Days of paper presentations, workshops/interactive sessions, posters, and colloquia.
Delegates from all over the world who attended the Fifth Global Studies Conference.
Countries represented.
The Fifth Global Studies Conference featured plenary sessions by some of the world’s leading thinkers and innovators in the field.
Professor, Sociology, University of Munich, Germany
“World at Risk: a Cosmopolitan Perspective”
Lecturer, Faculty of Arts and Cultures, Maastricht University, Netherlands; Editor, Laboratorium: Russian Review of Social Research
“Trends in Social Inequality in Contemporary Russia: A Perspective from Environmental Anthropology”
Professor, Faculty of Sociology, State University of St. Petersburg, Russia; Professor, American University of Central Asia, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan; Service Provider, OSCE Academy, Kyrgyzstan
“Eurasia in the Making: Social and Economic Networks Shaping a Multipolar World Order”
Professor, Department of Economics, The New School, New York, USA
“On the Instability of the Banking-Macro Link in the Euro Area: Theory and Empirics”
Distinguished Professor, Sociology, Lancaster University; Director, Lancaster Centre for Mobilities Research; RSA Fellow
“Advances in Development Reverse Trends in Global Inequality”
For each conference, a small number of Graduate Scholar Awards are given to outstanding graduate students who have an active academic interest in the conference area. The Award with its accompanying responsibilities provides a strong professional development opportunity for graduate students at this stage in their academic careers. The 2012 Graduate Scholar Awardees are listed below.
University of Queensland, Australia
Florida International University, USA
University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA
Florida International University, USA
Panjab University, India
Florida International University, USA
Moscow, Russia
Santa Barbara, USA