In this issue: President’s Letter 1 Mayor Drevland’s Welcome 1 Submission Deadlines 2 Kerry Cronan 2 Howard Giles 3 Susan Goldstein 3 Serge Guimond 4 Vernon Humphrey 5 Hana Panggabean 5 Stephanie Rohac 6 Joseph Schwarzwald 6 Ulrike Schwegler 7 Kevin Smith 7 IAIR-Bergen Keynoters 8 Keynote Abstracts 9 Reflection: Munusamy 10 IAIR Information 11 International Academy for Intercultural Research Who We Are January 2015 Volume 2, Issue 5 Special points of interest: IAIR is an inter- disciplinary or- ganization. There are cur- rently 254 mem- bers. The next IAIR conference will be in Bergen, Nor- way, June 28- July 2, 2015. Mayor Drevland’s Welcome It`s with great pleasure we welcome the 9th Biennial Congress of the International Academy to the City of Ber- gen. Bergen has a long tradi- tion in hosting congresses. The inhabitants of Bergen are open-minded and we will al- Edvard Grieg, the famous composer, and Ole Bull; the writer Ludwig Holberg was also born here. You can still imagine what the city must have looked like in those days. In our century we are a modern city, with 35,000 From the President’s Desk In just five short months, we will meet again in the beauti- ful Nordic city of Bergen for the Academy’s 9 th biennial conference. I am happy to report to you that things are taking shape very nicely for this conference, thanks to the tremendous efforts by David Sam and his crew. Many Academy members have been working behind the scenes to support David’s efforts. They include mem- bers of the Executive Council assisting in logistical matters and members of the Scientific Committee who have com- pleted two rounds of proposal reviews, with one more round still remaining. Also gearing up for the conference are the committee members in charge of selecting recipients of the four awards to be given during the Bergen confer- ence: Lifetime Achievement Award, Outstanding Book Award, Outstanding Disser- tation Award, and Early Ca- reer Award. I am grateful to all of these volunteers for their important contributions to the Academy. Because we are a small organization by design, our biennial conferences offer unique opportunities to share our ideas and insights in an intimate setting. Along with regular paper sessions, poster sessions, and themat- ic symposia, the Bergen con- ference will feature keynote lectures by distinguished scholars and presentations by our award winners. Fel- lows and full members may also look forward to partici- pating in stimulating and in- depth discussions during the Fellows Day. We will have ample time for warm interpersonal con- nections as well. There will be organized social events such as a welcome reception hosted by the City of Bergen, an optional local sightseeing excursion, and a conference dinner. Also, each day, we will have many informal op- portunities to enjoy each oth- er’s company during coffee/ tea breaks and over lunches. I dearly hope you will be able to come and be a part of this exciting conference. Please come to be inspired, and help make this confer- ence a great one! Young Yun Kim, IAIR presi- dent Young Yun Kim, IAIR President ways try to include our guests as the best way we know. We are extremely proud of our city, and we want our guests to feel that pride when they walk around in squares and streets. Ber- gen is the birthplace of
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I n t h i s i s s u e :
President’s
Letter
1
Mayor
Drevland’s
Welcome
1
Submission
Deadlines
2
Kerry Cronan 2
Howard Giles 3
Susan
Goldstein
3
Serge Guimond 4
Vernon
Humphrey
5
Hana
Panggabean
5
Stephanie
Rohac
6
Joseph
Schwarzwald
6
Ulrike
Schwegler
7
Kevin Smith 7
IAIR-Bergen
Keynoters
8
Keynote
Abstracts
9
Reflection:
Munusamy
10
IAIR
Information
11
I n t e r n a t i o n a l
A c a d e m y f o r
I n t e r c u l t u r a l
R e s e a r c h Who We Are J a n u a r y 2 0 1 5 V o l u m e 2 , I s s u e 5
S p e c i a l
p o i n t s o f
i n t e r e s t :
IAIR is an inter-
disciplinary or-
ganization.
There are cur-
rently 254 mem-
bers.
The next IAIR
conference will be
in Bergen, Nor-
way, June 28-
July 2, 2015.
Mayor Drevland’s Welcome
It`s with great pleasure we
welcome the 9th Biennial
Congress of the International
Academy to the City of Ber-
gen. Bergen has a long tradi-
tion in hosting congresses.
The inhabitants of Bergen are
open-minded and we will al-
Edvard Grieg, the famous
composer, and Ole Bull; the
writer Ludwig Holberg was
also born here. You can still
imagine what the city must
have looked like in those
days. In our century we are
a modern city, with 35,000
From the President’s Desk
In just five short months, we
will meet again in the beauti-
ful Nordic city of Bergen for
the Academy’s 9th biennial
conference. I am happy to
report to you that things are
taking shape very nicely for
this conference, thanks to
the tremendous efforts by
David Sam and his crew.
Many Academy members
have been working behind
the scenes to support David’s
efforts. They include mem-
bers of the Executive Council
assisting in logistical matters
and members of the Scientific
Committee who have com-
pleted two rounds of proposal
reviews, with one more round
still remaining. Also gearing
up for the conference are the
committee members in
charge of selecting recipients
of the four awards to be given
during the Bergen confer-
ence: Lifetime Achievement
Award, Outstanding Book
Award, Outstanding Disser-
tation Award, and Early Ca-
reer Award. I am grateful to
all of these volunteers for
their important contributions
to the Academy.
Because we are a small
organization by design, our
biennial conferences offer
unique opportunities to
share our ideas and insights
in an intimate setting. Along
with regular paper sessions,
poster sessions, and themat-
ic symposia, the Bergen con-
ference will feature keynote
lectures by distinguished
scholars and presentations
by our award winners. Fel-
lows and full members may
also look forward to partici-
pating in stimulating and in-
depth discussions during the
Fellows Day.
We will have ample time
for warm interpersonal con-
nections as well. There will
be organized social events
such as a welcome reception
hosted by the City of Bergen,
an optional local sightseeing
excursion, and a conference
dinner. Also, each day, we
will have many informal op-
portunities to enjoy each oth-
er’s company during coffee/
tea breaks and over lunches.
I dearly hope you will be
able to come and be a part of
this exciting conference.
Please come to be inspired,
and help make this confer-
ence a great one!
Young Yun Kim, IAIR presi-
dent
Young Yun Kim,
IAIR President
ways try to include our
guests as the best way we
know. We are extremely
proud of our city, and we
want our guests to feel that
pride when they walk around
in squares and streets. Ber-
gen is the birthplace of
P a g e 2
Mayor Drevland’s Welcome, cont.
students in both UiB and
other educational institu-
tions. This brings thou-
sands of students to Ber-
gen every year. We have
oil and gas companies
located here, and we are
an important contributor
to the energy sector. Ber-
gen is also a large maritime
region as well as an inter-
esting tourist destination.
As you can see, we have
a lot of things to offer our
visitors, so welcome to Ber-
gen in 2015. Hope you will
enjoy your stay.
Trude H. Drevland, Mayor
of Bergen
Trude H. Drevland,
Mayor of Bergen
IAIR-BERGEN NEWS AND SUBMISSION DEADLINES
See pp. 8-9 in this issue of WWA for information about the Bergen confer-
ence keynote speakers and abstracts of their keynote addresses
Accepted decisions for 2nd submission deadline: February 15, 2015
Final deadline for proposal submissions: January 31, 2015
Accepted decisions by March 15, 2015
Early registration deadline for the IAIR Bergen conference: April 15, 2015
W. Gudykunst Outstanding Book Award deadline: March 15, 2015
Micro Interfacing and the Pro-duction of Group-Based Social Hierarchy: The Case of Individ-ual Differences in Social Domi-nance and Institutions Socio-Political Terror.” As an example of attempts to explore the interaction of mac-ro- and micro-levels analysis, social dominance theory ar-
gues that the creation, mainte-nance and re-creation of group based social hierarchy is, among other factors, a result of interacting forces acting at multiple levels of analysis.
These levels of analysis include
the production and dissemina-tion of system-wide social ideo-logies and social practices, the hierarchy-enhancing and hier-archy attenuating character of social institutions, the dynam-ics of social identities and the differential behavioral predis-positions of individuals embed-ded within social institutions. In this talk, I will focus on the intersection between institu-
tions of social repression and institutional terrorism, and individual differences in prefer-ence for group-based social inequality. Finally, we will
examine some of
the precise mecha-nisms responsible for the matching of individuals with hierarchy enhanc-ing or hierarchy attenuating tastes with the hierarchy attenuating/enhancing charac-ter of social institu-tions within which
individuals are em-bedded.
Jim Sidanius,
IAIR-Bergen
Keynote Speaker
Keynote Speakers, cont.
Sidanius: Abstract of Keynote Address
Verkuyten: Abstract of Keynote Address
Title of Address: “The Strug-gle Over Political Power: Atti-tudes Towards Immigrants’ Integration in the Political Do-main.” Integration and acculturation processes do not take place in the same way in different
spheres or areas of life. A sub-stantial number of studies have examined acculturation attitudes in the socio-cultural
domain and some have consid-ered differences between the private and public spheres of life. In general, members of immigrant-origin groups desire to maintain their cultural her-
itage and identity and to devel-op contacts with majority members. In addition, most of them want to participate fully in the institutions of the re-ceiving society. Yet, research has largely ignored attitudes towards integration in various institutions and in the political
domain in particular. This is unfortunate because the politi-cal aspect of the integration process implies that immigrant
-origin groups may become politically active within the existing political system and this can have consequences for existing power relations. I will discuss our recent empirical
work on the way that majority members evaluate different political integration strategies of immi-grant-origin groups. In addition, I will consider how immi-grant-origin groups
themselves evaluate these strategies for their own ethnic group and also how
they evaluate these strategies when adopted by another immigrant minority group.
tion of individually clickable profiles listed by member name. Individu-als looking for information about specific IAIR members can now eas-ily browse and click on member profiles, while the Who We Are is-sues are archived for those interest-ed in viewing the profiles as a peri-
odic compilation.
The clickable list of member profiles
is available at:
Thanks to our webmaster, Anand Chandrasekar, the Academy web-site now has a page dedicated to archiving the Who We Are series issues (available at: http://www.intercultural-academy.net/about-iair/who-we-
are.html#download-pdf ).
In addition, as members’ profiles are featured in the WWA series, they are added to a growing collec-
It is our goal to have all of our mem-bers featured in the series and on the website by the 2015 biennial conference in Bergen, Norway. In the coming weeks, the IAIR secre-tary, Kelly McKay-Semmler, will be in contact with each member to so-