The Conference Theme is "Society, Environment and Trust: Towards Sustainable Systems of Governance" and the organizers encourage sessions within and across a variety of disciplines and fields related to the social sciences including:

Anthropology, Archaeology, Cultural Studies and Humanities, Economics and Management, Education and Social Welfare, Ethnicity, Difference, Identity, Globalization 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, Public Policy, Law Psychology, Cognitive Science and the Behavioral Sciences, Research Methodologies Quantitative and Qualitative, Social History, Sustainability, Teaching and Learning, Technology and Applied Sciences.