Open academic conference • International participation | Dates: 17–19 March 2027 | Venue: Amsterdam, Netherlands
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ECHSGP 2027
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Keynotes • Oral Presentations • Posters • Academic Exchange

Official Program 9th Congress on Humanities, Society & Global Policy

ECHSGP 2027 is a three-day international academic conference bringing together keynote speakers, researchers, academics, students, policy professionals, and practitioners. The program includes 10 keynote talks, 20 oral presentations, 17 poster presentations, networking, and interdisciplinary discussion.

Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Posters
Program overview
Dates
17–19 March 2027
Location
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Academic program
10 Keynotes • 20 Oral • 17 Posters
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Day 1 • Wednesday, 17 March 2027

Opening & Keynote Day

Six keynote presentations, opening remarks, networking, and moderated academic discussion.

08:30–09:00
Registration & Welcome Coffee
09:00–09:20
Opening Remarks
12:20–13:20
Networking Lunch
16:20–17:00
Keynote Panel & Day 1 Discussion
Keynote Sessions • 09:20–12:20 & 13:20–16:20
1
Professor Erin J. Rand
Communication and Rhetorical Studies, Syracuse University, USA
Affective weapons: targeting trans youth through paternalistic rhetorics of care
2
Gretchen Chapman
Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Behavioural Decision-Making, Public Policy and Social Impact
3
Dr. Sylvain Moutier
Université Paris Cité, France
Cognitive Development, Reasoning and Human Decision Processes
4
Dr. Angela Kahil
INALCO, France
Language, Culture and Cross-Cultural Understanding in Global Contexts
5
Dr. Ljubica Kordić
University of Osijek, Croatia
Legal Language, Communication and Society
6
Prof. Dr. Ching-chih Wang
National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan
Education, Social Development and Knowledge Transformation
17:00–18:00 • Welcome Networking Reception

Informal networking for speakers, presenters, delegates, institutional representatives, and conference partners.

Day 2 • Thursday, 18 March 2027

Keynotes, Parallel Oral Sessions & Posters

Four keynote presentations followed by two parallel oral rooms and a dedicated poster session.

09:00–09:10
Day 2 Opening
10:40–11:05
Coffee Break
12:00–13:00
Networking Lunch
Keynote Sessions • 09:10–12:00
7
Professor Jon-Chao Hong
National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan
Digital Learning, Innovation and Future Society
8
Prof. Jian-Jun SHU
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Interdisciplinary Innovation, Research Translation and Global Collaboration
9
Dr. Chew Fong Peng
University of Malaya, Malaysia
Cultural Studies, Language Education and Social Research
10
Prof. Yao Song
Sichuan University, China
Global Humanities, Society and Intercultural Dialogue
Oral Session A • Room 1
13:00–14:40
13:00–13:20
Green illusions, enduring poverty: How geopolitical fragmentation fuels greenwashing and derails the just energy transition in the global South
Ping Chen • Macau University of Science and Technology, China
13:20–13:40
Global potential of integrated biorefineries for leaf protein and sugar: Producing sustainable food and preventing starvation in catastrophes
Juan B. García Martínez • Alliance to Feed the Earth in Disasters (ALLFED), Lafayette, CO, USA
13:40–14:00
MNEs in crossfire: A critical review of global business-society tensions
Leigh Anne Liu • Georgia State University, USA
14:00–14:20
Ethical challenges of humanity's expansion into space: From astrobioethics to astrobiocentrism
Jesús Martínez-Frías • Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Spain
14:20–14:40
Navigating ethical boundaries in death and mourning: A hybrid analysis toward a globally replicable framework
Dwi Mariyono • Islamic University of Malang, Indonesia
Oral Session B • Room 2
13:00–14:40
13:00–13:20
Unequal environmental burdens amid uneven economic gains in the global low-carbon power transition
Peipei Tian • Institute of Blue and Green Development, Shandong University, China
13:20–13:40
Capturing the expanding research areas of the future of humanity within the field of futures studies: The case for a transcendental futures subdiscipline
Bruce Edward Tonn • South Bend, United States
13:40–14:00
Beyond Green capitalism: Global scenarios for fast societal transitions toward sustainability
Arthur Lauer • University of Valladolid, Spain
14:00–14:20
The global chemical liability of humanity's uranium: Metrics, containment, and governance pathways
Claudio Pescatore • Heritage Futures Linnaeus University, Sweden
14:20–14:40
Integrative Sustainable Development Goal policy portfolios to accelerate global progress towards a more sustainable future: a modelling study
Zhaoxia Guo • Business School, Chengdu, China
14:40–15:10 • Coffee Break & Poster Setup
15:10–16:40

Poster Presentation Session

17 Posters
Poster P01
Determining the potential global sustainability outcomes of three Business-as-Usual scenarios 2016–2050 from a Doughnut model perspective
Jason Phillips
Faculty of Environment, Science and Economy, University of Exeter, UK
Poster P02
Building resilience in the Global South: Evidence from a decentralized water policy in Brazil
Marcelo S.O. Goncalves
Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University, USA
Poster P03
Policies on provincial examination pass rates: Lessons from the Ming and Qing dynasties for global assessment systems
Sixin Zeng
Zhejiang University, China
Poster P04
Charisma and humanity: powerful signals of effective leadership under cultural constraints in times of uncertainty
Stephanie Dygico Gapud
Department of Business and Communication, Spring Hill College, USA
Poster P05
How can global differences in nature connection inform new relationships with nature?
Miles Richardson
University of Derby, United Kingdom
Poster P06
Accounting for Capital, Accounting for Humanity – A Marxist View of AI and the Role of Accountants in the Time of AI
Oliver Zhen Li
National University of Singapore
Poster P07
Confronting the past: The need to recognize Albania's communist-era extrajudicial killings as crimes against humanity
Jetnor Kasmi
Institute of Political Science at University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Poster P08
An investigation of country-scale collaboration patterns of digital humanities through dual perspectives of bibliometrics and altmetrics
Yuchen Pan
School of Information Resource Management, Renmin University of China, China
Poster P09
Policy impact on the global COVID-19 pandemic and unemployment outcomes: A large-scale mixed frequency spatial approach
Yijiong Zhang
Department of Statistics and Data Science, Tsinghua University, China
Poster P10
Beliefs about a brighter future for all humanity as an evolutionary adaptation to pathogen prevalence
Brian W. Haas
University of Georgia, United States
Poster P11
Structural dimensions and scale development of research motivation among master’s students in the humanities and social sciences
Xiaobin Ren
Guangxi University, China
Poster P12
Africa’s water-related risks to humanity: Spatial patterns and archetypes
Olli Varis
School of Engineering, Aalto University, Finland
Poster P13
The making of a funding call text: How funding professionals craft interdisciplinary research opportunities for Social Sciences and Humanities
Chris Foulds
Anglia Ruskin University, UK
Poster P14
Pathways to Net-Zero emissions: Integrating concepts, technologies, metrics, and governance for deep decarbonization across global and Brazilian contexts
Bruno Augusto Cabral Roque
Advanced Institute of Technology and Innovation (IATI), Brazil
Poster P15
Landscape of social innovation research in the global south: trends and implications for future research
Priscilla Boatemaa Appiah
University of Erfurt, Germany
Poster P16
Global ocean indicators: Marking pathways at the science-policy nexus
Karina von Schuckmann
Mercator Océan, Ramonville, France
Poster P17
Ecopolitical catatonia: How political fantasies sustain inaction in global environmental politics
Jelle Behagel
Wageningen University, The Netherlands
16:40–17:15 • Day 2 Research Networking & Discussion
Day 3 • Friday, 19 March 2027

Parallel Oral Sessions, Research Exchange & Closing

The final day continues oral presentations and concludes with interdisciplinary exchange, publication guidance, and closing remarks.

Oral Session C • Room 1
09:00–10:40
09:00–09:20
Global war against a common enemy: a paradigm for unifying against climate change–The path to a just sustainable future avoids claims of historical climate injustice
Leonard A. Miller • Stevens Institute of Technology, USA
09:20–09:40
Actionable policy responses to disaster threats – A comparative study on resilience and sustainability in global cities
Alexandru Banica • Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Romania
09:40–10:00
China’s path to a global ecological civilization: Concepts and practices for sustainable development
Haoning Chen • Fudan University, China
10:00–10:20
The Arc of the Moral Universe Bends Towards Justice? A discourse analysis of the justice framings of philanthropic foundations in global sustainability governance
Mark Dehlsen • Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands
10:20–10:40
Dialogue between science, law, and traditional knowledge regarding global environmental problems
Manuel Alejandro Lizardi-Jiménez • SECIHTI-Universidad Autónoma de San Luís Potosí, México
Oral Session D • Room 2
09:00–10:40
09:00–09:20
Global interventions show synergistic but uneven positive impacts on climate and biodiversity
Christian Neumann • Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research, Germany
09:20–09:40
Will China’s territorial spatial planning policies enhance land use sustainability? An integrated assessment under global environmental change
Wenze Yue • Department of Land Management, Hangzhou, China
09:40–10:00
Same orbits, different rocket dreams? China, India, and the case for global space security studies
Dimitrios Stroikos • University of Bologna, Italy
10:00–10:20
Quantifying the trade-offs in global energy transitions: How economic growth undermines carbon targets and sustainable surplus energy
Zs. Szalóczy • University of Pannonia, Hungary
10:20–10:40
Bridging the Great Wall: China’s Evolving Cross-Border Data Flow Policies and Implications for Global Data Governance
Sheng Zhang • Shandong University, China
10:40–11:10
Coffee Break
11:10–12:20
Interdisciplinary Research Roundtable

Humanities, society, governance, sustainability, technology, culture, and policy.

12:20–13:20
Networking Lunch
13:20–14:00
Publication & Research Dissemination Guidance
14:00–15:00
Closing Plenary, Conference Summary & Farewell

Closing reflections, acknowledgements, collaboration opportunities, and final conference announcements.