Call for Abstracts
ISISA 2027
6-10 June 2027 — Curacao
Navigating challenges, building global resilience: island solutions. We invite researchers, practitioners, and students across the island studies community to submit abstracts of original work for oral and poster presentation.
Submit your abstractWhat to submit
Abstracts are submitted in English and structured into four sections: background, methods, results, and conclusions. Each section has a word limit shown on the form. Author names are removed before review, so your work is judged on its merit alone.
Key dates
- Abstract submission opens1 September 2026
- Submission deadline31 January 2027
- Notification of acceptance31 March 2027
How abstracts are reviewed
Each abstract is assessed independently by three reviewers against six criteria. Scores are combined as a weighted average, so the criteria below carry different weight in the final result.
- Relevance to the conference theme×1.5
- Originality and contribution×1
- Scholarly quality and methodology×1.5
- Findings×1
- Relevance to island contexts and practice×1
- Clarity and structure×1
Reviewers: open your portal from the personal link in your invitation
email. There is no separate login.