On the morning of December 17, 2021, the 2nd International Conference on Innovations in The Social Sciences & Humanities 2021 - ISSH 2021 was opened at Ton Duc Thang University (TDTU).

The conference was co-organized by TDTU with international partners including: University of Melbourne (Australia), Purdue University (USA), Moscow State University of Economics (Russia), University of the South Pacific (Fiji), Jadavpur University (India), Pratt Institute (USA) and Tricontinental Institute for Social Research.

In addition to the delegates who are experts from the United States, Europe and Australia, ISSH 2021 Conference also had the participation and presentation of delegates from Asian countries such as: Vietnam, India, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Philippines,... With the diversity of delegates and research topics, the academic discussions at the Conference shed light on the reasons why there should be new research methods related to the field of social sciences and humanities.

The highlight of the ISSH-2021 Conference is that the inter-disciplinary and trans-disciplinary approach to social sciences has been widely used in research. The appropriateness of the inter-disciplinary, trans-disciplinary approach to the social sciences has been reflected in new research results focusing on four areas: Tourism, Communication Anthropology, Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work. The research topics are considered from many perspectives: Culinary tourism, whose main purpose is to discover food, is of great significance in a world where hunger, deprivation and migration are on the rise; Industry 4.0, digital technology and access to "smart cities" for all social classes; Issues of education, migration, population, poverty, disadvantaged people, middle class, tourism, ... affected by COVID-19 are considered from many different approaches and presented at ISSH 2021.

Compared to the 1st ISSH conference organized in 2019, the number of research papers presented at ISSH 2021 had doubled. The conference program took place on December 17 and 18, 2021 with 11 discussion sessions and 75 research papers presented and discussed.

The hosting of ISSH 2021 shows that TDTU has been trusted and chosen as a bridge for international research forums in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities.