The Institute for Research into Superdiversity (IRiS) at the University of Birmingham is organising the first international interdisciplinary conference on superdiversity on 23 – 24 June 2014. The conference will feature invited lectures, academic panels, workshops and roundtables on topics at the forefront of the superdiversity research agenda. The aim of the conference is to map the state-of-the-art of knowledge about superdiversity and to draw an agenda for future research in the field.