2024 SOC PRO

(Note 1: the program is organized along time slots and not according to common theme)
(Note 2: at the end of each session questions and discussions will follow)

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Monday 6 May 2024

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08.30-09.15
Registration

09:15-10:00
Opening and Welcoming Remarks:

• Gregory T. Papanikos, President, ATINER.

10:00-11:30 Session 1
Session 1a Moderator: Omar Chaoura Bourouh, Professor, Columbia Basin College, USA.	Session 1b Moderator: Gregory T. Papanikos, President, ATINER.
Gil-Soo Han, Professor, Monash University, Australia. Title: The Church That Lays Money, Honour, and Power: Catalysts for Hereditary Succession of Head Minister in South Korean Churches. Deric Shannon, Associate Professor, Oxford College of Emory University, USA. Title: Some Limits of Short-Term Travel as a Mechanism for the Experiential Teaching of Sociology. Eleni Dimou, Lecturer in Criminology, The Open University, UK. Title: What can Southern Criminology Contribute to the Context of Greece? Advantages and Disadvantages of the Southern Criminological Perspective. *Gene-George Earle, PhD Candidate, East China Normal University, China. Title: Learning to Speak Yale-ese: Barriers to Translating Economic, Cultural and Social Capital for Chinese Applicants Studying in the US.	Torben Hansen, Professor, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. Title: The Interplay between Consumer Financial Trust and Interpersonal Trust. Massimo Bianchi, Former Full Professor, University of Bologna, Italy. Title: De-industrialization and Management Sciences in Italy. The Shadow of Velleitarismo. Marian Carcary, Assistant Professor, Mary Immaculate College, Ireland. Title: Voluntary Organic Community Leadership – Development of a Holistic, Integrated Conceptual Framework. Iustina Alina Boitan, Professor, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania. Wafaa Shabban, PhD Student, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania. Title: Sustainable, Values-Based Banking Model – Clustering Procedure for Assessing Its Convergence Pattern across European Banks.

 

11:30-13:00 Session 2
Session 2a Moderator: Ian Hyslop, Senior Lecturer, University of Auckland, New Zealand.	Session 2b Emmanuel Nartey, Senior Lecturer, Bath Spa University, UK.
*Omar Chaoura Bourouh, Professor, Columbia Basin College, USA. Title: Why do they Leave? The Root Causes of Migration Flows from the Middle East and North Africa to Europe. Rene Drumm, Research Professor, Andrews University, USA. Tara Hargrove, Chair, Associate Professor, Pacific Union College, USA. Linda Potter Crumley, Professor, Walla Walla University, USA. Title: It Takes a Lot to be a Pastor if you’re a Man. It takes a lot more to be a Pastor if you’re a Woman: Gender Challenges among SDA Female Pastors. Zane Melke, PhD Student/Researcher, University of Latvia, Latvia. Title: Legislative Initiatives of Latvian Diaspora Members and Returnees in ManaBalss.lv, Case Study. Maye Ehab, Researcher and Lecturer, Institute for Employment Research (IAB), University of Bamberg, Germany. Sekou Keita, Researcher, Institute for Employment Research (IAB), University of Bamberg, Germany. Title: Beliefs about Labor Market Discrimination against Female Job Applicants with a Migration Background.	Maryam Dilmaghani, Full Professor, Saint Mary’s University, Canada. Title: Hope Is Never Silent: Outness, Optimism about Future Life, and Future Financial Resiliency Among Sexual and Gender Minorities of Canada. Paul Lewis, Professor & Director of the Center for International Law, University of Illinois Chicago, USA. Title: Ethics and Economics in Litigation Funding:  A Comparative Perspective. Danijela Brecko, Assistant Professor, MLC Management and Law College Ljubljana, Slovenia. Title: Preventing Mobbing in the Workplace by Making a Risk Assessment Analysis – Case Study.

 

 

13:00-14:30 Session 3 Moderator: Gene-George Earle, PhD Candidate, East China Normal University, China.

Lucius Botes, Professor, North-West University, South Africa. Fortunate Ngomane, PhD Student, University of South Africa, South Africa Title: The Gold Chain Gang: Socio-Economic and Political Implications of Illegal Gold Mining in Barberton, South Africa. Elitsa Dimitrova, Associate Professor, Institute for Population and Human Studies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria. Gergana Nenova, Assistant Professor, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, Bulgaria. Tatyana Kotzeva, Professor, Institute for Population and Human Studies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria. Title: Ethnic Differences in the Attitudes of the Young People in Bulgaria toward Gender Roles, Intimacy and Family Relationships. Evidence from a Youth Survey. Giorgi Mikeladze, Lecturer, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Georgia. Title: Estimation of Households’ Income and Expenditure by Small Area Unit (Case of Georgia).

14:30-15:30 Lunch

15:30-17:00 Session 4 – Special Session on “Human Rights and Ethics” Moderator: Bill Ikonomopoulos, Barrister, Ikonomopoulos Legal, Australia.

Gregory T. Papanikos, President, ATINER. Title: Are Human Rights a Luxury or a Normal Good? Assaf Meydani, Professor, The Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yaffo, Israel. Title: Human Rights between Non-governability and Political Culture – A New Paradigm in Human Rights Analysis.  *Emmanuel Nartey, Senior Lecturer, Bath Spa University, UK. Title: Corporate Human Rights Abuses and Environmental Damage: Towards a Comprehensive Remedy Framework. Neville Rochow KC, Barrister, Adelaide Law School, University of Adelaide, Australia. Title: The Constitutional Role of Human Dignity in Promoting Ethical Outcomes in The Law.

 

17:00-20:00 Session 5 Old and New-An Educational Urban Walk

The urban walk ticket is not included as part of your registration fee. It includes transportation costs and the cost to enter the Parthenon and the other monuments on the Acropolis Hill. The urban walk tour includes the broader area of Athens. Among other sites, it includes: Zappion, Syntagma Square, Temple of Olympian Zeus, Ancient Roman Agora and on Acropolis Hill: the Propylaea, the Temple of Athena Nike, the Erechtheion, and the Parthenon. The program of the tour may be adjusted, if there is a need beyond our control. This is a private event organized by ATINER exclusively for the conference participants.

20:30-22:00
Dinner

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Tuesday 7 May 2024

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09:00-10:30 Session 6
Session 6a – Special Session on “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Work in the Workplace” Moderator: Nicole Farris, Professor, Texas A&M University-Commerce, USA.	Session 6b Moderator: Makoto Usami, Professor, Kyoto University, Japan.
Chantrey J. Murphy, Associate Professor, California State University, Long Beach, USA. Title: Manifesting the “Teacher-Scholar-Server” Model. Sigma Colon, Assistant Professor, Lawrence University, USA. Jesus Smith, Associate Professor, Lawrence University, USA. Title: University, Community, and Business Collaborations Through Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Deshonay Dozier, Assistant Professor, Claremont Graduate University, USA. Title: Building Insurgency in Higher Education through Pedagogy, Mentorship, and Collegiality. Linnea Ng, Assistant Professor, Lawrence University, USA. Title: Teaching and Researching Organizational Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Through a Psychological Lens.	Ouidad Yousfi, Associate Professor, University of Montpellier, France. Title: The Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility Committee on Corporate Social Responsibility: Empirical Evidence from France. *Dipinder Randhawa, Senior Fellow, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Title: The Contours of a Blue Economy Strategy in ASEAN. Rama Seth, Associate Professor, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. Title: Wetland Coin: An Innovative Approach for Pricing Wetland Mitigation Credits. Yongliang Yan, Assistant Professor, Beijing Jiaotong University, China. Jiaying Yu, PhD Student, Hong Kong University, China. Shuaizhen Cai, Undergraduate Student, Beijing Jiaotong University, China. Jiayi Wang, Undergraduate Student, Beijing Jiaotong University, China. Jingyan Liu, Undergraduate Student, Beijing Jiaotong University, China. Title: Regulation of National Space Resource Activities: China as a Case Study.

 

10:30-12:00 Session 7
Session 7a Moderator: Carolina Facioni, Research Assistant, Italian Institute of Statistics (ISTAT), Italy.	Session 7b – Special Session on “The Role of Ethics as a Driving Force in Rapid Digital and AI Development” Moderator: Dipinder Randhawa, Senior Fellow, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
David Weisburd, Distinguished Professor, George Mason University, USA. Title: Broken Windows and Community Social Control: Evidence from a Study of Street Segments. *Nicole Farris, Professor, Texas A&M University-Commerce, USA. Title: Poverty in China. Jason L. Cummings, Assistant Professor, Loyola University Chicago, USA. Title: Whiteness Has Its Privileges: U.S. Racial (Mis)classification, Socially Assigned Race and Intersectional Stratification among Latina/os.	Marzia Coltri, Lecturer, Arden University, UK. Werner Uys, Senior Lecturer, University of South Africa, South Africa. Kobus Joubert, Senior Lecturer, University of South Africa, South Africa. Title: Investing AI Ethics in Forensic Investigations: Development, Policies and Best Practices. *Makoto Usami, Professor, Kyoto University, Japan. Title: Robot Judges and the Rule of Law.

 

12:00-13:30 Session 8 Moderator: Massimo Bianchi, Former Full Professor, University of Bologna, Italy.

Carolina Facioni, Research Assistant, Italian Institute of Statistics (ISTAT), Italy. Title: What Constitutes A “Good” Forecast? The Indispensable Link between Futures Studies and Social Science Methodology. Helena Kubatova, Associate Professor, Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic. Jitka Zehnalova, Assistant Professor, Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic. Title: Situation Analysis as a Method of Investigating the Production System of Literary Translation. Luping Wang, PhD Student, University of York, UK. Title: Social Integration of China’s Internal Migrants into Urban Communities.

 13:30-15:00 Lunch

15:00-16:30 Session 9 Moderator: Carolina Facioni, Research Assistant, Italian Institute of Statistics (ISTAT), Italy.

Nicole Banton, Assistant Professor, Stetson University, USA. Title: The Birth Connection: An Examination of the Relationship Between Her Birth Event and Infant Feeding among African American Mothers. Meridith Burles, Lecturer & Research Coordinator, University of Saskatchewan, Canada. Title: Using a Sociological Lens to Enhance Cultural Safety in Pediatric Healthcare: A Qualitative Study of Indigenous Family Caregivers’ and Health Care Providers’ Experiences. Mariia Vasiakina, EU Researcher, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Germany. Christian Dudel, Researcher/Deputy Head, Research Group Labor Demography, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Germany. Title: Health Outcomes of Risk of Automation at Work: Evidence from Germany. E. Wairimu Mwangi, Chair and Assistant Professor, Trinity Washington University, USA. Daniel Sarpong, Executive Director, Office of Health Equity Research; Senior Research Scientist, Yale School of Medicine, USA. Title: Food Insecurity and Other Correlates of Individual Components of Metabolic Syndrome in Women Living with HIV (WLWH) in the United States.

 

16:30-18:00 Session 10 Moderator: Jason L. Cummings, Assistant Professor, Loyola University Chicago, USA.

Stavroula Kyriakakis, Associate Professor, Adelphi University, USA. Title: Safe Qualitative Interviewing Techniques in Research with At-Risk, Oppressed and Historically Marginalized Communities: Applying Trauma Informed Social Work Practice Skills and Knowledge Working with Survivors of Gender-Based Violence to Research. *Ian Hyslop, Senior Lecturer, University of Auckland, New Zealand. Title: Sociological Insight and Political Limitations: Pushing the Contemporary Boundaries of Anglophone Social Work. Daniel Holman, Lecturer, The University of Sheffield, UK. Alan Walker, Professor, The University of Sheffield, UK. Title: Healthy Ageing Through the Prism of Intersectionality: Integrating Intersectionality and the Life Course Perspective to Illuminate Complex Inequalities.

20:30-22:30
Athenian Early Evening Symposium (includes in order of appearance: continuous academic discussions, dinner, wine/water, music)

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Wednesday 8 May 2024
An Educational Visit to Selected Islands
or Mycenae Visit

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Thursday 9 May 2024
Visiting the Oracle of Delphi

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Friday 10 May 2024
Visiting the Ancient Corinth and Cape Sounion

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