Category: News
IAFOR Grant and Scholarship Recipients: The Vienna Conference on the Social Sciences (VCSS2026)
Launched in 2016, IAFOR’s grants and scholarships programme provides financial support to PhD students and early career academics with the aim of helping them pursue research excellence and achieve their academic goals through interdisciplinary study and interaction.
Darrel Toulon to Present Keynote ‘Performance Art Countering Social Invisibility at the Intersection of Social Justice and Legal Change’ at VCAH/VCSS2026
Darrel Toulon’s keynote will introduce docu-dance-theatre as a participatory method for transforming trauma, challenging social invisibility, and creating opportunities for societal change.
Cultural Exchange: The World in a Room
Through guided conversation, audience interaction, and short delegate contributions, participants will have the opportunity to connect with others, learn more about the diverse backgrounds represented at the conference, and consider what international academic exchange makes possible.
Knowledge Exchange Hubs
The session provides a space for delegates to connect, collaborate, and shape ideas that drive IAFOR forward, with the potential for interdisciplinary research partnerships and publication in IAFOR’s THINK Magazine.
Flash Presentations
In this fast-paced session, participating delegates have just 60 seconds to introduce their work to the room.
Christoph Thun-Hohenstein to Present Keynote ‘Digital Humanism in a More-Than-Human World’ at VCAH/VCSS2026
Dr Christoph Thun-Hohenstein is a leading cultural manager, curator, and author working across culture, ecology, regeneration, digitalisation, and artificial intelligence.
Albane Buriel to Present Keynote ‘Arts in Crisis Settings: Rethinking Health, Education, and Protection’ at VCAH/VCSS2026
Dr Buriel’s keynote will draw on her fieldwork across crisis-affected contexts to examine how arts-based programmes can support wellbeing, education, participation, and social connection while addressing the ethical challenges involved.
Viennese Folk Music Workshop
Join Vienna-born musician Christoph Lechner and accordionist Herbert Bäuml on an interactive journey into the distinctive musical world of Wienerlied.
Featured Session: Music and Cultural Heritage
Join us for a special Cultural Presentation featuring two chamber-music ensembles from Vienna: violinists Peter Schuhmayer and Seina Matsuoka, and the clarinet quartet Reedlines.