Call for Papers | Y-Conference 2026: SPACES, May 22–24, 2026, Yerevan, Armenia, Deadline – February 8, 2026
Y-Conference: SPACES
May 22–24, 2026, Yerevan, Armenia
The Yerevan Center for International Education (YCIE) invites you to 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.
YCIE welcomes scholars from the social sciences, humanities, and related fields to submit paper abstracts for the second Y-Conference: SPACES.
Submission Instructions
- Select a panel from the list below and submit your contribution using the “Submit Paper” button.
- All submissions must be made online – email submissions will not be accepted.
- Multiple submissions are allowed, but you can present only one paper at the conference.
Deadline – February 8, 2026
Format: In-person event only
Working language: English
Travel and accommodation: YCIE will provide lodging for all participants for the duration of the Y-Conference. A limited number of travel grants may be allocated upon request from applicants.
For any inquiries, please contact: info@yerevancenter.org
Panels List
For more details refer here
