2024 POL PRO

1. Kurt Klein, Professor, University of Lethbridge, Canada,
   Stavroula Malla, Professor, University of Lethbridge, Canada.
   Title: Government Sanctioned Health Claims and Subsidies: Analysing Strategies to Increase Consumption of Healthy Functional Foods in Canada.
2. Edit Soos, Associate Professor, University of Szeged, Hungary.
   Title: The Role of Customer Orientation in Improving Public Administration Services in Hungary.
3. Tvrtko Jolic, Assistant Professor, Institute of Philosophy, Zagreb, Croatia.
   Title:Moral and Political Progress: Individual vs. Collective Perspective.
4. Georgios Kyroglou, Lecturer in Sociology, University of Bristol, UK.
   Title: Young Political Consumers Between the Individual and the Collective: Evidence from the UK and Greece.

1. Domenico Maddaloni, Professor, University of Salerno, Italy & Jessica Maglio, Independent Researcher, Italy.
   Title: Assistance to Migrants and Refugees in Italy in an Age of Crisis: Policy Contradictions and Solidarity Practices.
2. Barbara Zagaglia, Associate Professor, Polytechnic University of Marche, Italy.
   Title: Demographic Transitions in Mediterranean Africa. Similarities or Differences?
3. Valery Buinwi Ferim, Senior Lecturer, University of Fort Hare, South Africa.
   Title: The Politics of Exclusion in South Africa: A Dilemma for Permanent Immigrants.

1. Renato Flores, Director, FGV IIU International Intelligence Unit / Professor, FGV EPGE Graduate School of Economics, Brazil.
   Title: Replacing the US Dollar in International Transactions.
2. Hakan Mehmetcik, Associate Professor, Marmara University, Türkiye.
   Murat Can Ganiz, Associate Professor, Marmara University, Türkiye.
   Melih Koluk, PhD Student, Marmara University, Türkiye.
   Galip Yuksel, PhD Student, Istanbul University, Türkiye.
   Muslim Yilmaz, Student, Marmara University, Türkiye.
   Muhammed Mustafa Ince, Student, Marmara University, Türkiye.
   Title: TFPsocialmedia: A Public Dataset for Studying Turkish Foreign Policy.
3. Jian Melo, PhD Candidate, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil.
   Title: Decolonial AI: A Perspective on the Imperialist States’ Colonizing Quest for Labor Applied in the Development of Artificial Intelligence.

1. Robert Cox, Professor, University of South Carolina, USA.
   Adolfo Garcé, Professor, Universidad de la República, Uruguay.
   Title: Political-Knowledge Regimes: Expertise and Politics in France and Uruguay in times of COVID-19.
2. Sonia Salari, Professor, University of Utah, USA.
   Title: US Violent Death Mortality: Global Pandemic and Firearm Access.
3. Tony Whiffen, Higher Statistical Officer, Welsh Government, UK.
   Title: Estimating Households Containing Those Most at Risk from COVID Using Linked Administrative Data and SQL Algorithms.
4. Victoria San Juan, Postdoc, University of Florence, Italy.
   Herney Fernando Ruiz Vallejo, Associate Professor, Universidad Externado de Colombia, Colombia.
   Title: The Behavior of Fertility in Colombia in the Context of the Covid-19 Pandemic. An Approach Based on Uncertainty.
5. Patrizio Lodetti, Postdoc Researcher, University of Florence, Italy.
   Victoria San Juan Bernuy, Postdoc Researcher, University of Florence, Italy.
   Title: COVID-19 and Uncertainty in Italy. Exposure to High Mortality and Fertility, the Case Study on the City of Bergamo.

1. Domenico Maddaloni, Professor, University of Salerno, Italy.
   Title: Demographics and Politics in Italy.
2. Renato Flores, Director, FGV IIU International Intelligence Unit & Professor, FGV EPGE Graduate School of Economics, Brazil.
   Title: Demographics and Global Governance: Something is Rotten in the State of Intergovernmental Institutions and Fora.
3. Sonia Salari, Professor, University of Utah, USA.
   Title: Demographics of Age, Aging and Politics in the U.S.
4. Valery Buinwi Ferim, Senior Lecturer, University of Fort Hare, South Africa.
   Title: Demographics of Political Party Leadership in South Africa.
5. Sriparna Dutta, Associate Professor, Khudiram Bose Central College, University of Calcutta, India.
   Title: Political Demography and Youth – Perspectives on West Bengal, India.
6. Martina Rašticová, Associate Professor and Head, Department of Management, Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic.
   Title: Digitalization and Demographic Shifts: Political Strategies for Integrating Older Workers.

Interventions:

• Ahmed Shafiqul Huque, Professor, McMaster University, Canada.
• Jose Antonio Ortega, Associate Professor, University of Salamanca, Spain.

1. Sriparna Dutta, Associate Professor, Khudiram Bose Central College, University of Calcutta, India.
   Shilpa Nandy, Assistant Professor, Khudiram Bose Central College, University of Calcutta, India.
   Title: Patriarchy, Taliban and Political Issues: Challenges Faced by the Afghan Women in Contemporary Times.
2. Martina Rasticova, Head, Department of Management, Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic.
   Štěpán Konečný, Researcher, Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic.
   Jakub Šácha, Researcher, Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic.
   Martin Lakomý, Researcher, Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic.
   Title: Redefining Age and Gender in Digital Recruitment Amidst Population Ageing: A Multifaceted Analysis of Stereotypes, Inequalities, and Perceptions in the Modern Workplace.
3. Ilona Leitner, PhD Student/Consultant, Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic.
   Title: Exploring the Impact of Demographics and Job Status on Technostress Dimensions in the Consulting Industry.
4. Julia Meszaros, Associate Professor, Texas A&M Commerce, USA.
   Title: Intimate Industries and the Extraction of Women’s Labor.

1. Tolga Demiryol, Professor, Altinbas University, Türkiye.
   Title: Transforming European Defense Post-Ukraine: The Impact of US-Europe Realignment.
2. Amber Brittain-Hale, Co-Founder, BrainStates Inc., USA.
   Title: Strategic Empathy in Female-Led Diplomacy: Reassessing Foreign Policy Approaches in the Russo-Ukrainian Conflict.
3. Kamil Zwolski, Associate Professor, University of Southampton, UK.
   Title: The War in Ukraine and the Transformation of the EU as A Normative Power. 
4. Adrian Szumowski, Assistant Professor, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Poland.
   Title: Change of International Environment: Cold War 2.0 vs World War 3.

1. Egle Kumpikaite, Associate Professor, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania.
   Title: Variety and Traditions of Lithuanian Women’s Folk Headdresses.
2. Daiva Milasiene, Senior Researcher, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania.
   Title: Traditions of Manufacturing Techniques of Lithuanian Folk Aprons.
3. Nompumelelo Radebe, Senior Lecturer and Chair, Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, University of South Africa, South Africa.
   Title: Induku Enhle Igawulwa Ezizweni as a Premise for Curriculum Transformation.

1. Ahmed Shafiqul Huque, Professor, McMaster University, Canada.
   Title: Parliamentary Elections and the Democratic Decline in Bangladesh: Evidence and Insight from Electoral Data.
2. Indrani Chakraborty, Associate Professor, Victoria Institution (College), India.
   Title: Partition of India – A Political Decision: Reflection in Bengali Short Stories.
3. Gregory T. Papanikos, President, Athens Institute.
   Title: Ballot Order Effects: Evidence from the 2024 Greek Elections for the European Parliament.

1. Brian Due, Associate Professor, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
   Title: A Video Ethnographic Study of Youth Football Matches.
2. Sylvia Thompson, PhD Candidate, RMIT University, Australia.
   Title: Romani Resilience: Stories of Resilience of Romani Refugees from Ukraine.

1. Nancy Stiegler, Professor, University of the Western Cape, South Africa.
   Tomiwa Fapohunda, PhD Student, University of the Western Cape, South Africa.
   Title: Climate Change and Gender-Based Violence from a Demographic Point of View.
2. Jose Antonio Ortega, Associate Professor, University of Salamanca, Spain.
   Title: Patterns and Age-Homogamy in Same-Sex and Different-Sex Marriages in Spain.
3. Elisa Cisotto, Researcher, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy.
   Eleonora Meli, Researcher, Italian National Institute of Statistics, Italy.
   Giulia Gavrini, Full Professor, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy.
   Cecilia Tomassini, Full Professor, University of Molise, Italy.
   Title: Educational and Geographical Disparities in Intergenerational Care: Insights from Italy.

1. Pietro Marzo, Assistant Professor, TELUQ University, Canada.
   Title: International Democracy Promotion in an Era of Authoritarian Regression. The Case of German Political Foundations in North Africa.
2. Dionysios Stivas, Assistant Professor, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China.
   Title: The Dragon in the Cradle of Democracy: A Tale of the post-2006 Sino-Greek Relations.
3. Yunus Emre Ozigci, Deputy Head of Mission, Deputy Permanent Representative to UNEP and to UN Habitat, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey, Kenya.
   Title: On the Intentionality of the State.