The 13th International Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion Conference (EDI) will take place on 6-8 July 2020 in Bern, Switzerland, and the call for submissions is now open (EDI). Thus far, we have 12 streams (see below) to which you may submit your papers, but more streams will be added during the course of November.
In response to many requests, we have extended the deadline for the submission of stream and workshop proposals until 30 November 2019. Proposals will be accepted on a rolling basis until this date, and there will be no subsequent extension of this deadline. Stream and workshop proposals should be submitted to the conference chair, Thomas Köllen, at thomas.koellen@iop.unibe.ch.
Submissions to the conference (i.e. to the streams) can be in the form of long abstracts (up to 1500 words), developmental papers (3000-5000 words, including references) or full papers (no length restrictions) by the deadline of 1 March 2020. Please process your registration and paper submission online via EDI.
Your submissions should be adjusted to meet the formal standards of either the Journal "Equality, Diversity and Inclusion" or the "Journal of Business Ethics".
Reflecting the multilingual nature of Switzerland, this year's EDI conference includes three streams in the most widely-spoken official languages of the country: one in German, one in French, and one in Italian. These streams welcome papers written in the respective language on any issue related to equality, diversity, and inclusion. The sessions within each of these streams will then be organized around the thematic vicinities of the submissions.
Paper presentations at the conference will be a maximum of 20 minutes long, with 10 minutes for questions and discussion. If stream chairs are willing to allow different formats, they will notify you personally. Video projectors will be available in each conference room.
You will receive notification regarding acceptance or rejection of your submission by 10 April 2020 at the latest.
Best paper nominations, and the submission of best papers to the relevant associated journal (as agreed by the submitter), will take place on 18 May 2020.
The review process of the best papers by partner journals is wholly under the supervision of the chief editors of the relevant journals, and is therefore independent of the conference dates.
Streams EDI 2020
Stream 1: Conference General Stream
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Stream 2: New Diversity: Four Generations of Workforce
Annick van Rossem
Stream 3: Embedding Sustainability Values and Social Justice into Professional Practice
Melanie Crofts, Irene Antonopoulos
Stream 4: Diversity and Family Businesses
Sabrina Schell
Stream 5: Charting New Courses in LGBTQ Research
Oscar Holmes IV, Erhan Aydin, Richard Greggory Johnson III, Emir Ozeren
Stream 6: Intersectionality and Corporate Social Responsibility: Missing Voices in Global Value Chains
Ram Mahalingam, Tania Jain
Stream 7: Inequality Mainstreaming? Unraveling Adversion, Ruptures and Conceptual Shiftings in the Politics of Nondiscrimination and Diversity from Comparative Perspectives in (and beyond) Europe
Lisa M. Rosen
Stream 8: Hope & Social Sustainability
Babita Mathur-Helm
Stream 9: Gender Based Violence and Social Sustainability: Implications for Equality Diversity and Inclusion
Orly Benjamin, Tal Meler
Stream 10: Gender Equality in a Socially Sustainable World
Fernanda Wagstaff
Deutscher Stream
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Stream Français
Marie Deferne
Stream Italiano
Jessica Niedermair
Workshops EDI 2020
Workshop 1: Four generations of workforce: Stereotypes and Meta-Stereotypes
Annick van Rossem
Workshop 2: All Aboard! Diversifying your Hiring with All Intents and Purposes
Sherard Robbins
Workshop 3: Working with Spiritual Leaders - How to Support the D&I Initiatives
Bilge Ozgun
Workshop 4: Why and How we Should Approach EDI within a Non-Essentialist Paradigm of Culture?
Ganesh Nathan
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Thomas Köllen
IOP, University of Bern, Switzerland
www.iop.unibe.chwww.koellen.euLatest publication:
Köllen, T. (2019). Diversity Management: A Critical Review and Agenda for the Future. Journal of Management Inquiry.
https://doi.org/10.1177/1056492619868025------------------------------