Core Values

Cross-Sectorality
Island Dynamics conferences bridge the academic-practitioner divide by facilitating dialogue between scholars and participants from politics, the public sector, the arts, and the business world. Academics thus find out about fields in need of further research. Practitioners benefit by learning about academic research undertaken worldwide as well as which fields are in need of additional funding and investment.

Interdisciplinarity
Island Dynamics conferences involve a wide range of researchers, from folklorists to economists, anthropologists to political scientists, and historians to geographers. By promoting knowledge sharing across disciplines, we are raising the bar for island research, whether carried out in the public or private sectors. Conference presentations will involve a variety of methodologies and topics, including tourism studies, archaeology, international relations, ethnomusicology, heritage studies, folklore, human geography, microeconomics, anthropology, and branding studies.

Cultural Exchange
We seek to create a new kind of conference, one that offers unparalleled opportunities for knowledge sharing and networking and in which the speeches themselves are just part of the experience.

Supporting Accessibility
In addition to our three core values, we are also strong supporters of accessibility. Island Dynamics conferences are non-profit events combining high levels of scholarly and professional dialogue with participant accessibility: Expenses are kept low in order to reduce participant costs, and whenever possible, the conference facilitates the attendance of student and non-European/non-North American participants by means of grants and gratuities.