Fourteenth International Conference on Diversity in Organizations, Communities, and Nations
9–11 JULY 2014 | VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS, INSTITUTE FOR GENDER AND DIVERSITY IN ORGANIZATIONS | VIENNA, AUSTRIA | ONDIVERSITY.COM FOURTEENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DIVERSITY IN ORGANIZATIONS, COMMUNITIES, AND NATIONS
VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS INSTITUTE FOR GENDER AND DIVERSITY IN ORGANIZATIONS VIENNA, AUSTRIA
9-11 JULY 2014
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FOURTEENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DIVERSITY IN ORGANIZATIONS, COMMUNITIES, AND NATIONS www.ondiversity.com
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Welcome Letter ...... 1 About Common Ground ...... 2 The Diversity in Organizations, Communities, and Nations Knowledge Community ...... 3 The International Advisory Board for the Diversity Community...... 7 The Diversity Journal Collection and Book Series ...... 8 Submission Process...... 11 Submission Timeline ...... 11 Journal Subscriptions, Open Access, Additional Services ...... 12 The Diversity Book Series ...... 14 The Diversity Conference ...... 17 Conference Program and Schedule ...... 19 Daily Schedule ...... 20 Conference Venue Map ...... 22 Conference Highlights ...... 23 Conference Reception Map and Directions ...... 24 Plenary Speakers ...... 25 Graduate Scholars ...... 26 Schedule of Sessions ...... 30 List of Participants ...... 55 Scholar ...... 60 Notes ...... 62 WiFi Access Instructions ...... 65
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Dear Delegate,
Welcome to the Fourteenth International Conference on Diversity in Organizations, Communities, and Nations at the Vienna University of Economics and Business in Vienna, Austria. The conference examines the concept of diversity as a positive aspect of a global world and globalized society, while bringing together scholarly, government and practice-based participants. The conference explores the full range of what diversity means and explores modes of diversity in real-life situations of living together in community. Moving away from simple affirmations that ‘diversity is good’, the conference supports a much more nuanced account of the effects and uses of diversity on differently situated communities.
Now a major international conference, the Diversity Conference was first held in Sydney, Australia in 2000; then Melbourne, Australia in 2001; University of Hawai’i, Manoa, Hawai’i, USA in 2003; University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA in 2004; Institute of Ethnic Administrators, Beijing, China in 2005; Xavier University and Louisiana State University, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA in 2006; OZW-School of Health, Amsterdam, the Netherlands in 2007; HEC Montréal, Montréal, Canada in 2008; Riga International School of Economics and Business Administration (RISEBA) in Riga, Latvia, 2009; Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 2010; the University of Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa in 2011; the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada in 2012; and Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Australia in 2013.
In addition to organizing the Conference on Diversity, Common Ground publishes papers from the conference at www.OnDiversity.com/Publications/Journal, and we do encourage all conference participants to submit a paper based on their conference presentation for peer review and possible publication in the journal. We also publish books at www.OnDiversity.com/Publications/Books in both print and electronic formats. We would like to invite conference participants to develop publishing proposals for original works, or for edited collections of papers drawn from the journal which address an identified theme.
Finally, we would like to thank everyone who has contributed and prepared for this conference. We would especially like to thank the Vienna University of Economics and Business for providing the ideal setting for the 2014 Diversity Conference, and Thomas Kӧllen, whose onsite coordination helped to make the conference a success. And more personally, I want to thank our Common Ground colleagues who have put so much work into this conference – Monica Hillison, Shelby Koehne, Homer Stavely, and Jessica Wienhold-Brokish.
We wish you all the best for this conference, and hope it will provide you every opportunity for dialogue with colleagues from around the corner and around the world. We hope you will be able to join us at next year’s conference, 15-17 July 2015 at The University of Hong Kong in Hong Kong, China SAR.
Yours Sincerely,
Bill Cope Director, Common Ground Publishing Research Professor, Dept. of Educational Policy Organizational and Leadership University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
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ABOUT COMMON GROUND
Our Mission Common Ground Publishing aims to enable all people to participate in creating collaborative knowledge and to share that knowledge with the greater world. Through our academic conferences, peer-reviewed journals and books, and innovative software, we build transformative knowledge communities and provide platforms for meaningful interactions across diverse media.
Our Message Heritage knowledge systems are characterized by vertical separations—of discipline, professional association, institution, and country. Common Ground identifies some of the pivotal ideas and challenges of our time and builds knowledge communities that cut horizontally across legacy knowledge structures. Sustainability, diversity, learning, the future of the humanities, the nature of interdisciplinarity, the place of the arts in society, technology’s connections with knowledge, the changing role of the university—these are deeply important questions of our time which require interdisciplinary thinking, global conversations, and cross-institutional intellectual collaborations. Common Ground is a meeting place for these conversations, shared spaces in which differences can meet and safely connect—differences of perspective, experience, knowledge base, methodology, geographical or cultural origins, and institutional affiliation. We strive to create the places of intellectual interaction and imagination that our future deserves.
Our Media Common Ground creates and supports knowledge communities through a number of mechanisms and media. Annual conferences are held around the world to connect the global (the international delegates) with the local (academics, practitioners, and community leaders from the host community). Conference sessions include as many ways of speaking as possible to encourage each and every participant to engage, interact, and contribute. The journals and book series offer fully-refereed academic outlets for formalized knowledge, developed through innovative approaches to the processes of submission, peer review, and production. The knowledge community also maintains an online presence—through presentations on our YouTube channel, monthly email newsletters, as well as Facebook and Twitter feeds. And Common Ground’s own software, Scholar, offers a path-breaking platform for online discussions and networking, as well as for creating, reviewing, and disseminating text and multi-media works.
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THE DIVERSITY IN ORGANIZATIONS, COMMUNITIES, AND NATIONS KNOWLEDGE COMMUNITY
The Diversity knowledge community is dedicated to the concept of independent, peer-led groups of scholars, researchers, and practitioners working together to build bodies of academic knowledge related to topics of critical importance to society at large. Focusing on the intersection of academia and social impact, the Diversity knowledge community brings an interdisciplinary, international perspective to discussions of new developments in the field, including research, practice, policy, and teaching.
Themes Theme 1: Identity and Belonging Dimensions of individual differences (ethnicity, gender, race, socio-economic, indigenous, religion, sexual orientation, disability) Cultural history, oral history and cultural ‘renaissance’ Dynamics of diversity (inclusion, exclusion, assimilation, integration, pluralism) Social justice, injustice, and redress Media representations of identities or groups Intercultural relations Experiences with “the other” (tourism, travel, exchanges, aid missions) Exclusionary ‘isms’: racism, sexism, heterosexism, ageism, ableism, nationalism, capitalism The ‘-isms’ with agendas: feminism, anti-racism, multiculturalism, socialism
Theme 2: Education and Learning in a World of Differences Dimensions of individual differences in learning Inclusive education Educational policies and practices related to diversity Curricular and instructional frameworks for addressing diversity Educating teachers, administrators, community members in diversity Language diversity and learning new languages Service or experiential learning and intercultural understanding Multicultural, cross-cultural, international and global education
Theme 3: Organizational Diversity Management: employment policies and practices Beyond legislative and regulatory compliance: disabilities, workplace harassment, discrimination Design issues related to access and accommodation of diverse needs Mediation: cultural assumptions and practical outcomes Markets and diversity: niche markets, customization and service values Leveling the playing field: global economics, fair trade, outsourcing, and equal opportunity
Theme 4: Community Diversity and Governance Democracy and diversity: questions of representation and voice Defining human necessities and insuring access: housing, medicine, food, water Human rights, civil rights ‘Mainstreaming’ or ‘integration’ versus services based on unique cultural identities The politics of community leadership: challenges for local government The globalization of human rights and local sovereignty
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Scope and Concerns
Difference and Identity In an earlier modernity, organizations, communities and nations tried to ignore differences. When they could not be ignored, they were pushed over to the other side of a geographical border, or an institutional boundary, or the normative divide of ‘deviance’. Difference was addressed via categorization and separation. In slightly more open moments stringent rules of conditional entry were imposed, such as assimilation or integration. In both instances, however, singular similarity was posited as the norm for successful community.
Here is a typical catalog of dimensions of difference: material conditions (social class, locale, family); corporeal attributes (age, race, sex, sexual orientation, and physical and mental abilities); and symbolic differences (affinity and persona, culture, language, and gendre – this concept capturing an amalgam of gender and sexual identification). These were the categories that marked out lines of separation or exclusion in the past.
Increasingly today, these categories have become the focus of agendas of recognition-in-difference or programs that redress historic and persisting injustice. They present themselves in our late modernity as insistent demographic realities. These differences have become living and normative realities, buttressed by an expanded conception of human rights. However, as soon as we begin to negotiate differences in good faith, we find ourselves confounded by these very categories. We discover that the gross demographic groupings used in the first instance to acknowledge differences are too simple for our needs. We find that we are instead dealing with an inexhaustible range of intersectional possibilities – where gender and race and class meet, for instance. We face real-world specificities which artificially align people who would formally seem to fit within the ostensible categorical norm.
In fact, if you take on any one of the categories, you will find that the variation within that group is greater than the average variation between groups. There are no straightforward norms. Rather, you find yourself in the presence of differences which can only be grasped at a level that defies categorization: different life narratives (experiences, places of belonging, networks), different personae (attachments, orientations, interests, stances, values, worldviews, dispositions, sensibilities); and different styles (aesthetic, epistemological, learning, discursive, interpersonal).
The gross demographics might tell of larger historical forces, groupings and movements. But they don’t tell enough to provide a sufficiently subtle heuristic or guide for our everyday interactions. The gross demographic categories also find themselves in lists which, in times so sensitive to difference, all-too-often come to sound like a glib litany. So what do we do to rise above the glibness and the sometimes justified accusations of platitudinous ‘political correctness’? For history’s sake, we need to address the gross demographics, but also today, a lot more.
Diversity as a Program of Action Difference is the stuff of identities, human realities to be found in the social world. Diversity is a program of action. It is the stuff of normative agendas, where difference becomes the basis of social projects aimed at inclusion. This is where difference, the insistent reality, becomes diversity the agent of change. Many an historical and contemporary response to difference is hardly worthy of the name ‘diversity’—racism, discrimination and systematic inequity. As a normative agenda and social program, diversity stands in contradistinction to systems of exclusion, separation or assimilation. Divergence and Agency
And another distinction. ‘Difference’ is a found social object. ‘Diversity’ is the mode of recognition of that object. ‘Divergence’ describes a dynamic peculiar to some social contexts, such as the societies of ‘first peoples’ and the just-now unfolding phase of modernity. These are places where there is an endogenous, systematic, active and continuous tendency for individual social agents and groups to differentiate themselves. This is in direct contrast to the earlier modern societies where homogenization was the norm, or at best tokenistic recognition of differences.
We live today in a time affording greater scope for agency, and this allows us to make ourselves more different. And because we can, we do. Take for instance the rainbow of gender identifications and expressions of sexuality in the newly plastic body; or the shades of ethnic identity and the juxtapositions of identity which challenge our inherited conceptions of neighborhood; or the locale that highlights its peculiarities to tourists; or the panoply of identities supported by the new, participatory media; or the bewildering range of products anticipating any number of consumer identities and product reconfigurations by consumers themselves.
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Globalization and Diversity The normative agenda of diversity has become all the more pressing as we enter a moment we might call ‘total globalization’. This is the moment when the global becomes a primary domain of action and representation of commerce, governance and personality. There have been other moments of globalization, to be sure. First, there was a moment when gathering and hunting societies came to live across and speak about most of the earth’s habitable lands. Then came a moment of farming, writing and the formation of societies on four continents so unequal that their rulers could afford to order buildings substantial enough to leave the ruins of ‘civilization’. Later, there was modern imperialism, industrialism and nationalism. Then now, is this a new moment?
If there is a new moment, it is one on which there is no place that cannot be reached in person by modern transport, in conversation through modern communications, in representation through modern media, or by products and services through modern markets. And because they can be reached, almost invariably they are reached. The incipient fact of total globalization brings with it a normative agenda for diversity: the agenda of globalism.
Today’s agendas of difference, diversity, divergence and globalization play themselves itself through in the heartlands of the emerging world order—the heartlands of commerce, governance and personality. Here we find paradoxes at play across the world of differences: the paradox of convergence which fosters divergence and the paradox of universalization which accentuates difference.
Commerce In the domain of production, distribution and exchange, diverse labor forces work in organizations that increasingly defy national borders and strive to take their capital and commodities to the ends of the earth. Far from the founding logic of industrialism (mass production, mass markets, the lowest common denominator logic of deskilled workforces and one-size- fits-all view of consumers), the new commerce talks of mass customization, complementarities amongst the persons on diverse teams, catering to niche markets and staying close to customers in all their variability.
We could go so far as to claim that a new systems logic might be emerging in this, a kind of ‘productive diversity’. To make such a claim would be to go way beyond, or even dispense with, regimes of affirmative action and demographically defined regulatory compliance. It would also be to set an equity agenda for productive life, in which even minimalist approaches to diversity and incremental approaches to inequality are, as a general rule, an improvement on unreflective discrimination.
Governance In the realm of civic life, local and national communities daily negotiate the differences resulting from immigration, refugee movement, settlement and indigenous claims to prior ownership and sovereignty. At the same time, communities increasingly recognize and negotiate a plethora of other intersecting and sometimes contrary differences.
Going beyond multiculturalism at the local and national level, it may be possible in this moment to create a kind of ‘civic pluralism’, a new way of living in community based on multiple layers of sovereignty and multiple citizenship. Not only does this transcend the old civic—the nation-state of more or less interchangeable identical individuals and its legitimating rhetoric of nationalism. It also promises to move beyond trivializing and marginalizing forms of multiculturalism, and to address afresh the nature and forms of ‘human rights’.
Personality Difference sits deep in our consciousness, our epistemologies, our subjectivities and our means of production of meaning. No longer can we assume there to be a universal personality (normal or deviant but remediable), because the universal today a humanity of personalities emphatically in the plural (the range of our differences), and also in the multiple (the layered complexity of the differences within us—for every individual the unique intersection of attributes, the nature and sources of which may often be ascribed to groups and socialization). This bit of gender, that bit of race, the other bit of socio economic group—this is the stuff of our personalities in the plural and the multiple. Together, these manifest themselves as the complexity of our dispositions, our sensibilities, our identities.
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Community Membership Annual membership to the Diversity community is included in your conference registration. As a community member, you have access to a broad range of tools and resources to use in your own work: electronic access to the full journal and book collections; a full Scholar account, offering an innovative online space for collaborative learning in your classes or for broader collaborative interaction with colleagues (within a research project or across the globe); and annual conferences where you can present your work and engage in extensive interactions with others with similar interests who also bring different perspectives. And you can contribute to the development and formalization of the ideas and works of others—as a journal or book reviewer, as a conference participant, and as a contributor to the newsletters and community dialogue.
Engaging in the Community Present and Participate in the Conference You have already begun your engagement in the community by attending the conference, presenting your work, and interacting face-to-face with other members. We hope this experience provides a valuable source of feedback for your current work and the possible seeds for future individual and collaborative projects, as well as the start of a conversation with community colleagues that will continue well into the future.
Publish Journal Articles or Books We encourage you to submit an article for review and possible publication in the Diversity Collection of Journals. In this way, you may share the finished outcome of your presentation with other participants and members of the Diversity community. As a member of the community, you will also be invited to review others’ work and contribute to the development of the community knowledge base as an Associate Editor. As part of your active membership in the community, you also have online access to the complete works (current and previous volumes) of the Diversity Collection of Journals and to the book series. We also invite you to consider submitting a proposal for the book series.
Engage through Social Media There are several methods for ongoing communication and networking with community colleagues:
Email Newsletters: Published monthly, these contain information on the conference and publishing, along with news of interest to the community. Contribute news or links with a subject line ‘Email Newsletter Suggestion’ to [email protected]. Scholar: Common Ground’s path-breaking platform that connects academic peers from around the world in a space that is modulated for serious discourse and the presentation of knowledge works. To learn more about Scholar, please refer to the back of the program. Facebook: Comment on current news, view photos from the conference, and take advantage of special benefits for community members at: http://www.Facebook.com/OnDiversity.CG. Twitter: Follow the community: @OnDiversity. YouTube Channel: View online presentations or contribute your own at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL06FD2BC8DEEE4C2A&feature=view_all. See instructions at http://OnDiversity.com/Submitting-Your-Work/Online-Presentations. 2014 Social Sciences Conference 7
THE INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD FOR THE DIVERSITY COMMUNITY
Ien Ang, University of Western Sydney, Sydney, Australia Joanna van Antwerpen, Research and Statistics, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Samuel Aroni, University of California, Los Angeles, USA Vivienne Bozalek, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa Susan Bridges, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Duane Champagne, University of California, Los Angeles, USA Jock Collins, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Heather Marion D’Cruz, Deakin University, Geelong, Australia James Early, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., USA Denise Egéa-Kuehne, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, USA Grethe van Geffen, Seba Cultuurmanagement, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Barry Gills, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK Jackie Huggins, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia Andrew Jakubowicz, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Paul James, Globalism Institute, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia Ha Jingxiong, Central University of Nationalities, Beijing, China Thomas Köllen, Institute for Gender and Diversity in Organizations, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Vienna, Austria Jack Levin, Northeastern University, Boston, USA Cristina Poyatos Matas, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia Peter McLaren, University of California, Los Angeles, USA Joe Melcher, Xavier University of Louisiana, New Orleans, USA Greg Meyjes, Solidaris Intercultural Services, Falls Church, USA Walter Mignolo, Duke University, Durham, USA Brendan O’Leary, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA Aihwa Ong, University of California, Berkeley, USA Peter Phipps, Globalism Institute, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia Ronald Prins, Bos en Lommer Neighbourhood Council, Amsterdam-West, The Netherlands Michael Shapiro, University of Hawai’i, Manoa, USA David S. Silverman, Kansas Wesleyan University, Salina, USA Crain Soudien, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa Martijn F.E. Stegge, Diversity Platform, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Geoff Stokes, Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia Terry Threadgold, Cardiff University, Wales, UK Mililani Trask, Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues for the Economic Council of the UN Assembly, Hawai’i, USA Rob Walker, Keele University, Keele, UK Ning Wang, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China Owens Wiwa, African Environmental and Human Development Agency, Toronto, Canada
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COMMON GROUND PUBLISHING AND THE DIVERSITY COLLECTION AND BOOK SERIES
About Our Publishing Approach For three decades, Common Ground Publishing has been committed to creating meeting places for people and ideas. With 24 knowledge communities, Common Ground’s vision is to provide platforms that bring together individuals of varied geographical, institutional, and cultural origins in spaces where renowned academic minds and public thought leaders can connect across fields of study. Each knowledge community organizes an annual academic conference and is associated with a peer-reviewed journal (or journal collection), a book imprint, and a social media space centered around Common Ground’s path-breaking ‘social knowledge’ space, Scholar.
Through its publishing practices, Common Ground aims to foster the highest standards in intellectual excellence. We are highly critical of the serious deficiencies in today’s academic journal system, including the legacy structures and exclusive networks that restrict the visibility of emerging scholars and researchers in developing countries, as well as the unsustainable costs and inefficiencies associated with traditional commercial publishing.
In order to combat these shortcomings, Common Ground has developed an innovative publishing model. Each of Common Ground’s knowledge communities organizes an annual academic conference. The registration fee that conference participants pay in order to attend or present at these conferences enables them to submit an article to the associated journal at no additional cost. Scholars who cannot attend the conference in-person may still participate virtually and submit to the journal by obtaining a community membership, which also allows them to upload a video presentation to the community’s YouTube channel. By using a portion of the conference registration and membership fees to underwrite the costs associated with producing and marketing the journals, Common Ground is able to keep subscription prices low, thus guaranteeing greater access to our content. All conference participants and community members are also granted a one- year complimentary electronic subscription to the journal associated with their knowledge community. This subscription provides access to both the current and past volumes of the journal. Moreover, each article that we publish is available for a $5 download fee to non-subscribers, and authors have the choice of publishing their paper open access to reach the widest possible audience and ensure the broadest access possible.
Common Ground’s rigorous peer review process also seeks to address some of the biases inherent in traditional academic publishing models. Our pool of reviewers draws on authors who have recently submitted to the journal, as well as volunteer reviewers whose CVs and academic experience have been evaluated by Common Ground’s editorial team. Reviewers are assigned to articles based on their academic interests and expertise. By enlisting volunteers and other prospective authors as peer reviewers, Common Ground avoids the drawbacks of relying on a single editor’s professional network, which can often create a small group of gatekeepers who get to decide who and what gets published. Instead, Common Ground harnesses the enthusiasm of its conference delegates and prospective journal authors to assess submissions using a criterion-referenced evaluation system that is at once more democratic and more intellectually rigorous than other models. Common Ground also recognizes the important work of peer reviewers by acknowledging them as Associate Editors of the volumes to which they contribute.
For over ten years, Common Ground has been building web-based publishing and social knowledge software where people can work closely to collaborate, create knowledge, and learn. The third and most recent iteration of this project is the innovative social knowledge environment, Scholar. Through the creation of this software, Common Ground has sought to tackle what it sees as changing technological, economic, distributional, geographic, interdisciplinary and social relations to knowledge. For more information about this change and what it means for academic publishing, refer to The Future of the Academic Journal, edited by Bill Cope and Angus Phillips (Elsevier 2009).
We hope that you will join us in creating dialogues between different perspectives, experiences, knowledge bases, and methodologies through interactions at the conference, conversations online, and as fully realized, peer-reviewed journal articles and books.
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The Diversity Collection Themed Journals: The International Journal of Organizational Diversity - ISSN: 2328-6261, eISSN: 2328-6229 (online) The International Journal of Community Diversity - ISSN: 2327-0004, eISSN: 2327-2147 (online) The International Journal of Diverse Identities - ISSN: 2327-7866, eISSN: 2327-8560 (online) The International Journal of Diversity in Education - ISSN: 2327-0020, eISSN: 2327-2163 (online)
Annual Review: The International Journal of Diversity in Organizations, Communities, and Nations: Annual Review ISSN: 1447- 9532, eISSN: 1447-9583 (online)
Collection Editor Jock Collins, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Publication Frequency Themed journals publish four issues per volume; the annual review publishes once annually. Articles across the collection are published continuously online first.
Indexing The journals in the Diversity Collection are indexed by: Scopus Ulrich’s Cabell’s Genamics The Australian Research Council (Annual Review only)
Acceptance Rate 29%
Circulation 285,699
Foundation Year 2000
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INTERNATIONAL AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE
The Diversity Collection presents an annual International Award for Excellence for new research or thinking. All articles submitted for publication in the collection are entered into consideration for this award. The review committee for the award is selected from the International Advisory Board for the knowledge community. The committee selects the winning article from the ten highest-ranked articles emerging from the review process and according to the selection criteria outlined in the reviewer guidelines.
This Year’s Award Winners is:
Robin Liu Hopson, OISE: University of Toronto, Canada
For the Article: “Racialized Teachers and the Role-Model Hypothesis”
Abstract The city of Toronto is one of most racially diverse places in the world, with almost half of its population identifying as being a “visible minority” (statistics canada 2010). As a result, educational institutions face the question of how to meet the needs of their transforming student demographics. Numerous researchers and organizational policies have responded to these changes by endorsing the hiring of a teaching staff that is reflective of the racially diversifying student population (ontario ministry of education 2009; ryan et al. 2009, 592). The role-model hypothesis refers to the dominant belief that there should be a push to hire more racialized teachers because they will be role-models for racialized students. What is urgently lacking from these dominant discourses are the voices of racialized individuals, whose inside perspectives and lived experiences provide valuable insights about the shortcomings of the role-model hypothesis. Using an anti-racist theoretical framework, individual semi-structured interviews with 21 racialized teachers from the greater toronto area reveal the complexity of racial matching between educators and students. The findings contribute to a differentiation between being a role-model and the act of role-modeling as a way of challenging the reductionist and homogenizing attitudes embedded in dominant discourses about the diversification of the teaching force.
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SUBMISSION PROCESS
Every conference delegate with an accepted proposal is eligible and invited to submit an article to the Diversity Collection. Full articles can be submitted using Common Ground’s online conference and article management system CGPublisher. Below please find step-by-step instructions on the submission process.
1. Submit a presentation proposal to the conference. The theme that you select when you submit your paper will help determine which thematically focused journal will consider your article for publication.
2. Once your conference proposal or paper abstract has been accepted, you may submit your article to the collection by clicking “add a paper” from your proposal/abstract page. You may upload your article anytime between the first and the final submission deadlines, which can be found on the next page.
3. Once your article is received, it is verified against template and submission requirements. Your identity and contact details are then removed, and the article is matched to two appropriate reviewers and sent for review. You can view the status of your article at any time by logging into your CGPublisher account at www.CGPublisher.com.
4. When reviewer reports are uploaded, you will be notified by email and provided with a link to view the reports (after the reviewers’ identities have been removed).
5. If your article has been accepted, you will be asked to accept the Publishing Agreement and submit a final copy of your article. If your paper is accepted with revisions, you will be asked to submit a change note with your final submission, explaining how you revised your article in light of the reviewers’ comments. If your article is rejected, you may resubmit it once, with a detailed change note, for review by new reviewers.
6. Accepted articles will be typeset and the proofs will be sent to you for approval before publication.
7. Individual articles may be published online first with a full citation. Full issues follow at regular, quarterly intervals. All issues are published four times per volume (except the annual review, which is published once per volume).
8. Registered conference participants will be given online access to the collection from the time of registration until one year after the conference end date. Individual articles are available for purchase from the journal’s bookstore. Authors and peer reviewers may order hard copies of full issues at a discounted rate.
SUBMISSION TIMELINE
You may submit your final article for publication to the journal at any time throughout the year. The submission timeline for Volume 14 is as follows:
• Submission Round 1 – 15 January, 2014 • Submission Round 2 – 15 April, 2014 • Submission Round 3 – 15 July, 2014 • Submission Round 4 (final) – 15 October, 2014
Note: If your article is submitted after the final deadline for Volume 14, it will be considered for Volume 15. However, the sooner you submit, the sooner your article will begin the peer review process. Also, as we publish ‘web first’, early submission means that your article will be published with a full citation as soon as it is ready, even if that is before the full issue is published.
For More Information, Please Visit:
http://ondiversity.com/submitting-your-work/journal-articles/submission-process
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JOURNAL SUBSCRIPTIONS, OPEN ACCESS, ADDITIONAL SERVICES
Institutional Subscriptions Common Ground offers print and electronic subscriptions to all of its journals. Subscriptions are available to the full Diversity Collection, individual journals within the collection, and to custom suites based on a given institution’s unique content needs. Subscription prices are based on a tiered scale that corresponds to the full-time enrollment (FTE) of the subscribing institution. You may download the Library Recommendation form from our website to recommend that your institution subscribe to the Diversity Collection: http://ondiversity.com/publications/journal/about-the-journal#3-tab.
Personal Subscriptions As part of their conference registration, all conference participants (both virtual and in-person) have a one-year online subscription to the Diversity Collection. This complimentary personal subscription grants access to both the current volume of the collection as well as the entire backlist. The period of complimentary access begins at the time of registration and ends one year after the close of the conference. After that time, delegates may purchase a personal subscription. To view articles, go to http://ijd.cgpublisher.com/. Select the “Login” option and provide a CGPublisher username and password. Then, select an article and download the PDF. For lost or forgotten login details, select “forgot your login” to request a new password.
For more information, please visit:
http://ondiversity.com/publications/journal/subscriptions-and-orders or contact us at [email protected]
Hybrid Open Access The journals in the Diversity Collection are all Hybrid Open Access. Hybrid Open Access is an option increasingly offered by both university presses and well-known commercial publishers.
Hybrid Open Access means that some articles are available only to subscribers, while others are made available at no charge to anyone searching the web. Authors pay an additional fee for the open access option. They may do this because open access is a requirement of their research funding agency. Or they may do it so that non-subscribers can access their article for free.
Common Ground’s open access charge is $250 per article, a very reasonable price compared to our hybrid open access competitors and purely open access journals that are resourced with an author publication fee. Electronic papers are normally only available through individual or institutional subscriptions or for purchase at $5 per article. However, if you choose to make your article Open Access, this means that anyone on the web may download it for free.
There are still considerable benefits for paying subscribers, because they can access all articles in the journal, from both current and past volumes, without any restrictions. But making your paper available at no charge increases its visibility, accessibility, potential readership, and citation counts. Open access articles also generate higher citation counts.
For more information or to make your article Open Access, please contact us at [email protected].
Institutional Open Access Common Ground is proud to announce an exciting new model of scholarly publishing called Institutional Open Access.
Institutional Open Access allows faculty and graduate students to submit articles to Common Ground journals for unrestricted open access publication. These articles will be freely and publicly available to the whole world through our hybrid open access infrastructure. With Institutional Open Access, instead of the author paying a per-article open access fee, institutions pay a set annual fee that entitles their students and faculty to publish a given number of open access articles each year.
The rights to the articles remain with the subscribing institution. Both the author and the institution can also share the final typeset version of the article in any place they wish, including institutional repositories, personal websites, and privately or publicly accessible course materials. We support the highest Sherpa/Romeo access level—Green.
For more information on Institutional Open access or to put us in touch with your department head or funding body, please contact us at [email protected].
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Editing Services Common Ground offers editing services for authors who would like to have their work professionally copyedited. These services are available to all scholarly authors, whether or not they plan to submit their edited article to a Common Ground journal.
Authors may request editing services prior to the initial submission of their article or after the review process. In some cases, reviewers may recommend that an article be edited as a condition of publication. The services offered below can help authors during the revision stage, before the final submission of their article.
What We Do Correct spelling, grammatical, and punctuation errors in your paper, abstract and author bionote Revise for clarity, readability, logic, awkward word choice, and phrasing Check for typos and formatting inconsistencies Confirm proper use of The Chicago Manual of Style The Editing Process Email us at [email protected] to express your interest in having your article edited. The charge for the editorial service charge is USD $0.05 per word. Within 14-21 business days of your confirmed payment, you will receive an edited copy of your edited article via email. We can also upload the edited copy for you, and any pending submission deadlines will be altered to accommodate your editing timeline. Contact us at [email protected] to request a quote or for further information about our services.
Citation Services Common Ground requires the use of the sixteenth edition of the Chicago Manual of Style for all submitted journal articles. We are pleased to offer a conversion service for authors who used a different scholarly referencing system. For a modest fee, we will convert your citations to follow the Chicago Manual of Style guidelines.
What We Do Change references—internal citations and end-of-article references—to confirm proper use of the sixteenth edition of The Chicago Manual of Style, using either the author-date or notes and bibliography format of The Chicago Manual of Style. Check for typos and formatting inconsistencies within the citations. The Conversion Process Email us at [email protected] to express your interest in having your references converted. For articles under 5,000 words (excluding titles, subtitles, and the abstract), the charge for reference conversion is $50. If your article is more than 5,000 words, please contact us for a quote. Within 14-21 business days of your confirmed payment, you will receive a copy of your article with the revised references. We can also upload the revised copy for you, and any pending submission deadlines will be altered to accommodate the conversion timeline. Contact us at [email protected] to request a quote or for further information about our services.
Translation Services Common Ground is pleased to offer translation services for authors who would like to have their work translated into or from Spanish or Portuguese. Papers that have undergone peer review and been accepted for publication by one of Common Ground’s journals are eligible for this translation service. Papers can be translated from Spanish or Portuguese into English and published in one of Common Ground's English-language journals. Or they may be translated from English into either Spanish or Portuguese and be published in one of Common Ground's Spanish and Portuguese-language academic journals. In this way we offer authors the possibility of reaching a much wider audience beyond their native language, affirming Common Ground's commitment towards full internationality, multiculturalism, and multilingualism.
The Process Contact [email protected] to express your interest in having your article translated. Our editorial team will review your article and provide you with a quote based on the paper’s word count. Once you accept the quote, a translator will be assigned to your article. Within 14-21 business days of your confirmed payment, you will receive a draft of your translated article. You will have a chance to communicate with the translator via the draft using Word’s “track changes” function. Based on that communication, the translator will supply you with a final copy of your translated article. 14 2014 Social Sciences Conference
THE DIVERSITY IN ORGANIZATIONS, COMMUNITIES, AND NATIONS BOOK SERIES
Common Ground is setting new standards of rigorous academic knowledge creation and scholarly publication. Unlike other publishers, we’re not interested in the size of potential markets or competition from other books. We’re only interested in the intellectual quality of the work. If your book is a brilliant contribution to a specialist area of knowledge that only serves a small intellectual community, we still want to publish it. If it is expansive and has a broad appeal, we want to publish it too, but only if it is of the highest intellectual quality.
We welcome proposals or completed manuscript submissions of:
Individually and jointly authored books Edited collections addressing a clear, intellectually challenging theme Collections of articles published in our journals Out-of-copyright books, including important books that have gone out of print and classics with new introductions
Book Proposal Guidelines Books should be between 30,000 and 150,000 words in length. They are published simultaneously in print and electronic formats and are available through Amazon and as Kindle editions. To publish a book, please send us a proposal including:
Title Author(s)/editor(s) Draft back-cover blurb Author bio note(s) Table of contents Intended audience and significance of contribution Sample chapters or complete manuscript Manuscript submission date Proposals can be submitted by email to [email protected]. Please note the book imprint to which you are submitting in the subject line.
Call for Book Reviewers Common Ground Publishing is seeking distinguished peer reviewers to evaluate book manuscripts submitted to The Diversity in Organizations, Communities, and Nations Book Series.
As part of our commitment to intellectual excellence and a rigorous review process, Common Ground sends book manuscripts that have received initial editorial approval to peer reviewers to further evaluate and provide constructive feedback. The comments and guidance that these reviewers supply is invaluable to our authors and an essential part of the publication process.
Common Ground recognizes the important role of reviewers by acknowledging book reviewers as members of the Diversity in Organizations, Communities, and Nations Book Series Editorial Review Board for a period of at least one year. The list of members of the Editorial Review Board will be posted on our website.
If you would like to review book manuscripts, please send an email to [email protected] with:
A brief description of your professional credentials A list of your areas of interest and expertise A copy of your CV with current contact details If we feel that you are qualified and we require refereeing for manuscripts within your purview, we will contact you.
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THE DIVERSITY IN ORGANIZATIONS, COMMUNITIES, AND NATIONS BOOK SERIES
These and other books are available at ondiversity.cgpublisher.com/
Extinguishing Title: Maori Land Rights, People, and Perspective in Post-colonial New Zealand
Stella Coram
Extinguishing Title identifies the systematic extinguishing of Maori rights to title and the key values reforming Crown justification for disposing inalienable reserve lands in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Gender-linked Variation across Languages
Yousif Elhindi and Theresa McGarry
This work studies local language constructs of gender relationships and the creation of masculinities and femininities.
Silk Purses, Recast Dies, and Peripatetic Apples: Narratives of Risk and Resilience from within the Academy, 2nd Edition
Warnie Richardson
Using a risk/resilience paradigm, this book presents very personal narratives of authors, who, in the face of challenges, have gone on to become teachers.
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Recent Books Published by Common Ground These and other books are available at http://theuniversitypressbooks.cgpublisher.com/
Models of Indigenous Development
Ian Skelton and Octavio Ixtacuy López
This work engages topics such as relationships between political economy and Indigenous self-development, dietary practices as strategies of adaptation and social reproduction, and planning as a resource for Indigenous development
Mobilized Identities: Mediated Subjectivity and Cultural Crisis in the Neoliberal Era
Cameron McCarthy, Alicia Kozma, Karla Palma-Milanao, Margaret Fitzpatrick, and Nicole Lamers (eds.)
This book is a collective attempt to capture a glimpse of how modern individuals face and negotiate the crisis of global capitalism, as well as the formation of identity in the realm of media, education, and culture in a highly dense, networked world.
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THE DIVERSITY IN ORGANIZATIONS, COMMUNITIES, AND NATIONS CONFERENCE
Conference Principles and Features The structure of the conference is based on four core principles that pervade all aspects of the knowledge community:
International This conference travels around the world to provide opportunities for delegates to see and experience different countries and locations. But more importantly, the Diversity Conference offers a tangible and meaningful opportunity to engage with scholars from a diversity of cultures and perspectives. This year, delegates from over 37 countries are in attendance, offering a unique and unparalleled opportunity to engage directly with colleagues from all corners of the globe.
Interdisciplinary Unlike association conferences attended by delegates with similar backgrounds and specialties, this conference brings together researchers, practitioners, and scholars from a wide range of disciplines who have a shared interest in the themes and concerns of this community. As a result, topics are broached from a variety of perspectives, interdisciplinary methods are applauded, and mutual respect and collaboration are encouraged.
Inclusive Anyone whose scholarly work is sound and relevant is welcome to participate in this community and conference, regardless of discipline, culture, institution, or career path. Whether an emeritus professor, graduate student, researcher, teacher, policymaker, practitioner, or administrator, your work and your voice can contribute to the collective body of knowledge that is created and shared by this community.
Interactive To take full advantage of the rich diversity of cultures, backgrounds, and perspectives represented at the conference, there must be ample opportunities to speak, listen, engage, and interact. A variety of session formats, from more to less structured, are offered throughout the conference to provide these opportunities.
Session Descriptions Plenary Sessions Plenary speakers, chosen from among the world’s leading thinkers, offer formal presentations on topics of broad interest to the community and conference delegation. One or more speakers are scheduled into a plenary session, most often the first session of the day. As a general rule, there are no questions or discussion during these sessions. Instead, plenary speakers answer questions and participate in informal, extended discussions during their Garden Sessions.
Garden Sessions Garden Sessions are informal, unstructured sessions that allow delegates a chance to meet plenary speakers and talk with them at length about the issues arising from their presentation. When the venue and weather allow, we try to arrange for a circle of chairs to be placed outdoors.
Talking Circles Held on the first day of the conference, Talking Circles offer an early opportunity to meet other delegates with similar interests and concerns. Delegates self-select into groups based on broad thematic areas and then engage in extended discussion about the issues and concerns they feel are of utmost importance to that segment of the community. Questions like “Who are we?”, ”What is our common ground?”, “What are the current challenges facing society in this area?”, “What challenges do we face in constructing knowledge and effecting meaningful change in this area?” may guide the conversation. Reports from the Talking Circles provide a framework for the delegates’ final discussions during the Closing Session.
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Paper Presentations Paper presentations are grouped by general themes or topics into sessions comprised of three or four presentations followed by group discussion. Each presenter in the session makes a formal twenty-minute presentation of their work; Q&A and group discussion follow after all have presented. Session Chairs introduce the speakers, keep time on the presentations, and facilitate the discussion. Each presenter's formal, written paper will be available to participants if accepted to the journal.
Colloquium Colloquium sessions are organized by a group of colleagues who wish to present various dimensions of a project or perspectives on an issue. Four or five short formal presentations are followed by commentary and/or group discussion. A single article or multiple articles may be submitted to the journal based on the content of a colloquium session.
Workshop/Interactive Session Workshop sessions involve extensive interaction between presenters and participants around an idea or hands-on experience of a practice. These sessions may also take the form of a crafted panel, staged conversation, dialogue or debate – all involving substantial interaction with the audience. A single article (jointly authored, if appropriate) may be submitted to the journal based on a workshop session.
Poster Sessions Poster sessions present preliminary results of works in progress or projects that lend themselves to visual displays and representations. These sessions allow for engagement in informal discussions about the work with interested delegates throughout the session.
Article Submissions If unable to attend the conference in person, an author may choose to submit an article submission. Opportunities and formats vary but may be a presentation through our YouTube channel or an online discussion with interested delegates at the conference. Abstracts of these presentations are included in the online “session descriptions,” and an article may be submitted to the journal for peer review and possible publication, according to the same standards and criteria as all other journal submissions.
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CONFERENCE PROGRAM AND SCHEDULE
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DAILY SCHEDULE
Wednesday, 9 July
8:00–9:00 Conference Registration Desk Open
9:00-9:15 Conference Opening—Homer Stavely, Common Ground Publishing, USA
9:15–9:30 Vienna University of Economics and Business Welcome Address Univ. Prof. Dr. Christopher Badelt, Rector, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria
9:30–10:00 Plenary Session—Edeltraud Hanappi-Egger, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria
10:05–10:35 Plenary Session—Ursula Struppe, City of Vienna, Austria
10:40–11:10 Break & Garden Session
11:10-11:50 Talking Circles
11:50–12:50 Lunch (located in the Mensa building)
12:50–14:30 Parallel Sessions
14:30–14:45 Break
14:45–16:25 Parallel Sessions
16:25-16:40 Break
16:40-17:55 Parallel Sessions
19:00–21:00 Welcome Reception – Held at the Vienna Rauthaus (Vienna City Hall), and hosted by the City of Vienna (see page 24 for directions and map)
Thursday, 10 July
8:00–9:00 Conference Registration Desk Open
9:00–9:10 Host Opening Comments – Homer Stavely, Common Ground Publishing, USA
9:10–9:40 Regine Bendl—Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria
9:45–10:15 Break & Garden Session
10:15–11:30 Parallel Sessions
11:30–11:40 Break
11:40–12:25 Parallel Sessions (Workshops and Poster Session)
12:25–13:25 Lunch (located in Mesa building)
13:25–15:05 Parallel Sessions
15:05–15:20 Break
15:20–17:00 Parallel Sessions
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Friday, 11 July
8:30–9:00 Conference Registration Desk Open
9:00–9:10 Host Opening Comments – Homer Stavely, Common Ground Publishing, USA
9:10–9:40 Plenary Session—Michael Mϋller-Camen, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria
9:45–10:15 Break & Garden Session
10:15–11:55 Parallel Sessions
11:55–12:55 Lunch (located in Mensa building)
12:55–14:35 Parallel Sessions
14:35–14:50 Break
14:50–16:05 Parallel Sessions
16:05–16:35 Closing Session—Homer Stavely, Common Ground Publishing, USA
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Conference Venue Map and Directions to the Vienna University of Economics and Business Campus
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CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS
Featured Sessions Publishing Your Article or Book with Common Ground
Wednesday, 9 July —16:40-17:55 Room: TC.4.17
Friday, 11 July —14:50-16:05 Room: TC.4.04
Shelby Koehne, Production Coordinator, Common Ground Publishing
Description: In this session the Production Coordinator of the Diversity Collection of Journals will present an overview of Common Ground's publishing philosophy and practices. She will also offer tips for turning conference papers in to journal articles, present an overview of journal publishing procedures and provide information on Common Ground's book proposal submission process. Please feel free to bring questions - the second half of the session will be devoted to Q&A.
Special Events Pre-Conference Registration
Tuesday, 8 July —17:00-19:00 Location: Austria Trend Hotel Messe Wien Lobby
Description: Due to the size of this great conference, there will be a pre-conference registration on Tuesday, 8 July from 17:00-19:00 (5pm-7pm), in the lobby of the conference hotel (Austria Trend Messe Wien). This is a large conference and, if possible, we invite you to come to this pre-conference registration to pick up materials and avoid potentially long check-in lines on the first morning of the conference.
Pre-Conference Tour: Schӧnbrunn Palace Visit and Vienna Panoramic Bus Tour
Tuesday, 8 July —09:30-13:00 Meeting Location: Austria Trend Hotel Messe Wien Lobby
Description: Join your fellow delegates for a guided tour of the splendid Schönbrunn Palace and panoramic bus tour of Vienna the day before the conference. The pre-conference outing includes a panoramic bus tour of the most significant historical sites in Vienna. We will travel by air-conditioned coach throughout the Ringstrasse viewing numerous grand buildings along the way such as the MAK, the State Opera House, the magnificent Museum of Fine Arts, the Natural History Museum, the MuseumsQuartier, the Hofburg (the former Habsburg winter residence), Parliament, City Hall and the Burgtheater. This is a great opportunity to get an overview of this beautiful city to help you decide on sights to explore further throughout the rest of your stay in Vienna.
Conference Welcome Reception – Hosted by the City of Vienna
Wednesday, 9 July —19:00 Location: City of Vienna Town Hall (Rathaus)
Description: The City of Vienna will be hosting a Welcome Reception on Wednesday, 9 July at 7pm at the breath-taking Vienna Town Hall (Rathaus). We invite all delegates to attend and enjoy complimentary light refreshments and a delightful evening in this spectacular and historic setting before heading out for your evening explorations. This is an excellent opportunity to connect with and get to know your fellow international delegates. A map on how to reach the Rathaus (town hall building) is located on the following page for your convenience.
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Getting to the Reception from the Conference Venue via Metro
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PLENARY SPEAKERS
Regine Bendl Regine Bendl is an Associate Professor at Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU Vienna), Austria. She does research on Gender and Diversity Management and Subtexts in Organization Theory. She has published refereed articles and books and received several awards. She is editor of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion–an International Journal and of Diversitas–Zeitschrift für Managing Diversity und Diversity Studies. Furthermore she is an editorial board member for Gender in Management – an International Journal and for the British Journal of Management, and the associate editor of Gender Work and Organization. Together with Inge Bleijenbergh, Elina Henttonen and Albert Mills, she is currently editing the Oxford Handbook on Diversity in Organizations (forthcoming 2014). She is President of the Austrian Society for Diversity (ASD).
Edeltraud Hanappi-Egger Professor Edeltraud Hanappi-Egger holds a PhD in Computer Science. She has been professor for "Gender and Diversity in Organizations" at WU since 2002 and Head of the Department Management since 2012. From 2006-2009 she headed the Vienna University Academic Senate. Before then, she was a scholar of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and Associate Professor at the Vienna University of Technology. She was also a research scholar at several international research institutions including the University of Stockholm, University of Toronto, Work Research Institute of Oslo, and recently at LSE. She is founder and chairperson of the international CEMS-faculty group "Gender and Diversity Management" and has received several awards for her research. She is the author and co-author of more than 300 publications including “The Triple M of Organizations: Man, Management and Myth,” Springer, New York/Vienna, 2011; “Diversity in Organizations: Concepts and Practices,” London: Palgrave, 2012 (with Danowitz M.A and Mensi-Klarbach H.); “Backstage: The Organizational Gendered Agenda in Science,” Engineering and Technology Professions: European Journal of Women's Studies 20 (3): 279-294, 2013; “New Forms of Exploitation: The Synthesis of Mis-Recognition and Mal-Distribution,” Generos, Multidisciplinary Journal of Gender Studies 2 (3): 284-306.
Michael Mϋller-Camen Michael Mϋller-Camen is Professor of Human Resource Management at the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU) and an Associate Professor of International Human Resource Management at Middlesex University Business School, London. His main research interests are Sustainable HRM, Green HRM and Age Diversity. Currently he is developing research on HRM in the supply chain (human rights), and he is also interested in the link between spirituality and HRM. He has published numerous articles on international and comparative HRM and is co-editor-in-chief of Zeitschrift für Personalforschung (German Journal of Research in Human Resource Management).
Ursula Struppe Since 2004, Ursula Struppe has served as the head of the Municipal Department of Integration and Diversity (MA 17) in Vienna. She studied theology and worked in the field of adult education until 1999. She was co-founder and coordinator of an initiative against xenophobia, Land der Menschen, from 1999 until 2001 and worked with Executive City Councillor Renate Brauner in the field of integration between 2001 and 2004. This work led to the foundation of the Municipial Department of Integration and Diversity in 2004. 26 2014 Social Sciences Conference
GRADUATE SCHOLARS
Farhan Ahmad Farhan Ahmad is presently a PhD candidate with the School of Business & Economics at Åbo Akademi University where he also works as associate researcher. He earned two Masters Degrees from Stockholm University and gained some professional experience in the logistic industry before embarking on the PhD. His research interests are knowledge sharing, language, multilingual workplaces and social networks. The current research project is about knowledge sharing in multilingual workplaces. By recognizing the language as an important aspect of social life of organizational members, project attempts to shed light on the development of informal networks and knowledge sharing practices within such networks in multilingual organizations. Theoretical framework draws on the concepts of language ideologies, social network theory and knowledge management which gives interdisciplinary flavor to the project.
Golnar Ahmadi Golnar Ahmadi graduated from University of Tehran in 2010 with a Bachelor of Architecture of Fine Arts. She then graduated from Azad University of Central Tehran in 2013 with a Masters of Architecture. Her thesis research examines the role of architectural Identity in social sustainability. The most important part of her thesis will be presented in conference of Vienna. Since September 2013 she has been studying for a Masters of Architecture at the University of Applied Sciences in Frankfurt. She worked with youth groups as a researcher and an architect in Iran and Germany. Ahmadi believes finding the solutions for social damages in every field of study should be the total goal of societies. In addition, she participates in conferences to present the role of society in creating architecture.
Kritika Bahadur Kritika Bahadur is a PhD student at the University of Worcester, U.K. where she is researching on ‘Men’s Work-Life Balance.’ This research stems from the desire to understand the concept of men’s work-life balance by identifying the factors affecting work-life balance as well as the impact of the factors on an individual’s work and personal life. Prior to pursuing her PhD, Kritika completed her Masters in Human Resource Management and holds an undergraduate degree in Psychology. She is also interested in other research areas such as gender studies, women’s literature, organisational change and strategy.
Besigye Joseph Bazirake Besigye Joseph Bazirake (Joe) is a Ugandan doctoral researcher at the Centre for Research in Higher Education and Development (CHRED), at the University of the Free State in South Africa. He holds a BA degree in social sciences (International relations) and an MA degree in peace and conflict studies, both from Makerere University in Uganda. His journal publications include: ‘Climate Change Discourse in Peace Building’ and ‘The Role of Rotary Clubs in Post-Conflict Peace Building in Northern Uganda (2006-2010)’. Joe participated in the 2012 Pluralism and Development Winter School steered by the Kosmopolis Institute of the University of Humanistic Studies and has travelled widely throughout Eastern Africa as an ambassador of compassionate communication. He has also participated in numerous service projects through his affiliation to Rotary International as a member and past-president of the Rotaract Club of Rubaga. In addition to his English language proficiency, Joe has a certified DELF B1 language level in French. For his doctoral research he is using the capabilities approach to study the relationship between student governance and higher education transformation in South African universities. He enjoys playing volleyball and running marathons, and features in competitive sporting events from time to time.
Gregory Luke Chwala Gregory Luke Chwala is a PhD candidate in the Department of English Literature and Criticism at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. He also teaches online for South University and Heald College and will be teaching at Indiana University as a Graduate Associate for the 2014-2015 academic year. His dissertation, entitled “Reading Queer Ecology from the Imperial Gothic Novel to Contemporary Science Fiction,” examines the different ways that queer ecological tenets problematize and often resolve colonial and apocalyptic injustices in fictional settings that promote inequality, destruction, and division. Chwala organized and co-chaired the ID.net second global conference on Queer Sexualities in Sydney, Australia in 2014, and has attended various other international diversity conferences, in addition to publishing articles on topics of diversity. He has worked extensively with underprivileged and diverse student body populations from 2003, as a middle and high school English teacher in the New York City Teaching Fellows Program, to his current positions as a college and university instructor. His research interests include minority literature, queer theory, race theory, and ecology, fields that intersect with diversity and social activism. He is passionate about using his knowledge and experience to transform his students’ lives and promote changes in society that enrich cultural and environmental diversity.
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Nikhil D’Souza Nikhil D’Souza is a young law student from India. He studied for his Bachelor’s Degree in Law at the University of Mysore for four years before moving to study for a year at the University Law College, Bangalore, where he graduated in 2013. In Mysore, he co-founded JusTeach Foundation which serves as a platform for young college students to teach disadvantaged children in orphanages. He has also served as an International Project Coordinator with the International Youth Council, Sri Lanka Chapter, and has participated in a number of international forums such as the 6th World Youth Congress 2012, Rio de Janeiro, where he was a panelist on the round table on volunteering. He also attended the 1st Social Entrepreneurship Exchange Conference, Israel 2012, organized by StandWithUs, Israel, and the International Leadership Training Programme 2012: A Global Intergenerational Forum organized by the UNESCO Chair & Institute of Comparative Human Rights at the University of Connecticut in Bangkok, Thailand. This year he received the 2013 Mentee Award at MCW’s 16th Annual International Youth Leadership Retreat at New York University, NYC. As a recipient of the Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding - Dr. Angela Merkel Scholarship from the DAAD, he is now studying for his Master’s Degree in European Legal Studies (LL.M.) at the Europa-Kolleg, University of Hamburg.
Maeve Dunne Maeve Dunne is undertaking a PhD in Education at the National University of Ireland, Galway. Her research examines the experiences of migrants in university with a particular focus on issues relating to inclusion and access. Her interest in education developed after volunteering as a teacher in Kolkata, India. In India, she worked with young children who had been denied access to school due to their socio-economic status, gender, and ethnic background. It was here that she witnessed the transformative power of education in creating a more equitable and just society. This experience developed her interest in educating for social justice, democracy, and equality. Dunne is also involved in a number of youth-led initiatives in her home country of Ireland, including President Michael D. Higgins’ “Being Young and Irish” campaign and the US Embassy Ireland Youth Council. Due to her involvement with activism and volunteer work, she became the first Irish recipient of a scholarship to attend a leadership exchange program at the United Nations Information Center in Panama. She was also an active participant in the EU-CoE youth partnership conference “Youth in 2020 - the Future of Youth Policies” where she worked on youth policies relating to learning and inclusion.
Mariel Astrero Gabriel Mariel Astrero Gabriel is currently taking up a Masters of Global Media Communication at the University of Melbourne, Australia. She is also presently a Student Ambassador in the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Melbourne, providing leadership and mentoring to current and prospective students, enriched through professional development workshops and seminars by the Ambassador Program. A recipient of the Australia Awards, Mariel has been a Philippine delegate to the ASEAN-Australia Youth Summit 2013, and also a delegate and youth ambassador in the ASEAN-India Students’ Exchange Program held November 2013. In 2008, she was among the 233 Best Authors in the International Essay Competition organized by the World Bank in collaboration with Cities Alliance and the Government of Norway. She has been elected and inducted as a member in 2006 of the Pi Gamma Mu International Honor Society in Social Sciences and the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi. Mariel obtained her Bachelor’s Degree from the University of the Philippines, and prior to her postgraduate studies, Mariel worked as a senior copy editor for five years and as a consultant for a year in the Philippine Information Agency.
Andri Georgiadou Andri Georgiadou is presently a doctoral candidate with the Faculty of Business and Law at London Metropolitan University. Her research project challenges assumptions about the impact of different nationality and first language to perceptions about diversity management, she and considers issues surrounding the relationship between diversity management and employees’ understanding on the organisational culture. Although her dissertation focuses on diversity management, it reflects interests that she expects to resurface in teaching and research contexts in the future. An area that fascinates her is diversity education. One of the studies that she has started in collaboration with Professor Mor Barak at University of Southern California, includes the design of a curriculum for teaching diversity to business students. She is passionate about diversity, equality, inclusion, and social justice, and aspires to remind people that though we may not at all times be able to change reality, as per Nikos Kazantzakis’ quote, we can always choose to change the eyes that see reality!
Mueataz Hamed Mueataz is a recent mechatronics engineering graduate from the University of Rostock, Germany. He was born in Aden and was raised in different countries as his father worked as a Diplomat in the Yemen Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 2007-2008, Mueataz received a scholarship from the Kennedy-Lugar YES exchange program to finish high school at Spokane, WA, in the United States of America. In October 2013 he began studying for a Master’s Degree in aircraft and aeronautical engineering at the Technical University of Braunschweig. Besides his interest in being an engineer, he has been active in community development by starting the first anti-Qat campaign to combat the use of a well-known drug in his country and to raise awareness of this issue among local people. He has attended several series of conferences in the fields of community service, education, politics, religion, green economy, and sustainable development. Mueataz will contribute to the field of education by running small workshops on robotics for Yemeni youth in the near future. As a career objective, he is aiming to get work experience in one of the biggest aircraft or airline companies in Europe before his return to Yemen. In the meantime he is focusing on making the best out of the Learners’ Voice program to achieve his future plan of helping his country.
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Jocelyn McGrandle Jocelyn McGrandle is a PhD Student in the Department of Political Science at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Her core fields are public administration/public policy and Canadian politics, with a particular focus on diversity and equality. She is interested in understanding, through both qualitative and quantitative methods, how representative and inclusive the Canadian federal public administration really is. The Canadian public service is an area that is often taken for granted as representative, but not often tested. Therefore, Jocelyn hopes to shed light on this puzzle through her work.
Katerina Mojanchevska Katerina Mojanchevska is a non-resident PhD student at the International Institute of Social Studies, part of the Erasmus University of Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Her thesis is titled: “Accommodation of Cultural Diversity in Public Space: The Experience of Multicultural Cities, Focusing on the City of Skopje (Macedonia) and the Recent Practices of Ethnic Identity Accommodation in Public Space Design and How Does This Affect the Social Dynamics of Spaces.” Her education background covers psychology and communication studies. She has professional experience with the civil society sector in Macedonia working on projects that relate to city policies and researchers in the wide field of cultural policy. Her research and professional interests encompass intersection among identity, public space, inter-culturality and urban policy. Currently she is part of the team conducting research on self-organised citizens` groups and urban development.
Anna Lina Evanne Nowak Evanne Nowak was born in the Netherlands in 1988. She is passionate about the field in which education meets the arts, ethics, human rights and international development. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Theater & Education from the Utrecht School of the Arts (Netherlands) and a Master’s Degree in Theater & Global Development from the University of Leeds (UK). She is currently studying for an MA in Humanistic Studies, exploring contemporary issues dealing with ethics, worldviews and the way we give meaning to life. Nowak is enthusiastic and ambitious when it comes to the use of theater for social change in contexts of global development and conflict transformation. At the age of 19 she has set up her own foundation to undertake theater projects on HIV/Aids in the Netherlands and Uganda. Besides Uganda, she has worked as a drama teacher in Kenya, Costa Rica, Northern Ireland, the UK, and Nepal as well as in the Netherlands. She has been working with varying groups such as prisoners, former combatants, victim support groups and young people. As a teacher, she is eager to stimulate critical thinking, explore existential issues and promote empathy and understanding. In all these varying contexts she believes that arts education is a powerful force to foster processes of (inter)connection, empowerment and personal development. She is very enthusiastic about the opportunity WISE is giving her to discuss and advocate for the importance of creativity, participation, and global citizenship education on the world stage of education policy. With her background, she hopes to make a creative, innovative and energetic contribution to the program.
Michelle Shepherd Michelle Shepherd works as a research and teaching scholar. Her emphases are learning, design and planning methodologies in urban ecology. She has an expertise in Vienna, Austria, especially in studies of Central European environmentalism and cultural policies. She is interested in advancing integrative medicine and engineering practices, and background includes landscape architecture and earth science. For this year’s International Conference on Diversity and Organizations, Communities and Nations, Michelle is contributing a precautionary tale, based on lived experience and empirical facts. She addresses a schism between the expectations pronounced in higher education regarding creativity against employment realities in the global market economy. In this effort, questioning “Who pays and who profits?” she cites authors John Heskett and Lutz Musner about institutional identities and espionage. The Viennese milieu and Museum Studies offers the case in point. More exactly, Shepherd presents a series of subtle but rather devastating effects of a common issue: uncompensated knowledge transfer.
Janelle Simmons Janelle is a graduate student pursuing an EdD in educational leadership at Liberty University in Lynchburg, VA. Janelle earned a EdS in curriculum instruction from Liberty University. She also earned a Masters of Divinity from Torch Trinity Graduate School of Theology in Seoul, South Korea. Moreover, Janelle earned a Masters of Arts in forensic psychology from John Jay College and her Bachelor of Arts in psychology from Michigan State University. Simmons currently serves as a psychology instructor and has taught psychology at the college-level for over eight years. Her previous research focused on comparative legal systems as well as early childhood education and the Head Start programs, and her previous interests were found in creating curriculums. Simmons created the first on-line Introduction to Psychology curriculum for a two-year educational institution as well as a Pre-GED curriculum for a non-profit organization. Currently, her research interests mainly lie in three areas: multicultural leadership styles, the importance of integrating research within the music industry and teaching psychology (i.e., with a focus on the “how?” or technique). In regards to her upcoming dissertation research interest, Simmons hopes to explore further aspects of multicultural leadership and how to develop leaders who promote diversity as well as who embrace true multicultural leadership and engender other multicultural leaders.
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Zi Wang Zi Wang is currently a graduate student and Emile Boutmy scholarship holder at Sciences Po Paris, reading international affairs. Upon completion of his national service, during which he served as medical instruction team leader in the Singapore Civil Defense Force, he went to Japan to pursue his undergraduate education in Japanese and East Asian studies at Waseda University in Tokyo. Throughout his undergraduate years in Tokyo, Zi has interned for the Embassy of Afghanistan as podcast producer, volunteered for the Paris-based NGO Enfants du Ningxia as translator, and worked for Waseda University as Teaching Assistant. Besides Paris, Tokyo, and his home country Singapore, Zi has studied and lived in Beijing, Montréal, and Lyon for long periods of time. This gave rise to his profound interest in comparative sociology and politics. His current research interests include politics and social change in Japan and China, as well as Asian diasporic communities and related social issues in Western Europe. He speaks English, Chinese, French, Japanese, Italian, and is learning German.
Kerre Willsher Kerre Willsher is a PhD student in The Centre for Regional and Community Development at the Whyalla Campus of the University of South Australia. In 2010, she won a University of South Australia scholarship to study for her PhD full-time. Her topic is ‘Caring for Young and Adult Children with Disability in Rural and Regional Australia: A Feminist Standpoint Interpretation.’ Kerre, who has lived in rural areas of Australia for most of her life, was concerned that there are fewer service options available for disabled adults in rural areas of Australia and many of the operational ones are under threat owing to population decline. The research revealed that collaborative approaches between families and service providers are required to develop appropriate services for rural families that have a child with disability. As well as studying for a PhD, Kerre is a lecturer in nursing at the University of South Australia teaching paediatric nursing and primary health care. In 2007 she won an award for teaching excellence and in 2009, as part of a team, won a Chancellor’s award for community engagement providing health promotion in primary schools. Kerre has published articles on nurse education, nursing ethics, and primary health care in diverse refereed journals. Prior to 2005, Kerre was employed as a community nurse in rural and remote areas of Australia. Kerre has also worked as a nurse educator in Papua/New Guinea and as a midwife in the United Kingdom. Her community interests include Rotary, Girl Guides, and Amnesty International.
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8:00-9:00 REGISTRAEGISTRATIONTION DESK OPENS 9:00-9:15 CONFERENCE OPENING & HOST REMARKS Homer Stavely, Common Ground Publishing, USA 9:15-9:30 VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS WELCOME ADDRESS Rector of the Vienna University of Economics and Business, Univ.Prof. Dr. Christoph Badelt 9:30-10:00 PLENARLENARYY SESSION Edeltraud Hanappi-Egger, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria “Diversity and Anti-Solidarity: A Symbiotic Relation?” 10:05-10:35 PLENARLENARYY SESSION Ursula Struppe, City of Vienna, Austria "City of Vienna Diversity Management Approach" 10:40-11:10 BREAK & GARDEN SESSION 11:10-11:50 TTALKING CIRCLES ROOMS TC.4.04 & TC.4.12: Identity and Belonging ROOMS TC.4.13 & TC.4.15: Education and Learning in a World of Differences ROOMS TC.4.17 & TC.5.12: Organizational Diversity ROOMS TC.5.14 & TC.5.18: Community Diversity and Governance 11:50-12:50 LUNCH 12:50-14:30 PPARALLEL SESSIONS Room: TCRoom: TC Politics of Diversity 3.103.10 Diversity as a Rhetorical TToolool in Colonial Corporate Agenda: (Re)placing Hawaiians at Disney’s Aulanis Aulani ResortResort Dr. Georganne Nordstrom, Department of English, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, USA Overview: This paper examines how, at their Hawai?i Aulani Resort, Disney uses rhetoric suggesting diversity and equity to facilitate a corporate colonial presence that exploits and appropriates Hawaiians and Hawaiian culture. Theme: Identity and Belonging After the Fiftieth Anniversary of the MarMarch on Wch Washington:ashington: The Politics of Diversity ReconsiderReconsidereded Dr. Choichiro Yatani, Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Alfred State College, Alfred, USA Overview: Racism, sexism, and the enemy no longer appear salient in post 9/11 America, as the fiftieth anniversary of the March on Washington in the civil rights movement demonstrated. Theme: Community Diversity and Governance Anti-diversity in the Age of SuperSuper-integration-integration Prof. Brenda Flanagan, English Department, Davidson College, Davidson, USA Overview: This paper analyzes the rhetoric and practices of 1960's African American organizations opposed to diversity in their ranks. Theme: Identity and Belonging The Role of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in the TTransformationransformation of American National Institutions Prof. Garrison Nelson, Department of Political Science, University of Vermont, Burlington, USA Overview: This paper explores the role of changing leadership systems in transforming American national institutions, documenting the decline of the "WASPocracy" of white Anglo-Saxon white males. Theme: Organizational Diversity 2014 Social Sciences ConferenceWEDNESDAEDNESDAYY, 09 JULULYY 31
12:50-14:30 PPARALLEL SESSIONS Room: TCRoom: TC Health CarHealth Caree Management 4.044.04 Negotiating Cultural Complexity in ChildrChildren’en’ss Health CarCare:e: Impacts of PrProfessionalofessional CulturCultureses on Health CarCaree for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Child Patients and Families Dr. Cathy O'Callaghan, Multicultural Health Services, South Eastern Sydney Local Health District, Darlinghurst, Australia Overview: This paper examines how systemic constraints, professional backgrounds, departmental priorities, and personal values influence the way health staff work with families from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds. Theme: Organizational Diversity Racism and Child Health Nursing: Exploring Nurse VValues,alues, Attitudes, and Behaviors Pauline Guerin, Social Sciences, Pennsylvania State University, Media, USA Dr. Julian Grant, Faculty of Health Sciences, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia Overview: This paper is an analysis of focus group discussions with Australian child and family health nurses about racism. Theme: Organizational Diversity Managing Cultural Diversity in Health CarCaree Organizations: Facilitating the PrProfessional,ofessional, Social, and Cultural Integration of Immigrant Nurses in WWesterestern Canadan Canada Dr. Louise Racine, College of Nursing, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada Dr. Linda Ferguson, College of Nursing, University of Saskatchewan, Canada Dr. Sonia Udod, College of Nursing, University of Saskatchewan, Canada Dr. Sithokozile Maposa, College of Nursing, University of Saskatchewan, Canada Dr. Susan Fowler-Kerry, College of Nursing, University of Saskatchewan, Canada Overview: This paper provides administrators with evidence to recognize organizational and management practices that facilitate or hinder integration of immigrant workers within health organizations. Theme: Organizational Diversity The Impact of TTrainingraining on Sexual Harassment in the WWorkplace:orkplace: A Critical Review and Conceptual Model Dr. Mark Roehling, School of Human Resources and Labor Relations, Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA Dr. Patricia Roehling, Psychology, Hope College, Holland, USA Overview: This research critically reviews the effectiveness of sexual harassment training, proposes a conceptual model of the impact of training on sexual harassment, and identifies future research needs. Theme: Organizational Diversity Room:Room: Educating TTeacherseachers in Diversity TC.4.12TC.4.12 Possibilities and Challenges of TTransformationalransformational TTeaching:eaching: What Does It Look Like within the Context of TTeachereacher Education? Dr. Nado Aveling, Education, Murdoch University, Murdoch, Australia Dr. Jioanna Carjuzaa, Department of Education, Montana State University-Bozeman, Bozeman, USA Overview: Utilizing transformational theory in our teaching, we work with teacher education students to discard normalized habits of mind and become more critical of their deeply ingrained assumptions concerning Indigenous peoples. Theme: Education and Learning in a World of Difference Diversity in Contemporary ClassrClassrooms: Arooms: Are Our Te Teacherseachers Ready to Face the Challenge? Dr. Shaila Rao, Department of Special Education & Literacy Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, USA Overview: Worldwide, diversity in classrooms requires teachers who are competent in assessing, planning instruction, and making data-based decisions. This paper describes curricular and instructional framework to prepare teachers to address diversity. Theme: Education and Learning in a World of Difference Deconstructing Gender Bias in the American Educational System Dr. Gheorghita Faitar, Department of Education, D'Youville College, Buffalo, USA Overview: This paper discusses the relationship between teaching strategies for male and female students and United States pre-service teachers’ understanding of multicultural and social justice approaches of instruction. Theme: Education and Learning in a World of Difference Anti-racism at the Chalkface: TTeachereacher Attitudes to Cultural Diversity and Multicultural Education in Sydney SchoolsSchools Dr. James Forrest, Department of Environment and Geography, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia Dr. Garth Lean, School of Social Sciences and Psychology, University of Western Sydney, Penrith, Australia Prof. Kevin Dunn, School of Social Sciences and Psychology, University of Western Sydney, Penrith, Australia Overview: Using a 2011 online Multicultural Education Survey in New South Wales, we examine teacher attitudes toward and experience of multicultural programs in Sydney schools. Theme: Education and Learning in a World of Difference 32 WEDNESDAEDNESDAYY, 09 JULULYY2014 Social Sciences Conference
12:50-14:30 PPARALLEL SESSIONS Room:Room: WWorkshoporkshop TC.4.13TC.4.13 Empowering Diverse Students via Blended LearLearningning Linda Fellag, English Department, Liberal Studies Division, Community College of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, USA Prof Girija Nagaswami, English Department, Liberal Studies Division, Community College of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, USA Prof Lyn M. Buchheit, Department of English, Community College of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, USA Ms. Lakshmi Gudipati, English Department, Liberal Studies Division, Community College of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, USA Overview: Our workshop illustrates how we use blended learning principles to enable our diverse urban community college students to articulate their thoughts on diversity and develop critical thinking skills. Theme: Education and Learning in a World of Difference Room:Room: Gender Studies TC.4.15TC.4.15 Aphra Behn to Sarah Kane: WWomen Women Writing Writing Warar and Performing Postcolonial Politics Christine Hunter, English Department and English Literature and Criticism Department, English Department at Purdue North Central, English Department at Roosevelt University, and English Literature and Criticism Department at Indiana University of Pennsylvania., Crown Point, USA Overview: Aphra Behn, to the in-yer-face modern drama of Sarah Kane; a depiction of the societal struggles of women and the role that women have performed during periods of political conflict. Theme: Identity and Belonging Gender Egalitarianism: Comparing China, France, GermanyGermany,, Mexico, Russia, and TTurkeyurkey Dr. Veronique Goehlich, International Business, Pforzheim University, Berlin, Germany Dr. Kirsten Wuest, Quantitative Methods, Pforzheim University, Pforzheim, Germany Overview: This paper is a survey with respondents from six countries regarding gender egalitarianism. Some discrepancies to Hofstede’s masculinity dimension and the Globe gender dimensions are analyzed. Revised approaches are discussed. Theme: Identity and Belonging Beyond Gender: ReprReproductionoduction of "Hijras" in India and Their Rights Dr. Abha Singh, Department Of English, Dyal Singh Evening College, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India Overview: This paper explores "Hijras" differences from each other, their tales of humiliation, torture, exploitation, mental oppression, and religious orientation, and the "Hijra" community's potential and weakness. Theme: Identity and Belonging Flourish or Fail: Digging Up the Dirt on Safe Spaces in WWomen'somen's Community GrGroupsoups Karin Mackay, School of Education Member of institute of Culture and Society, University of Western Sydney, Kingswood Campus, Sydney, Australia Overview: While flourishing is the ideal for many women’s groups, this research found that failure within individual and group contexts was pivotal for instigating deep learning about the self in community. Theme: Organizational Diversity Room:Room: Multicultural LearLearning and Tning Teaching:eaching: Self and Other TC.4.17TC.4.17 Binaries of Self and Other: Student Identity and LearLearningning in Higher Education Institutions in the United KingdomKingdom Danielle Faye Tran, Learner Development Unit, Middlesex University London, London, UK Overview: The identity of a student and the way in which they learn may be affected by their status as a home or international student. Theme: Education and Learning in a World of Difference
14:30-14:45 BREAK 14:45-16:25 PPARALLEL SESSIONS Room: TCRoom: TC Democracy and Diversity: Questions of Agency and ReprRepresentationesentation 3.103.10 When Democratic InterInterestsests and the Public Good Clash: State TTakeoverakeover of Public School Districts Dr. John Hunt, Department of Educational Leadership, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Edwardsville, USA Dr. Sandra Watkins, Department of Educational Leadership, Western Illinois University, Macomb, USA Overview: This paper analyzes what happens to community representation and voice when the duly elected school boards are ousted and school districts are taken over by the state. Theme: Community Diversity and Governance Moving ForwarForward:d: Democracy's Role in LGBT Rights in the Republic of Georgia Dr. Shirley Wade McLoughlin, Department of Education, Keene State College, Keene, USA Overview: In the Republic of Georgia, citizens’ commitment to democratic principles counters resistance, encouraged by religious leaders, to the LGBT movement. This study examines interrelationships between democracy and LGBT rights' repression. Theme: Community Diversity and Governance Democracy and Active Aging in Spain: The Political Participation of Elderly People as a Study Case Ainhoa Uribe-Otalora, Institute of Democratic Studies Faculty of Law, CEU San Pablo University, Madrid, Spain Overview: This paper analyses the political culture of elderly people in Spain, in order to determine what their involvement and implication is in the development of society. Theme: Community Diversity and Governance 2014 Social Sciences ConferenceWEDNESDAEDNESDAYY, 09 JULULYY 33
14:45-16:25 PPARALLEL SESSIONS Room: TCRoom: TC Inclusive Education Strategies and Struggles 4.044.04 ThrThreeee Characteristics of Feminist Mathematics ClassrClassroomsooms Dr. Elizabeth A. Burroughs, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Montana State University, Bozeman, USA Dr. Jessica M. Deshler, Mathematics Department, West Virginia University, Morgantown, USA Overview: To create a feminist mathematics environment, we implemented curriculum modules that attend to students’ perceived usefulness of mathematics, explicitly addressing student motivation and encouraging all students to assert mathematical authority. Theme: Education and Learning in a World of Difference Gender and Language in South African School TTexts:exts: A Single Case Study Prof. Sonja Schoeman, Department of Curriculum and Instructional Studies, University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa Overview: This paper investigates gender and language in school texts: how it is manifested, with what consequences, and how it can be addressed. A single case study is reported. Theme: Education and Learning in a World of Difference Function of the Student Scientific Communities at the Art Universities in Iran Dr. Reza Samim, Department of Social Studies, Institute for Social and Cultural Studies, Tehran, Iran (Islamic Republic of) Overview: Student scientific communities in universities are aimed at paving the way for scientific interaction and scientific socialization. This paper studies scientific communities at Iranian Art Universities. Theme: Education and Learning in a World of Difference A Narrative of ClassrClassroomoom Community and AfAffirmativefirmative Responsibility Dr. Robert Christopher Nellis, Teacher Education Department, Red Deer College, Edmonton, Canada Overview: This paper examines a homophobic incident and instructor response in a Canadian teacher education classroom as impetus for exploration of a notion of curricular community as space of affirmative responsibility. Theme: Education and Learning in a World of Difference Room:Room: City and Diversity TC.4.12TC.4.12 Language Policies, Identity Building, and “Hierar“Hierarchicalchical Diversities” in Post-independence SingaporSingaporee Zi Wang, Paris School of International Affairs, Sciences Po Paris, Münster, Germany Overview: This paper looks at language policies and identity in post-independence Singapore. The specific case study on the ethnic Chinese community highlights problematic issues in diversity promotion. Theme: Identity and Belonging Boomtowns and Diversity: Exploring the Rapidly Changing Identity of the City of Darwin, Northern Tn Territoryerritory Dr. Gretchen Ennis, Research Centre for Health and Wellbeing, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Australia Overview: The Australian city of Darwin is in the early stages of becoming an international gas-hub and military base. The city's evolving identity and the impact on community diversity is explored. Theme: Identity and Belonging Swapping Houses: Mobility Behaviour and Migration TTendenciesendencies in a Changing Multicultural City Katerina Mojanchevska, Erasmus University Rotterdam, International Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, Netherlands Overview: This paper examines the underlying processes of internal migration in the city of Skopje, Macedonia and possible patterns of co-ethnic preference in moving behaviour in a multicultural city. Theme: Community Diversity and Governance Role of Planners in Handling Diversity Lika Sharifi Sadeghi, Institute for European Urban Studies, Faculty of Architecture, Bauhaus University Weimar, Weimar, Germany Overview: Discussing how to institutionalize diversity in cities in order to better accommodate diversity, through reviewing diversity policies, with the focus on the planners’ role in handling difference. Theme: Organizational Diversity 34 WEDNESDAEDNESDAYY, 09 JULULYY2014 Social Sciences Conference
14:45-16:25 PPARALLEL SESSIONS Room:Room: Diversity for the ClassrClassroomoom and PrProfessionalofessional Development TC.4.13TC.4.13 Dialogue to Shift a CulturCulturee Dalton Mills, Gantt Center For Student Life, Diversity Affairs, Clemson University, Clemson, USA Overview: The goal of the dialogues is to create an open forum for new students at Clemson University to share experiences and identities to create a more understanding and accepting culture. Theme: Education and Learning in a World of Difference Lost in the Diversity Jungle? Using the Diversity Compass for Early Career Scholars’ Orientation in ResearResearchch Communities Gloria Kutscher, Institute of Gender and Diversity in Organizations, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Vienna, Austria Gloria Warmuth, Institute of Gender and Diversity in Organizations, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Vienna, Austria Dudu Kucukgol, Institute for Gender and Diversity in Organizations, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Vienna, Austria Benjamin Schoenung, Department of Global Business and Trade, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria Gisela Tinkler, Institute of English Business Communication, WU Wien - Vienna University of Economics and Business, Vienna, Austria Overview: In this paper a diversity compass adaptation is used for the positioning within the research community of early career scholars. Through awareness of one's position future career opportunities are disclosed. Theme: Education and Learning in a World of Difference Culturally Responsive Ecology in Rural Belize Dr. Douglas Hermond, Department of Educational Leadership and Counseling College of Education, Prairie View A&M University, Prairie View, USA Dr. Tyrone Tanner, Department of Educational Leadership and Counseling College of Education, Prairie View A&M University, Prairie View, USA Overview: This practical research was designed to match University students from Texas with educators from a rural community in Belize to develop cultural responsive workshops that address Belize’s educational needs. Theme: Education and Learning in a World of Difference Diversity among Post-graduate Certificate in Education Students during a earlyY Educational Excursion in a University in Gauteng PrProvince,ovince, South Africa Dr. Mabatho Sedibe, Education (Educational Psychology), University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa Overview: This paper describes diversity among Post-graduate Certificate Students in Education from different backgrounds, using educational activities such as egg experiments and solar heating. Theme: Education and Learning in a World of Difference Room:Room: Diversity Accompanies Organizational Success TC.4.15TC.4.15 Diversity and Survival of Newly Founded Organizations Dr. Monika Jungbauer-Gans, Department of Law and Economics, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Nuremberg, Germany Antje Buche, Department of Law and Economics, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Nuremberg, Germany Overview: Using a large panel data-set for German establishments, we examine the effects of organizational diversity of newly founded businesses on their survival chances. Theme: Organizational Diversity Football Club BarBarcelonacelona as a Hybrid Organization for WWorldorld Recognition of Catalonia Identity: FrFrom Localom Local Diversity to Global Responsibility and Caring Carlos Rabasso, Economics, Culture, and International Relations, NEOMA Business School, Rouen, France Francisco Javier Rabasso, UFR Lettres et Sciences Humaines, Université de Rouen, Rouen, France Overview: This paper shows how Football Club Barcelona became a globally responsible organization through a model of caring and a symbol of the struggle of Catalonia’s identity for world recognition. Theme: Organizational Diversity CrCross-culturaloss-cultural Conflicts in WorkingWTorking Teamseams ofof thethe UnitedUnited Nations:Nations: WhyWhy CollaborationsCollaborations inin MultinationalMultinational TTeamseams Succeed Sophie Quach, Ludwig Maximillians University Munich, Munich, Germany Overview: In the contrary of expected negative effects of diversity, the aim is to explain why multinational teams have a low conflict level and why collaborations in these teams succeed. Theme: Organizational Diversity 2014 Social Sciences ConferenceWEDNESDAEDNESDAYY, 09 JULULYY 35
14:45-16:25 PPARALLEL SESSIONS Room:Room: Minorities in the WWorkplaceorkplace TC.4.17TC.4.17 Gender Diversity in the BoarBoardd Room: Organizational TTrrendsends by Region Dr. James Tanoos, Business and CIS Department, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College, Terre Haute, USA Overview: This paper describes recent statistical trends related to female representation in board rooms of organizations and discusses cultural developments based on geographic region. Theme: Organizational Diversity Depictions of Diversity in Canadian Accounting Firm Recruitment Documents Merridee Bujaki, Sprott School of Business, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada Francois Brouard, Sprott School of Business, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada Sylvain Durocher, Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada Leighann Neilson, Sprott School of Business, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada Rhonda Pyper, Telfer School of Management, Univeristy of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada Overview: We evaluate how gender and racial diversity are presented in the online recruitment documents of Canada’s eight largest public accounting firms. Both photographic and textual depictions of diversity are examined. Theme: Organizational Diversity Associations between Social Capital MeasurMeasureses and ReturReturn to Wn Workork among WWomenomen on Long- term Sick LeaveLeave Ingela Rydström, School of Health Sciences, University of Borås, Borås, Sweden Ann-Charlotte Dalheim Englund, School of Health Sciences, University of Borås, Borås, Sweden Overview: This study focuses on the associations between social capital measures and return to work (RTW) among women on long-term sick leave. Theme: Organizational Diversity "I W"I Want to Want Workork So I Can't TTellell My Husband": Coping Strategies of Arab WWomenomen with Customers' Sexual Harassment Dr. Dalit Yassour-Borochowitz, Department of Human Services, The Max Stern Yezreel Valley College, Emek Yezreel, Israel Overview: This study examines the cultural and personal implications of customer's sexual harassment on thirty Arab women who work as frontline service providers, and the implications for service organizations. Theme: Organizational Diversity
16:25-16:40 BREAK 16:40-17:55 PPARALLEL SESSIONS Room: TCRoom: TC LGBT Studies 3.103.10 WherWhere Do We e Belong: Aging and ConcerConcernsns for LGBT Seniors Julius Okpodi, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, Canada Overview: This research is to help Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender seniors share with all seniors the same goal of living with comfort and dignity in their last stages of life. Theme: Identity and Belonging TTransgenderransgender Issues in YYoung Childroung Children:en: An Israeli Case Study Dr. Tamar Ascher Shai, Department of Early Childhood Education, David Yellin Academic Teacher's College, Jerusalem, Israel Overview: In this paper I relate the stories of two six-year-old children, a boy and a girl, who do not identify with their biological birth gender. Theme: Identity and Belonging A TA Touristourist in HeterHeteroland: Lawoland: Law,, Legal Institutions, and HeterHeteronormativityonormativity Prof. Todd Brower, Law, Western State University College of Law, Williams Institute-UCLA School of Law, Fullerton, USA Overview: Legal establishments as norm creators either marginalize LGBT persons through heteronormativity, or include them to transform societal norms. LGBTs interactions with law illustrate exclusion, loss of agency, backlash, and transformation. Theme: Identity and Belonging 36 WEDNESDAEDNESDAYY, 09 JULULYY2014 Social Sciences Conference
16:40-17:55 PPARALLEL SESSIONS Room: TCRoom: TC Hybridity and Integration 4.044.04 Identity and Belonging: Analysis of Second Generation Immigrant’s Integration Dr. Antonio Menendez-Alarcon, Department of Sociology, Butler University, Indianapolis, USA Overview: This paper concentrates on the process of integration as it relates to developing a sense of “belonging” in the host society. Theme: Identity and Belonging Life Satisfaction among TTransracialransracial KorKoreanean Adoptees in EurEuropeope and the United States: WWitnesses initnesses in Globalization History Dr. Daniel Schwekendiek, Academy of East Asian Studies, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, South Korea Overview: This research investigates multivariate determinants of life satisfaction among adult Korean adoptees who were raised in predominantly Caucasian societies in Western Europe and North America. Theme: Identity and Belonging Performing Filipino-Australian YYouth: Interouth: Interculturalcultural Families, IdentityIdentity,, and the Question of Hybridity Dr. Cleonicki Saroca, Faculty of Asian Studies, Asian University for Women, Chittagong, Bangladesh Overview: This paper explores the lives of young Filipino-Australians, those with one immigrant Filipino parent and a non-Filipino parent, and how they construct their identities in an intercultural family. Theme: Identity and Belonging Room:Room: Gender and Cultural Capital TC.4.12TC.4.12 Refugee Single Mothers: Claiming Motherhood as a Capability to Increase Cultural Capital Dr. Julian Grant, Faculty of Health Sciences, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia Pauline Guerin, Social Sciences, Pennsylvania State University, Media, USA Overview: This paper presents the findings from a South Australian ethnographic study exploring how young, single mothers who are refugees from the African subcontinent, raise young children in a new country. Theme: Identity and Belonging WWrittenritten in Her Own VVoice:oice: Excavating our Pasts, Auto-ethno-edu-biographies of TTen Wen Womenomen in Higher EducationEducation Dr. Dolapo Adeniji-Neill, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, School of Education, Adelphi University, Garden City, USA Dr. Anne Mary Mungai, Ruth S. Ammon School of Education, Adelphi University, Garden City, USA Dr. Srilata Bhattacharyya, Childhood Development Curriculum & Instruction Ruth Ammon School of Education, Adelphi University, Garden City, New York, Port Washington, USA Overview: This paper looks at how our past and present contributed to our educational achievements lighting the ways of young women and men in the pursuit of education and knowledge. Theme: Education and Learning in a World of Difference A Lesson of Empowerment: A Letter to My Daughters Penny Solano, The Access Center, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, USA Overview: This autoethnographical paper analyzes the dominant culture's processes, which have been argued to create low self-esteem and result in poor performance in the educational system. Theme: Identity and Belonging Room:Room: Diversity and Language Education TC.4.13TC.4.13 LearLearningning English in a WWorld of Diforld Differferencesences Dr. Ursula Chandler, Department of English and World Languages, Arkansas Tech University, Russellville, USA Overview: This paper outlines findings of an investigation of difficulties learning English as a second language. Respondents were linguistically and culturally diverse. Findings have implications for TESOL instruction in the US. Theme: Education and Learning in a World of Difference Personality and English as a ForForeigneign Language LearLearning:ning: A Sociocultural Perspective Syarifah Dahliana, School of Education Faculty of Art and Education, Deakin University, Burwood, Australia Overview: This study investigates the relationship between personality and learning in the foreign language classroom by exploring the effects of learners’ sociocultural background and previous experiences on their pattern of interaction. Theme: Education and Learning in a World of Difference 2014 Social Sciences ConferenceWEDNESDAEDNESDAYY, 09 JULULYY 37
16:40-17:55 PPARALLEL SESSIONS Room:Room: Spaces of Diversity TC.4.15TC.4.15 Evaluating Diversity: The Case Study of Martin Luther King. JrJr. Boulevar. Boulevardd Janelle C. Simmons, Educational Leadership, Liberty University, Flushing, USA Overview: This paper will examine the question of the progress or lack thereof of diversity and civil rights through the lens of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. Theme: Identity and Belonging The Relationship between ArArchitecturalchitectural Identity and Social Sustainability Golnar Ahmadi, Frankfurt, University of Applied Science, Wiesbaden, Germany Overview: This paper presents an essay about the relationship between architectural identity and social sustainability. Theme: Identity and Belonging PrProtectionsotections for Lesbian, GayGay,, Bisexual, and TTransgenderransgender Citizens and City Economies Dr. Thomas S. Serwatka, President's Office, University of North Florida, Jacksonville, USA Overview: This study of 100 US cities explores whether cities with laws protecting the rights of LGBT citizens or cities without the protections fare better economically, Theme: Community Diversity and Governance Room:Room: Publishing Session TC.4.17TC.4.17 In this session the Production Coordinator of the Diversity Collection of Journals will present an overview of Common Ground's publishing philosophy and practices. She will also offer tips for turning conference papers in to journal articles, present an overview of journal publishing procedures and provide information on Common Ground's book proposal submission process. Please feel free to bring questions - the second half of the session will be devoted to Q&A. 17:55-18:00 END OF DAAYY Welcome Reception to be held at the Vienna Rathaus (Vienna City Hall) beginning at 19:00. Please see map and directions on page 24. 38 THURSDAHURSDAYY, 10 JULULYY 2014 Social Sciences Conference
8:00-9:00 REGISTRAEGISTRATIONTION DESK OPEN 9:00-9:10 HOST OPENING REMARKS 9:10-9:40 PLENARLENARYY SESSION Regine Bendl, Vienaa University of Economics and Business, Austria "(Ir)Regularities of Managerial Discourses on Diversity" 9:45-10:15 BREAK & GARDEN SESSION 10:15-11:30 PARALLEL SESSIONS Room: TC Diversity Curriculum and Instruction 3.103.10 Contributions to the Scholarship of TTeachingeaching and LearLearning:ning: The Redesign of a Social Justice Course in AgriculturAgriculturee Dr. Pamala V. Morris, College of Agriculture Office of Multicultural Programs, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA Overview: This paper outlines the insights, strategies, and process of redesigning a social justice course through the “IM:PACT” Instruction Matters: Purdue Academic Course Transformation to improve student competency through student-centered teaching. Theme: Education and Learning in a World of Difference Elevate a Child: Reintegration of ChildrChildren Boren Born of Wn War thrar throughough Arts Education Evanne Nowak, WISE Learners’ Voice Program World Innovation Summit of Education, University of Humanistic Studies, Utrecht, Netherlands Maeve Dunne, Education, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland Overview: "Elevate a Child" incorporates an arts-based peace education curriculum for children in Gulu, Northern Uganda that fosters mutual respect and understanding while also developing crucial life skills. Theme: Education and Learning in a World of Difference Engagement with Place: CairCairo as Classro Classroomoom Dr. Fayyaz Vellani, Critical Writing Program, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA Overview: Based on field research in Cairo following the geopolitical changes of 2011, this paper elucidates trainee teachers’ engagement with a city in flux. Theme: Education and Learning in a World of Difference Room: TCRoom: TC Intersections of Diversity: InterInterdependentdependent Constructions of Identity 4.044.04 DiversityDiversity,, Coalition, Coevolution, and EnvirEnvironmentalonmental Sustainability: Reading Queer Ecology in Octavia Butler’Butler’ss "Parable of the Sower" Gregory Luke Chwala, English Literature and Criticism, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, USA Overview: Patriarchal, heteronormative, capitalistic hierarchies destroy the environment and create a dystopia in "Parable of the Sower," while queer families sustain and respect diversity, coalition, and naturecultures in reconstructing a utopia. Theme: Identity and Belonging Evangelical PrProtestantismotestantism in France: Religious Diversity in a Secularist Context Prof. Jean-Philippe Mathy, Department of French, Program in Comparative and World Literature, University of Illinois, Urbana, USA Overview: This paper examines the growth of evangelical Protestantism in France, as an example of the challenges posed by religious diversity in a secularist context (institutional separation of church and state). Theme: Identity and Belonging Collective Self-esteem among VVietnameseietnamese American Adolescents Dr. Brian Lam, School of Social Work, California State University Long Beach, Long Beach, USA Overview: The purpose of this study was to examine the collective self-esteem and coping strategies of Vietnamese American adolescents. Theme: Identity and Belonging 2014 Social Sciences Conference THURSDAHURSDAYY, 10 JULULYY 39
10:15-11:30 PPARALLEL SESSIONS Room:Room: Community Health OutrOutreacheach and Education TC.4.12TC.4.12 Health Information OutrOutreacheach to Diverse Communities Dr. Ana D. Cleveland, College of Information, University of North Texas, Denton, USA Dr. Jodi Philbrick, College of Information, University of North Texas, Denton, USA Overview: Providing health information can impact the health and wellbeing of diverse communities. Key elements of the process for delivering culturally relevant health information outreach programs will be discussed. Theme: Education and Learning in a World of Difference BrBreakingeaking Barriers, Building Bridges! A Community of Practice AddrAddressingessing the Celebration of Diversity Eileen D. Maleka, Counselling and Careers Development Unit, The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa Overview: A community of mental health practitioners appreciating the common humanity that tertiary students share by addressing the celebration of diversity on the University of the Witwatersrand campus and beyond. Theme: Education and Learning in a World of Difference Knowledge and Attitudes towartowardsds HealthcarHealthcaree Disparities among Medical Educators, Their Students, and Their Patients Dr. Lisa Angelica Moreno-Walton, Section of Emergency Medicine, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center- New Orleans, New Orleans, USA Overview: Medical data continues to demonstrate that minorities have poorer outcomes from preventable and manageable diseases. Medical educators, students, and patients must develop awareness and advocacy skills to remediate these differences. Theme: Education and Learning in a World of Difference Room:Room: Human Rights, Civil Rights TC.4.13TC.4.13 Constitutionality TTrroublesoubles Rights of the Body: FrFreedomeedom of Speech and Social Discrimination Riva Sobrado De Freitas, Law Department, Universidade do Oeste de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil Maria Cristina Cereser Pezzella, Law Department, Universidade do Oeste de Santa Catarina, Porto Alegre, Brazil Overview: This study analyzes the required theoretical foundations to determine the boundaries of the Rights of the Body, considering its increasing importance for guarantees of personal dignity today. Theme: Community Diversity and Governance Human Rights and State SoverSovereignty:eignty: The Kenyan Case as Illustration of Conflict in Implementation Fidèle Ingiyimbere, Philosophy Department, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, USA Overview: International human rights have imparted the understanding of state sovereignty and local governance with consequence on human rights implementation as illustrated by the Kenyan case. Theme: Community Diversity and Governance Identities Divided: IntrIntroducingoducing a Dialogue of DifDifferferenceence into Disability Rights in Canada Fiona Ning Cheuk, Faculty of Health, Critical Disability Studies, York University, Markham, Canada Overview: This paper introduces a cross-identity analysis of Disability and Anti-racism Rights in Canada. Such an absence overlooks the oppressive experiences involving intersections of disability, transnational, and racialized identities. Theme: Identity and Belonging Room:Room: Negotiating Diversity in Health CarCaree Organizations TC.4.15TC.4.15 State-of-the-art Actions and Instruments for Managing Patient and Employee Diversity in Hospitals Mario Alexander Pfannstiel, Faculty of Law and Economics, Chair of Strategic Management and Organization, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany Overview: This paper offers a starting point for the development of holistic diversity management in hospitals through proposed developed action plans and instruments for diversity management. Theme: Organizational Diversity Identifying Best Practices for Negotiating Diversity in Publicly-administered HealthcarHealthcare:e: A Canadian PerspectivePerspective Dr. Sheryl Reimer-Kirkham, School of Nursing, Trinity Western University, Langley, Canada Overview: Accelerated global migration is raising important questions about diversity in social institutions such as healthcare. This paper discusses how diversity is negotiated in healthcare organizations. Theme: Organizational Diversity 40 THURSDAHURSDAYY, 10 JULULYY 2014 Social Sciences Conference
10:15-11:30 PPARALLEL SESSIONS Room:Room: Inclusion and Exclusion TC.4.17TC.4.17 Immigrant ParParentsents Narrate Their Encounters with Swedish HealthcarHealthcaree Ann-Charlotte Dalheim Englund, School of Health Sciences, University of Borås, Borås, Sweden Ingela Rydström, School of Health Sciences, University of Borås, Borås, Sweden Overview: This study focuses on immigrant parents of children with asthma and their encounters with the Swedish healthcare system. Theme: Identity and Belonging The OtherThe Othernessness of Simultaneously Being a YYoungoung Person and a YYoung Caroung Care-givere-giver Maria Kambouris, Centre for Health and Wellbeing, Charles Darwin University, Australia Prof. Mary Finlayson, Centre for Heath and Wellbeing, Charles Darwin University, Australia Dr. Gretchen Ennis, Centre for Health and Wellbeing, Charles Darwin University, Australia Overview: This retrospective qualitative study of adolescent care-givers’ experiences and outcomes of social exclusion explores the importance of systemic intervention in fostering equity, access, and recognition for these people. Theme: Identity and Belonging ArAree Individuals with Disabilities and Their Families “Resilient?”: Deconstructing and Recasting a Well-ell- intended Concept Dr. Bonnie Lashewicz, Department of Community Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada Overview: In this paper we recast the concept of resilience. We argue that resilience has been narrowly applied in ways that do not account for disability related diversity. Theme: Identity and Belonging
11:30-11:40 BREAK 11:40-12:25 PPARALLEL SESSIONS Room: TCRoom: TC WWorkshoporkshop 3.103.10 Negotiating Sex and Gender Mediums acracrossoss Continents: BrBrockport,ockport, New YYorkork to NovgorNovgorod, Russiaod, Russia Dr. Barbara LeSavoy, Women and Gender Studies, The School of the Arts Humanities and Social Sciences, The College at Brockport, State University of New York (SUNY), Brockport, USA Ann Giralico-Pearlman, The Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching (CELT), Division of Academic Affairs, The College at Brockport, State University of New York (SUNY), Brockport, USA Overview: This workshop examines transnational feminist-engagement, detailing a Collaborative Online International Learning course. It considers development of strategies to engage cross-cultural dialogue in a COIL course and strategize progressive pedagogies. Theme: Education and Learning in a World of Difference Room: TCRoom: TC WWorkshoporkshop 4.044.04 The Nexus between Literacy Acquisition and Diversity: A TheorTheoreticaletical Framework for Cohesive Instruction Dr. Enrique A. Puig, College of Education and Human Performance, University of Central Florida, Orlando, USA Dr. Sandra L. Robinson, College of Education and Human Performance, University of Central Florida, Orlando, USA Dr. Edward Robinson, College of Education and Human Performance, University of Central Florida, Orlando, USA Overview: This workshop interactively investigates a theoretical framework for understanding diversity and disciplinary literacy acquisition to prepare students with twenty-first century skills. Specific recommendations and suggestions for implementation will be provided. Theme: Education and Learning in a World of Difference Room:Room: WWorkshoporkshop TC.4.12TC.4.12 Intentionally CrCreatingeating a Cultural Identity and Culturally Responsive TTeachingeaching Practice WWorkshoporkshop Dr. Laura Mitchell, Department of Urban Education, University of Houston, Downtown, Houston, USA Overview: This workshop is designed for participants to explore their world views, perspectives, and attitudes toward others. The participants will be challenged to explore their own cultural perspectives and attitudes. Theme: Identity and Belonging 2014 Social Sciences Conference THURSDAHURSDAYY, 10 JULULYY 41
11:40-12:25 PPARALLEL SESSIONS Room:Room: Poster Session TC.4.13TC.4.13 PrPrevalenceevalence and PrPredictorsedictors of Student Sexual Harassment against School Employees Dr. Konstantin Cigularov, Department of Psychology, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, USA Benjamin Bass, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, USA Peter Y Chen, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia Kimberly Henry, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, USA Rocco Tomazic, Linden Public Schools, Linden, USA Yiqiong Li, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia Overview: This study examines the prevalence and predictors of student sexual harassment against school employees. Both individual and organizational variables were identified as significant risk factors. Implications for prevention are discussed. Theme: Organizational Diversity Relationship among TTeacher Pereacher Perceptionsceptions of Multicultural Education Belief, Multicultural Education Praxis, TTeachers’eachers’ GenderGender, Ethnicity, , and Attendance of Multicultural Education WWorkshoporkshop Dr. Su-ching Lin, Educational Department, Graduate Institute of Education, National Changhua University of Education, Changhua, Taiwan Overview: This study examines the relationships among secondary school teacher perceptions of multicultural education belief, multicultural education praxis, teachers’ gender, ethnicity, and attendance of multicultural education workshop. Theme: Education and Learning in a World of Difference States Partner to Catalyze Diversity Jan Carroll, Extension, Federal and Civic Engagement, Diversity Catalyst Team, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, USA Shauna Woods, Extension, Operation Military Kids, Diversity Catalyst Team, Colorado State University, Golden, USA Overview: The Change Agents States initiative develops successful models and systemic change strategies that support greater diversity and welcoming climates throughout the Land Grant University system. Theme: Organizational Diversity Native American WWomenomen in Science, TTechnologyechnology,, Engineering, and Mathematics Fields and Their CarCareereer PathwaysPathways Felica Ahasteen-Bryant, Native American Educational and Cultural Center, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA Dr. Suzanne Zurn-Birkhimer, Mathematics, Saint Joseph's College, Rensselaer, USA Dr. Chris Sahley, Center for Faculty Success, Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA Overview: This study gathers insights and factors that influence career decisions of Native American, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian women who have earned doctorates in STEM fields. Theme: Identity and Belonging Room:Room: WWorkshoporkshop TC.4.17TC.4.17 Authentic Leadership thrthroughough Understanding and ConfrConfrontingonting Personal Biases Mr. Stephen Brady, Ohio State University Extension, The Ohio State University, Lebanon, USA Overview: This interactive workshop guides participants in a non-threatening manner to identify and challenge personal biases and assumptions about people who are different via class, gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, etc. Theme: Identity and Belonging Room:Room: WWorkshoporkshop TC.5.12TC.5.12 Equity and Social Justice frfromom the Intersections Dr. Trula Nicholas, Department of Human Servces and Rehabilitation, Western Washington University, Bellingham, USA Overview: This interactive workshop creates an environment where participants can engage in a meaningful exploration of unearned privileges in the context of intersectionallity and allyship. Theme: Identity and Belonging Room:Room: WWorkshoporkshop TC.5.14TC.5.14 Building an Inclusive WWorkfororkforcece Strategy: Leveraging Diversity and Inclusion thrthroughough Understanding Organizational CulturCulturee and Reducing Bias Wendy Lundgaard, Win-Win Workplace Strategies P/L, Melbourne, Australia Overview: This workshop introduces a diagnostic tool enabling mapping of key cultural markers from that of compliance to optimisation for competitive advantage. A three stage strategic roadmap aids organisational progression. Theme: Organizational Diversity Room:Room: WWorkshoporkshop TC.5.18TC.5.18 Innovation, DiversityDiversity,, and Market GrGrowth:owth: The Impact of TTwo-dimensionalwo-dimensional Diversity on Market GrGrowthowth Carolyn Buck-Luce, Hewlett Consulting Partners, LLC, Center of Talent Innovation, New York, USA Brigitte D. Lippmann, Hewlett Consulting Partners, LLC, Center for Talent Innovation, New York, USA Sandra Scharf, Hewlett Consulting Partners, LLC, Center for Talent Innovation, New York, USA Overview: Increase innovation capacity to enhance market growth by promoting 2-D diversity. This workshop will explore how to unlock innovation power by leveraging a diverse workforce. Theme: Organizational Diversity 42 THURSDAHURSDAYY, 10 JULULYY 2014 Social Sciences Conference
12:25-13:25 LUNCH 13:25-15:05 PPARALLEL SESSIONS Room: TCRoom: TC WWorkshoporkshop 3.103.10 CrCreatingeating Culturally Responsive LearLearning Envirning Environmentsonments for Diverse Student Populations: EfEffectivefective Strategies That ImprImproveove Student Engagement and Academic Outcomes Dr. Gwendolyn Willis-Darpoh, Health and Social Development, American Institutes for Research, Washington, USA Overview: This workshop will examine current data on ethnic diversity of K-12 classrooms in America. The characteristics of a culturally responsive classroom and their impact on student performance will be explored. Theme: Education and Learning in a World of Difference Room: TCRoom: TC Theorizing Diversity 4.044.04 What is Diversity Really? A PrProcessocess Analysis of Diversity Dr. Peter Tan, Philosophy Department, Mount St. Mary's College, Los Angeles, USA Overview: "Diversity" is much more than a word denoting a quality of different things; it is fundamentally that element of value and novelty implicit in our ability to experience. Theme: Education and Learning in a World of Difference Self-sterSelf-stereotypingeotyping and CrCross-culturaloss-cultural TTeameam Collaborations: The Moderating Role of TTeam Cultuream Culturee Kay Yoon, College of Communication, DePaul University, Chicago, USA Overview: This paper theorizes the effects of self-stereotyping on cross-cultural collaboration and team performance in a multi-cultural context and the moderating role of hybrid team culture. Theme: Identity and Belonging WWine Garine Gardensdens and GraveyarGraveyards:ds: Identity and Belonging Dr. Michelle Shepherd, The American Institute of Architects, Doebling, Austria Overview: Through narrative case study, this paper examines Viennese cemeteries traditional function and contemporary reception, tying together notions of cultural stasis with international trends. Theme: Identity and Belonging Room:Room: Managing Diversity: Regional Studies TC.4.12TC.4.12 Who Is DifWho Differferent,ent, Us or Them?: Managing Cultural Diversity in an Organisation in Cyprus Andri Georgiadou, Business School, London Metropolitan University, Limassol, Cyprus Overview: An action research conducted in a private organisation in Cyprus exploring the utilisation of the existing theories in the case that diversity occurs in the upper level of management. Theme: Organizational Diversity Diversity Management in Ontario and Prince EdwarEdwardd Island: A Case for Contingency Theory Jocelyn McGrandle, Department of Political Science, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada Overview: When analyzing public sector diversity management practices, contingency theory best explains differences in policy type between organizations because it factors in the effects of internal and external environments of organizations. Theme: Organizational Diversity Indigenous Employment and TTrainingraining in Darwin, Australia Matalena Tofa, Research Centre for Health and Wellbeing, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Australia Overview: Mining developments are often positioned as sources of economic opportunities. The rhetoric of the resources boom in Darwin, Australia, and its "on-the-ground" impacts for Aboriginal training and employment are examined. Theme: Organizational Diversity The Role of a Positive Climate for Diversity in New Zealand Organizations: Leveraging the Talents of analents an Ethnically Diverse WWorkfororkforcece Dr. Carla Houkamau, Department of Management and International Business, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand Overview: This paper reports a telephone survey of 500 New Zealand workers’ perceptions of, and responses to, diversity management activities. Theme: Organizational Diversity 2014 Social Sciences Conference THURSDAHURSDAYY, 10 JULULYY 43
13:25-15:05 PPARALLEL SESSIONS Room:Room: Language Diversity and InterInterculturalcultural Interaction TC.4.13TC.4.13 Developing InterInterculturalcultural Understanding thrthroughough an Online School Exchange for YYoungerounger LearLearners:ners: Opportunities and Challenges Dr. Gillian Peiser, School of Teacher Education and Professional Learning Faculty of Education, Health and Community, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK Overview: This paper discusses the findings of an action research project on an online school exchange integrated into the foreign languages curriculum with the pedagogical aim of promoting intercultural understanding. Theme: Education and Learning in a World of Difference Applied Linguists' and Other Academics' Place in the Ecology of Linguistic and Cultural Diversity Sustainability Dr. Peter Heffernan, Faculty of Education, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Canada Overview: English as a lingua franca is accepted. However, English alone in academic discourse, especially in humanities disciplines, is problematic. The presenter shares his research findings on this issue. Theme: Education and Learning in a World of Difference Globalized Idiolect and "Artisan English" Orthography Dr. Jonathan M. Watt, Biblical Studies, Philosophy and Ministries Department, Geneva College, Beaver Falls, USA Overview: This paper explores code-switching in the class notes of adult second language English speakers, taking on new and unusual forms as a result of the sociological factors unique to globalization. Theme: Education and Learning in a World of Difference Subjectivities, Braiding, and WWritingriting Assignments: Fragmenting the Hegemons of Academic WWriting andriting and English-only Mandates Dr. Kim Gunter, The Rhetoric and Composition Program, Appalachian State University, Boone, USA Overview: This paper demonstrates how “academic English” mandates can be fragmented through the use of pedagogical and publishing practices that rely on socioepistemic rhetorical theory and “alternative” discourses. Theme: Education and Learning in a World of Difference Room:Room: Managing Domestic Diversity TC.4.15TC.4.15 Non-goverNon-governmentalnmental Organizations and the Implementation of PrPro-diversityo-diversity Policies Prof. João Góis, Graduate School of Social Work, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói, Brazil Overview: This paper examines the role played by non-governmental organizations in the implementation of pro- diversity policies in contemporary Brazil, mainly those policies directed to women and the LGBT and Black population. Theme: Community Diversity and Governance Not for PrNot Profits:ofits: Dealing with Diversity in Changing Darwin Sarah Redmond, Research Centre for Health and Wellbeing, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Australia Prof. Mary Finlayson, Centre for Heath and Wellbeing, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Australia Linda Ford, Charles Darwin University - The Northern Institute, Darwin, Australia Dr. Gretchen Ennis, Research Centre for Health and Wellbeing, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Australia Overview: Darwin is experiencing significant changes to its population, becoming a hub for large mining projects. The role non-profits take in softening the harder edges of rapid change is explored. Theme: Community Diversity and Governance Community Diversity and GoverGovernancenance in Earthquake Recovery in CanterburyCanterbury,, New Zealand Elizabeth Toomey, School of Law, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand Overview: This paper explores the recovery of the region three years after the disaster and addresses whether the emergency governing powers have met the needs of a quickly diversifying community. Theme: Community Diversity and Governance 44 THURSDAHURSDAYY, 10 JULULYY 2014 Social Sciences Conference
13:25-15:05 PPARALLEL SESSIONS Room:Room: Employment Policies and Practices: Discrimination and Integration TC.4.17TC.4.17 Aboriginal Peoples and Canadian Armed ForForces:ces: Adaptation and Integration into the Canadian ForForcesces Capt. Felix Fonseca, Department of National Defense Research-Analysis (DGMPRA), Director General Military Personnel, Ottawa, Canada Overview: This paper addresses research results on how to facilitate the Adaptation of Canadian Aboriginal Peoples from isolated communities to urban life conditions while serving in the Canadian Armed Forces. Theme: Organizational Diversity Age Discrimination beyond the Employment Equality DirDirective:ective: Emerging Aging PrProblemsoblems between Austria, ItalyItaly,, and the United Kingdom That PrPreventevent an Economic UpturUpturnn Helga Hejny, Law School, Middlesex University, London, London, UK Overview: Age discrimination, after the European Directive 2000/78, involves objective justifications which are led by the political, economic, and demographical implications that vary across the countries considered in this paper. Theme: Community Diversity and Governance Dealing with Disability in Organizations: How Human ResourResourcece Managers Discoursively Construct DisabilityDisability Heike Mensi-Klarbach, Department Management, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Vienna, Austria Overview: Human resource managers are relevant gatekeepers for people with disabilities to get into organizations. This qualitative research shows how HR managers construct disability and otherness in the organizational context. Theme: Organizational Diversity Developing the Indigenous WWorkfororkforce:ce: An Initiative to Facilitate CarCareer Preer Progrogressionession for Indigenous Soldiers Lorraine Sushames, School of Vocational Education and Training, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Australia Overview: This paper discusses a contextualized language and literacy program to bridge educational gaps and facilitate access to specialist training opportunities for Indigenous soldiers. Theme: Organizational Diversity
15:05-15:20 BREAK 15:20-17:00 PPARALLEL SESSIONS Room: TCRoom: TC ColloquiumColloquium 3.103.10 Space, Place, and VVoice:oice: Conceptualizing and PrProtectingotecting Rural Diversities Dr. Susan Robinson, Centre for Regional Engagement, University of South Australia, Mount Gambier, Australia Prof. Guy Martin Robinson, Centre for Regional Engagement, University of South Australia, Whyalla, Australia Ana Vuin, IMC University of Applied Sciences, Krems, Austria Jaimie Garrett, Southern Cross University, Lismore, Australia Prof. Anthony Hogan, Institute for Governance and Policy Analysis, University of Canberra, Canberra, Australia Prof. Robert Tanton, National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling, University of Canberra, Canberra, Australia Dr. Jen Cleary, Centre for Regional Engagement, University of South Australia, Whyalla, Australia Assoc. Prof. Judy Nagy, Centre for Regional Engagement, University of South Australia, Mount Gambier, Australia Overview: This colloquium asks, is it possible to conceptualize rural places without losing sight of the real diversity and difference contained both within and across, regional and rural communities? Theme: Community Diversity and Governance 2014 Social Sciences Conference THURSDAHURSDAYY, 10 JULULYY 45
15:20-17:00 PPARALLEL SESSIONS Room: TCRoom: TC Higher Education Policies and Practices 4.044.04 Academic FrFreedom:eedom: The Importance of Autonomy Support in ImprImprovingoving the Experience of American WWomenomen in Academia Dr. Jessi L. Smith, Department of Psychology, Montana State University, Bozeman, USA Dr. Sara Rushing, Political Science, Montana State University, Bozeman, USA Ian Handley, Department of Psychology, Montana State University, Bozeman, USA Rebecca Belou, Montana State University, Bozeman, USA Dr. Elizabeth A. Burroughs, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Montana State University, Bozeman, USA Dr. Elizabeth Shanahan, Political Science, Montana State University, Bozeman, USA Dr. Linda Young, Department of Political Science, Montana State University, Bozeman, USA Overview: Supporting self-determination theory results showed women faculty’s experience of job satisfaction and belongingness depended on university support for feelings of autonomy. Implications for broadening women’s participation in academia are discussed. Theme: Education and Learning in a World of Difference WWomen’omen’ss Involvement as Academic StafStafff in Postsecondary Education: A Comparative Perspective Dr. Rebecca Ropers-Huilman, Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, USA Leah Reinert, Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development, University of Minnesota, USA Overview: This paper outlines a comparative analysis of policies and practices related to women’s involvement as academic staff in postsecondary education across the United States, the European Union, and Brazil. Theme: Education and Learning in a World of Difference Exploring Discourses of Diversity in United States Higher Education: A Critical Race Theoreticaletical Investigation Leah Nicole Hakkola, Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy, & Development, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Minneapolis, USA Overview: How is diversity shaped and communicated through equity policies, recruiting, and diversity research? This theoretical paper investigates how diversity, as discourse, is understood and operationalized in higher education recruitment literature. Theme: Education and Learning in a World of Difference Room:Room: Dimensions of Identity Construction TC.4.12TC.4.12 Embracing Daly and Althaus-Reid: Deconstructing and Constructing Identity Narratives Caelyn Randall, Union Theological Seminary, Columbia University, New York, USA Overview: This paper reconciles Mary Daly's essentialism and Marcella Althaus-Reid's constructivism through traumatic experiences. Theme: Identity and Belonging Diverse Meanings of Home and Homelessness in Multicultural Australia Dr. Carole Zufferey, School of Psychology, Social Work and Social Policy, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia Overview: This study examines how the lived experiences of ethnicity, class, gender, and age constitute meanings and experiences of home and homelessness. Theme: Identity and Belonging Identity and Belonging among Urban Mapuche Adolescents in Chile Maria Eugenia Merino, School of Teacher Education, Faculty of Education, Universidad Católica de Temuco, Chile, Temuco, Chile Overview: We report on how urban Mapuche adolescents in Chile construct their ethnic identity. We focus on the role of re-created cultural places in urban settings. Theme: Identity and Belonging Comparative ResearResearchch on Gender Equality AAwarwarenesseness in South KorKoreaea and Saudi Arabia: A Case Study of College Students in Both Nations Young-seo Lee, International Course in Hankuk Academy of Foreign Studies, Jama'ah tul Jamal (The Beautiful Group), Hankuk Academy of Foreign Studies, Yongin, South Korea Overview: This paper investigates the level of gender-equality awareness of Saudi Arabian college students compared to South Korean college students. Theme: Identity and Belonging 46 THURSDAHURSDAYY, 10 JULULYY 2014 Social Sciences Conference
15:20-17:00 PPARALLEL SESSIONS Room:Room: New DirNew Directionsections in Diversity Education TC.4.13TC.4.13 Educational DifDifferferencesences and Diversity: What Can WWe Leare Learn frn fromom the Highest Performing Countries to Inform Exemplary Practices? Dr. Sandra Watkins, Department of Educational Leadership, Western Illinois University, Macomb, USA Dr. John Hunt, Department of Educational Administration, Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville, Edwardsville, USA Overview: This paper focuses on the educational practices in the highest performing countries in the world and asks what we can learn from them in terms of implementing exemplary educational practices. Theme: Education and Learning in a World of Difference DiversityDiversity, Inquiry, and Co-cr, Co-creation:eation: Potential Antidotes to Neoliberalism Dr. Ksenija Napan, School of Health and Social Services, College of Health, Massey University, Auckland, New Zealand Overview: This paper will critically reflect on a neoliberal paradigm and will attempt to propose ways of addressing issues of diversity, social justice, and inquiry-based education within a multicultural classroom. Theme: Education and Learning in a World of Difference The Advantages of Diversity and Mutuality of Academic DifDifferferencesences in Thai Universities: The Case of the InterInternational Prnational Programogram at Kasetsart University Dr. Chanchai Petchprapunkul, Faculty of Economics, Department of Cooperatives, Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand Overview: Educational forms and learner differences (material, corporeal, and symbolic) impact student learning and educational and social outcomes. This paper explores differences in teaching and learning in comparison to other universities. Theme: Education and Learning in a World of Difference Room:Room: Analysis and Strategies of Organizational Diversity TC.4.15TC.4.15 Organizational Communication to StrStrengthenengthen Best Practice Management CulturCulturee Chongdee Chandam, Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand Overview: This is a study on organizational communication in a company that received the best practice management certificate from the Thailand Quality Award. Theme: Organizational Diversity Organizational Communication and Performance Appraisal: 360º Feedback and Organizational Communication Rita Andreia Monteiro Mourão, School of Sociology and Public Policies at ISCTE-IUL (Lisbon University Institute), CIES-IUL, Centre for Research and Studies in Sociolog, Lisbon University Institute, Lisboa, Portugal Sandra Lopes Miranda, School of Sociology and Public Policy at ISCTE-IUL (Lisbon University Institute), CIES-IUL, Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology, Lisbon University Institute, Lisboa, Portugal Overview: This study examines a specific evaluation method, called 360º feedback, that can be esponsibler for better organizational communication. Theme: Organizational Diversity The Factors Stimulating Energy Management Services Shih-Han Chen, Graduate Institute of Business Administration, National Taichung University of Education, Taichung, Taiwan Phil Yihsing Yang, Graduate Institute of Business Administration, National Taichung University of Education, Taichung, Taiwan Overview: This study investigates the determinants of energy management service from the perspective of transaction cost theory. This study verifies that formal control mechanisms increase the demand intention of energy managements. Theme: Organizational Diversity Immigrant-native DifDifferferencesences in Financial Market Behavior Dr. Nonna Kushnirovich, Department of Economics and Management, Institute for Immigration and Social Integration, Ruppin Academic Center, Emek Hefer, Israel Overview: This study investigates the modes of financial behavior of immigrants, comparing them with native-born persons. Theme: Organizational Diversity 2014 Social Sciences Conference THURSDAHURSDAYY, 10 JULULYY 47
15:20-17:00 PPARALLEL SESSIONS Room:Room: TTraining Training Teacherseachers in Diversity TC.4.17TC.4.17 Culturally Responsive ClassrClassrooms:ooms: Closing the Achievement Gap Dr. Tyrone Tanner, Department of Educational Leadership and Counseling College of Education, Prairie View A&M University, Prairie View, USA Dr. Douglas Hermond, Educational Leadership, Prairie View A & M University, Houston, USA Overview: This paper advocates training teachers in culturally responsive teaching methods increasing teachers' abilities to effectively instruct students from historically marginalized groups, thus resulting in a narrowing of the achievement gap. Theme: Education and Learning in a World of Difference Empowering TTeacherseachers Who WWorkork with Juveniles in CorrCorrectionalectional Centers: A WWellnessellness Perspective Prof. Meahabo Dinah Magano, Department of Inclusive Education, University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa Overview: This paper focuses on how teachers teach and interact with learners and how they try to develop the offender learners holistically. Theme: Education and Learning in a World of Difference TTeachers’eachers’ Reflections on Community Relations and Diversity: A Northern Irish Perspective Dr. Patricia Eaton, Teacher Education, Stranmillis University College, Belfast, UK Overview: This paper describes the results of a survey of teachers in schools, in Northern Ireland, on issues of diversity and community relations. Theme: Education and Learning in a World of Difference
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8:30-9:00 REGISTRAEGISTRATIONTION DESK OPEN 9:00-9:10 HOST OPENING REMARKS 9:10-9:40 PLENARLENARYY SESSION Michael Mϋller-Camen, Vienna University of Economics and Business “Sustainability and Diversity Management” 9:45-10:15 BREAK & GARDEN SESSION 10:15-11:55 PPARALLEL SESSIONS Room: TCRoom: TC InterInternationalnational Education 3.103.10 Whose Nation? Educating for Diversity and Civic Citizenship in a Globalized Higher Education Market Dr. Susan Robinson, Centre for Regional Engagement, University of South Australia, Mount Gambier, Australia Assoc. Prof. Judy Nagy, Centre for Regional Engagement, University of South Australia, Mount Gambier, Australia Overview: We explore potential tensions between the economic and civic motives of Western universities as they educate local and international students for global citizenship, whilst respecting diversity and difference. Theme: Education and Learning in a World of Difference An InterAn International Tnational Teachingeaching Experience and Its Impact Dr. Phoebe Constantinou, Health Promotion and Physical Education, Ithaca College, Ithaca, USA Overview: This study examines how pre-service teachers’ perceptions of a European school culture, in comparison to school culture in the United States, can impact their teaching approaches toward diversity. Theme: Education and Learning in a World of Difference EfEffectsfects of Overseas TTeachingeaching on Student TTeachereacher Attitudes Dr. Jo Ann Higginbotham, College of Education, Department of Early Childhood, Elementary, and Special Education, Lee University, Cleveland, USA Dr. Patricia McClung, Early Childhood, Elementary, and Special Education, Lee University, Cleveland, USA Overview: This paper addresses a three-year study that viewed the challenges and unique academic aspects of student teaching in two different overseas countries. Theme: Education and Learning in a World of Difference CulturCulture-sensitivee-sensitive TTeachingeaching and LearLearningning in a Diverse and Divided Society: The Case of a College on a JourJourney towarney towards Interds Internationalizationnationalization of Higher Education Prof. Helena Desivilya Syna, MA Program in Organizational Development and Consulting Department of Sociology and Anthropology, The Max Stern Yezreel Valley College, Emek Yezreel, Israel Prof. Ilana Lavy, Department of Management of Information Systems, The Max Stern Yezreel Valley College, Emek Yezreel, Israel Dr. Dalit Yassour-Borochowitz, Department of Human Services, The Max Stern Yezreel Valley College, Emek Yezreel, Israel Dr. Liora Ore, Department of Health Systems Administration, The Max Stern Yezreel Valley College, Emek Yezreel, Israel Geke Kalovski, English Proficiency Department, The Max Stern Yezreel Valley College, Emek Yezreel, Israel Overview: This paper outlines a research-practice endeavor studying teaching-learning patterns in the context of diverse student populations in a divided society, demonstrated by a college participating in the EU internationalization project. Theme: Education and Learning in a World of Difference 2014 Social Sciences Conference FRIDARIDAYY, 11 JULULYY 49
10:15-11:55 PPARALLEL SESSIONS Room: TCRoom: TC Social WSocial Welfarelfaree and Diversity 4.044.04 Disability in Rural ArAreaseas of Australia: An Opportunity to Develop Community ResourResourcesces Ms Kerre A. Willsher, Centre for Regional Engagement, University of South Australia, Whyalla, Australia Overview: This paper is a Reflexive Feminist Standpoint interpretation of the results of individual interviews and a focus group, centering on the main themes quality of life, stigma, and future concerns. Theme: Community Diversity and Governance A Right to Be HearHeard?d? Meeting Diverse Needs for Independent Advocacy in Mental Health Dr. Karen Newbigging, School of Health, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK Dr. Julie Ridley, School of Social Work, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK Overview: Using research into specialist mental health advocates in England, this paper reflects upon social injustice and inequalities, and highlights effective practice to meet the needs of diverse groups in society. Theme: Community Diversity and Governance Facilitation of Mental Health of WWomenomen Living with BorBorderlinederline Personality DisorDisorderder Nompumelelo Mthethwa (Ntshingila), Department of Nursing Science, Psychiatric Nursing, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa Prof. Marie Poggenpoel, Psychiatric Nursing, Department of Nursing Science, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa Prof. Chris Myburgh, Educational Psychology, Department of Education, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa Dr. Annie Temane, Psychiatric Nursing, Department of Nursing Science, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa Overview: This paper explores the life stories of women living with borderline personality disorder to formulate guidelines for Psychiatric Nurses to facilitate mental health of women living with borderline personality disorder. Theme: Identity and Belonging The Lived Experience of AggrAggressionession by Support WWorkers at Yorkers Youth Centrouth Centreses in the Cape PrProvince,ovince, South AfricaAfrica Prof. Marie Poggenpoel, Psychiatric Nursing, Department of Nursing Science, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa Prof. Chris Myburgh, Educational Psychology, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa Overview: This paper examines the lived experience of support workers at Youth Centres in the Cape Province, South Africa and make recommendations to manage aggression and facilitate mental health. Theme: Identity and Belonging Room:Room: Labeling, Discrimination, and Marginalization in Society TC.4.12TC.4.12 Pathologising DifDifferference:ence: The Labeling of Social Conflict as Mental Illness amongst People Who Aree Hearing ImpairImpaireded Prof. Anthony Hogan, Institute of Governance and Public Policy, University of Canberra, Canberra, Australia Dr. Isabel Latz, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, Los Angeles, USA Overview: We contrast the pathologisation of communicative conflict in interactions between hearing impaired people and dominant culture with a model concerned with social participation based on the rights of social citizenship. Theme: Identity and Belonging Living with Glue Ear: ResearResearchingching the Educational Needs frfromom a MotherMother-child-child Perspective Carmel Capewell, School of Education, The Universtity of Northampton, Northampton, UK Sue Ralph, School of Education, The University of Northampton, Manchester, UK Overview: Glue Ear is a common childhood condition causing intermittent hearing loss. A qualitative approach (Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis and Photovoice) enable mothers and children to share their experiences of its impact. Theme: Education and Learning in a World of Difference 50 FRIDARIDAYY, 11 JULULYY 2014 Social Sciences Conference
10:15-11:55 PPARALLEL SESSIONS Room:Room: Strategies for Diversity Management TC.4.13TC.4.13 Cultural Intelligence: YYourour Best Skill Set for When Business and Diversity Merge Allen Schaidle, University of Kansas, Metamora, USA Overview: This paper discusses better ways to promote cultural sophistication and global awareness in organizations. The main focus of the paper is the concept of cultural intelligence. Theme: Organizational Diversity Negotiating Space: A Conceptual Model for CrCreatingeating the Organizational CulturCulturee of Diversity Dr. Wendy V. Chung, Alliant School of Management, Alliant International University, San Diego, USA Overview: This presentation highlights the author’s ongoing use of the “negotiated space” model to help constituents of an international center at an international university create a “third organizational culture of diversity.” Theme: Organizational Diversity Managing Diversity to Establish a Feeling of Belonging among Staff at a Merged Institution of Higher Education in South Africa Prof. Cornelius M Fourie, Unit for Institutional Research and Planning within the Division of Institutional Planning, Evaluation, and Monitoring, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa Lorraine Viljoen, Transformation Office, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa Overview: Our research indicates that by managing organizational diversity one can create a feeling of belonging, resulting in low staff turnover rates. Theme: Organizational Diversity Room:Room: Minorities and UnderUnder-r-reprepresentationesentation in Higher Education TC.4.15TC.4.15 A Little Help to My Friends: The Role of Altruistic Goal AfAfforfordancesdances in Science CarCareer Intereer Interest forest for UnderrUnderreprepresentedesented Minority ResearResearchch Assistants Dr. Elizabeth R. Brown, Department of Psychology, Montana State University, Bozeman, USA Dr. Jessi L. Smith, Department of Psychology, Montana State University, Bozeman, USA Dr. Dustin B. Thoman, Department of Psychology, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, USA Overview: When biomedical research assistants from underrepresented groups perceived their research as altruistic, they were more intrinsically motivated, which increased biomedical career interest. Majority students did not show this same pattern. Theme: Identity and Belonging WherWhere Are All the We Women?omen? DiversityDiversity,, the Sports Media, and Sports JourJournalismnalism Education Dr. John Price, Centre for Research in Media and Cultural Studies, University of Sunderland, Sunderland, UK Overview: Why are there so few women in the sports media? This paper examines the question by exploring the experiences of female sports journalism students. Theme: Education and Learning in a World of Difference WherWhere Are the We Women?omen? Naming the Unspoken and Rewriting the Narrative in the Book of Patriarchychy Dr. Maria Balderrama, Department of Language, Literacy and Culture College of Education, California State University, San Bernardino, San Bernardino, USA Overview: California’s university system enrollment is majority female, with its leadership predominantly male. Research supports the imperative for redress and inclusion of women in governance. Theme: Organizational Diversity Staying in STEM: Anchoring EfEffects of Prfects Professionalofessional Development among Computer Science and Engineering Students at a Historically Black University and a Predominantly White University Dr. Debra A. Major, Department of Psychology, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, USA Kristina N. Bauer, School of Psychological and Behavioral Sciences, University of West Florida, Pensacola, USA Dr. Valerie J. Morganson, School of Psychological and Behavioral Sciences, University of West Florida, Pensacola, USA Dr. Karin A. Orvis, Foundational Science Research Unit, U.S. Army Research Institute and Old Dominion University, Fort Belvoir, USA Overview: Grounded in social cognitive career theory, research at a historically black university and a predominantly white university shows that engaging in voluntary professional development anchors diverse students to STEM majors. Theme: Education and Learning in a World of Difference
11:55-12:55 LUNCH 12:55-14:35 PPARALLEL SESSIONS Room: TCRoom: TC WWorkshoporkshop 3.103.10 Cultural Competence and TTwenty-firstwenty-first Century Skills: The CrCreatingeating ofof GlobalGlobal CitizensCitizens Nadine Hall, Greenhills School, Ann Arbor, USA Overview: This workshop is focused on teaching participants how to plan and obtain support for successful, meaningful, and thoughtful diversity programs within a K-12 academic setting. Theme: Education and Learning in a World of Difference 2014 Social Sciences Conference FRIDARIDAYY, 11 JULULYY 51
12:55-14:35 PPARALLEL SESSIONS Room: TCRoom: TC InterInterculturalcultural Relations 4.044.04 The Ethical Power of WWorordsds Dr. Indira Y. Junghare, Department of Linguistics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA Overview: The importance of words has been recognized in religion, philosophy, linguistics, etc. This paper examines the power of words in pragmatics, i.e. for communicating with people of diverse cultures. Theme: Identity and Belonging Securing a MorMoree Sustainable YYouth-ledouth-led Capacity Building Strategy on the African Continent: Breakingeaking Barriers with Intra-African YYouth Touth Travelravel Joseph Bazirake Besigye, Administration, Murole Universal Primary School, Kampala, Uganda Eskedar Sahilu, African Initiatives for Relief and Development (AIRD), Kampala, Uganda Overview: This paper offers a clear highlight of the great potential that exists in supporting ventures for youth to travel and volunteer their skills across the African continent. Theme: Identity and Belonging Language Clustering in Multilingual Organizations: Insights frfromom Linguistic AnthrAnthropologyopology Farhan Ahmad, School of Business and Economics, Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland Overview: This paper explains the creation of language clusters in multilingual organizations by drawing upon insights from linguistic anthropology. Theme: Organizational Diversity InterInterculturalcultural Management and Communication: Essential TTools in Tools Today’oday’ss Global Market for Managers and Organizations Susana de Salazar Casanova, Escola de Ciências Sociais e Empresariais, Universidade Europeia | Laureate International Universities, Lisbon, Portugal Sandra Lopes Miranda, School of Sociology and Public Policy at ISCTE-IUL (Lisbon University Institute), Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology, Lisbon University Institute, Lisbon, Portugal Overview: This paper addresses the theoretical articulation between management, leadership skills, and communication for the Portuguese manager, which are essential tools for the success of an international and intercultural negotiation process. Theme: Organizational Diversity Room:Room: LearLearnerner Diversity: Curriculum and Instruction TC.4.12TC.4.12 A Developmentally PrProgrogressiveessive Model for University Level Diversity Education Dr. Johnelle Luciani, Social Work Department, Salve Regina University, Pawtucket, USA Dr. Barbara A. Sylvia, Social Work Department, Salve Regina University, Pawtucket, USA Overview: This BSW curricular model guides students from seeing others as simply “different” to being able to catch a glimpse of the world as it is perceived differently by others. Theme: Education and Learning in a World of Difference IncrIncreasingeasing Opportunities for Student Engagement: Educational Implications of Immersive Media for Persons with Disabilities Dr. John Pavlik, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA Overview: This paper outlines a theoretical model suggesting how emerging immersive media can enable persons with disabilities to engage more deeply, interactively, and positively in communication and educational environments. Theme: Education and Learning in a World of Difference iSTEAM Science, TTechnologyechnology,, Engineering, Art, and Math: STEAM Education Using 3D Printers Mueataz Hamed, World Innovation Summit for Education, Qatar Foundation, Brunswick, Germany Overview: iSTEAM is an educational initiative that focuses on improving students’ performance and success in STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Mathematics) subjects in formal and informal educational systems. Theme: Education and Learning in a World of Difference Passion2PrPassion2Profession:ofession: Bridging the Information Gap Faced by High School Students Making Careereer DecisionsDecisions Nikhil Harry D’Souza, World Innovation Summit for Education, Qatar Foundation, Hamburg, Germany Overview: This paper discusses a project to provide free online video-based career counseling services to bridge the information gap that high-school students in the developing world face while making career decisions. Theme: Education and Learning in a World of Difference 52 FRIDARIDAYY, 11 JULULYY 2014 Social Sciences Conference
12:55-14:35 PPARALLEL SESSIONS Room:Room: Multicultural and Global Education TC.4.13TC.4.13 TTraveling,raveling, Living and LearLearningning in a Diverse Setting: The China Study AbrAbroad Proad Programmeogramme Dr. Yali Zou, Department of Educational Psychology, University of Houston, Houston, USA Dr. Cheryl Craig, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, University of Houston, Houston, USA Overview: This analysis of a China Study Abroad trip centers on what U.S. educators learned through an international travel experience. “World traveling,” pragmatic inquiry spaces, liminality and shifting identities are discussed. Theme: Education and Learning in a World of Difference When Identities Collide: Shaping Identity in a Multicultural Society Dr. Carolyn E. Johnson, Diversity Resource Office, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA Overview: This curriculum transformation and inclusive global education initiative redesigned study abroad to focus on global diversity and intersecting impact of higher education, business, and government on identity. Theme: Education and Learning in a World of Difference Sharing Education acracrossoss Religious Boundaries: A Case Study frfrom Northerom Northern Irn Irelandeland Rebecca Loader, School of Education, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, UK Overview: This paper presents qualitative research with pupils and teachers participating in shared education programmes in Northern Ireland and considers the implications for discussions about schooling and social cohesion. Theme: Education and Learning in a World of Difference Education's Human Investment: The BrBroaderoader Benefit of a Global Education Dr. Kevin Woolley, Interior Design Department, School of Art and Design, Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar, Doha, Qatar Overview: Today’s global economy needs educated workers. This has influenced the human capital paradigm where people are valued according to their ability to generate wealth. Educational diversity provides greater societal gains. Theme: Education and Learning in a World of Difference Room:Room: Politics of Belonging: National and Community Identities TC.4.15TC.4.15 Post-mortem Politics of Belonging: Penetrating the Gates of National Pantheon Prof. Udi Lebel, Department of Sociology, Ariel University, Ariel, Israel Overview: Bereaved parents whose offspring died in civilian settings feel excluded in comparison to parents of military fallen. Their effort in breaking entry barriers into the national memory are researched. Theme: Identity and Belonging The Australian WWayay of Doing Multiculturalism: Examining National IdentityIdentity,, Multiculturalism, and the Place of Humanitarian Entrants in Australia Paula Fernandez Arias, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia Overview: This paper examines the history of Australian multiculturalism and the way in which a nation defined by Empire moves into a world defined by diversity and large-scale migration. Theme: Identity and Belonging
14:35-14:50 BREAK 14:50-16:05 PPARALLEL SESSIONS Room: TCRoom: TC Retention and Success 3.103.10 Using Summer Bridge Hybrid PrProgramsograms to ImprImproveove Mathematics Placement for UnderrUnderreprepresentedesented Minority Students at Michigan State University Pavel Sikorskii, Department of Mathematics, College of Natural Science, Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA Jamillah Gross-Caldwell, TRIO Student Support Services, Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA Overview: During Summer 2013 we ran a very successful bridge program for underrepresented minority students at MSU. In this paper, we share our experiences and findings. Theme: Education and Learning in a World of Difference Supportive Communities: Importance of Belonging and Social Support Structures in Native American College Student Retention Dr. Anneke Metz, MEDPREP, School of Medicine, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, USA Dr. Erin Cech, Department of Sociology, Rice University, Houston, USA Dr. Jessi L. Smith, Department of Psychology, Montana State University, Bozeman, USA Overview: Retention of Native Americans science majors in their first two years of university education is most affected by social support; more than finances, family responsibility, or adherence to traditional culture. Theme: Education and Learning in a World of Difference Room: TCRoom: TC Publishing Session 4.044.04 In this session the Production Coordinator of the Diversity Collection of Journals will present an overview of Common Ground's publishing philosophy and practices. She will also offer tips for turning conference papers in to journal articles, present an overview of journal publishing procedures and provide information on Common Ground's book proposal submission process. Please feel free to bring questions - the second half of the session will be devoted to Q&A. 2014 Social Sciences Conference FRIDARIDAYY, 11 JULULYY 53
14:50-16:05 PPARALLEL SESSIONS Room:Room: WWork-lifeork-life Balance TC.4.12TC.4.12 Men's WMen's Work-lifeork-life Balance: Factors AfAffecting Wfecting Work-lifeork-life Balance Kritika Bahadur, Business School, University of Worcester, Worcester, UK Overview: The aim of this paper is to identify the factors affecting work-life balance for male employees in the UK via an exploratory e-survey. Theme: Organizational Diversity WWork-lifeork-life Balance frfromom a Perspective of Participatory GoverGovernance:nance: A Case of Innovative Dynamics in Policy Making in Reggio Emilia Dr. Matteo Rinaldini, Dipartimento di Scienze della Comunicazione e dell'Economia, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Reggio Emilia, Italy Dr. Francesca Mattioli, GIUnO (Research Centre of University of Modena and Reggio Emilia), Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Reggio Emilia, Italy Overview: This paper contributes to the definition of a model that supports the configuration of work-life balance territorial governance policies. Theme: Organizational Diversity Relational Autonomy: Enhancing Gender Diversity by Facilitating Women’omen’ss Autonomy thrthroughough Institutionally Supported WWork-lifeork-life Integration Dr. Sara Rushing, Political Science, Montana State University, Bozeman, USA Dr. Jessi L. Smith, Psychology, Montana State University, Bozeman, USA Dr. Joy Honea, Sociology, Montana State University, Billings, USA Dr. Elizabeth Shanahan, Political Science, Montana State University, Bozeman, USA Dr. Bethany Letiecq, Health and Human Development, Montana State University, Bozeman, USA Overview: In this paper interviews were conducted with faculty applicants to male-dominated departments to examine the efficacy of a work-life integration intervention on decisions to join the institution. Theme: Organizational Diversity Room:Room: Organizational Practices Influencing Diversity TC.4.13TC.4.13 Female Leadership and Corporate Social Responsibility Dr. John Tichenor, School of Business Administration, Stetson University, DeLand, USA Overview: Using data from Bloomberg’s ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) database, this study examines the relationship between female leadership in publicly traded United States' firms and the firms’ corporate social responsibility practices. Theme: Organizational Diversity Barriers to and ResourResourcesces for Cultural Diversity in a German Municipal Administration: How to Bring a Political Idea of Cultural Diversity into ConcrConcrete Daily Wete Workork Life Interaction? Hanna Dziuba, Institute of Work Science Chair of Work Organization and Work Structuring, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany Mara Erlinghagen, Institute of Work Science Chair of Work Organization and Work Structuring, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany Agata Markocinski, Institute of Work Science Chair of Work Organization and Work Structuring, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany Patricia Schütte, Institute of Work Science Chair of Work Organization and Work Structuring, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany Jona David Siebold, Institute of Work Science Chair of Work Organization and Work Structuring, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany Overview: This paper explores translating and transforming a political idea of diversity into concrete interaction- situations at a municipal administration by means of applied scientific methods. Theme: Organizational Diversity TTowarowards Prds Proofoof of Diversity in Pedagogy Courses in Higher Education Dr. Trees Pels, Faculty of Psychology and Education Department of Research and Theory in Education, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands Overview: This paper deals with the development and application of a screening instrument to test the diversity sensitivity of courses for training future pedagogic and care professionals in Dutch higher education. Theme: Education and Learning in a World of Difference Room:Room: Struggles of Social Inclusion TC.4.15TC.4.15 Citizenship and Belonging: An Analysis of Immigrants' Integration Beliefs and Membership Meaning in South-WSouth-Westest Germany Dr. Stefan Immerfall, University of Education Schwäbisch Gmünd, Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany Overview: Based on in-depth interviews of migrants in Germany, this paper focuses in the emotional and affective aspects of citizenship and on micro processes of integration. Theme: Identity and Belonging TTalkingalking about Inclusion: Attitudes and Change Management in Nepal Kristie Drucza, Centre for Citizenship, Development and Human Rights Faculty of Arts and Education, Deakin University, Burwood, Australia Overview: This paper explores the backlash towards caste and ethnic targeting as a determinant of resource allocation in Nepal. Theme: Community Diversity and Governance 54 FRIDARIDAYY, 11 JULULYY 2014 Social Sciences Conference
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LIST OF PARTICIPANTS
Adeniji-Neill Dolapo Adelphi University USA Ahasteen-Bryant Felica Purdue University USA Ahmad Farhan Åbo Akademi University Finland Ahmadi Golnar University of Applied Sciences of Frankfurt Germany Amberg Veronica McGill University Canada Ascher Shai Tamar David Yellin Teacher's College Israel Aveling Nado Murdoch University Australia Bahadur Kritika University of Worcester UK Balderrama Maria California State University, San Bernardino USA Bello Raul Temuco Technical High School USA Bendl Regine Vienna University of Economics and Business Austria Besigye Joseph Bazirake University of the Free State Uganda Brady Stephen The Ohio State University USA Brower Todd Western State University College of Law USA Brown Elizabeth R. Montana State University USA Buche Antje Florida Atlantic University Germany Buchheit Lyn Community College of Philadelphia USA Buck-Luce Carolyn Center of Talent Innovation USA Bujaki Merridee Carleton University Canada Bullard Eric California State University, Long Beach USA Burch Tony University of South Australia Australia Burroughs Elizabeth A. Montana State University USA Bush Mitchelene D. Michigan State University USA Caldwell Theodore D. Caldwell Michigan State University USA Capewell Carmel Universtity of Northampton UK Carjuzaa Jioanna Montana State University, Bozeman USA Carmen Fink University of Reutlingen Germany Carroll Jan Colorado State University USA Chandam Chongdee Mahidol University Thailand Chandler Ursula Arkansas Tech University USA Chen Shih-Han Taiwan National Taichung University of Education Taiwan Cheuk Fiona Ning York University Canada Chicha Marie-Thérèse Université de Montréal Canada Chung Wendy V. Alliant International University USA Chwala Gregory Luke Indiana University of Pennsylvania USA Cigularov Konstantin Old Dominion University USA Cleveland Ana D. University of North Texas USA Constantinou Phoebe Ithaca College USA Craig Cheryl University of Houston USA Crain Barbara Northern Virginia Community College USA Dahliana Syarifah Deakin University Australia Dalheim Englund Ann-Charlotte University of Borås Sweden De Freitas Riva Sobrado Universidade do Oeste de Santa Catarina Brazil Deshler Jessica M. West Virginia University USA Desivilya Syna Helena The Max Stern Yezreel Valley College Israel Dillon Annaliese Macquarie University Australia 56 2014 Social Sciences Conference
Dillon Emma Macquarie University Australia Drucza Kristie Deakin University Australia Dunne Maeve National University of Ireland Ireland D'Souza Nikhil Harry Qatar Foundation Germany Eaton Patricia Stranmillis University College UK Ennis Gretchen Charles Darwin University Australia Espetveidt Denis Alberta Teachers' Association Canada Evans Rob Center for Talent Innovation USA Faitar Gheorghita D'Youville College USA Fernandez Arias Paula Monash University Australia Flanagan Brenda Davidson College USA Fonseca Felix Director General Military Personnel - Research-Analysis Canada Forrest James Macquarie University, Sydney Australia Fourie Cornelius M. University of Johannesburg South Africa Gabriel Mariel University of Melbourne Australia Gallindo Norma Sierra USA Georgiadou Andri London Metropolitan University UK Giralico-Pearlman Ann State University of New York USA Goehlich Veronique Pforzheim University Germany Grant Julian Flinders University Australia Gross-Caldwell Jamillah Michigan State University USA Gudipati Lakshmi Community College of Philadelphia USA Guerin Pauline Pennsylvania State University USA Gunter Kim Appalachian State University USA Góis João Universidade Federal Fluminense Brazil Hakkola Leah Nicole University of Minnesota USA Hall Nadine Greenhills School USA Hamed Mueataz Qatar Foundation Germany Hanappi-Egger Edeltraud Vienna University for Economics and Business Austria Heffernan Peter University of Lethbridge Canada Hejny Helga Middlesex University UK Hermond Douglas Prairie View A&M University USA Higginbotham Jo Ann Lee University USA Hogan Anthony University of Canberra Australia Houkamau Carla The University of Auckland New Zealand Hunt John Southern Illinois University Edwardsville USA Hunter Christine Indiana University of Pennsylvania USA Immerfall Stefan University of Education Germany Ingiyimbere Fidèle Boston College USA Johnson Carolyn E. Purdue University USA Joseph Crepin Boris Mbouty Tchikaya Central African Human Right League Burundi Junghare Indira Y. University of Minnesota USA Kambouris Maria Charles Darwin University Australia Klab Jessica Reutlingen University Germany Koojaroenprasit Narong Kasetsart University Thailand Kucukgol Dudu Vienna University of Economics and Business Austria Kushnirovich Nonna Ruppin Academic Center Israel 2014 Social Sciences Conference 57
Kutscher Gloria Vienna University of Economics and Business Austria Köllen Thomas Vienna University of Economics and Business Austria Lam Brian California State University, Long Beach USA Lashewicz Bonnie University of Calgary Canada Lebel Udi Ariel University Israel Lee Young-seo Jama'ah tul Jamal South Korea LeSavoy Barbara State University of New York USA Lin Su-ching National Changhua University of Education Taiwan Loader Rebecca Queen's University Belfast UK Lu Yixi University of Saskatchewan Canada Luciani Johnelle Salve Regina University USA Lundgaard Wendy Win-Win Workplace Strategies P/L Australia Mackay Karin University of Western Sydney Australia Magano Meahabo Dinah University of South Africa South Africa Major Debra A. Old Dominion University USA Maleka Eileen D. University of the Witwatersrand South Africa Markocinski Agata Ruhr-University Bochum Germany Mathy Jean-Philippe University of Illinois USA McClung Patricia Lee University USA McGrandle Jocelyn Concordia University Canada McLoughlin Shirley Wade Keene State College USA Menendez-Alarcon Antonio Butler University USA Mensi-Klarbach Heike Vienna University of Economics and Business Austria Merino Maria Eugenia Universidad Católica de Temuco Chile Metz Anneke Southern Illinois University USA Mills Dalton Clemson University USA Mitchell Laura University of Houston USA Mojanchevska Katerina International Institute of Social Studies Netherlands Moreno-Walton Lisa Angelica Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center USA Morris Pamala V. Purdue University USA Mourão Rita Andreia Monteiro Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Portugal Mthethwa Nompumelelo University of Johannesburg South Africa Mungai Anne Mary Adelphi University USA Myburgh Chris University of Johannesburg South Africa Mϋller-Camen Michael Vienna University of Economics and Business Austria Nagaswami Girija Community College of Philadelphia USA Nagy Judy University of South Australia Australia Napan Ksenija Massey University New Zealand Nellis Robert Christopher Red Deer College Canada Nelson Garrison University of Vermont USA Newbigging Karen Health Services Management Centre UK Nicholas Trula Western Washington University USA Nordstrom Georganne University of Hawaii at Manoa USA Nowak Evanne World Innovation Summit of Education Netherlands O'Callaghan Cathy South Eastern Sydney Local Health District Australia Okpodi Julius University of Northern British Columbia Canada Pavlik John Rutgers University USA Peiser Gillian Liverpool John Moores University UK 58 2014 Social Sciences Conference
Pels Trees VU University Amsterdam Netherlands Petchprapunkul Chanchai Kasetsart University Thailand Pezzella Maria Cristina Cereser Universidade do Oeste de Santa Catarina Brazil Pfannstiel Mario Alexander University of Bayreuth Germany Pitipunya Rangsan Kasetsart University Thailand Poggenpoel Marie University of Johannesburg South Africa Price John University of Sunderland UK Puig Enrique A. University of Central Florida USA Quach Sophie Ludwig Maximillians University Munich Germany Rabasso Carlos NEOMA Business School France Racine Louise University of Saskatchewan Canada Ralph Sue University of Northampton UK Randall Caelyn Columbia University USA Rankin Tom Vienna University of Economics and Business Austria Rao Shaila Western Michigan University USA Redmond Sarah Charles Darwin University New Zealand Reich Kerstin Reutlingen University Germany Reimer-Kirkham Sheryl Trinity Western University Canada Reinert Leah University of Minnesota USA Ridley Julie University of Central Lancashire UK Rinaldini Matteo Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia Italy Robinson Mike University of Central Florida USA Robinson Sandra L. University of Central Florida USA Roehling Mark Michigan State University USA Rooney Davina Stockland Australia Ropers-Huilman Rebecca University of Minnesota USA Rushing Sara Montana State University USA Rydström Ingela University of Borås Sweden Sahilu Eskedar Fachhochschule Kiel Germany Salazar Casanova Susana Universidade Europeia Portugal Samim Reza Institute for Social and Cultural Studies Islamic Republic of Iran Saroca Nicki Asian University for Women Bangladesh Schaidle Allen University of Kansas USA Scharf Sandra Center for Talent Innovation USA Schoeman Sonja University of South Africa South Africa Schoenung Benjamin Vienna University of Economics and Business Austria Schwekendiek Daniel Sungkyunkwan University South Korea Schütte Patricia Ruhr-University Bochum Germany Sedibe Mabatho University of Johannesburg South Africa Serwatka Thomas S. University of North Florida USA Shepherd Michelle The American Institute of Architects Austria Sharifi Sadeghi Lika Bauhaus University Weimar Germany Sikorskii Pavel Michigan State University USA Simmons Janelle C. Liberty University USA Singh Abha University of Delhi India Sitdhikornkrai Preecha Kasetsart University Thailand Smith Jessi L. Montana State University USA 2014 Social Sciences Conference 59
Solano Penny Colorado State University USA Struppe Ursula City of Vienna Austria Sushames Lorraine Charles Darwin University Australia Sylvia Barbara A. Salve Regina University USA Tan Peter Mount St. Mary's College USA Tanner Tyrone Prairie View A&M University USA Tanoos James Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College USA Tichenor John Stetson University USA Tinkler Gisela Vienna University of Economics and Business Austria Tofa Matalena Charles Darwin University Australia Toomey Elizabeth University of Canterbury New Zealand Tran Danielle Faye Middlesex University London UK Turnipseed Ivan B. Cheyney University of Pennsylvania USA Uribe-Otalora Ainhoa CEU San Pablo University Spain Vellani Fayyaz University of Pennsylvania USA Viljoen Lorraine University of Johannesburg South Africa Vuin Ana IMC University of Applied Sciences Austria Wang Zi Sciences Po Paris Germany Warmuth Gloria Vienna University of Economics and Business Austria Watkins Sandra Western Illinois University USA Watt Jonathan M. Geneva College USA Whippy Laisa Charles Darwin University Australia Willis-Darpoh Gwendolyn American Institutes for Research USA Willsher Kerre A. University of South Australia Australia Woods Shauna Colorado State University USA Woolley Kevin Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar Qatar Yassour-Borochowitz Dalit The Max Stern Yezreel Valley College Israel Yatani Choichiro Alfred State College USA Yoon Kay DePaul University USA Zou Yali University of Houston USA Zufferey Carole University of South Australia Australia Zurn-Birkhimer Suzanne Saint Joseph's College USA
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Conference WiFi Access Instructions Complimentary access to WiFi at the Vienna University of Economics and Business is available to Diversity Conference delegates throughout the duration of the conference. To access the WiFi connection, please follow the instructions below:
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2015 Call For Papers
Fifteenth International Conference on Diversity in Organizations, Communities, and Nations University of Hong Kong Hong Kong, China SAR 15-17 July 2015
Dear Delegate,
The International Advisory Board is pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the Fifteenth International Conference on Diversity in Organizations, Communities, and Nations. The 2015 conference will be held 15-17 July at the University of Hong Kong in Hong Kong, China SAR
Special Conference Focus:
Affirming Diversity for Social and Educational Justice Modern diasporic movements of populations both across and within countries impact upon social diversity at multiple levels of scale. Responses to social change due to difference, whether related to culture, language, gender, race/ethnicity, class, ability, or sexual orientation can be conservative and at times detrimentally reactionary in nature. This conference focus, whilst acknowledging the challenges of diversity to local communities, seeks to disrupt discourses and narratives that can be seen to enable or accept inequity, and examine the potential benefits of diversity to all members of society. This conference focus thus explores the various ways global issues impact upon local contexts. Questions addressed will include:
• How can changes to a country’s demographic profile as a result of global population movements be viewed as adding value to a society’s social and cultural resources? • How can the inclusion of diverse learners enhance the learning of all across educational contexts? • How can inclusive leadership for marginalized groups enhance organizational capacity-building?
The 2015 meeting will feature a special focus on this thought-provoking subject. We welcome open debate, discourse and research from participants that center on this special topic, as well as any other themes or issues relevant to diversity. We also encourage faculty and research students to submit joint proposals for paper presentations, colloquia or panel discussions.
Presenters may also choose to submit written papers for publication in the fully refereed Diversity Collection of journals. If you are unable to attend the conference, you may still become a member of the community and submit your article for peer review and possible publication, upload an online presentation, and enjoy subscriber access to the journal.
For more information on the current deadline, submitting your proposal, and registering for the conference, please visit the community website at http://ondiversity.com/submitting-your-work/conference-presentations.
Returning Member Registration Rate
We are also pleased to offer a Returning Member Registration Rate for delegates or student delegates who have attended a Diversity Conference in the past. Conference alumni will receive a discount off of the full conference registration rate. Please visit the registration page for more information on how to register with the Returning Member Registration Rate and to view the corresponding 2015 deadlines: http://ondiversity.com/the-conference- 2015/registration.