INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DIVERSITY IN ORGANISATIONS,
COMMUNITIES AND NATIONS
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
11-13 June 2012
The Diversity Conference has a history of bringing together
scholarly, government and practice-based participants with an interest in the
issues of diversity and community. The conference examines the concept of
diversity as a positive aspect of a global world and globalised society.
Diversity is in many ways reflective of our present world order, but there are
ways of taking this further without necessary engendering its alternatives:
racism, conflict, discrimination and inequity. Diversity as a mode of social
existence can be projected in ways that deepen the range of human experience.
The conference will seek to explore the full range of what diversity means and
explore modes of diversity in real-life situations of living together in
community. The conference supports a move away from simple affirmations that
'diversity is good' to a much more nuanced account of the effects and uses of
diversity on differently situated communities in the context of our current
epoch of globalization.
The International Diversity Conference will take place in
Vancouver, a city both with a past marked by racial conflict and a rich
heritage of diversity.
As well as impressive line-up of international plenary
speakers, the conference will also include numerous paper, workshop and
colloquium presentations by practitioners, teachers and researchers. We would
particularly like to invite you to respond to the conference Call-for-Papers.
Presenters may choose to submit written papers for publication in The
International Journal of Diversity in Organizations, Communities and Nations. If
you are unable to attend the conference in person, virtual registrations are
also available which allow you to submit a paper for refereeing and possible
publication.
In addition to organizing the Diversity Conference,
Common Ground publishes papers from the conference and we do encourage all
conference participants to submit a paper based on their conference
presentation for peer review and possible publication in the journal. Whether
you are a virtual or in-person presenter at this conference, we also encourage
you to present on the conference YouTube Channel. In addition, we publish books
at http://www.ondiversity.com in both
print and electronic formats. We would like to invite conference participants
to develop publishing proposals for original works, or for edited collections
of papers drawn from the journal which address an identified theme. Finally,
please join our online conversation by subscribing to our monthly email
newsletter, and subscribe to our Facebook, RSS, or Twitter feeds at http://www.ondiversity.com .
The deadline for the next round in the call for papers (a
title and short abstract) is 6 October 2011. Future deadlines will be announced
on the conference website after this date.
Proposals are reviewed within two weeks of submission. Full details of
the conference, including an online proposal submission form, are to be found
at the conference website - http://ondiversity.com/conference-2012/.
Prof. Jock Collins
University of Technology, Sydney, Australia For
the Advisory Board, International Conference on Diversity in Organizations,
Communities and Nations and The International Journal of Diversity in
Organizations, Communities and Nations
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