Speakers
Keynote Speakers
Dr. Shelley Jones
Professor, Royal Roads University, Canada
Presentation Title: UNPACKING WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT Obstacles, opportunities, and what needs to work: insights from a longitudinal study with Ugandan women
Shelley Jones, Professor in the College of Interdisciplinary Studies, Royal Roads University, has teaching experience at all levels (pre-primary to tertiary) in diverse international contexts (Tanzania, Uganda, Canada, England, and Japan). Her research and publications are focused in the areas of gender and education, girls and women’s empowerment, feminist participatory action research, and children’s rights.
Dr. Barbara Magnanelli
John Cabot University, Italy
Presentation Title: Female Leadership in Firms, Analyzing Different Aspect
Barbara Sveva Magnanelli is an Assistant Professor of Accounting and Management and Chair of the Department of Business Administration in John Cabot University, Rome, Italy. She took her PhD in Management at LUISS Guido Carli University, in Rome, in 2011. During her PhD, she was a visiting researcher at the University of Tennessee and at HEC Paris. Her research focus relies on corporate governance issues, with particular regard to the board of directors, gender diversity in boardrooms and financial statement frauds. More recently she has stated to develop a keen research interest on female leadership. She regularly publishes her works in high quality academics journals and presents working paper to main academic conferences.
Highlighted Speakers
Dr. Gavan Patrick Gray
Dr. Gavan Patrick Gray is a Professor at Tsuda University’s College of Policy Studies in Tokyo, one of Japan’s oldest private women’s universities. He holds a Ph.D in Politics and International Relations from Leicester University and is currently engaged in a Japanese government-supported, multi-year research project comparing responses to gender violence in Japan and other countries. His latest writing on the subject appears in ‘Gender Violence, the Law, and Society’ (Emerald, 2022).
Dr. Ly Quyet Tien
Doctor Ly Quyet Tien is a Lecturer and researcher at Becamex Business School, Eastern International University Binh Duong. He has been a lecturer at many universities in the South of Vietnam. He holds bachelor’s degrees in History & English from the University of Social Sciences and Humanities. He also holds M.A. degrees in FLE from University of Rouen, in Vietnam History from the Southern Institute of Social Sciences, and Humanities in Ho Chi Minh City. In 2008, he received his Ph.D. in Oriental Studies and Humanities from University of Paris 7- Diderot.
Dr. Christina Stave
Christina Stave is a Senior researcher at Vti Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute Department: Human and transport system interaction. She has PhD in ergonomics from Chalmers University of Technology and MSc in Psychology and MSc in Business and Economics from the University of Gothenburg. Her Research areas are Safety culture, traffic psychology, education and driver training and gender equality in the transport sector.
Dr. Sandra Meškova
Dr. philol. Sandra Meškova is an Associate Professor at Daugavpils University, Latvia. She teaches courses related to gender and literary theory, contemporary British and North American literature in bachelor, master’s, and doctoral study programmes. Her research interests are autobiography and gender studies, comparative literature in the context of contemporary North American, British, and Latvian literature. She is the author of about 90 research publications and two research monographs.
Dr. Khaled Igbaria
Khaled Igbaria is a Lecturer at Kaye Academic College in Israel. He has got his PhD in Arabic Modern Literature, from the University of Edinburgh and his M.A and B.A in Arabic Language and Literature, Tel Aviv University. His research fields and interests are literary feminism, realism and intertextuality within narratives and poetry. His last article is: (2020) Arab Spring Revolutions throughout Modern Arabic Poetry. Asian Journal of Humanities and Social Studies, 8(4): 142-153.
Dr. Prachi Priyanka
Dr Prachi Priyanka holds a doctorate degree in English literature. Her research work is an interdisciplinary study of the convergences between poetry and painting that aims to explore, analyze and understand how art, literature and society in different ages absorb and reflect commonalities in various aspects. Her areas of interest include intertextuality and visual culture, Indian literature in translation, Partition narratives and Victorian studies. She also holds the position of editor, advisory board member and peer-reviewer for national and international journals. Currently, Prachi is Assistant Professor in the Department of English, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Sharda University, India.
Dr. Lutfurahman Aftab
Dr. Lutfurahman Aftab is a member of the ITAPS program of UCSF (University of California San Francisco) and serves as the director of research and publication at Mili Institute of Higher Education. His research work entails analysis, report and proposal writing, and developing surveys and questionnaires of different natures including social and public health.
Dr. Maria Kalfa
Maria Kalfa is a Social Anthropologist and Lecturer at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and University of Western Macedonia. She was a lecturer in the Polytechnic School of the University of Thessaly and in the School of Social Sciences and Humanities in University of Western Macedonia. At this moment she is lecturer in the departments of International and European Economic Studies, in the Psychology department and in the Early Childhood Education department of the University of Western Macedonia, and in Political Science department of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
Dr. Kate Mukungu
Kate Mukungu has been a community work practitioner and manager since the mid-1990s apart from a social sciences lectureship (2017-21). Kate’s 2022 doctorate analyses women’s anti-violence activism in post-conflict contexts. Currently Chief Executive of Riverside Community Health Project, England, Kate is interested in better integrating academia, activism and practice.
Dr. Iryna Tytarchuk
Iryna Tytarchuk has been working in the field of entrepreneurship for more than 10 years. She is developing business in Ukraine within SME consulting and implementation of more than 20 projects. Following the consequences of the war in Ukraine, Iryna with the partners implemented the Help Women Agro in Ukraine project and Oplich initiative. Iryna is PhD of economic sciences, associate professor of the Department of Public Relations of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. She works on research and practical projects in the field of supporting women’s entrepreneurship and investments and has fellowship researcher at the University of Manchester (Great Britain).
Dr. Angela Kahil
Angela Kahil, PhD in History, Societies and Civilizations from INALCO – Paris. Fulbright Leadership Program Alumni, She is a researcher in Women’s History in the Arab World at INALCO and USEK Lebanon.
Francesca Basso
Francesca Basso is a feminist PhD researcher in Gender studies at the University of Lisbon, Portugal. Working at the intersection between civil society and academia, she specialized in gender and human rights. Currently, her main research interests are feminist activisms for SRHR; SGBV against women and children (harmful practices, e.g. FGM and CEFM); LGBTI+ issues; gender and human rights.
Lorraine Hayman
Lorraine Hayman is a Global Women’s Studies doctoral researcher at the University of Galway, Ireland. Her interdisciplinary research explores the lived experiences of women in Ireland concerning Cyber Sexual Violence. She aims to offer evidence-informed recommendations for legal, policy, and service provision reform. She is a Hardiman Research Scholar at the University of Galway and a Rotary Peace Fellow alum.
Mr. Zihao Zhuang
Mr. Zihao Zhuang is a researcher, advocate, social entrepreneur, humanitarian, and changemaker. He has founded Zhuang-Help Africa International based in Ghana to fight against inequality and poverty, and promote equal access and opportunities for the vulnerable groups in Africa.
Ms. Lucca Olivia Munnik
Lucca holds an MPhil in Public Mental Health from the University of Cape Town, and her qualitative research focuses on improving the recovery of rape survivors and exploring communal resilience in shelters for abused women. She is currently the Strategic Funding Specialist for ActionAid UK where she develops fundraising materials for strategic grants that help drive the international charity’s mission to support women and girls living in poverty.
Ms. Gloria Nyambura Kenyatta
Ms. Gloria Nyambura Kenyatta is a Kenyan Ph.D. Student in Political Science at the University of Freiburg, Germany, and a research fellow at the Arnold Bergstraesser Institute in Freiburg, Germany- a research institute working on socio-political issues in the Global South including Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. She is also the Deputy Clerk of Bomet County Assembly, a devolved legislature in Kenya. She holds a Master’s degree in Rural Sociology and Community Development from the University of Nairobi, Kenya, and a Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Studies- Community Development from Kenyatta University, Kenya. /p>
Dong Xiaoshuang
Dong Xiaoshuang is a PhD student at Tsinghua University. She is the President of the Student Society of Literary Criticism of Tsinghua University. Her research interests center on the cross-cultural interactions on literature, postcolonial theory with American literature, and female theory. She has won the national scholarships several times and published articles abroad and in China.
Ms. Adriana Cantón
Adriana Cantón has a Bachelor’s Degree in International Relations by the Tecnológico de Monterrey in Mexico City, Mexico and Master’s in Democracy and Good Government by the Universidad de Salamanca in Salamanca, Spain. She is Research Assistant by the Tecnológico de Monterrey and a member of the Project Novus Tríada.
Anamika Pundir
Hadassa Oliveira
Past Speakers
Dr. Bhavani Rao
Dr. Bhavani Rao is the Dean of the School of Social and Behavioural Sciences of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham (Amrita University), a top-ranked University in India. She is the Director of two Research Centers: AMMACHI Labs (Amrita Multi Modal Applications and Human Computer Interaction) and the Center for Women’s Empowerment and Gender Equality. She has been designated as India’s UNESCO Chair in Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment. Her work focuses on empowering underserved communities, especially women in rural areas, through capacity building and vocational skills, using the latest technologies. Since 2009, she has led many projects funded by international, national and foreign organizations (including UN agencies and the Government of India).
Prof. JosAnn Cutajar
Prof. Nalini Moodley
Dr. Rebecca Ranz
Dr. Amer Bani Amer is the founder and general director of Al-Hayat Center – Rased, established in 2006, leading a range of pioneering development projects and programs in Jordan and across the MENA region. He’s a major advocate of gender mainstreaming in political and democratic life and focuses on implementing community-based programs to empower women and build their capacities.