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Andrew Jakubowic, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
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Andrew Jakubowicz is Professor of Sociology at the University of Technology Sydney, Head of the Social and Political Change Academic Group, and Co-director of the Cosmopolitan Civil Societies Research Centre. Jakubowicz holds a PhD from UNSW and an honours degree in Government from Sydney University . Since the early 1970s, Jakubowicz’s work has focused on race relations, theories of cultural and ethnic diversity, disability and media. He was foundation director of the Centre for Multicultural Studies at the University of Wollongong and foundation chair of the Disability Studies and Research Institute. Jakubowicz has an international profile, having taught at universities in the United States, Europe and Asia.

The 2009 Diversity Conference Draft Program is now online.
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19-21 July 2010
Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland
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Sybille De La Rosa

Sybille De La Rosa, PhD-student, Free University Berlin, Germany

Sybille De La Rosa is a PhD-student at the Free University Berlin and research assistant at the research project “Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood” where she works in a theory project about political power relations and arguments. Her doctoral work focuses on a concept of intercultural understanding based on the concepts of appropriation and alienation. She wrote her magister thesis on Jürgen Habermas’ theory of communication and Axel Honneth’s theory of recognition. More…

David S. Silverman

David S. Silverman, Director of the Communication Program, Maryville University, St. Louis, USA

David S. Silverman followed a six-year career as a technical writer in Denver, Colorado, working for various software and telecommunication companies–including a journey to Antarctica–to work on a doctorate in communication (University of Missouri-Columbia, 2004). Dr. Silverman joined the faculty at Xavier University in New Orleans the fall of 2004 until Hurricane Katrina forced his family to evacuate. More…

Olga Silverman

Olga Silverman, Valley City State University, Valley City, North Dakota, USA

Olga Silverman was born and raised in Riga, Latvia. She graduated from the University of Latvia in 1995 with a Master’s degree in Economics and Information Technology. After a career with that included the Riga Electric Machine Building Factory, the Latvian Ship Registry and a private telecommunication concern, Olga immigrated to the United States. More…

Jock Collins, Professor of Economics, University Technology, Sydney (UTS), Australia

Andrew Jakubowicz, Professor of Sociology, University of Technology Sydney, Australia

Ojārs Kalniņš, Former Ambassador, US and Mexico Ojars Kalnins

16-19 June 2009
Riga International School of Economics and Business Administration, Riga, Latvia
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