Conference Programme 2023

As part of the NEWTON Research & Innovation Week 23. 3. 2023 9:00 — 17:30

PROGRAMME

9:00 — 9:30	REGISTRATION & COFFEE
9:30 — 10:00	OPENING ADDRESS: ‘The worst thing you can do is to be true to yourself. A review of authenticity from philosophy to marketing’ Dr Anna Plechata Krausova, SCR Fellow, St Antony’s College and Affiliate Member, Latin American Centre, University of Oxford & Vice-Chancellor for International Relations, NEWTON University
10:00 — 11:00	SESSION: ‘Authenticity as a high risk strategy’ Scholars At Risk, International network of academic institutions: ‘Introduction’ Dr Mubashar Hasan, Post Doctoral Researcher, Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, University of Oslo, Norway: ‘Being Authentic is a high risk but essential strategy for speaking truth to Power’
11:00 — 11:30	COFFEE BREAK
11:30 — 13:00	PANEL: ‘Cross- & Intercultural Management & Cultural Authenticity’ Prof Dagmar Caganova, Professor, Faculty of Management, Comenius University Bratislava: ‘Intercultural and multicultural management issues, trends and challenges’ Dr Jerome Dumetz, Head of the International Programs, NEWTON University: ‘Russia is an African country. A cross-cultural demonstration’
13:00 — 15:00	LUNCH for presenters
15:00 — 16:00	KEYNOTE 1: ‘Confessions of a workaholic: the authentic Isaac Newton as an entrepreneur’ Prof Cornelis J Schilt, Historian and Philosopher of knowledge, Research Professor at the Vrije University of Brussels
16:00 — 16:30	COFFEE BREAK
16:30 — 17:30	KEYNOTE 2: ‘Authenticity and Identity: The Transgender Revolution’ Prof Michael Biggs, Associate Professor of Sociology and Fellow of St Cross College, University of Oxford
17:30	RECEPTION (TBC)

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