Common Ground Research Networks

Common Ground Research Networks Founded in 1984, Common Ground Research Networks is committed to building new kinds of knowledge communities, innovative in their media.

Across cultures and historical periods, religion has continually adapted—reviving traditions, creating new forms of belo...
10/14/2026

Across cultures and historical periods, religion has continually adapted—reviving traditions, creating new forms of belonging, and responding to changing social and political worlds.

The Seventeenth International Conference on Religion & Spirituality in Society invites proposals exploring the 2027 Special Focus, “Re-enchantments of Yesterday and Today: Reconfiguration of Religion in a Globalized World.”

How are religious traditions being reinterpreted across borders and generations? Where are new forms of spirituality emerging? And what do these transformations reveal about identity, community, and life in an interconnected world?

Join us at the University of Grenoble Alpes in Grenoble, France, 24–25 June 2027.

Art does not exist outside society. It responds to power, identity, conflict, belonging, and the changing needs of commu...
10/13/2026

Art does not exist outside society. It responds to power, identity, conflict, belonging, and the changing needs of communities—and can help reshape them.

The International Journal of Social, Political, and Community Agendas in the Arts publishes interdisciplinary research examining the arts as a site of social inquiry, political engagement, and community practice.

We welcome work exploring how artists, cultural institutions, educators, and communities respond to contemporary challenges and create new possibilities for collective life.

Explore the journal and submit your research through the link in our bio.

How can climate adaptation support Indigenous rights, knowledge, and self-determination?In “Reclaiming Indigenous Rights...
10/09/2026

How can climate adaptation support Indigenous rights, knowledge, and self-determination?

In “Reclaiming Indigenous Rights: Decolonial Pathways to Climate Adaptation”, Ranjan Datta, Jebunnessa Chapola, and Khokon Suiten Murmu draw on the experiences of six Indigenous communities in Bangladesh to rethink climate adaptation. They show why effective, just responses must address land dispossession and structural inequality while supporting community-led, culturally grounded approaches.

Explore the book: https://doi.org/10.18848/CCIRBI/B2

How can cities and communities shape more sustainable futures on their own terms?We are pleased to welcome Geci Karuri-S...
09/21/2026

How can cities and communities shape more sustainable futures on their own terms?

We are pleased to welcome Geci Karuri-Sebina as a Plenary Speaker at the Twenty-Third International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic & Social Sustainability.

Karuri-Sebina is a scholar-practitioner whose work brings together urban planning, governance, innovation, and futures thinking. Her research asks how communities—particularly across Africa—can move beyond inherited models to imagine and create more inclusive, locally grounded futures.

Join us at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, from 20–22 January 2027.

Learn more through the link in our bio.

SPATIAL REPRESENTATION AS RESEARCH: Producing, Interpreting, and Circulating Knowledge📍 Queen’s University Belfast, Nort...
09/09/2026

SPATIAL REPRESENTATION AS RESEARCH: Producing, Interpreting, and Circulating Knowledge

📍 Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland
🗓 14–15 April 2027
🌐 Hybrid participation via CGScholar Event (KX)

The Seventeenth International Conference on The Constructed Environment invites researchers, designers, architects, planners, and artists to explore how spatial representation operates not simply as illustration—but as research.

Drawings, models, diagrams, maps, simulations, and digital visualizations are powerful tools for generating, interpreting, and communicating knowledge about the built environment. They shape how we imagine cities, design infrastructures, and understand spatial futures.

Join an international community examining how representation itself becomes a form of inquiry across architecture, planning, design, and spatial practice.

🔗 Submit your proposal; link in bio:

Congratulations to Dongniya Xiu, Connie Dyar, Gabriela Fonseca Pereira, and Dana Vaux, recipients of the 2025 Internatio...
09/03/2026

Congratulations to Dongniya Xiu, Connie Dyar, Gabriela Fonseca Pereira, and Dana Vaux, recipients of the 2025 International Award for Excellence from The International Journal of Architectonic, Spatial, and Environmental Design.

Their award-winning article, “Multigenerational Living: Designing for Chinese Immigrant Families in the United States,” examines how culturally responsive design can better support the relationships, routines, and evolving needs of multigenerational households.

The International Award for Excellence recognizes the highest-ranked article published in the journal during the preceding year, as selected through the peer-review process.

Mountains are more than landmarks. They hold histories: geological, ecological, cultural, and political.In “Six Peaks Sp...
09/02/2026

Mountains are more than landmarks. They hold histories: geological, ecological, cultural, and political.

In “Six Peaks Speak: Unsettling Legacies in Southern Dja Dja Wurrung Country”, Barry Golding, with Clive Willman, traces the stories of six iconic peaks in Central Victoria, Australia. Bringing together First Nations knowledge, historical archives, geology, ecology, and community experience, the book asks how these mountains—and the Country surrounding them—have been understood, altered, and managed.

At its heart is a larger question: how might confronting unsettled histories help us build more respectful relationships with Country, landscape, and one another?

Discover the book through the link in our bio.

A look back at the Twenty-First International Conference on the Arts in Society in Athens, Greece.Hosted by the Departme...
08/28/2026

A look back at the Twenty-First International Conference on the Arts in Society in Athens, Greece.

Hosted by the Department of Theatre Studies at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, the conference brought together artists, researchers, educators, and cultural practitioners from around the world. Across plenary sessions, performances, presentations, and shared encounters, participants explored how the arts respond to—and actively reshape—the social, ecological, and technological conditions of our time.

Our sincere thanks to our host institution, plenary speakers, conference chairs and committees, Emerging Scholars, presenters, and all who contributed to this vibrant international gathering.

Explore the 2026 conference: https://artsinsociety.com/about/history/2026-conference

Who is welcomed into sport—and who is still required to fight for a place?Across playing fields, governing bodies, media...
08/25/2026

Who is welcomed into sport—and who is still required to fight for a place?

Across playing fields, governing bodies, media, and supporter cultures, sport can challenge social divisions while also reproducing inequalities of gender and race.

The Eighteenth International Conference on Sport & Society invites proposals addressing “Gender, Race, and Inclusion in Sports.”

Join the Knowledge Experience at Federal Fluminense University in Niterói, Brazil, 17–18 June 2027.

Learn more and submit through the link in bio.

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