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. 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. 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.