Deadline: December 21, 2025
May 22–24, 2026, Yerevan, Armenia
The Yerevan Center for International Education (YCIE) is delighted to announce the second annual Y-Conference. YCIE is dedicated to promoting international academic and research cooperation in the social sciences and humanities across Armenia and the wider region. The Y-Conference brings together scholars who work in or focus on the Caucasus and Eurasia to present their latest research and discuss their ongoing projects. Conceived as an inclusive and safe space, the conference fosters dialogue across academic disciplines and national borders — a gathering where new concepts and collaborative projects can emerge and take shape.
The theme of the second Y-Conference is SPACES. We envision an interdisciplinary exploration of this fundamental and conceptually rich category of the social sciences and humanities. Space is never neutral; it is always produced, contested, inhabited, imagined, and politicized. From Henri Lefebvre’s “The Production of Space” to Doreen Massey’s “For Space”, scholars have long emphasized that space is not merely a container in which social life unfolds—it is constitutive of social life itself. In this sense, the Y-Conference’s focus on “SPACES” invites scholars to engage with space as a theoretical object, a lived experience, and a site of power, memory, resistance, and transformation.
In keeping with the conference’s overarching vision, we invite proposals that explore the multiplicity of Eurasian spaces, including but not limited to the following topics:
Social and physical spaces: juxtapositions, appropriations, (in)congruences
Urban spaces: mobilities, architectures, commons
Virtual spaces: digitalisation, imagination, access
Common grounds and no man’s lands
Memory sites: identities, pilgrimages, holy lands
Social topologies: regions, networks, flows
Empty spaces: exclusions, separations, wastelands
Research sites: fields, archives, laboratories
The Y-Conference welcomes applications from anthropology, sociology, history, political sciences, philosophy, literary studies, human geography, and related fields.
December 15, 2025 – Deadline for panel session abstracts
December 21, 2025 – Open call for individual papers
February 15, 2026 – Deadline for individual paper abstracts
For more information: https://yerevancenter.org/event/y-conference-2026-spaces/