GLOBAL ASSOCIATION FOR HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH (GAHSSR)
4th Singapore International Conference on Social Science & Humanities (ICSSH), 12-13 June 2018
Nanyang Technological University, Nanyang Executive Centre, Singapore
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 12-June-2018 to 13-June-2018 at Nanyang Technological University, Nanyang Executive Centre, Singapore. The event brought together around 50 Participants from (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 Plenary 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 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:-
The conference began with opening remarks by Honorable Plenary 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 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 Honourable Plenary speaker enlightened the participants with their speech highlighting the problem emerging all around the world. Our first Plenary speaker delivered the speech on "The Limits of Change and Transformation of The International System: a New Balance of Power?". Following is the glimpse of the conference:-
Marco Martins
(Department of Economics, School of Social Sciences, Evora University, Evora, Portugal)
Wladimir Chavez
(The Faculty of Business, Languages, and Social Sciences, Tfold University College, Halden, Norway)
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. "From Exile to Re-migration: 40 Years of Hmong Refugees Relations with the Lao PDR (1975-2015)" Presented by Nengher Vang Affiliated to Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, Whitewater, USA
2. "Fuel Taxes and Bio fuel Promotion: A Complementary Approach" Presented by Diego Azqueta Affiliated to Department of Economics,University of AlcalAlcala De Henares, Madrid, Spain
3. "South America And East Asia: Dependency and Diversification Dilemmas within An Asymmetric Power Structure" Presented by Maria Florencia Rubiolo Affiliated to Department of International Studies Centre For Research And Studies On Culture and Society, National Council on
Scientific And Technical Research (Conicet), University Siglo 21,Cordoba, Argentina
Scientific And Technical Research (Conicet), University Siglo 21,Cordoba, Argentina
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.
Luis Jacob Aduna Retanan
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 4th Singapore International Conference on Social Science & Humanities (ICSSH), 12-13 June 2018, Best Paper Award was given to paper :
Luis Jacob Aduna Retanan
(University of the Philippines Diliman, Department of National Defense (Defense Research Officer))
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 4th Singapore International Conference on Social Science & Humanities (ICSSH), 12-13 June 2018, Best Paper Award was given to paper :
(Department of Management and Marketing, Faculty of Economics and Management, Universiti Putra Malaysia
(UPM), Selangor, Malaysia)
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