International Conference "From Discrimination to Empowerment"

Venue: Trieste (Italy)
Period: Apr. 12 - 14, 2012

The Scientific Cultural Association Mandàla Institute (Italy), in cooperation with the Slovene Research Institute (Italy), the Hungarian Sociological Association (Hungary), the Human RightS Initiative (HRSI) from the Central European University Budapest (Hungary), the Center for the Research of Ethnicity and Culture - CVEK (Slovakia), and the NGO TPG - Towarzystwo Pomocy Gluchoniewidomym (Association for Deafblind - Poland) organizes an international conference intitled "From Discrimination to Empowerment".

The program will be divided into symposia, individual papers, workshops and poster presentations:

Symposia
Symposium sessions will collect four talks, or three talks and a discussant, on a similar theme. Symposia sessions will last 75 minutes, so plan on 15 minutes for each talk and about 3 minutes for questions.

Individual talks
Individual talks will last 12 minutes with 3 minutes for questions and will be organized in thematic sessions.

Posters
poster presenters will be asked to give a shorter version of the talk in the brief (5-minute) format.

Workshops
Workshops are meant to be interactive and experiential in order to delve into a topic more deeply. 90 minutes are allocated to workshops. Workshop proposal should include an outline of the specific planned activities and a detailed time schedule for each segment of the workshop, together with aim, objectives, expected outcomes and minimum/maximum number of participants.

The following Keynote speakers have been confirmed so far:

For full information on the application, please see the call on PECOB or the official conference website! Cost of attendance is EURO 60 for members of the organizing institutes, and EURO 100 for non-members.

e-mail: empowerment.conference2012@gmail.com