We are entering a new age of human history. One in which critical global challenges that transcend national boundaries, cultures and languages are unprecedented and radical changes are taking place. 

The qualitative community cannot just but be present, we need to be actively and collaboratively engaged with history and with the futures we all shape. This needs to account for the demands of global and local crises across many communities (such as war, environmental, political, cultural and socio-economic).

We need to harness the strengths, resiliencies, synergies, creativities, transformative practices, hopes and possibilities that can grow in the light of our interconnectedness, our shared vulnerability, and our interdependency with human and other worlds.

In company with Aristotle’s view for human beings as community-based and actively engaged in the spaces of the everyday, we welcome research that seeks collaboration and dialogue, both amongst qualitative researchers and between them and the community and society at large. 

We invite research with, in and for society that explores the intricate interplay between human and non-human and considers history, archaeology, philosophy, culture, mobility, visibility, equity, health, creativity, technology, more-than-human figures, habitats, landscapes, and…and…and.

We welcome researchers from different disciplines as the conference is open to all ontologies, epistemologies, traditions, methodologies and methods, innovations and advancements that fall under the umbrella of qualitative research. 

This conference will seek to foster spaces for polyphonic dialogues, experiential, narrative and embodied practices of knowing, multimodal, arts based and performative inquiry directed towards realizing generative outcomes and transformational change in the hope of a better world. 

Looking forward to welcoming you to Athens, in January 2026.