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ECCS/ECP/ECERP 2014 Programme Cover Image:“Blakers Park Clock Tower,” by Jim Haldane

Blakers Park is a well-loved and well-used community space in the Fiveways area of Brighton. Although compact
in size it has a large number of features including a small friendly cafe, tennis courts, playground, and a distinctive
Victorian clocktower in the center of the park.
The park land was gifted to the city in 1894 by its mayor, Alderman John George Blaker. During his municipal
career in the late 19th century Blaker became Mayor of Brighton three times and was knighted by Queen
Victoria. It is said that a joke was made about somebody in the party at the park’s Opening Ceremony notknowing the time, so Blaker added the clock tower to his gift. The fifty foot high Clock Tower was unveiled on
the 15th September 1896 and is made of steel, cast iron and finished in bronze.

welcome to brighton
Dear Delegates,
Welcome to the UK and to the wonderful city of Brighton and Hove, a vibrant and diverse center of the arts and culture, as
well as home to two universities. Welcome also to the conference home of the International Academic Forum’s European
Conference Series since 2013.
An IAFOR conference is an international, interdisciplinary, intercultural and inter-professional event that invites academics,
practitioners, scholars and researchers from around the world to meet, network, share intellectual developments, explore
challenges to dominant paradigms, and exchange ideas in a supportive environment.

IAFOR provides an international academic forum that encourages the development of collaborative links and connections
between researchers, academics, scholars and practitioners, and I strongly encourage your active and open-minded engagementwith the conference over this long weekend together.
These joint conferences are held as part of the four interdisciplinary weekends for IAFOR in the UK, with this, the last weekendof the four, bringing people together to look at how and why we as individuals and societies think, reason, believe, and behave.
The programme promises to be exciting, with thematic topics that address the central aim of the conference in different but
complementary ways, including through papers that draw on empirical research, that develop theoretical and conceptual
insights, and that engage with the conference from varied research approaches.
The conference will be enhanced through its wide variety of presenters, who will draw on their diverse experiences andknowledges, and on their academic, personal and geographical contexts, in a programme that promises stimulating andchallenging discussion and discovery, and the excitement of multidisciplinary research synergies across Ethics, Religion,
Philosophy, Psychology and Cultural Studies.
I would like to thank the conference chairs and the keynote and featured speakers, as well as each and every delegate, and I
look forward to meeting you all.
Respectfully,

letter of welcome

Since 2009, IAFOR has promoted and facilitated research synergies and partnerships between individuals and institutions in,and between Asian countries, and between Asian countries and the outside world. This function as a network hub has seen
IAFOR grow to develop partnerships with many of the world’s foremost institutions of learning, and this event is is strongly
supported by the global partnership, including Waseda University (Japan), Birkbeck University of London (UK), The National
Institute of Education (Singapore), The National University of Tainan (Taiwan), Lincoln University (UK), the Hong Kong Instituteof Education (HKSAR), Auburn University (USA), and our newest partner, Virginia Tech (USA), among many others.

Joseph Haldane
IAFOR Executive Director

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Getting to the Conference Venue
By Rail from London
London is the hub of the UK’s rail network and it is easy to travel by train to Brighton and the South Coast from the
major London stations. The fastest direct travelling times from London to Brighton are:Rail services in the UK are operated by a number of private train operators.The key operators to Brighton are Southernand First Capital Connect. Trains arrive into Brighton mainline station on Queens Road. Regular rail connections also
serve Hove and take just a few minutes from Brighton.
Central Brighton (including the Thistle Brighton) is easily walkable (about 15 minutes) from Brighton Station, but if you
require a bus or taxi - these are both available at the front of the station.
If you are travelling from Europe, the Eurostar train arrives from Europe at St Pancras, London, where there are direct
train connections to Brighton.
Travelling to Brighton from the London Airports
London Gatwick Airport
Trains from Gatwick to Brighton take approximately 30 minutes direct and run regularly.The Gatwick South rail station
is directly linked to Gatwick’s South Terminal and just a few minutes away from North Terminal via a transit train link.
You do not need to reserve tickets in advance.
London Heathrow Airport
By Rail: Take the London Underground to London Victoria and connect with a mainline train to Brighton.
Alternatively, take the Heathrow Express to Paddington and then the Underground to Victoria. The Heathrow
Express is probably quickest but the Underground is the cheaper option. The Journey takes approximately 2 hours
15 minutes, depending on your chosen route and connection times.
By Coach: National Express is the major coach operator serving Brighton. Most international flights arrive at
Terminal 4 and 5. From Terminal 4 & 5 there are coach departures every hour. The journey takes 2 hours to 2
hours 30 minutes depending on the airport terminal you are departing from, and costs around 20 GBP each way.
Brighton Coach Station is located next to Brighton Pier and is a 2 minute walk from the Thistle Brighton.
Full information is available on the National Express website.

Information and Registration

conference at a glance

London Victoria – 52 minutes (direct)
London Bridge – 58 minutes (direct)
London St Pancras – 1 hour 16 minutes (direct)

If you have already paid online or by bank transfer, you will be able to pick up your registration pack at the Conference
Registration and Information Desk. This will include a tote bag, the conference programme, and receipt of payment. At
this time you will also be given a name card, and lanyard. For those wishing to pay on the day, please note that we areable to accept credit cards, however, we cannot accept payment in foreign currencies.
If you are a presenter, your official certificate of presentation can be collected after your session at the Conference
Registration and Information Desk. Audience members can collect a Certificate of Participation at anytime during theconference.
The Conference Registration and Information Desk will be located at the following times and locations during theconference:
Thursday 		Friday 		Friday 		Saturday 		
Sunday		

15:00-17:00 on the Library Terrace
08:00-13:00 in the Renaissance Foyer
13:00-17:00 on the Library Terrace
08:00-18:00 in Wordsworth Suite
08:00-16:00 on the Library Terrace

If you have any questions or concerns, IAFOR staff and hotel staff will happily assist you in any way they can.

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8:15-18:00: Pre-Conference Tour of Sussex and Kent
This is ticketed at GBP 70.00 and there are a limited number of places. For more information, please email us at
conferences@iafor.org. Please meet in the lobby at 8:15 AM for a prompt 8:45 AM departure. The tour bus will returnto the Thistle Brighton by 18:00.

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15:00-17:00: Conference Registration & Information Desk Open (Library Terrace)
18:00-19:30: Conference Welcome Reception (Lobby Bar Area 1F)
To open the conference, come and enjoy a few glasses of beer, wine, or a choice of soft drinks if you prefer. You
can meet with fellow delegates, network, and enjoy the night view of Brighton Beach. All registered attendees andspouses/partners are welcome.

Friday, July 25, 2014
8:00-13:00: Conference Registration & Information Desk Open (Renaissance Foyer)
9:00-12:10: Welcome, Keynote Speaker, and Featured Speaker Session (Renaissance Suite)
9:00-9:15: Welcome & Introductory Addresses (Renaissance Suite)
Alexander Pratt, Conference Manager
Councillor Brian Fitch, Mayor of Brighton & Hove
Joseph Haldane, IAFOR Executive Director
9:15-10:00 ECERP Keynote Speaker (Renaissance Suite)
Stuart Picken, Conference Chair and Chair of the IAFOR International Advisory Board
10:00-10:15: Coffee Break
10:15-11:05: ECP Keynote Speaker (Renaissance Suite)
Joe Elliot, School of Education, Durham University, UK
11:05-11:20: Coffee Break
11:20-12:10: ECCS Keynote Speaker (Renaissance Suite)
Donald Hall, Lehigh University, USA
12:10-12:20 Conference Photograph (Atrium Lounge)
12:20-13:30: Lunch Break
13:00-17:00: Conference Registration & Information Desk Open (Library Terrace)
13:30-14:30 Parallel Session I (various rooms)
14:30-14:45 Break
14:45-15:45: Parallel Session II (various rooms)
15:45-16:00: Break
16:00-16:45 Friday Spotlight Session I (Renaissance Suite)
18:30-21:00: A Night Out in Brighton: Official Conference Dinner
The official conference dinner will be held at the Hilton Brighton Metropole, and provides a relaxed and enjoyable
environment to meet and network with other delegates. This is ticketed at 50GBP and there are a limited number ofplaces; pre-reservation is required. If you would like to join, please register at the Conference Registration Desk by
1pm on Friday, July 25.
The party will leave the Thistle Brighton 1F Library Terrace at 18:30, so please be there in good time. The venue is a
short walk away. The conference dinner will begin at 19:00 at the venue and will finish at 21:00.

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Saturday, July 26, 2014
8:00-17:00: Conference Registration & Information Desk Open (Wordsworth Suite)
9:30-10:30: Parallel Session I (various rooms)
10:30-10:45: Break

11:45-12:30: Lunch Break
12:30-14:00: Poster Session (various rooms)
14:00-14:15: Break
14:15-15:15: Parallel Session III (various rooms)
15:15-15:30: Break
15:30-15:45 Parallel Session IV (various rooms)
15:45-16:00: Break
16:00-16:45: Saturday Spotlight Session I (various rooms)

Sunday, July 27, 2014
8:00-16:00: Conference Registration & Information Desk Open (Library Terrace)
9:30-10:30: Parallel Session I (various rooms)
10:30-10:45: Break
10:45-11:45: Parallel Session II (various rooms)
11:45-12:45: Lunch Break
12:45-13:45: Parallel Session III (various rooms)
13:45-14:00: Break
14:00-14:30: Conference Closing Address (Wordsworth Suite)
Join us for a conference highlights photography slideshow and closing remarks from Dr Joseph Haldane (IAFOR
Executive Director) and Professor Stuart Picken (Conference Chair and Chair of the IAFOR International Advisory
Board).

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10:45-11:45: Parallel Session II (various rooms)

Monday, July 28, 2014
7:30-20:00 Post-Conference Tour of Blenheim Palace and Oxford
This is ticketed at GBP 100.00 and there are a limited number of places. For reservations, please inquire at theRegistration and Information Desk. Please meet in the lobby at 7:30 AM for a prompt 8:00 AM departure. The tour
bus will return to the Thistle Brighton by 20:00.

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Floor Guide

thistle brighton conference mapxWhat to Wear & Bring
Attendees generally wear business casual attire. You may want to bring a light jacket or sweater as the temperature
in meeting rooms is often difficult to control.

conference guide

Security
Do not leave personal items or conference bags unattended anywhere in the Thistle Brighton as they will be taken
away by security. For the enjoyment of all participants, inappropriate behavior will not be tolerated and offenders will
be removed from the premises.
Smoking
Smoking is not permitted in the Thistle Brighton.
Internet Access
There will be a free WiFi internet connection throughout the conference areas. However, this can be
unreliable and we would strongly suggest that you do not rely on a live connection for your presentation.
For your convenience, there will also be a limited number of computers at the Conference Information Desk.
Printing
There will be a printer behind the Information Desk in the base room, and we are able to offer a complimentary
printing service of up to ten A4 sheets should you need this. Please be advised that printing may not be available inpeak times.
BadgesWhen you check in, you will receive a conference package, which includes your name badge. Wearing your badge isrequired for entrance to the sessions. If you lose your badge it can be replaced for a fee of 40GBP. You must wear
your badge at all times during the Conference. If you are not wearing your badge, security will stop you and ask
you to show your ID and evidence that you are registered. Those unable to show proof may be escorted from theConference by security.
There are 4 colours of badges indicating the type of conference participant:BLUE: Presenters, Exhibitors, and General Audience
YELLOW: Keynote and Featured Speakers
BLACK: IAFOR Staff & Board Members
RED: Single Day Audience
Photo/Recording Waiver
There will be photography, audio and video recording at the conference. By entering the event premises you giveconsent to the use of your photograph, likeness or video or audio recording in whole or in part without restriction orlimitation for any educational, promotional, or any purpose for distribution.
Refreshment Breaks
Complimentary coffee, tea, and water is available throughout the day at the refreshment station located next to theConference Registration Desk. Light snacks will be provided once in the morning and once in the afternoon.
Meals & Drinks
On check in at the Conference Registration Desk you will receive lunch ticket(s) for the conference. Packed lunch will
be provided by IAFOR. Please exchange a ticket for a lunch at the registration desk between 11:45-12:45. If you havespecial dietary requirements please let us know in advance.
Meals can be purchased at any of the restaurants or convenience stores in and around the Thistle Brighton.

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Conference Welcome, Keynote Speaker & Featured Speaker Session: Friday 9:00-12:10
The plenary session will be held on Friday morning, with the event beginning at 9:00 AM in the Renaissance Suite on
the lower ground floor. Please arrive in good time if you wish to attend the session. There will be an interval after the
first featured address and complimentary refreshments and snacks will be served.The plenary session will be followedby the official conference photograph.
Parallel Speaker Sessions
Parallel Sessions will run from 13:30 on Friday afternoon, and from 9:30 AM on Saturday & Sunday mornings.They are
generally organized into streams. Sessions include two or three presenters. Each presenter has thirty minutes which
includes Q and A time. The session length reflects the number of presenters.

We recommend that you bring two copies of your presentation in the case that one fails, and suggest sending yourself
the presentation by email as a third and final precaution.
Session Chairs
Session Chairs are expected to introduce themselves and other speakers (briefly), and ensure that the session begins
and ends on time, and that the time is divided fairly between the presentations. Each presenter should have no lessthan 30 minutes in which to present his or her paper, and respond to any questions.
The session chair is asked to assume this timekeeping role, and to this end, a yellow and red coloured timekeeping
card is used as a visual cue for presenters, letting them know when they have 5 minutes remaining, and when theymust stop.
Please follow the order in the programme, and if for any reason a presenter fails to show, please keep to the originaltimeslots as delegates use the programme to plan their attendance.
A Polite Request to All ParticipantsParticipants are requested to arrive in a timely fashion for all addresses, whether to their own, or to those of otherpresenters. Presenters are reminded that the time slots should be divided fairly and equally between the number ofpresentations, and that they should not overrun. We recommend that the 30 minutes presentation timeslot be divided
as follows: 20 minutes for the paper and 10 minutes for Q and A.
Please don’t talk during sessions and please turn off your phone or set it to silent during presentations.

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Presentations and Equipment
All rooms will be equipped with a MacBook computer pre-installed with PowerPoint and Keynote, that is connected
to a wide-screen TV. If you wish, you may directly link your own PC laptop, although we advise you to use thecomputer provided by plugging in your USB flash drive.

Poster Sessions & Poster Requirements
The poster frames are B1 and so it is recommended that posters be no larger than B1 (707mm x 1000mm/27.8
inches x 39.4 inches). A1 (594mm x 841mm/23.4 inches x 39.4 inches) is also fine. If your poster is oversized, then we
will be able to provide tape. Please be aware that there are no on-site poster facilities for printing posters.
Conference Proceedings
The Conference Proceedings are published on the IAFOR website (www.iafor.org), and can be freely accessed as partof the research archive.
All authors may have their full paper published in the online conference proceedings. Full text submission is due by
September 1, 2014 through the online system. The proceedings will be published on October 1, 2014.
Authors will have PDF copies of their offprints emailed to them by the IAFOR office by the end of October 2014.
Returning Delegate Discount
Every year we have a growing number of delegates who have presented at previous IAFOR conferences. To show
our appreciation, IAFOR would now like to offer you a 10% discount off your next IAFOR conference registration.
This offer is valid for the next 12 months and covers any IAFOR conference in Asia, Europe, or the United States thatyou may choose to attend.

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Conference Chairs,
Keynote Speakers&
Featured Speakers

Stuart Picken

ecerp 2014conference chair& keynote speaker

Chair, Japan Society of Scotland
Chair, IAFOR International Advisory Board

Professor Stuart Picken is the Chairman of the IAFOR International Advisory Board. The author of a dozen books
and over 130 articles and papers, he is considered one of the foremost scholars on Japan, China, and Globalizationin East Asia. As an academic, Professor Picken has devoted more than 30 years to scholarship in Japan, notably as a
Professor of Philosophy at the International Christian University in Tokyo, where he specialized in ethics and Japanesethought, and as International Adviser to the High Priest of Tsubaki Grand Shrine (Mie prefecture). He has also served
as a consultant to various businesses, including Jun Ashida Ltd., Mitsui Mining & Smelting Corp., Kobe Steel, and Japan
Air Lines.
In 2008, the Government of Japan awarded Professor Picken the Order of the Sacred Treasure for his pioneeringresearch, and outstanding contribution to the promotion of friendship and mutual understanding between Japan andthe UK. The honour is normally reserved for Japanese citizens and is a mark of the utmost respect in which Professor
Picken is held by the Japanese Government. More recently, in 2012 he was invited to London to attend a reception at
the Japanese Embassy, hosted by Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko as an expression of their gratitude towards
Britons who had helped support Japan after the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. Professor Picken helped
organize fundraising efforts through both the Japan Society of Scotland, of which he is the chair, in the UK, and IAFOR
in Japan.
Although now resident in Scotland, Professor Picken maintains his interests in Japan, as Chair of the Japan Society of
Scotland, and through the IAFOR IAB. He is also the Chairman of the Academic Board of New College, Birmingham.
He lives near Glasgow with his wife and two children.
Keynote Presentation: “Individual, Community & Society: Conflict, Resolution & Synergy”
Conflict is an integral part of the human condition. The universal struggle between our personal selves – who we areas unique, separate and different from others, with our specific blend of experiences, abilities, attitudes, aspirations,needs and wants – and our social selves, intricately connected to, and interdependent on, others – our loved ones,
our friends and favoured groups, our communities and cultures – leads inevitably to internal as well as interpersonal
conflict.

Keynote Presentation
Friday, July 25, 201409:15-10:00
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Conflict among our communities and societies is also natural, given that these groups are founded on commonality –of geography, values, attitudes, beliefs, aspirations – and differentiated from others based on these. Diversity, however,though it may lead to conflict, plays an important role in the flourishing of communities and societies. One of thechallenges of modern society is harnessing the synergy that emerges from the interaction of these differences.
This keynote will address the conference theme from an interdisciplinary approach, and address such challenges facing
us today.

Joe Elliot

Durham University, UK

Dr Elliott’s research and teaching interests include dyslexia, achievement motivation, working memory difficulties, SEN,
behaviour management, cognitive education, and psychological assessment, and he is widely published in this field. His
most recent work is The Dyslexia Debate, published by Cambridge University Press (2014).
Keynote Presentation: The Dyslexia Debate
This presentation will outline the nature of the dyslexia debate and propose a more scientific solution. In so doing, it
will draw upon the content of The Dyslexia Debate (Elliott & Grigorenko, 2014, Cambridge University Press). This text,
four years in the production, represents a detailed analysis and synthesis of research in dyslexia across the domains ofgenetics, neuroscience, cognitive science, and educational policy and intervention.

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keynote speaker

Professor Julian (Joe) Elliott joined Durham University in 2004 from the University of Sunderland where he wasActing Dean of the School of Education and Lifelong Learning. Prof. Elliott taught in mainstream and special schools
prior to practising as an LEA educational psychologist. A Chartered Psychologist and Associate Fellow of the British
Psychological Society, he is registered to engage in clinical practice as an educational psychologist by the HealthProfessions Council. He is an Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences and a member of the REF 2014
Education Panel.

There are a number of reasons why scientific understandings are often confused, and occasionally misrepresented, byresearchers, practitioners and lay public.
1. Researchers in genetics and neuroscience are primarily involved in examining the biological underpinnings ofreading disability rather than a) that of a definable condition that is manifest within a subgroup of poor readers
identified by educational psychologists as dyslexia or b) a condition much beyond literacy that often involves
a wide range of cognitive and behavioral difficulties;
2. The desire for a label is often satisfied by the use by diagnosticians of lengthy lists of indicative symptoms
with none proving necessary or sufficient. Some of these are tangentially related to literacy skills leading totension between researchers and clinicians;
3. Studies of a number of key underlying psychological processes deemed to be indicative of dyslexia (e.g.
working memory, rapid naming) have often provided contrasting findings that have limited value in informing Keynote Session
effective forms of reading intervention;
4. There is a misplaced belief that, in line with the medical model, a diagnosis of dyslexia will point to appropriate
Friday, July 25, 2014
forms of intervention that would otherwise fail to be identified.
The presentation will call for an end to the use of the dyslexia label. An alternative proposition will be proposed.

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Donald Halleccs 2014conference chair

Lehigh University, USA

Donald E. Hall has published widely in the fields of British studies, gender theory, cultural studies, and professional
studies. Prior to arriving at Lehigh in 2011, he served as Jackson Distinguished Professor of English and Chair of the
Department of English (and previously Chair of the Department of Foreign Languages) at West Virginia University(WVU). Before his tenure at WVU, he was Professor of English and Chair of the Department of English at California
State University, Northridge, where he taught for thirteen years. He is a recipient of the University Distinguished
Teaching Award at CSUN, was a visiting professor at the National University of Rwanda, was 2001 Lansdowne
Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the University of Victoria (Canada), was Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Cultural
Studies at Karl Franzens University in Graz, Austria, for 2004-05, and was Fulbright Specialist at the University of
Helsinki for 2006. He has taught also in Sweden, Romania, Hungary, and China. He has served on numerous panels andcommittees for the Modern Language Association (MLA), including the Task Force on Evaluating Scholarship for Tenure
and Promotion and the Convention Program Committee. In 2012, he served as national President of the Associationof Departments of English. In 2013, he was elected to and began serving on the Executive Council of the MLA.
His current and forthcoming work examines issues such as professional responsibility and academic communitybuilding, the dialogics of social change and ethical intellectualism, and the Victorian (and our continuing) interest in the
deployment of instrumental agency over our social, vocational, and sexual selves. His book, The Academic Community:
A Manual For Change, was published by Ohio State University Press in the fall of 2007. His tenth book, Reading
Sexualities: Hermeneutic Theory and the Future of Queer Studies, was published in the spring of 2009. In 2012, he andAnnamarie Jagose, of the University of Auckland, collaborated on a volume titled The Routledge Queer Studies Reader,which was published in July of that year. He continues to lecture worldwide on the value of a liberal arts education andthe need for nurturing global competencies in students and interdisciplinary dialogue in and beyond the classroom.
Keynote Presentation: Looking Beyond Our Horizons – Interdisciplinary Education as Our Best Hope for the
FutureKeynote Presentation
Friday, July 25, 2014
11:20-12:10
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My opening questions are deceptively simple—but quickly point to a host of political conflicts and differencesof perspective: how do we learn and what should we learn? Across the US and the world, we hear politicians
and lay commentators call for university training that is focused primarily, if not solely, in the hard sciencesand engineering. State and local governments in America are slashing funding for programs in philosophy,
music, languages, and anthropology. At a time when we are confronted with the enormous challenges ofcultural conflict, political strife, and religious intolerance, we are told that our hopes for the future rest on
the solutions provided by technology alone. This is fool-hardy, if not actually self-destructive, in my opinion.
Science will help us cure disease. Technology will allow us to communicate and travel faster. Engineering may assist us
in generating new forms of energy and protecting against eroding agricultural lands and coastal areas. However, noneof them challenges the destructive force of self-interest, national or personal. None of them alone provides the tools
to achieve the goal of living in peace, good will, and a sense of shared interest with our fellow inhabitants of the planet
so we can address global crises. For that, we need interdisciplinary training in the liberal arts and sciences—especially as
informed by the humanities, the social sciences, the visual and performing arts, and cultural studies. Only interdisciplinarity
can teach us how to cross boundaries comfortably, even enthusiastically. Only interdisciplinary perspectives can save
us from ourselves and the threats that are in fact produced by a narrow reliance on science, technology, and business.

Dexter Da Silva

Keisen University, Japanecp 2014
conference chair

Dr Dexter Da Silva is currently Professor of Educational Psychology at Keisen University in Tokyo. He has taught EFL
at junior high school, language schools, and universities in Sydney, and for the past two decades has been living andteaching at the tertiary level in Japan. Professor Da Silva was educated at the University of Sydney (BA, Dip. Ed., M.A.),and the University of Western Sydney (Ph.D.) He has presented and co-presented at conferences in Asia, Australia,
Europe and the U.S., and written or co-written articles and book chapters on education-related topics, such as trust,student motivation, autonomy, and content-based language teaching. He is a past editor and current associate editor of
On CUE Journal, regular reviewer for conferences and proceedings, and recent co-chair of the 2011 CUE Conference
on Motivation.

Baden Offord

eccs 2014conference chair

Southern Cross University, Australia

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Baden Offord is Professor of Cultural Studies and Human Rights in the School of Arts and Social Sciences, Southern
Cross University, Australia. Globally recognized as a specialist in sexuality and human rights, in 2012 he was a sponsoredspeaker to the 14th EU-NGO Human Rights Forum in Brussels and conducted a three-week lecture tour of Japan
sponsored by the Australian Prime Minister’s Educational Assistance Funds post the Great Eastern Tohoku Earthquake
in 2011. Baden’s interdisciplinary research cuts across the fields of Cultural Studies, Media Studies, Creative Writing,
Cultural Geography, Socio-legal Studies, Asian Studies, Australian Studies and Critical Pedagogy.In 2010-2011 he was
Chair (Visiting Professor) in Australian Studies, Centre for Pacific Studies and American Studies, Institute for Advanced
Global Studies, The University of Tokyo and has held several visiting professorships/fellowships in Spain, the UnitedStates, India, New Zealand and Japan. He is the Vice-President (International) of the Cultural Studies Associationof Australasia.Recent publications include the book Activating Human Rights and Peace: Theories, Practices, Contexts(Ashgate, London: 2012) and articles in Asian Studies Review; The Review of Education, Pedagogy and Cultural Studies;
Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies; and Critical Arts: A journal of South-North Cultural and Media Studies.

Koichi Iwabuchi
Monash University,
Australia

Monty P. Satiadarma
Tarumanagara University,
Indonesia

Jiro Takai

Nagoya University,
Japan

ECP Conference Program Advisor - Monty P. Satiadarma is is an academic and psychologist who has lectured aroundthe world, and who continues to practice in his native Indonesia. He was the Dean of the department of psychology at
Tarumanagara University from 1997-2005, and Rector of the University from 2008-2010. Dr Satiadarma has a particularinterest in educational psychology, and in music and art therapy, methods with which he treated survivors of theIndonesian tsunami on behalf of the International Red Cross and the United Nations. He is a board member and area
chair of the International Council of Psychology, and a founder and board member of the Asian Psychology Association.
ECP Conference Program Advisor - JiroTakai is professor of social psychology at Nagoya University, and received his PhDfrom the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has served in the executive committees of the Japan Society for Social
Psychology, the Japan Group Dynamics Society, the Japan Intercultural Education Society, the Communication Associationof Japan, and the Japan-US Communication Association (affiliate of National Communication Association). Although hewas born in Japan, he spent 15 years as a youth growing up in Canada, and has also spent two years living in the United States.
Because of such a background, he has an interest in cross-cultural matters, particularly in the context of interpersonalcommunication as well as research interests in interpersonal competence, self-presentation and multi-faceted self concept.

conference program advisers

ECCS Conference Program Advisor - Koichi Iwabuchi is Professor of Media and Cultural Studies and Director of theMonash Asia Institute at Monash University, Australia. His main research interests are media and cultural globalisation,
multicultural questions, mixed race and cultural citizenship in East Asian contexts. His English publications include
Recentering Globalization: Popular Culture and Japanese Transnationalism (Duke University Press, 2002); East Asian Pop
Culture: Approaching the Korean Wave (ed. with Chua Beng Huat, Hong Kong University Press, 2008); Uses of Media
Culture, Usefulness of Media Culture Studies: Beyond Brand Nationalism, Into Public Dialogue (in Creativity and Academic
Activism: Instituting Cultural Studies, M. Morris and M. Hjort (eds), Hong Kong University Press & Duke University
Press, 2012); De-westernisation, Inter-Asian Referencing and Beyond (European Journal of Cultural Studies, 2013).
Together with Chris Berry, he is a co-editor of Hong Kong University Press book series, TransAsia: Screen Cultures.

ECERP Friday Spotlight Session I (16:00-16:45)
Room: Tennyson
Autonomy and the Demands of Love
Mark Piper, James Madison University, USA

spotlight presentations

About the Presenter: Dr. Mark Piper is currently an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at James Madison
University in Virginia, USA. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Dr. Piper studied at St. Louis University and St. Edmund
Hall, Oxford, before receiving his B.A. in philosophy from St. Louis University. He then returned to Englandto earn his M.A. in philosophy at the University of York before returning to the United States to earn his
Ph.D. in philosophy from St. Louis University (during this time he also studied in Frankfurt, Germany). Dr.
Piper’s research focuses on the nature and normativity of autonomy, the nature of well-being, and virtue.

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Abstract: J. David Velleman has argued that what it makes sense to care about out of love for someone is theunimpeded realization of her autonomy. Although Velleman refers to both Kantian and perfectionist notionsof autonomy, a close look at his argument shows that the form of autonomy that he employs actually amounts
instead to personal autonomy. I argue that there are in fact no value constraints on the objects of autonomouschoice on this account of autonomy. The upshot of this claim is that a person may exercise personal autonomy
without satisfying many other important normative demands. This suggests that Velleman’s endorsement of
the unimpeded realization of one’s beloved’s autonomy is wrong, insofar as a beloved’s autonomous choice may,in securing her personal interests, thwart her achievement of important goods, especially moral goods. In suchcases, we have reason to hinder the unimpeded realization of our beloved’s autonomy, precisely out of love forher. Although aiding the development of one’s beloved’s autonomy is clearly significant for many reasons, support
for personal autonomy should not be seen as an absolute value in personal relationships or education generally.

ECP Friday Spotlight Session I (16:00-16:45)
Room: Wordsworth
Taking the Bad with the Good: Recognizing Negatives Promotes Relationships
Steven M. Graham, New College of Florida, USA
About the Presenter: Dr. Steven Graham is currently an Assistant Professor of Psychology at New College ofFlorida, the Honors College of the State of Florida, US. Dr. Graham earned his Bachelors degree at the Universityof Connecticut in Psychology. Under the supervision of Dr. Margaret S. Clark, Dr. Graham earned his M.S. and Ph.D.
degrees in Social Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US. Although his academic
appointment is at an institute that emphasizes excellence in teaching undergraduates, Dr. Graham is an active
researcher on topics including cognition and conflict in close relationships, emotion, and the psychology of religion.
Abstract: Close interpersonal relationships have numerous and important implications for physical health, mental
health, and psychological well-being. That said, relationships also come with costs. Close others inevitably haveshortcomings, express negativity, engage in conflict, and relationships require some degree of nurturance and support
provision. Previous research has suggested that having positive illusions, or believing that one’s partner is better thanshe or he actually is, promotes relationships. Acknowledging these previous findings, this paper presents evidence
suggesting that awareness of the fact that neither relationships nor partners are perfect is associated with a host of
positive relational outcomes including better management of conflict, better support provision, and existence of alarger social network. In one line of research, evidence from two experimental and two correlational studies shows that
expression of negative emotions elicits support from others and promotes the development of larger social networks.
In a second line of research, evidence from a number of studies shows that individuals who tend to link together thenegative and positive characteristics of their partners experience more trust, are more satisfied and forgiving in theirrelationships, experience less conflict, and better manage that conflict. The underlying theme uniting these lines ofresearch is that it is better to recognize that there will be some negativity in relationships than to expect perfection.

ECP Saturday Spotlight Workshop I (16:45-17:30)
Room: Tennyson
The Sense Presence and Its Historical Implications
Gabriel Herman, Hebrew University, Israel
About the Presenter: Gabriel Herman currently holds the Professorship in Ancient History at the Hebrew
University of Jerusalem, Israel. He holds a Ph.D. from Cambridge University. He specializes in ancient Greek social
history, focusing on issues such as social structure, interpersonal relationships, moral norms, rituals, conflict resolution
and decision making. Recently he published an article entitled “Towards a biological re-interpretation of culture.”
Abstract: For a long time, visions dubbed the “Sensed Presence” did not receive sufficient attention in
research, presumably because a) the supporting evidence seemed dubious; and b) the visions were notassociated with mental disease. SP visions occur regularly in healthy individuals in situations of extreme stress.
Masses of evidence have recently been assembled suggesting that the phenomenon is more widespreadthan originally thought, and that it displays some clear distinguishing features. The possibility of demarcating
sensed-presence from non-sensed-presence visions has far-reaching implications for historical research.

As a by-product, my paper offers a reconfirmation of the theory known in the social sciences as the psychic unity of
mankind.

ECERP Saturday Spotlight Workshop I (16:45-17:30)
Room: Wordsworth
The Dignity of Difference Post-Holocaust Interfaith Dialogue
Alan L. Berger, Florida Atlantic University, USA
About the Presenter: Dr. Alan L. Berger is the Raddock Family Eminent Scholar Chair of Holocaust Studies at Florida
Atlantic University, where he also directs the Center for the Study of Values and Violence after Auschwitz. Amongthe dozen books he has authored, co-authored, and edited are Jewish-Christian Dialogue: Drawing Honey fromthe Rock (co-author with David Patterson); Second Generation Voices (co-editor with his wife Naomi, winner of
B’nai Zion Media Award), and Children of Job. He holds a Doctor of Letters, Honoris Causa, from Luther College.

spotlight presentations

In an earlier article, I argued that many of the epiphanies described in the ancient Greek and Roman sources
could be identified as SP visions. Here I propose to take that argument one step further. First, I will explore the(cultural) process whereby SP visions are elaborated, expatiated and adorned. Second, an SP vision reported in
my own country (several Israeli soldiers declared they had seen Rachel the Matriarch during a military operation)
will be used to unlock the secret of a vision that was revealed to the emperor Constantine. That vision, which
was allegedly instrumental in Constantine’s conversion to Christianity, can be identified as an SP event.

Abstract: One of the dramatic and traumatic inheritances of the Holocaust is its impact on interfaith dialogue, especiallybetween (Catholic) Christians and Jews. Supersessionist theology has itself been superseded, at least in progressive
theological circles, by a recognition that the stranger is not an alien, but a fellow human. Exploring two key documents,
Nostrae aetate, note four, and Dabrus Emeth. Admittedly of unequal valence, my paper makes several points: theselandmark documents instantiate a theological somersault in each traditions’ theology of the Other; the enormous
strides interfaith has made in the past fifty years; the lack of knowledge about the Other that persists in both traditions;and the need for implementation of doctrinal/theological changes at local levels.
My discussion also addresses the implications for the tension between particular/universal claims made by the twomonotheistic faiths and, by implication, for Islam. I focus on the question Professor Mary Boys makes in her classic
study Has God Only One Blessing? Furthermore, I explore the implications of rabbi Jonathan Sacks’ contention thatmodernity reverses “Plato’s Paradox” in its movement from the universal to the particular, a move he rightly traces tothe Hebrew Bible.
I conclude by suggesting that interfaith dialogue can assist in helping achieve a more peaceful world in spite of thechallenges of atheism, secularism, and the culture of war.

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INTERNATIONALINTERCULTURAL
INTERDISCIPLINARY

iafor“To Open Minds, To Educate Intelligence, To Inform Decisions”
The International Academic Forum provides new perspectives to the thought-leaders and decisionmakers of today and tomorrow by offering constructive environments for dialogue and interchange at theintersections of nation, culture, and discipline. Headquartered in Nagoya, Japan, and registered as a NonProfit Organization (一般社団法人) , IAFOR is an independent think tank committed to the deeper
understanding of contemporary geo-political transformation, particularly in the Asia Pacific Region.
For more information about the International Academic Forum and its activities,
please visit our website at www.iafor.org
Hear the latest news and developments by joining our mailing list.
Find us on facebook at IAFORJapan or follow us on twitter @iafor

IAFORThe International Academic Forum
Academic Vision and Mission“To Open Minds, To Educate Intelligence, To Inform Decisions”
The vision of IAFOR grew out of the perceived need to fill a vacuum in the communication and exchange activities of the academic
world. Its mission arose out of examining that space and investigating why it existed. The vacuum existed because of the lack ofopportunity for serious and thoughtful exchange between academics, members of the global business community, and practitioners
in the fields of human endeavor that linked these groups together. In the field of education, for example, we have academic theorists,
educational managers (political decision-makers and organizational directors) and classroom teachers with their support staff in IT,
library work, exchange programs, and specialist fields. But how often do they have the opportunity to interact?
Moving beyond one particular field, larger questions arise. What function should universities prioritize in the 21st century? What
do businesses see as their contribution to social and global well being? How can people on the ground, trying to implement
improvements that will transform human life, best be supported? And perhaps above all, what are the agendas that will drive
mechanisms to enable these groups to interact effectively.
One piece of distilled thought that came from early exchanges at one of our conferences was the recognition that some of therhetoric of concern about the problems of developing nations was perhaps over-focused on the term “poverty” because it can be
defined only in a relative way. “Hunger” was put forward as being more immediate and itself a contributory factor to poverty, rather
than the other way round. One key to the hunger issue could be the provision of safe drinking water, or water for irrigation in somecontexts, while flood management might be necessary elsewhere. These, in and by themselves become valuable only insofar as they
help to relieve hunger in specific contexts.
IAFOR is affording opportunities that do not exist elsewhere. The base is Osaka, Japan’s great commercial and manufacturing hub,
one symbol of the emerging Pacific economy that is already eclipsing the long dominant Atlantic zone. Our conferences present
those taking part with three unique dimensions of experience. First of all, it encourages interdisciplinary activity to be expanded.
Depending on the field, this can face varying degrees of difficulty, ranging from discouragement to downright prohibition. Those
overly dependent on fixed academic structures often see lateral thinking as a threat. None of these negatives apply in IAFOR. Its
purpose is to generate new approaches that cross any disciplinary lines. The principle employed is to let the imagination permit
intuitive responses to questions. There are no panels of critics. There are simply people who want to listen and reflect. The model ofacademic work as potholing is replaced by the metaphor of mountaineering. While respecting the need for solid and well-founded
academic work, we feel the need to go beyond it from time to time to discover fresh approaches to old questions.
Secondly, it facilitates the heightening of intercultural awareness. Again, we encourage innovation through cross-cultural perception.
Cultural roots influence people in their attitudes more than most would realize or admit. The need to see and internalize insights
gained from other viewpoints is met by a process of steady illumination.
Thirdly, it promotes the broadening of international exchange. We may live in a globalized world, but in reality parochialism still holds
sway. The collapse of the U.S.S.R and the break-up of Yugoslavia led to the re-establishment of numerous former countries. While
this may be desirable for the peoples concerned, it merely adds to the world’s cultural confusion. Exchange leads to explanation andthat helps the growth of intercultural awareness.
IAFOR makes all of these developments possible in one gathering. Our conferences are not a substitute for specialist conferences.
We intend our events to be an alternative that functions as a balance or even a corrective to the extreme tendencies that can arise
from more narrowly defined research parameters. In short, IAFOR is promoting and facilitating a new multifaceted approach to oneof the core issues of our time, namely globalization and its many forms of growth and expansion. Awareness of how it cuts acrossthe worlds of business, and academia, along with its impact on societies and institutions is one of the driving forces that has given
the organization its momentum, and is making it a pioneer in this global age.

Rev. Professor Stuart DB Picken
Order of the Sacred Treasure (瑞宝章), M.A. (Hons), BD., Ph.D., F.R.A.S.
Chairman, Japan Society of Scotland
Chairman, IAFOR Advisory Board
Dr Joseph Haldane
B.A. (Hons), Ph.D FRAS.
Executive Director, IAFOR

people - Leadership
Chairman of the International Advisory Board
The Reverend Professor Stuart D. B. Picken, Order of the Sacred Treasure, M.A. (Hons), B.D., Ph.D.
(Glasgow), F.R.A.S.
Professor Picken is the Chairman of the IAFOR International Advisory Board.The author of a dozen books andover 130 articles and papers, he is considered one of the foremost scholars on Japan, China, and Globalizationin East Asia. As an academic, Professor Picken has devoted more than 30 years to scholarship in Japan, notably
as a Professor of Philosophy at the International Christian University in Tokyo, where he specialized in ethics
and Japanese thought, and as International Adviser to the High Priest of Tsubaki Grand Shrine (Mie prefecture).
He has also served as a consultant to various businesses, including Jun Ashida Ltd., Mitsui Mining & Smelting
Corp., Kobe Steel, and Japan Air Lines. In November 2008, the Government of Japan awarded Professor Picken
the Order of the Sacred Treasure for his pioneering research, and outstanding contribution to the promotionof friendship and mutual understanding between Japan and the UK. The honour is normally reserved forJapanese citizens and is a mark of the utmost respect in which Professor Picken is held by the Japanese
Government. More recently, in 2012 he was invited to London to attend a reception at the Japanese Embassy,
hosted by Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko as an expression of their gratitude towards Britons who
had helped support Japan after the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. Professor Picken helped organize
fundraising efforts through both the Japan Society of Scotland, of which he is the chair, in the UK, and IAFOR
in Japan. As Chairman of the IAB, Professor Picken is responsible for the academic affairs and direction of
the organization. He is also responsible for the development of the IAFOR Research Institute. Although now
resident in Scotland, Professor Picken maintains his interests in Japan, as Chair of the Japan Society of Scotland,
and through the IAFOR IAB. He is also the Chairman of the Academic Board of New College, Birmingham.
He lives near Glasgow with his wife and two children.
Vice-Chairman of the International Advisory Board
Professor Jerry Platt, B.S. (Michigan State), MBA (Wayne State), MA, PhD (Ohio State), MS (Stanford)
Jerry Platt is Professor of Global Business at Akita International University, Japan and Professor Emeritus at San
Francisco State University. Professor Platt holds a B.S. in Multidisciplinary Social Sciences from Michigan State
University, an MBA from Wayne State University, an M.A. in Public Administration, and a Ph.D. in Public Policy
and Management from the John Glenn School of Public Affairs at Ohio State University, and an M.S. Statistics
Post-Doctoral Degree from Stanford University. His research interests span business, technology and public
policy and he is the author of over 85 peer-reviewed papers in these and associated fields. Balancing industry
with academic interests, Jerry also served as head of financial analysis for a Bay Area Fortune 500 company,
and as CEO of an aviation firm. He has been Principal Investigator on more than twenty U.S. federal research
grants. From 1976-2004, Professor Platt was on the faculty of the School of Business at San Francisco State
University, and was named Dean in 2001. From 2004 he was Senecal Endowed Dean of the Business Schoolat the University of Redlands, California, before holding concurrent professorships at Redlands and Akita
International University, Japan from 2010 until 2012. As Vice-Chair of the IAFOR International Advisory Board,
Professor Platt advises the organization on matters pertaining to IAFOR’s development and strategy, as it faces
the challenge of sustainable growth as both a regional and global organization.
Executive Director
Dr Joseph Haldane, B.A., Ph.D. (London), F.R.A.S
Joseph Haldane is the Executive Director of the International Academic Forum. He was Academic Director
from IAFOR’s inception in 2009 until January 2011, when he assumed his current enlarged role. He is
responsible for setting policies, forging institutional partnerships, implementing projects, and overseeing the
research and publications of the organization, as well as maintaining responsibility for overseeing IAFOR’s
growing global operations. Joe’s academic interests include politics and international affairs, literature, history,
and the history of ideas, and he holds a PhD from the University of London in French Studies. He has taught
at the University of Paris XII [2002-2004], at the French Press Institute in the University of Paris II - PantheonAssas [2003-2004] and was a full-time lecturer at Sciences Po in Paris, where he directed a postgraduate
course on British Politics and Media in the School of Journalism [2004-2005]. In 2005 he moved to Japan, andimmediately prior to this post was an Associate Professor at Nagoya University of Commerce and Businessin both the undergraduate and graduate schools, teaching the Ethics course in the graduate school. He is afellow of the Royal Asiatic Society.

people - The Executive Council of the International Advisory Board
IAB Chair: Professor Stuart D.B. Picken

IAB Vice-Chair: Professor Jerry Platt

The IAB Executive Council is composed of distinguished academics, business executives, former and current government officials, and community leaders of international
standing. Its role is to provide counsel and direction in the business and affairs of IAFOR, suggest and approve the areas of scholarly investigation, and safeguard the
independence of the Forum’s work. International Directors of Program and Research Institute Directors are ex-officio members of the Executive Council of theInternational Advisory Board. Membership of the Executive Council of the International Advisory Board is by invitation only.
Mr Mitsumasa Aoyama
Director, The Yufuku Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Professor David N Aspin
Professor Emeritus and Former Dean of the Faculty of
Education, Monash University, Australia
Visiting Fellow, St Edmund’s College, Cambridge
University, UK
Professor Don Brash
Former Governor of the Reserve Bank, New ZealandFormer Leader of the New National Party, New
Zealand
Adjunct Professor, AUT, New Zealand & La Trobe
University, Australia
Lord Charles Bruce
Lord Lieutenant of Fife
Chairman of the Patrons of the National Galleries of
Scotland
Trustee of the Historic Scotland Foundation, UK
Professor Judith Chapman
Professor of Education, Australian Catholic University,
Australia
Visiting Fellow, St Edmund’s College, Cambridge
University, UK
Member of the Order of Australia
Professor Chung-Ying Cheng
Professor of Philosophy, University of Hawai’i atManoa, USA
Editor-in-Chief, The Journal of Chinese Philosophy
Professor Steve Cornwell
Professor of English and Interdisciplinary Studies,
Osaka Jogakuin University, Osaka, Japan
Osaka Local Conference Chair
Professor Michael A. Cusumano
SMR Distinguished Professor of Managementand Engineering Systems, MIT Sloan School ofManagement, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
USA
Professor Dexter Da Silva
Professor of Educational Psychology, Keisen University,
Tokyo, Japan
Professor Georges Depeyrot
Professor and Director of Research & Member of theBoard of Trustees
French National Center for Scientific Research(CNRS) & L’Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France

Professor June Henton
Dean, College of Human Sciences, Auburn University,
USA
Professor Michael Hudson
President of The Institute for the Study of Long-Term
Economic Trends (ISLET)Distinguished Research Professor of Economics, The
University of Missouri, Kansas City
Professor Koichi Iwabuchi
Professor of Media and Cultural Studies & Director of
the Monash Asia Institute, Monash University, Australia

Professor Baden Offord
Professor of Cultural Studies and Human Rights & CoDirector of the Centre for Peace and Social JusticeSouthern Cross University, Australia
Professor Frank S. Ravitch
Professor of Law & Walter H. Stowers Chair in Law
and Religion, Michigan State University College of Law
Professor Richard RothSenior Associate Dean, Medill School of Journalism,
Northwestern University, Qatar

Professor Sue Jackson
Professor of Lifelong Learning and Gender & Pro-Vice
Master of Teaching and Learning, Birkbeck, Universityof London, UK

Professor Monty P. Satiadarma
Clinical Psychologist and Lecturer in Psychology &Former Dean of the Department of Psychology and
Rector of the University, Tarumanugara University,
Indonesia

Professor Sing Kong Lee
Director, The National Institute of Education,
Singapore

Mr Mohamed Salaheen
Director, The United Nations World Food Programme,Japan & Korea

Professor Sir Geoffrey Lloyd
Senior Scholar in Residence, The Needham ResearchInstitute, Cambridge, UK
Fellow and Former Master, Darwin College, Universityof Cambridge
Fellow of the British Academy

Mr Lowell Sheppard
Asia Pacific Director, HOPE International
Development Agency, Canada/Japan

Professor Keith Miller
Orthwein Endowed Professor for Lifelong Learning in
the Science, University of Missouri-St.Louis, USA

Professor Mary Stuart
Vice-Chancellor, The University of Lincoln, UK

His Excellency Dr Drago Stambuk
Croatian Ambassador to Brazil, Brazil

Professor Kuniko Miyanaga
Director, Human Potential Institute, Japan
Fellow, Reischauer Institute, Harvard University, USA

Professor Gary Swanson
Distinguished Journalist-in-Residence & Mildred S.
Hansen Endowed Chair, The University of Northern
Colorado, USA

Professor Dennis McInerney
Chair Professor of Educational Psychology and CoDirector of the Assessment Research Centre
The Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong
SAR

Professor Jiro Takai
Secretary General of the Asian Association for Social
Psychology & Professor of Social Psychology
Graduate School of Education and Human
Development, Nagoya University, Japan

Professor Ka Ho Joshua Mok
Chair Professor of Comparative Policy, Associate VicePresident (External Relations)
Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, The Hong
Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong SAR

Professor Svetlana Ter Minasova
President of the Faculty of Foreign Languages andArea Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Professor Michiko Nakano
Professor of English & Director of the Distance
Learning Center, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan

Professor Yozo Yokota
Director of the Center for Human Rights Affairs, Japan
Former UN Special Rapporteur on Myanmar
Professor Kensaku Yoshida
Professor of English & Director of the Center for the
Teaching of Foreign Languages in General Education,
Sophia University, Tokyo, JapanThe International Advisory Board is composed of distinguished academics, business executives, former and current government officials, and community leaders. Its role
is to consult and provide counsel on the business and affairs of IAFOR, and suggest areas of scholarly investigation. Membership of the International Advisory Board is
by invitation only. For a full list please see the IAFOR website.

The Japan Liaison Committee (JLC)The Japan Liaison Committee is a consultative committee that provides support in the form of advice and guidance in specific aspects of the planning and projects of
the Forum held in Japan. The Chairman of the International Advisory Board is also chair of the JLC. Members of the JLC are ex-officio members of the International
Advisory Board.
Prof Stuart D. B. Picken, Chairman, IAFOR IAB (chair)
Mr Tom M. Aoyama, Founder of the PHP Institute, Kyoto, Japan & Director, the Yufuku Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Prof Kuniko Miyanaga, Director, the Human Potential Institute, Tokyo, Japan and Fellow, Reischauer Institute, Harvard University, USA
Prof Michiko Nakano, Professor & Director of the Distance Learning Center, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan
Prof Yozo Yokota, Director of the Center for Human Rights Affairs, Japan & Former UN Special Rapporteur on Myanmar
Dr Joseph Haldane, Executive Director, IAFOR

people - IAFOR Journal Editors
Editors of IAFOR Journals are ex-officio Members of the International Advisory Board
IAFOR Journal of Arts and Humanities
Dr Thomas French, Ritsumeikan University, Japan
IAFOR Journal of Literature & Librarianship
Dr Richard Donovan, Doshisha University, Japan
IAFOR Journal of Education
Dr Bernard Montoneri, Providence University,
Taichung, Taiwan
IAFOR Journal of Business and Management
Dr Merlin Levirs, Ritsumeikan University
IAFOR Journal of the Social Sciences
Dr Andrea Molle, Chapman University, USA

IAFOR Journal of Ethics, Religion and Philosophy
Dr Michael O’Sullivan, The Chinese University ofHong Kong, Hong Kong SAR

IAFOR Journal of Asian Studies
Dr Seiko Yasumoto, The University of Sydney,
Australia

IAFOR Journal of Sustainability, Energy and theEnvironment
Dr Alexandru-Ionut Petrisor, The National Institutefor Research and Development in Construction,
Urban Planning and Sustainable Spatial Development(URBAN=INCERC), Romania

IAFOR Journal of Language Learning
Dr. Ebru Melek Koç, Izmir Institute of Technology,
TurkeyIAFOR Journal of Politics, Economics & Law
Dr Craig Mark, Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan

IAFOR Journal of Media, Communication & Film
Dr James Rowlins, Singapore University of Design
and Technology

people - IAFOR Staff
Mr Kiyoshi Mana - Director of Business Development
Kiyoshi Mana is the Director of Business Development as wellas project director for the 2014 Events Team, overseeing
IAFOR’s conferences in Asia, Europe, and North America.
An American of Japanese descent, Kiyoshi has long beenfascinated by the country of his ancestors, studying both
Japanese language and culture at San Francisco State.

Ms Megumi Mukudai - Executive Assistant to the Executive Director
Megumi Mukudai provides support and assistance to the Executive
Director, and is involved with general administration of the organization.
Megumi trained as a primary school teacher, specializing in musiceducation and English at Kobe Women’s University. She spent one year
in Dublin studying English, and a year in Paris studying French at the
Sorbonne.

Mr Thomas Haldane - Creative Director
A photographer and designer by training and graduate of
London College of Communication, Tom was Director for
Design, Media and Communications from 2009-2011, andChief Operations Officer (non-academic) from 2011 until
2013. He is currently Creative Director at IAFOR.

Ms Mai Hasuno - Events, Marketing and Domestic Relations Manager
Mai oversees the organisation’s conferences in Japan, and is responsiblefor developing and implementing IAFOR’s marketing strategy within
Japan. She also acts as special assistant to the Executive Director andthe IAB Chairman in the administration of the Japan International Liaison
Committee. Previous to joining IAFOR, Mai worked for the Aioi Nissay
Dowa Insurance Corporation. She is also the project manager for
IAFOR’s Asian Events.

Mr Michael Kedzlie - Research and Policy Manager
Michael Liam Kedzlie is a New Zealander who currently works
as the Research and Policy Manager. He is responsible forformulating legal policy as well as liaising with the organisation’s
university partners and the International Directors of Program.
He is also editor of Eye Magazine. He has a Master’s degreein Education from Massey University as well as a Law degreefrom the University of Waikato Law School. He is an enrolled
Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand.

Mr Alexander Pratt - Business Development Manager
A civil engineering graduate from the University of Nottingham, UK
and a self-confessed jack of all trades, Alex first came to Japan in 1997.
At IAFOR he helps with the general administration and operationof conferences, as well as with the website, and works alongside the
Director of Business Development to expand IAFOR’s operations inJapan and internationally. He is also the project manager for IAFOR’s
European Events.

Mr Thaddeus Pope - Media and Design Manager
Born and raised in Brighton, UK, Thaddeus Pope is anexperienced commercial and editorial photographer with a BA
in Photography from the London College of Communication(University of the Arts London). Thaddeus’s duties at IAFOR
include overseeing the design and media output of theorganisation.

Mr Bryce Platt - Technology & Operations Manager
After growing up in the Silicon Valley in California, Bryce graduatedfrom Gustavus Adolphus College (Saint Peter, Minnesota) with adegree in sociology, and in 2013 earned a Master’s degree in Global
Communication from Akita International University in Japan. As wellas coordinating IAFOR’s technology strategy, he is also responsible formanaging the organisations’ internal and systems operations, and is the
project manager for IAFOR’s North American events.

Mr David George - Coordinator: Events and Marketing
Raised in Brisbane, Australia, Dave graduated from the
University of Queensland with a Bachelor of Arts specialisedin Psychology. Dave has a background in project based media
and public relations work with experience at events inAustralia, India, Singapore and Dubai.

Mr Takumi Saito - Coordinator: Finance and Administration
Born and raised in Yamagata, Japan, Takumi studied English literature
at Waseda University. A language lover, he has also studied German,
Spanish, French and Polish and can also speak Italian. Takumi recently
joined IAFOR to handle its finance and administration.

Ms Lindsay Lafreniere: - Coordinator: Publications andCommunications
Originally from Canada, Lindsay Lafreniere came to Japan in
2012. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology andEnglish and a graduate diploma in Journalism. Lindsay brings
her experience of media, publishing, and broadcast work in
Canada to IAFOR.

Mr Shawn Mahler - Coordinator:Video and MediaLos Angeles native, Shawn Mahler has a wealth of experience working
on film, video, and theater productions in the United States and Japan.
He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Film Theory and Production from the
University of California, Irvine. Shawn has spent over ten years in Japan
where he has worked with numerous industry professionals to develop
television shows, movies, and theatrical productions.

iafor conference highlights:
the past 12 months

globalthought
leaders

Since 2009, IAFOR has welcomed
university presidents, faculty deans,award-winning journalists, national
politicians, government ministers,
diplomats, charity leaders, think tankdirectors, documentarymakers,movie directors, members of thearmed forces, lawyers, doctors, jurists,
artists, poets, writers, clergy, scientists,
philiosophers...

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IAFOR Journals
The International Academic Forum’s Journals conform to the highest academic standards ofinternational peer review, and are published in accordance with the IAFOR publishing commitment
to make all of our published materials available online.
Journals FAQ

IAFOR’s Open AccessPublishing Committment
IAFOR is committed to providing
ALL of its publications in online form
for no fee.
Researchers and scholars, regardlessof institutional affiliation and status,
can access our academic journals,
monographs, magazine, conferencematerials and special publications
for no charge, wherever there isinternet access.
IAFOR will never ask authors tocontribute towards publication costs,
or engage in other such publishingpractices which we believe
undermine academic independence
and integrity.

How are journal editors appointed?
Journal Editors are appointed by the International Academic Forum’s leadership, under the guidanceof the Chairman of the International Advisory Board. The term of appointment is for one issue, tobe renewed by mutual consent.
How do we ensure academic integrity?
Once appointed, the editor is free to appoint his or her own editorial team and advisory members.
All papers published in the journal have been subjected to the rigorous and accepted processesof academic peer review. Neither editors nor members of the editorial team are remunerated fortheir work. Authors will never be asked to “contribute” towards publication costs.
How are papers selected?
Journal Editors may accept papers through an open call, and proposed articles may be sent directly
to the respective editors. A small number of papers from the associated IAFOR conference
proceedings may also be selected by the journal editor(s) for reworking and revising subject tonormal processes of review. It is expected that between 5 and 10 percent of papers included inany given conference proceedings will be developed for inclusion in the associated conference
journal.
How are IAFOR Journals related to IAFOR conferences?
IAFOR’s journals reflect the interdisciplinary and international nature of our conferences andare organized thematically. Papers included in the associated conference proceedings may beconsidered for reworking by the editor(s), and would then be subjected to the same processes ofpeer review as papers submitted by other means.

IAFOR Keynotes
The IAFOR Keynotes Series is a collection of keynote addresses, or associated papers given at
our conferences. Presented as a part of the open research archive, the Keynotes series provides
an example of the range and quality of speakers at IAFOR events. These keynotes are lightly
reworked, and contain references, but are otherwise true to the original address. Many can also
be seen in video format on our YouTube page. Whether you were present at the conferenceor not, the keynotes are thoughtful addresses by senior academics, the content of which may
help your research.

Special Series & Monographs
The International Academic Forum is publishing a number of special
monographs in print and online form. One such publication is aselection of haiku from the Annual Vladimir Devidé Haiku Award.
Eye Magazine
Through Eye Magazine, the International Academic Forum’s own inhouse e-magazine publication, we hope to enlighten you to various views
and opinions of our contributors, many of whom have presented fullresearch papers at our various conferences.
The Spring 2014 edition of Eye magazine includes an exclusive interview
with Severn Cullis-Suzuki, a new design layout, as well as some othergreat articles, op-eds and essays.
Eye Magazine is available on the IAFOR website and through the ISSUU
reader on your browser or mobile device.The Summer 2014 edition will
be available in July.

	
  	
  

	
  	
  

	
  

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Friday Morning Events

08:00-17:00
Conference Registration
09:00-09:15
Welcome Address
Renaissance Suite
09:15-10:00
Keynote Address: Stuart Picken
Renaissance Suite
10:00-10:15
Coffee Break
10:15-11:05
Keynote Address: Joe Elliot
Renaissance Suite
11:05-11:20
Coffee Break
11:20-12:10
Keynote Address: Donald Hall
Renaissance Suite
12:10-12:20
Official Conference Photo
Renaissance Suite
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Friday Session I: 13:30-14:30

Friday Session I: 13:30-14:30

Room: Tennyson

ECCS - Cultural Narratives of Belonging / Not Belonging
Session Chair: Catherine Hoad
3730 – 13:30-14:00
Folklore as a Reflection of a Society: Black Pete and Cheoyong
Seungyeon Lee, Yonsei University, Republic of Korea
0907 – 14:00-14:30
Whiteness with(out) Borders: Translocal Narratives of Whiteness in Heavy Metal Scenes in Norway, South Africa and Australia
Catherine Hoad, Macquarie University, Australia

Friday Session I: 13:30-14:30

Room: Wordsworth

ECERP - Philosophy and Religion / Comparative Religion
Session Chair: Carsten Viggo Nielsen
0220 – 13:30-14:00
Political Moralism as an Illness in the Church?
David Huisjen, University of Helsinki, Finland0926 – 14:00-14:30
Rituals in Museums as a Means for Negotiating Culture and Identity
Carsten Viggo Nielsen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Friday Session I: 13:30-14:30

Room: KeatsECP - General Psychology
Session Chair: Gregory M Howard3633 – 13:30-14:00
Summoning a Punishing Angel: Between Demonic Obsession and Prophetic Revelation
Eliezer Witztum, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
1933 – 14:00-14:30
Binge Drinking and Young People: How Does Social Identity Influence Attitude and Behaviour?
Gregory M Howard, UEA, UK
Victoria Scaife, UEA, UK
Charles Seger, UEA, UK

Friday Session I: 13:30-14:00

Room: Shelley

ECCS – Cultural Studies
3791 – 13:30-14:00
The Hunger Games: Designing the Girl as a Spectacle
Jihyun Hong, Yonsei University, Republic of Korea

14:30-14:45
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Friday Session II: 14:45-15:45

Friday Session II: 14:45-15:45

Room: Tennyson

ECCS - Media Studies / Multiple and Complex Belongings
Session Chair: Ting-Ying Lin
4066 – 14:45-15:15
Namibia's Emergent Trans-culturalism: Dissolving Boundaries and Contestation in the African Global Borderlands
Thomas Fox, University of Namibia, Namibia
3506 – 15:15-15:45
Decolonisation as Resistance: Multiple Identities and Taiwanese Subjectivity in Wei Te-Sheng's Cinematic Works
Ting-Ying Lin, University of London, UK

Friday Session II: 14:45-15:45

Room: Wordsworth

ECP - Psychology and Education
Session Chair: Sopiko Kitiashvili
1038 – 14:45-15:15
Turning Hardships into Treasures - A School's Journey from a Narrative of Helplessness to a Narrative of Hope
Nurit Sahar, Psycho-Educational Services, Israel
2568 – 15:15-15:45
Needs Assessment of Adults in Getting Further Education and Career Development in Georgia
Anastasia Kitiashvili, Tbilisi State University, Georgia
Sopiko Kitiashvili, IPS, Georgia

Friday Session II: 14:45-15:45

Room: KeatsECCS - Belonging and the Intersections of Gender, Race, Religion & Sexuality
Session Chair: Iram Khawaja
1402 – 14:45-15:15
The Fiction of Fernanda Dias and Senna Fernandes Revisiting the Colonial Macau Through the Lens of Ethnicity, Gender andPatriarchy
Ana Maria Correia, University of Saint Joseph, China
Vera Borges, University of Saint Joseph, China
1322 – 15:15-15:45
Gazes the Visibility, Embodiment and Negotiation of Muslimness and Belonging
Iram Khawaja, The Danish University of Education, Aarhus University, Denmark

15:45-16:00
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Friday Spotlight Session I: 16:00-16:45

Friday Spotlight Session I: 16:00-16:45

Room: Tennyson

ECERP - Ethics in Education
2578
Autonomy and the Demands of Love
Mark Piper, James Madison University, USA

Friday Spotlight Session I: 16:00-16:45

Room: Wordsworth

ECP - General Psychology
2438
Taking the Bad with the Good: Recognizing Negatives Promotes Relationships
Steven M. Graham, New College of Florida, USA

19:00-21:00
A Night Out in Brighton: Conference Dinner (Ticketed and Optional)
Come and join your fellow delegates on an evening out in at the Hilton Brighton Metropole.
Please meet in the Thistle Brighton Lobby at 18:30.
This is ticketed at 50GBP and there are a limited number of spaces.
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Saturday Session I: 09:30-10:30

Saturday Session I: 09:30-10:30

Room: Tennyson

ECP – Mental Health and Industrial Organization
Session Chair: Ghazala Rehman
1102 – 9:30-10:00
Prevalence of Behavioural Problems Among Adolescents in Pakistan
Farah Qadir, Fatima Jinnah Women University, Pakistan
Aneela Maqsood, Fatima Jinnah Women University, Pakistan
Najam us Sahar, Fatima Jinnah Women University, Pakistan
Nadia Bukhtawer, Fatima Jinnah Women University, Pakistan
Regina Pauli, Roehampton University, United Kingdom
Catherine Gilvarry, Roehampton University, United Kingdom
Cecilia A. Essau, Roehampton University, United Kingdom
1103 – 10:00-10:30
Workplace Environment As Predictor of Burnout in Higher Education Universities/Institutes and Examining Moderating Influences ofTeachers' Profiles
Aneela Maqsood, Fatima Jinnah Women University, Pakistan
Ghazala Rehman, Whitepost Healthcare Group Surrey, UK
Rubina Hanif, Quaid-i-Azam University, Pakistan

Saturday Session I: 09:30-10:30

Room: Shelley

ECCS - Transcultural Displacement/Belonging
Session Chair: Eglė Kačkutė
1271 – 9:30-10:00
Scaling Protected Western Fence: The Fate of Nigerian Immigrants to Europe
Paul Obi-Ani, University of Nigeria, Nigeria
Ngozika Anthonia Obi-Ani, University of Nigeria, Nigeria
3644 – 10:00-10:30
Narratives of Mothers Who Mother in a Foreign EnvironmentEglė Kačkutė, Vilnius University, Lithuania

Saturday Session I: 09:30-10:30

Room: KeatsECP - Psychology and Education
Session Chair: Tunde Dayo Oke
1175 – 9:30-10:00
The Impact of Learning Skills Instruction on Emotional Intelligence and Self-Esteem of Female High School Students
Mohammad Khodayarifard, University of Tehran, Iran
Soraya Ramezanzadeh, University of Tehran, Iran
Shiva Khalili, University of Tehran, IranParvin Mohammadi, University of Tehran, Iran
2587 – 10:00-10:30
The Influence of Negative Self Talk on Achievement Orientation among Adolescents in Ogun State, Nigeria
Tunde Dayo Oke, Federal College of Education, Nigeria
Tolu Ogunleye, Tai Solarin University of Education, Nigeria

10:30-10:45
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Saturday Session II: 10:45-11:45

Saturday Session II: 10:45-11:45

Room: Tennyson

ECERP - Philosophy and Religion
Session Chair: Chad Lakies
1915 – 10:45-11:15
Circumcision As a (W)Rite of Passage: The Cut that Makes Whole
Na'ama Carlin, University of New South Wales, Australia
0110 – 11:15-11:45
The Politics and Possibilities of Forgiveness
Chad Lakies, Concordia University, USA

Saturday Session II: 10:45-11:45

Room: Shelley

ECCS - Cultural History
Session Chair: Fusako Innami
0887 – 10:45-11:15
New Hermopolis: A Designed Space for Multiple Belongings
Mervat Nasser, NGO, Egypt
3792 – 11:15-11:45
Theorising Touch in Contemporary Japan: Unrecognisable Point of Contact
Fusako Innami, University of Oxford, UK

Saturday Session II: 10:45-11:45

Room: KeatsECCS - Cultural Studies
Session Chair: Suk Koo Rhee
3898 – 10:45-11:15
The Tables Turned?: 'Piracy' In the Golden Age of Piracy and Modern Biopiracy
Kyung-Sook Shin, Yonsei Univerisity, Korea
3649 – 11:15-11:45
Diaspora and the Politics of Difference and Sameness
Suk Koo Rhee, Yonsei University, South Korea

Lunch Break
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Saturday Poster Session I: 12:30-14:00

Saturday Poster Session II: 12:30-14:00

Room: Coleridge

ECP/ECERP/ECCS - Interdisciplinary
1750
Religious Tradition in the Czech Republic: Where is it Heading? Individualization of Religious Traditions
Veronika Hasova, University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic
Jan Vane, University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic
1958
Theory of Mind and Executive Function in Korean Children
Hyeonjin Lee, Yeungnam University, Korea
3080
Assessing Vocabulary Skills in Dyslexic University Students: Insights From a Multiple Case Study
Eddy Cavalli, Aix Marseille Université, France
Abdessadek El Ahmadi, Aix Marseille Université, France
Pascale Cole, Aix Marseille Université, France
1121
Deconstruction of the "Good Teacher": Analysis of the Characteristics of University Teaching
Antonio Casero Martínez, University of Balearic Islands, Spain
1739
Socio-Demographic Predictors of Occupational Stress among Secondary School Teachers in Anambra State, Nigeria Counseling
Implications
Anene Eunice Mmaduakonam, Nwafor Orizu College of Education, Nigeria

Saturday Poster Session I: 12:30-14:00

Saturday Poster Session I: 12:30-14:00

Room: Wordsworth

ECP/ECERP/ECCS - Interdisciplinary
2119
Requital and Social Support in Married Couples
Yuh-Huey Jou, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
1306
Prevalence and Profile of Obsessive-Compulsive (OC) Symptoms in Australian Schizophrenia Patients
Anne Jaeger, Macquarie University, Australia
Robyn Langdon, Macquarie University, Australia
3736
Personality Traits, Sense of Hope, and Quality of Life in Patients with Cancer
Juno Chun-Lin Ju, Ming Chuan University, Taiwan
Yi-Ling Chen, Ming Chuan University, Taiwan
1268
Mental Health and Assessment Issues of Homeless in Japan
Namiko Chinen, Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan
1944
The Influence of Positive Versus Negative Health Claim Framing on Consumers' Food Products Evaluations
Hung-Chou Lin, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan
Sheng-Hsien Lee, Yu Da University of Science and Technology, Taiwan
2537
Comparison of the Brain Cognitive Functioning among Children Suffering from Either ADHD or Complex Partial Epilepsy andNormal Children in Tehran
Hossein Rezabakhsh, Khatam Institute of Higher Education, Iran
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Saturday Session III: 14:15-15:15

Saturday Session III: 14:15-15:15

Room: Tennyson

ECP - Mental Health
Session Chair: Haider Kamil Mahdi
1432 – 14:15-14:45
Confronting Typhoon Haiyan: A Grounded Theory Approach to Understanding Filipino Resilience and Its Implications to International
Positive Psychology
Joseph Anthony Narciso Z. Tiangco, Zirve University, Turkey
1346 – 14:45-15:15
The War 2003 Aftermath: Post-Traumatic Growth Among Iraqi Students
Haider Kamil Mahdi, University Science Malaysia, Malaysia
Shahabuddin Bin Hashim, University Science Malaysia, Malaysia
Saad Sabet Jaber, Psychological Research Center, Iraq

Saturday Session III: 14:15-15:15

Room: Shelley

ECCS - Cultural Studies
Session Chair: Chen Ying-Ying
2444 – 14:15-14:45
A Socio-Cultural Explanation for the Difference Between Development Trends of Iran and Japan
Shokouh Dibaji Forooshani, Tehran University, Iran
3768 – 14:45-15:15
Pushing Ethnoscape Identity through Taiwanese Movie Box Office after the Popularity of Cape No.7
Chen Ying-Ying, National United University, Taiwan

Saturday Session III: 14:15-15:15

Room: KeatsECP - Linguistics, Language & Psychology/Behavioral Science
Session Chair: Nwosu Austin Uzoma
2716 – 14:15-14:45
Preventive Behavior towards Soil-Transmitted Helminths Infections among Ethnic Minority Groups in Primary School Students, Nan
Province, Thailand
Katekaew Seangpraw, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
Surasak Taneepanichskul, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
Ratana Somrongthrong, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
2565 – 14:45-15:15
Nigeria Oral Literature as a Vital Tool for the Nation's Transformation Agenda
Nwosu Austin Uzoma, Federal College of Education, Nigeria

15:15-15:30
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Saturday Session IV: 15:30-16:30

Saturday Session IV: 15:30-16:30

Room: Tennyson

ECCS - Sociology
Session Chair - Abdul Wohab3739 – 15:30-16:00
Boundary and Intervention: Jewish Ritual Circumcision as a Defining Cut
Na'ama Carlin, University of New South Wales, Australia
0084 – 16:00-16:30
Politics of Nationalism among Transnational Communities: A Third World Perspective
Abdul Wohab, University of South Australia, Australia

Saturday Session IV: 15:30-16:30

Room: Shelley

ECERP - Philosophy and Culture
Session Chair - Steve Larocco1506 – 15:30-16:00
Conflict and the Courage of the Truth
Hannah Holme, University of Leipzig, Germany
0128 – 16:00-16:30
Forgiveness: Antagonism and the Non-Negation of Social Relations
Steve Larocco, Southern Connecticut State University, USA

Saturday Session IV: 15:30-16:00

Room: KeatsECP - Qualitative/Quantitative Research
Session Chair - Monica Frimpong
1638 – 15:30-16:00
Evaluation of Consumers Awareness on Importance of Reading Food Labeling in the Kumasi Metropolis (Ghana)
V. Commey, Sunyani Polytechnic, Ghana
Monica Frimpong, Sunyani Polytechnic, Ghana

16:30-16:45
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Saturday Spotlight Session I: 16:45-17:30

Saturday Spotlight Session I: 16:45-17:30

Room: Tennyson

ECP - General Psychology
3630
The Sensed Presence and Its Historical Implications
Gabriel Herman, Hebrew University, Israel

Saturday Spotlight Session I: 16:45-17:30

Room: Shelley

ECERP - Interfaith Dialogue
1340
The Dignity of Difference Post-Holocaust Interfaith Dialogue
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Sunday Session I: 09:30-10:30

Sunday Session I: 09:30-10:30

Room: Tennyson

ECCS - Cultural Politics of Survival / Transgression / History
Session Chair: Pauls Daija
1476 – 9:30-10:00
Social Identity and the Changes in the Use of Village Square in Louroujina after the 1974 Conflict
Sevinç Kurt, Cyprus International University, Cyprus
Yasemin Mesda, Cyprus International University, Cyprus
1603 – 10:00-10:30
Between Germany and Russia: Issues of Belonging in Latvian Cultural Identity
Pauls Daija, University of Latvia, Latvia

Sunday Session I: 09:30-10:00

Room: Shelley

ECP - Psychology and Education
Session Chair: Ammaret Netasit
1256 – 9:30-10:00
The Development of Resilience Quotient (RQ) Promotional Model to Apply for the Flooded Community by Using the Community
Participation Activity: A Case Study
Ammaret Netasit, Lampang Rajabhat University, Thailand

Sunday Session I: 09:30-10:30

Room: Keats

ECERP - Ethics and Globalization
Session Chair: Desislava Nikolova Ignatova
3683 – 9:30-10:00
Moving toward a Better Business Model for the Millenial Generation
Koushik Ghosh, Central Washington University, USA
Dipankar Purkayastha, California State University Fullerton, USA
1390 – 10:00-10:30
The Social Protest Ethical Challenges of the Political Leadership
Desislava Nikolova Ignatova, Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, Bulgaria

10:30-10:45
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Sunday Session II: 10:45-11:45

Sunday Session II: 10:45-11:45

Room: Tennyson

ECERP/ECCS - Interdisciplinary
Session Chair: Judith Norman
1031 – 10:45-11:15
It's Complicated: Identities of Secular-Believer Jewish Women in Israel
Hagar Lahav, Sapir College, Israel
3419 – 11:15-11:45
Displacement and Dialogue in Jewish Identity
Judith Norman, Trinity University, USA

Sunday Session II: 10:45-11:45

Room: Shelley

ECCS - Gender Studies / Feminist Theory / Belonging and the Intersections of Gender, Race, Religion & Sexuality
Session Chair: Jaray Singhakowinta
3806 – 10:45-11:15
Roald Dahl's Problematic Gender Characterization of Miss Trunchbull in Matilda
Ji-Eun Kim, Yonsei University, Republic of Korea
3783 – 11:15-11:45
Communicating Masculine Bodies
Jaray Singhakowinta, National Institute of Development Administration, Thailand

Sunday Session II: 10:45-11:15

Room: KeatsECP - Neuroscience
Session Chair: June J. Pilcher
1959 – 10:45-11:15
Sleep Fueling Self-Regulation
June J. Pilcher, Clemson University, USA
Drew M. Morris, Clemson University, USA
Janet Donnelly, Clemson University, USA
Hayley B. Feigl, Clemson University, USA

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Sunday Session III: 12:45-13:45

Sunday Session III: 12:45-13:45

Room: Tennyson

ECCS - Education / Cultural Narratives of Belonging / Not Belonging
Session Chair: Nabamita Das
1771 – 12:45-13:15
Influence of Dilapidated School Structures on the Academic Achievement of Pupils in Primary Schools in Kogi Central Senatorial
District
Joseph Suleiman, Federal College Of Education, Nigeria
Atiti S.E, Federal College of Education, Nigeria
1427 – 13:15-13:45
Adda and Cultural Belongingness in the Bengali Community of India
Nabamita Das, Presidency University, India

Sunday Session III: 12:45-13:45

Room: Shelley

ECP – Qualitative / Quantitative Research
Session Chair: Morayo Ayopo Jimoh
0937 – 12:45-13:15
Cognitive Functioning of Patients with CHD After Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting with Cardiopulmonary Bypass
Daria Eremina, Saint-Petersburg State University, Russia
3394 – 13:15-13:45
Mindfulness Training in Nigerian Schools: A Belated Hitherto Welcome Development
Morayo Ayopo Jimoh, University of South Africa, South Africa

Sunday Session III: 12:45-13:45

Room: KeatsECP - Community Development
Session Chair: Sakineh Mofrad0979 – 12:45-13:15
Parental Socialization for Emotional and Social Development of Children in Urban Slums
Kannupriya Kamboj, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, India
Rajani Konantambigi, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, India
0703 – 13:15-13:45
Parenting Style Preferences in Malaysia
Sakineh Mofrad, Sunway University, Malaysia
Ikechukwu Uba, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia

Coffee Break
13:45-14:00

14:00-14:30
Conference Closing Session
Wordsworth Suite
Join us for a conference highlights photography slideshow and closing remarks from Dr Joseph Haldane (IAFOR Executive
Director) and Professor Stuart Picken (Conference Chair and Chair of the IAFOR International Advisory Board).

	
  

	
  
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Virtual Presentations
2380
Motivation Among Engineering Students: A Qualitative Analysis
Dinesh Ramoo, University of Birmingham, UK
Iltaf Uddin, Aston University, UK
3797
Political Cynicism and National Siege Mentality As Predictors of Anti-European Sentiment
Zlatko Šram, Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies, Croatia
3676
Promoting Interculturalism through Non Formal Education: An Evaluation Procedure
Sofia Kasola, University of Patras, Greece
Maja Brkusanin, CESIE, Italy
1293
Subjects, Nationalism, and Citizenship in Spivak, Butler, and Balibar's Dialogue
Didier Alessio Contadini, University of Naples - L'Orientale, Italy
2296
Boundary Line of the Life: Belonging or Not Belonging to the Culture
Kaori Yamashita, University of Wroclaw, Poland
1326
Divided Presentations in History Textbooks in Three Ex Yugoslav States - Discussing Implications for Identity Development
Alma Jeftic, International University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Jelena Joksimovic, University of Belgrade, Serbia
0992
The Globalization War: Can Ethics Bring Peace?
Steven Gans, American Public University, USA
2577
Causes and Consequences of Acid Attacks on Women: A Case Study of District Lahore, Pakistan
Samra Azam Khan, Bahauddin Zakariya University Lahore Campus, Pakistan

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A-Z Index of Authors

Atiti, S.E				1771
Berger, Alan L.			
1340
Borges, Vera 			1402
Brkusanin, Maja 			3676
Bukhtawer, Nadia 		
1102
Carlin, Na’ama 			
1915
Carlin, Na’ama 			
3379
Casero Martínez, Antonio
1121
Cavalli, Eddy 			3080
Chen, Yi-Ling 			3736
Chinen, Namiko 		
1268
Cole, Pascale 			3080
Commey, V. 			
1638
Contadini, Didier Alessio
1293
Daija, Pauls 			
1603
Das, Nabamita 			
1427
Dayo Oke, Tunde 		
2587
Donnelly, Janet 			1959
El Ahmadi, Abdessadek 		
3080
Eremina, Daria 			
0937
Essau, Cecilia A. 			
1102
Fathi, Atefeh 			2537
Feigl, Hayley B.			
1959
Forooshani, Shokouh Dibaji
2444
Fox, Thomas 			
4066
Frimpong, Monica 		
1638
Gans, Steven 			0992
Ghosh, Koushik 			3683
Gilvarry, Catherine 		
1102
Graham, Steven M. 		
2438
Hanif, Rubina 			
1103
Hashim, Shahabuddin Bin
1346
Hasova, Veronika 		
1750
Herman, Gabriel 		3630
Hoad, Catherine 		
0907
Holme, Hannah 			1506
Hong, Jihyun 			
3791
Howard, Gregory M		
1933
Huisjen, David 			0220
Ignatova, Desislava Nikolova
1390
Innami, Fusako 			
3792
Jaeger, Anne 			1306
Jeftic, Alma 			1326
Jimoh, Morayo Ayopo 		
3394

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Joksimovic, Jelena 		Jou, Yuh-Huey 			Ju, Juno Chun-Lin 		
Kačkutė, Eglė 			
Kamboj, Kannupriya 		
Kasola, Sofia 			Khalili, Shiva 			Khan, Samra Azam 		
Khawaja, Iram 			Khodayarifard, Mohammad
Kim, Ji-Eun 			
Kitiashvili, Anastasia 		
Kitiashvili, Sopiko 		
Konantambigi, Rajani 		Koo Rhee, Suk 			
Kurt, Sevinç 			
Lahav, Hagar 			
Lakies, Chad 			Langdon, Robyn 			Larocco, Steve 			
Lee, Hyeonjin 			
Lee, Seungyeon 			
Lee, Sheng-Hsien 		Lin, Hung-Chou 			Lin, Ting-Ying 			
Mahdi, Haider Kamil 		
Maqsood, Aneela 		
Maqsood, Aneela 		
Maria Correia, Ana 		Mesda, Yasemin 			Mmaduakonam, Anene Eunice
Mofrad, Sakineh 			Mohammadi, Parvin 		
Morris, Drew M.			
Nasser, Mervat 			Netasit, Ammaret 		
Nielsen, Carsten Viggo 		
Norman, Judith 			Obi-Ani, Ngozika Anthonia
Obi-Ani, Paul 			Ogunleye, Tolu 			Pauli, Regina 			Pilcher, June J.			
Piper, Mark 			

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3644
0979
3676
1175
2577
1322
1175
3806
2568
2568
0979
3649
1476
1031
0110
1306
0128
1958
3730
1944
1944
3506
1346
1102
1103
1402
1476
1739
0703
1175
1959
0887
1256
0926
3419
1271
1271
2587
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A-Z Index of Authors

Purkayastha, Dipankar 			
3683
Qadir, Farah 				
1102Ramezanzadeh, Soraya 			1175
Ramoo, Dinesh 				
2380Rehman, Ghazala 			1103
Rezabakhsh, Hossein 			
2537
Sabet Jaber, Saad 			1346
Sahar, Najam 				
1102Sahar, Nurit 				
1038Scaife, Victoria 				1933
Seangpraw, Katekaew 			
2716
Seger, Charles 				
1933Shin, Kyung-Sook 			
3898
Singhakowinta, Jaray 			3783
Somrongthrong, Ratana 			2716
Šram, Zlatko 				
3797Suleiman, Joseph 			1771
Taneepanichskul, Surasak 		
2716
Tiangco, Joseph Anthony Narciso Z.
1432
Uba, Ikechukwu 				
0703Uddin, Iltaf 				
2380Uzoma, Nwosu Austin 			2565
Vane, Jan 				
1750Witztum, Eliezer 			3633
Wohab, Abdul 				0084
Yamashita, Kaori 			
2296
Ying-Ying, Chen 				
3768

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