Building Models of Change: Bridging Sciences and Humanities

The conference Building Models of Change: Bridging Sciences and Humanities successfully challenged traditional academic boundaries by bringing together scholars from diverse fields to explore the complex landscapes of modeling. By creating a platform for fruitful academic dialogue, participants delved into the nuanced ways different fields conceptualize, develop, and deploy models. The conference succeeded in its primary objective of extracting similarities and differences in modeling approaches across disciplines. Notably, participants discovered unexpected parallels, such as the use of similar modeling techniques in seemingly disparate fields like sociology and chemistry when addressing complex theoretical frameworks like the Volunteer's Dilemma.