June 11-15, 2024 | SOAS & University College London, UK
As part of our European summer conference series, IAFOR was in London this past July to host The 12th European Conference on Education (ECE2024), The 12th European Conference on Language Learning (ECLL2024), The 12th European Conference on Arts & Humanities (ECAH2024), and The 4th European Conference on Aging and Gerontology (EGen2024). Featuring an open and interdisciplinary two days of plenary sessions, 672 delegates from 84 countries joined this intellectual exchange, held at University College London (UCL), the University of Sussex, and SOAS University of London, and in partnership with UCL, Birkbeck, University of London; the European Center for Peace and Development (ECPD) of the United Nations University for Peace (UPEACE), and the IAFOR Research Center at Osaka University.
At this conference, the IAFOR International Academic Board met to ratify themes to drive the programme, announcing four key themes slated to shape our conferences and steer academic discussions for the next five years (2025-2029). The selected themes are Technology and Artificial Intelligence, Humanity and Human Intelligence, Global Citizenship, and Education for Peace and Leadership. These themes can be seen as standalone concepts, but they are also in interdisciplinary communication with each other, as the London conference has demonstrated. With the interdisciplinary approach of the plenary sessions, the keynote speakers’ and panellists’ presentations formed a narrative of how technological advancement, education, and institutions influence power dynamics, which in turn defines what it means to be human.
Speakers
Programme
Conference Committees
Global Programme Committee
Dr Joseph Haldane, IAFOR and Osaka University, Japan, & University College London, United Kingdom
Professor Jun Arima, President, IAFOR & University of Tokyo, Japan
Professor Anne Boddington, Executive Vice-President and Provost, IAFOR & Middlesex University, United Kingdom
Professor Barbara Lockee, Virginia Tech, United States
Professor Donald E. Hall, Binghamton University, United States
Dr James W. McNally, University of Michigan, United States & NACDA Program on Aging
Dr Grant Black, Chuo University, Japan
Professor Dexter Da Silva, Keisen University, Japan
Professor Baden Offord, Centre for Human Rights Education, Curtin University, Australia & Cultural Studies Association of Australasia
Professor Frank S. Ravitch, Michigan State University College of Law, United States
Professor William Baber, Kyoto University, Japan
Members of the IAFOR Board of Directors and The Academic Governing Board are standing members of the Global Programme Committee.
Conference Programme Committee
Dr Evangelia Chrysikou, Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction, University College London, United Kingdom
Dr Mehmet Demir, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom
Professor Jean-Marc Dewaele, Birkbeck, University of London, United Kingdom
Dr Joseph Haldane, IAFOR and Osaka University, Japan, & University College London, United Kingdom (Conference Co-chair)
Professor Donald E. Hall, Binghamton University, United States
Dr Jacqueline Lottin, Higher Colleges of Technology, United Arab Emirates
Dr David Mallows, University College London Institute of Education, United Kingdom
Professor Andrea Révész, University College London Institute of Education, United Kingdom
Dr Ian Scott, University College London, United Kingdom
Dr Marcelo Staricoff, University of Sussex, United Kingdom
Conference Review Committee
Dr Akeem Adekunle, University of Lagos, Nigeria
Dr Dina Adinda, Paris Nanterre University, France
Dr Samra Afzal, National University of Modern Languages, Pakistan
Dr Precious Akintoye, Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria
Professor Adelina Asmawi, Universiti Malaya, Malaysia
Dr Kathleen Ahm Chim, Hong Kong Metropolitan University, Hong Kong
Dr Hazel Diaz, Central Luzon State University, Philippines
Dr Nancy Ann P. Gonzales, Ifugao State University, Philippines
Dr Reinette Gouws-Meyer, Tshwane University of Technology, South Africa
Dr Doaa Hamam, Higher Colleges of Technology, United Arab Emirates
Dr Wendy Hiew, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Malaysia
Dr Webster Joseph, Independent Scholar, Trinidad and Tobago
Dr Aderinsola Kayode, Durban University of Technology, South Africa
Dr Motshidisi Lekhu, Central University of Technology, Free State, South Africa
Dr Benjamin Leung, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
Dr Hsuehi Lo, St. Cloud State University, United States
Dr Stefania Macaluso, Teachers College Columbia University, United States
Dr Jeng Jeng Mandolado-Bolintao, Ifugao State University, Philippines
Dr Blenn Nimer, Notre Dame of Kidapawan College, Philippines
Dr Catherine Phillips, Lakehead University, Canada
Dr Dilnoza Ruzmatova, Uzbekistan State University of World Languages, Uzbekistan
Professor Elias Said-Hung, Universidad Internacional de la Rioja, Spain
Dr Can Sakar, Gendarmerie and Coast Guard Academy, Turkey
Dr Raona Williams, Ministry of Education, United Arab Emirates
Professor Mohamed A. Zaki Ewiss, Cairo University, Egypt
IAFOR Research Centre (IRC) – “Innovation and Value Initiative”
The IAFOR Research Centre (IRC) is housed within Osaka University’s School of International Public Policy (OSIPP), and in June 2018 the IRC began an ambitious new “Innovation and Value Initiative”. Officially launched at the United Nations in a special UN-IAFOR Collaborative Session, the initiative seeks to bring together the best in interdisciplinary research around the concept of value, on how value can be recognised, and measured, and how this can help us address issues and solve problems, from the local to the global.