Global Association for Humanities and Social Science Research (GAHSSR): GRDS International Conference Summary, held at Dubai, February, 2017.

CONFERENCE SUMMARY

Global Association for Humanities and Social Science Research (GAHSSR)

10th International Conference on Social Science and Humanities (ICSSH)

Flora Grand Hotel, Near Al Rigga Metro Station, Deira, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

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 best academic event in Humanaties and Social Science theme, which took place on 18th & 19th of February, 2017 at Flora Grand Hotel, Near Al Rigga Metro Station, Deira, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The event brought together around 50 Participants from around 14 different countries to review 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 Honourable Keynote speaker highlighting the main context on Social Issues.

The main aim of this conference was:

To discuss latest challenges/researches being faced by the Society regarding Social Issues

Generating academic and professional relationships

Boosting morale and confidence of researchers in an international platform

Networking among the participants

Providing a holistic experience of academic tourism

We would begin with session 1. The details are as below.

Session 1: Welcome and opening Speech

In the Opening of the conference, Our Honourable Keynote speaker enlightened the participants with their Speech to the conference highlighting the problem emerging all around the world .

Nemia C. Mallari

(Accountancy Department, Polytechnic University of the Philippines- Bataan Branch)

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: Technical Session

In this technical session Participants of Global Association for Humanities and Social Science Research (GAHSSR) presented their papers related to their Research and Study. Some of the major issues that were discussed can be outlined as:

1. "Economic Impact of Sport and Sport Organisations" Presented by Michael Steiner Affiliated to Department of Economics, University of Graz, Austria.

2. "Community-based tourism and diversification strategy: an initial examination" Presented by Andrea Giampiccoli Affiliated to Department of Hospitality and Tourism, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa

3. "The Origin, Evolution and Changing Perspectives of Widowhood In The Bamenda Grassfields Of Cameroon Since The Pre-colonial Period" Presented by Linda Ankiambom Lawyer epse yang Affiliated to Department Of History, Faculty Of Arts Letters And Social Sciences,University Of Yaounde 1, Yaounde, Cameroon

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.

Young Research Scholars of Global Association for Humanities and Social Science Research (GAHSSR) were:

Azhar Amin Zarger

(Research Scholar , Department of South African and Brazilian studies, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India)

Alba Miriello

(Mphil student in Philosophy at UCL (uNIVERSITY cOLLEGE lOndon ))

In each, GRDS International conference, best paper award is given to best researches. In Global Association for Humanities and Social Science Research (GAHSSR), Best paper award is given to the participants with best scholarly paper submitted and presented at the conference. In Global Association for Humanities and Social Science Research (GAHSSR) conference, Best Paper Award was given to paper ‘Women Struggle: A Critical Analysis of Woman at Point Zero and The Color Purple’ Submitted by Sundus Quyoom Affiliated to Department of Languages and Arts, Lovely Professional University, Punjab, India.