Seventeenth International Conference on Diversity in Organizations, Communities & Nations
- 2017 Special Focus: Urban Diversity and Economic Growth
- 26–28 July 2017
- University of Toronto—Chestnut Conference Centre, Toronto, Canada
Days of paper presentations, workshops/interactive sessions, posters, and colloquia.
Delegates from all over the world who attended the Seventeenth International Conference on Diversity in Organizations, Communities & Nations.
Countries represented.
Urban spaces are uniquely, and intensely, diverse. In many ways, urban spaces provide an incubator for the safe acceptance of new kinds of diversities. What is the potential for the urban context to teach about action? How do urban spaces navigate the traditional categories of diversity in ways that are also open to new kinds of diversities? How can these diversities become productive for economic growth--not simply for the bottom line of cities but to able to invest in the social infrastructures that can nurture diverse identities and populations--and for the future of alternative diversities?
The Seventeenth International Conference on Diversity in Organizations, Communities & Nations featured plenary sessions by some of the world’s leading thinkers and innovators in the field.
Project Manager, CivicAction, Toronto, Canada
“Youthful Solutions to Hiring and Retention”
Chief Diversity Officer and Special Assistant to the President, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA
"Inclusion and Belonging: Innovating Our Collective Futures"
Founder and CEO, hEr VOLUTION, Canada
"Excuse Me, Can I Disrupt?"
For each conference, a small number of Emerging Scholar Awards are given to outstanding graduate students and emerging scholars who have an active academic interest in the conference area. The Award with its accompanying responsibilities provides a strong professional development opportunity for early career academics. The 2017 Emerging Scholar Awardees are listed below.
McGill University, Montreal, Canada
HEC Montreal, Montreal, Canada
Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Canada
Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, USA
Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, USA
McGill University, Montreal, Canada
University of Florida, Gainesville, USA
University of Central Florida, Orlando, USA
York University, Toronto, Canada
Laval University, Quebec City, Canada
Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Canada
Universität Gießen, Giessen, Germany
Virtual Posters present preliminary results of work or projects that lend themselves to visual representations. Download the posters below.
Lightning Talks are 5-minute “flash” video presentations. Click the button below to view the videos on our YouTube channel.