aleksi Räsänen, Maria Ojala, Hanna Komulainen and Tapio Nykänen.
Before the conference FRONT and ANTS research programmes are co-organizing a pre-conference workshop that is free for anyone interested to join. Workshop “Working Together: Addressing Polycrisis Through Interdisciplinary Research at the University of Oulu” is held on Wednesday, June 4, 09:00-11:00, read more on the webpage.
Read more about AIS2025 and submit your abstract on the conference webpage.