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Conference Date : July 24-28, 2011 Venue: <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Singapore</st1:country-region></st1:place>
The 7th Biennial Conference of the International Academy for Intercultural Research (IAIR) hosted by the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL), <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Singapore</st1:country-region></st1:place> brings together scholars and practitioners from a variety of disciplines in the field of intercultural relations.
The conference theme "Leadership in the Multicultural World" seeks to explore new frontiers in leadership theory, method and practice that are needed to lead our multicultural workplace and society; politically, economically, socially, and culturally. Submissions of papers, symposiums and posters informing the theme as well as traditional and emergent fields of intercultural relations research are most welcome. It is hoped that this conference will advance our understanding of leadership and intercultural relations to:
a) not only interlock people of different cultural groups (e.g. nationalities, gender, ethnicities) working and living together but also unlock their human, cultural and social capital.
b) not only nurture cultural ties that bind people together but also shepherd them away from the blindness of their cultural binds.
c) regard cultural differences while simultaneously building on cultural similarities.
d) preserve cultural identities without preventing cultural fusion.
Why you should attend?
With the current state that even the countries that are supposedly homogenous are discovering their environment to be multicultural with demographic differences like gender, age, religion, sexual preferences, disability, and so forth, managing such diversities demands knowledge that is quite different than what is known and practiced. This could be one of the most important conferences on this critical issue that you have the opportunity to participate, learn, share, and reflect. Don't delay making your plans to come and contribute your thoughts on this critical topic for our age.
Sample of Thematic Topics
1. Leadership and Multicultural Relations
2. Leadership and Multicultural Workplace
3. Acculturation, Adaptation, Adjustment
4. Developing Multicultural Competence
5. Managing Multicultural Conflict
6. Effective Multicultural Communication
7. Leadership and Multicultural Understanding
8. Leadership Development in Multicultural Context
9. Indigenous Perspectives of Multicultural Relations
The Conference Theme should not be considered to be limiting to the topics that are listed above. The Program Committee invites all presentations having to do with any area of intercultural research.
Keynote Speakers:
Confirmed Invited Keynote presentations:
Professor Dr. Kwok Leung
Chair Professor of Management, <st1:placetype w:st="on">City</st1:placetype> <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype> of <st1:place w:st="on">Hong Kong</st1:place>
President of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology
Dr. Marian Ruderman
Senior Fellow, Center for Creative Leadership
Director, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Americas</st1:country-region></st1:place> and EMEA Research
Awards Announcement
Rae and Dr. Dan Landis Outstanding Dissertation Award
January 31, 2011 for dissertations completed during January 1, 2009-December 31, 2010
Early Career Award
January 1, 2011 for submitting nominations
Please visit http://www.iair2011conference.org/ for more info.