Write up about the Conference Conference Theme: Intersecting Belongings: Cultural Conviviality and Cosmopolitan Futures. Contemporary challenges and contexts of the local, regional, national and global raise urgent questions about cultural conviviality and cosmopolitan futures across the world. These are times when trans-cultural, trans-national and multicultural belonging are particularly being tested through environmental catastrophe, economic volatility, parochialism, fundamentalism, notions of cosmopolitan and multicultural exhaustion, and war. A key challenge lies in the paradox of culture, in which belonging has become a fundamental question of preservation, atavism, tradition and survival as well as hybridity, transgression, possibility and transformation. The aim of this conference […]
RDG Conference Report of Zenaida D. Ligan
Write up about the Conference The conference is annual event participated by an international pool of scholars. There were scholars from Hong Kong, Taiwan, Indonesia, Thailand, Macau, Kansas, Virginia, Pennsylvania and Texas, U.S.A., Moscow, Russia, Middlesex, U.K., Vietnam, Malaysia, and of course the Philippines. This year, there were over 200 papers that were read, half of the abstract that were submitted during the call for papers. Several parallel sessions were held and I was in Session 9E: Environment and Sustainable Development in Asia moderated by Dr. Rital Li Yi-man. I was the first presenter of the panel. Feedback on paper […]
RDG Conference Report of Mae Claire G. Jabines
Write up about the Conference The Conference is organized by the Asian Studies Association of Hong Kong (ASAHK) from March 8-9, 2013. This is the 8th year of the conference, which started in 2006. This year’s theme was on “Transformations, Development and Culture in Asia: Multidisciplinary Perspectives”; and with sub-themes on (1) Business and social entrepreneurship; (2) Creativity, media and culture; (3) Digital Culture; (4) Education social change and culture; (5) Environment and sustainable development; (6) History of Hong Kong, China and Asia; (7) Literature and culture; (8) Managing urbanization in Asia; (9) Public policies and governance; and (10) Sustainability and […]
RDG Conference Report of Paul P. Ignacio
Write up about the Conference The conference was well attended by seasoned mathematicians from different countries. In fact, I was the youngest participant in the conference. The paper presentations came from varied fields of mathematics including topology, mathematical modeling, number theory, algebra, differential equations, and fixed-point theory. It is worth mentioning that a great number of these presentations were delivered by PhD’s (in Mathematics) with prolific research records. The presentations were chaired by professors from different institutions who ably facilitated insightful discussions after each talk. The conference was well organized and the organizing committee was very efficient throughout the conference. […]
RDG Conference Report of Eloisa May P. Hernandez
Write up about the Conference The 7th European Southeast Asian (Euroseas) was held at the School and Political Science of the Technical University of Lisboa in Lisbon, Portugal on July 20 to 5, 2013. It was a well-attended conference with scholars from countries in Europe, the United States, and Asia. It brought together hundreds of specialist of Southeast Asia from all over the world. Noticeable is the relatively small contingent of Filipino scholars from the Philippines, though this is supplemented with the participation of Filipino scholars who study and/or work in Europe and the United States. The panels were held […]
RDG Conference Report of Cynthia T. Hedreyda
Write up about the Conference The American Society for Microbiology (ASM) has more than 39,000 members with more than one third of its members located outside the United States. Members belong to 26 disciplines of microbiology plus a division for microbiology educators. ASM holds its annual meeting in the late spring to bring together microbiologists from different countries with a program to educate participants in fields such as diagnostic microbiology, epidemiology, pathogenesis, host response mechanisms, general and applied microbiology, molecular microbiology, physiology, and virology. There are also hands-on workshops organized before or after the meeting. The programs include oral paper […]
RDG Conference Report of Eduardo T. Gonzalez
Write up about the Conference Conference Theme: Intersecting Belongings: Cultural Conviviality and Cosmopolitan Futures The European Association for South East Asian Studies (EuroSEAS) is an international initiative to foster scholarly cooperation within Europe in the field of Southeast Asian studies. In line with previous EuroSEAS conferences, the meeting in Lisbon covered a wide range of Southeast Asia topics in all fields of social sciences and humanities. It brought together hundreds of specialists of Southeast Asia from all over the world, and hence was a good opportunity for networking among academics. Jose Ramos Horta, ex-President of Timor Leste and Nobel laureate, […]
RDG Conference Report of Rebecca S. Gaddi
Write up about the Conference The Pan –Asian Conference held December 5-7, 2013 was entitled Teaching and Innovation in Language Education. It featured three main speakers: Stephen Krashen, Huw Jarvis and Kevin Cleary. Viewed in the context of globalization and the fast-paced information technology, multi-lingualism is a must – meaning in the context of literacy, one should be literate at least in three languages – one, in one’s own tribal language or mother tongue for identity; two, one’s country language for unity with one’s countrymen; and three, knowledge of English as a global language to keep up with the modern and post-modern […]
RDG Conference Report of Pepito R. Fernandez
Write up about the Conference The conference was well attended with some 256 paper presentations and 234 posters displays. The presentations and posters were mostly on the environmental, biological and technical aspects of fisheries and aquaculture science, management, and product development. There were also some presentations on the social science aspects of fisheries and aquaculture development and management. A special session on gender issues in fisheries and coastal management and development was also held. Feedback on paper presented My presentation was well received and there was interest in learning lessons from the case presented to developing countries that have centralized […]
RDG Conference Report of Kurt Junshean P. Espinosa
Write up about the Conference The conference was an excellent venue to learn many of the varied topics in intelligent systems from theory to application. Indeed, there were some papers presented related to my research on social network analysis combined with sentiment analysis. Some of the presented topics were in the line of decision making theory, intelligent data analysis with applications in information retrieval and machine learning, modeling-based support in intelligent learning environments, quantitative method of method decision making in a changing financial and social environment, optimization models and decision methods in logistics and supply chain management, intelligent human-computer interaction, […]
