Fifteenth International Conference on Diversity in Organizations, Communities, and Nations
- 2015 Special Focus: Affirming Diversity for Social and Educational Justice
- 15–17 July 2015
- The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
Days of paper presentations, workshops/interactive sessions, posters, and colloquia.
Delegates from all over the world who attended the Fifteenth International Conference on Diversity in Organizations, Communities, and Nations.
Countries represented.
Modern diasporic movements of populations, both across and within countries, impact 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:
The Fifteenth International Conference on Diversity in Organizations, Communities, and Nations featured plenary sessions by some of the world’s leading thinkers and innovators in the field.
Retired Chief Secretary for Administration of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government
"Sustaining Diversity Under One Country, Two Systems"
Leavey Presidential Chair of Ethics and Moral Leadership, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, California, USA; Professor Emerita of Education Policy, Organization and Leadership, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA
"Beyond the Culture of Forgetting: The Politics of Restrictive Language Policies"
Director, Victoria Institute for Education, Diversity and Lifelong Learning, Australia
"Diversity and Risk in an Age of Exclusion"
For each conference, a small number of Graduate Scholar Awards are given to outstanding graduate students who have an active academic interest in the conference area. The Award with its accompanying responsibilities provides a strong professional development opportunity for graduate students at this stage in their academic careers. The 2015 Graduate Scholar Awardees are listed below.
University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia
Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK
Monash University, Clayton, Australia
University of South Australia - Whyalla Campus, Australia