GLOBAL ASSOCIATION FOR HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH (GAHSSR)
Colombo International Conference on Social Science & Humanities (ICSSH), 23-Oct- 2018 to 24-Oct- 2018
Galle Face Hotel, Colombo, Sri Lanka
This summary captures a two-day programme with presentations, panel discussions and interactive dialogue. Global Association for Humanities and Social Science Research (GAHSSR) conference is one of the best academic events in Humanities and Social Science theme, which took place on 23-Oct- 2018 to 24-Oct- 2018 at Galle Face Hotel, Colombo, Sri Lanka. The event brought together around 30 Participants from Philippines, Indonesia, Romania, Pakistan, Finland, Thailand, Mexico, Canada, United Kingdom, Malaysia, China, Poland, Israel, Portugal, India, Turkey, Estonia, Norway, Spain, Bulgaria, Nigeria, Belgium, Polska, Russia, South Africa, etc to review and and discuss the latest challenges of Humanities and Social Issues. Global Association for Humanities and Social Science Research (GAHSSR) is known to have valuable networking opportunity and set the stage for further cooperation among the participants of different countries.
The conference began with opening remarks by Honorable Keynote speaker highlighting the main context on Social Issues.
· To discuss latest challenges/researches being faced by the Society regarding Social Issues
· Generating academic and professional relationships
· Boosting morale and confidence of researchers on an international platform
· Networking among the participants
· Providing a holistic experience of academic tourism
The conference is structured in such a way that each participant gets the most from the conference and can cherish the time and efforts that has been invested to attend the conference. The details of this conference are below:-
Session 1: Welcome and Opening Speech
In the Opening of the conference, Our Honorable Keynote speaker enlightened the participants with their speech highlighting the problem emerging all around the world. Following is the glimpse of the conference:-
Prof. Mapa Thilakarathna
(Department of Mass Communication, University of Kelaniya, Kelaniya, Sri Lanka)
(Department of Mass Communication, University of Kelaniya, Kelaniya, Sri Lanka)
Highlighted the context related to Social Science and Humanities issue emerging all around the world and help us to understand the society in a better way.
Session 2: Team Building Activity
In order to break the ice between the participants and make them know each other in a better way, GRDS conducts a team building activity in every conference. This helps the participants to gel with each other and also serves the purpose of discussing topics which have social, cultural, economic, political, etc importance and possible measures to eradicate such problems. Diversity is the key element of this activity because of which participants get to know about issues of other countries. Participants actively participated and shared ideas about the issues and got a chance for networking and building long-term relationships. This session helped participants to interact with each other and after this, we moved towards our Technical session 3, in which outstanding speeches on outstanding topics were discussed and questions from the audience were addressed:-
Session 3: Technical Session
In this technical session participant from all around the globe presented their papers related to their research and study. Some of the major issues that were discussed can be outlined as:
1. "The Impact of Leadership on Foreign Policy Change" Presented by Yasemin Develi Affiliated to India Institute, Department of Global Affairs, Faculty of SSPP, King's College, London, United Kingdom.
2. "Long- and Short-Term Cigarettes Demand and Tax in Korea: Estimation and Prediction Using ARDL-EC Model" Presented by Seong-Min Yoon Affiliated to Department of Economics, Pusan National University, Busan, South Korea.
3. "Education as a Commodity: A Study of Position of Higher Education in Sri Lankan Value System" Presented by Antonet Lucksicca Christy Affiliated to B.Sc in Psychology, USA
GRDS makes continuous efforts in transforming the lives of people around the world through education, application of research & innovative ideas. In order to promote Young Researchers, GRDS International conferences, Provides Young Research Scholarship in the form of full Registration fee waiver to participate in such events. This gives immense encouragement to the researchers who have brilliant ideas to exhibit their research work on the International platform. GRDS aims for promoting research and talent of scholars by giving a scholarship to 5 selected applicants for each conference.
3. "Education as a Commodity: A Study of Position of Higher Education in Sri Lankan Value System" Presented by Antonet Lucksicca Christy Affiliated to B.Sc in Psychology, USA
GRDS makes continuous efforts in transforming the lives of people around the world through education, application of research & innovative ideas. In order to promote Young Researchers, GRDS International conferences, Provides Young Research Scholarship in the form of full Registration fee waiver to participate in such events. This gives immense encouragement to the researchers who have brilliant ideas to exhibit their research work on the International platform. GRDS aims for promoting research and talent of scholars by giving a scholarship to 5 selected applicants for each conference.
Krishan Mohan Patel
(Central University of Punjab, India)
(Central University of Punjab, India)
Best Paper:
In each, GRDS International conference, the Best paper award is given to best researches. In our conferences, the Best paper award is given to the participants with the best scholarly paper submitted and presented at the conference. In Colombo International Conference on Social Science & Humanities (ICSSH), Colombo, Sri Lanka Best Paper Award was given to paper:
Yasemin Develi
(India Institute, Department of Global Affairs, Faculty of SSPP,King's College, London, United Kingdom)
Yenglis Dongche
(Ni Nyoman Ayu Nikki Avalokitesvari Postgraduate Programme, Indonesia Defense University, Indonesia)
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