The main theme of  the PNC 2023 Annual Conference and Joint Meetings is: Sea Change: Renewal, Reform and Resolve in Global Arts, Sciences, and Business.

We welcome submissions focusing on but not limited to the following topics.

Topics of Interest (for Papers and Posters)

1. Sea Change: Spaces and Places Rethought and Renewed

1.1   Fluidity and Liminality in Maritime Studies

1.2   “The Region” in Regional Studies and “the Area” in Area Studies

1.3   Spatial Analysis and GIS 

1.4   Digital Sinology

1.5   Holographic/Volumetric Video Broadcast/Capture

1.6   Virtual, Augmented, and Other Mediated Realities

2. Sea Change in Techniques and Technologies of Cultural Memory

2.1   Digital Libraries

2.2   Digital Museums

2.3   Digital Archives

2.4   Digital Heritage

3. Reform of Pedagogy and the Liberal Arts

3.1   Classrooms of the Future

3.2   The Technologies of Learning and Teaching

3.3   Information Literacy and the Pedagogy of Teaching Technology

3.4   Language Teaching and Learning

3.5   Machine Translation / Machine Composition

3.6   Deep Learning, Deep Time, and Deep Fakes

3.7   The Technologies of History, Literature, and Philosophy

3.8   The History, Literature, and Philosophy of Technologies

3.9   The Tools of Archeology and the Archeology of Tools

4. Socio-cultural Data in a Post-pandemic World

4.1   Socio-cultural Data and Machine Intelligence

4.2   Digitaltwins and Mirrorworlds as Socio-cultural Data

4.3   Imaging Technics, Digital Reproduction, and Digital Replicas

5. Innovating Businesses in a Post-Pandemic World

5.1   Supply Chains

5.2   Blockchains

5.3   The Metaverse

5.4   Cryptocurrencies

5.5   DAOs and the DAO (道)

5.6   The Business of Artificial Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence in Business

5.7   Business Analytics and the Business of Data Curation

5.8   Social Media and Business Ethics

6. Sea Change: Innovation Reform and Renewal in Sciences, Health, and Wellness

6.1   Climate Change and the Changing Seas

6.2   Biodiversity Studies

6.3   Sustainable Agriculture

6.4   E-health and Wellness Studies

6.5   Mindfulness in an Era of Digital Reproduction

6.6   AI in Healthcare