As an executive member of the Indian Ocean Comparative Education Society - IOCES that has alliances with OCIES and WCCES, I would like to draw attention to the SSJ forum readers to the following conference event. Please find out the details by visiting their site. Hisako Inaba, Ph.D. Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University.



46th Annual OCIES Conference 2018 "Exploring, Celebrating and Deepening Oceanic Relationalities" Victoria University of Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand, 20-22 November



The theme of the 46th Annual OCIES Conference is Exploring, Celebrating and Deepening Oceanic Relationalities. This theme offers OCIES members and others as comparative and international educators to reflect on the gains, challenges and possibilities of our changing times. As a society of Oceanic education scholars, we are aware of our moral imperative to explore these challenges in a manner which reflects our shared commitment to people-enablement, post-coloniality, deimperialization, the recognition of Indigenous rights, social justice and various forms of sustainability. Given the visionary platform of OCIES relationalities, this year's conference encourages and welcomes the participation of all who are interested in people-relationalities within diverse philosophical perspectives, intellectual traditions and contexts. Together with OCIES members, those of our sister and inter national comparative and international education societies are invited to this conference.



OCIES 2018 Key Dates

10 June 2018: Early Bird registration opens Abstract submission opens

15 July 2018: Abstract submission closes

1 August 2018: Early bird registration closes

1-15 August: Abstract acceptance notification

5 October: Registration closes

19 Novel er (afternoon): Conference powhiri and welcome ceremony

20-22 November 2018: Conference

22 November 2018: Conference ends, 4pm



As indicated by the conference title and theme, OCIES 2018 is focused on exploring, celebrating and deepening relationally by enhancing critical debate and dialogue about relationally in comparative, international and other educational settings in Oceania and beyond. We are interested in proposals that explore, celebrate and deepen relationally in Oceania and how CIE can contribute, theoretically, practically and spiritually to education at global, regional, national and community levels, including those that challenge existing CIE knowledge and research approaches and which seek to develop new knowledge and practice.


The OCIES 2018 conveners invite proposals from researchers, policymakers and practitioners from throughout the region and beyond. We see this conference as a significant opportunity to listen to and learn from each other, to both disseminate high quality academic research and share and analyze experiences of how things work in applied educational settings. Towards these objectives, we invite abstract submissions that relate to the OCIES 2018 Conference theme: Exploring, Celebrating and Deepening Oceanic Relationalities.


Contexts for papers may include but are not limited to the following: Relationally in comparative or international collaborations Relationally in teaching, learning and assessments Relationally in indigenous and community education People engagement initiatives in comparative and international education Technology and use in relationally Relational framework development Leading, managing and governing relationally in comparative and international education.


Posted by Hisako Inaba, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University.