The Twenty-Sixth International Conference on Diversity in Organizations, Communities & Nations featured plenary sessions by some of the world's leading thinkers and innovators in the field.
Professor of Applied Humanities and Co-Chair of the Arista Institute at University College London, UK
"Fragmented Dialogues: Polarization, Its Enablers, and Its Consequences"
Career Professor and Coordinator of the Interdisciplinary University Seminar on School Violence, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México
"Imperative Social Bonds and Ties of the New World Order"
Research Professor at the Graduate School of Social Work, Principal Investigator of the Mixed Methods Study on Latino Health, Behavioral Health. University of Houston, USA
"Ethics and Opportunities with AI for Strengthening Socio-Community Wellbeing Strategies"
Vice Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Director of the Degree and Master's program in Social Work at the Autonomous University of Chile, Chile.
"Geopolitics and current complexities. Transformative perspectives from Social Work"
Professor of Interculturality & Diversity in Education, University of Patras, Patras, Greece
(English)
Professor and researcher in Diversity, Sustainability, and Inclusive employment at the Faculty of Social Work, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
(Spanish)
Delegate of the Dean for Social Affairs and Prevention, and Coordinator of the Diversity and Inclusion Unit at the Faculty of Statistical Studies, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
(Spanish)
Director, National School of Social Work, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México
Academic Secretariat of ENTS, UNAM
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México
Culture of Social Prevention against Violence, Addictions, and Crime.
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México
For each conference, a small number of Emerging Scholar Awards are given to outstanding graduate students and emerging scholars who have an active research interest in the conference themes. Emerging Scholars perform a critical role in the conference by chairing the parallel sessions, providing technical assistance in the sessions, and presenting their own research papers. The 2026 Emerging Scholar Award Recipients are as follows:
University of Calgary, Canada
(In-Person)
California State University, Northridge, United States
(In-Person)
Escuela Nacional de Trabajo Social, UNAM, México
Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana - Iztapalapa, Mexico
(In-Person)
Escuela Nacional de Trabajo Social, UNAM, México
(In-Person)
Universitas Sebelas Maret, Indonesia
(In-Person)
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain
(Online Only)
Antioch University, United States
(Online Only)
Appalachian State University, United States
(Online Only)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
(Online Only)
Indiana University of Pennsylvania, United States
(Online Only)
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States
(Online Only)
Middlesex College, United States
(Online Only)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States
(Online Only)
Charles Darwin University, Australia
(Online Only)
México City, México