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The 2017 annual meeting of the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI) will explore the multiple ways in which improvisation has enabled and facilitated the study of the humanities, not least in times of great social upheaval. Under the theme of “The Humanities Improvised,” the annual meeting aims to gather together artists, art commentators, and humanists from member institutions to reconceptualize the relationship between art and the humanities against the backdrop of a rapidly changing world.

On July 21, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) launched the Academy for Evaluation of Social Sciences in China.

The 14th ANHN Annual Meeting & Session of Shanghai Forum 2017亚洲现代性: 寻求共同道路——第十四届亚洲新人文联网会议暨上海论坛2017子论坛 Host: Co-organizers: Chairs: Time:13:30-17:00, May 27thVenue: 5F, 5th Floor, Shanghai International Convention Center Panel 1 Host: Li Tiangang

The 21st International Congress of Aesthetics 2019 (ICA 2019) will be held in Belgrade, Serbia, from July 22 to July 26, 2019.

The seventh Annual ECHIC Conference took place on 5-7 April 2017 and was hosted by the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) at the University of Edinburgh, UK.

IGU Thematic Conference dedicated to the centennial of the Institute of Geography of Russian Academy of Sciences. Moscow, 4-6 June, 2018

Local Governance in the New Urban Agenda, 19- 21 October 2017, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy

The 27th International Congress of FILLM will take place in New Delhi, India in March 2017. It is hosted by Sri Venkateswara College, University of Delhi. The local organizers are FILLM President Meenakshi Bharat and the University of Delhi.

Prehistoric research, in the dawn of the third millennium, faces contradictory challenges. While scientific advances and technological resources allow for new analytical procedures, with relevant new knowledge being produced and conveyed, institutional and financial resources for research are growingly put into question, and in several countries contextual instability prevents any field or laboratory research to pursue. In this context, scholars face the need to strengthen their research networks across countries and continents, attempting that no constraints, beyond the needs of research, condition their participation in investigation programmes, meetings or congresses.