Programme

Keynote, Featured and Spotlight Speakers will provide a variety of perspectives from different academic and professional backgrounds. This page provides details of presentations and other programming. For more information about presenters, please visit the Speakers page.


Conference Outline

Friday, April 21, 2023Saturday, April 22, 2023Sunday, April 23, 2023Monday, April 24, 2023

Location: Virginia Tech Executive Briefing Center

13:00-14:00: Conference Registration

14:00-14:05: Announcements & Welcome

14:05-14:10: Welcome Address and Recognition of IAFOR Scholarship Winners

14:10-15:55: Featured Discussion
Kālewa Correa, Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, United States
Michael Menchaca, University of Hawai’i at Manoa, United States

14:55-15:15: Coffee Break

15:15-16:00: Featured Interview Session
Joseph Haldane, The International Academic Forum (IAFOR), Japan
Tomoaki Ishigaki, Embassy of Japan in the United States of America, United States

16:00-16:15: Conference Photograph

16:15-17:30: Conference Poster Session & Networking Coffee

10:00-11:40: On-site Parallel Presentation Session 1

11:40:13:00: Lunch Break

13:00-14:40: On-site Parallel Session 2

14:40-14:55: Coffee Break

14:55-16:35: On-site Parallel Session 3

16:35-16:50: Coffee Break

16:50-17:50: On-site Parallel Session 4

10:00-11:40: On-site Parallel Presentation Session 1

11:40:13:00: Lunch Break

13:00-14:40: On-site Parallel Session 2

14:40-14:55: Coffee Break

14:55-16:35: On-site Parallel Session 3

16:35-16:50: Onsite Conference Closing Session

09:30-11:10: Online Parallel Presentation Session 1

11:10-11:25: Short Break

11:25-12:40: Online Parallel Presentation Session 2

12:40-13:40: Extended Break

13:40-15:20: Online Parallel Presentation Session 3

15:20-15:35: Short Break

15:35-17:15: Online Parallel Presentation Session 4

17:15-17:30: Online Conference Closing Session


Featured Presentations

  • Learning Beyond Boundaries, Learning Beyond Borders
    Learning Beyond Boundaries, Learning Beyond Borders
    Featured Interview: Tomoaki Ishigaki

Conference Programme

The draft version of the Conference Programme will be available online on March 23, 2023. All registered delegates will be notified of this publication by email.

*Please be aware that the above schedule may be subject to change.


Important Information Emails

All registered attendees will receive an Important Information email and updates in the run-up to the conference. Please check your email inbox for something from "iafor.org". If you can not find these emails in your normal inbox, it is worth checking in your spam or junk mail folders as many programs filter out emails this way. If these did end up in one of these folders, please add the address to your acceptable senders' folder by whatever method your email program can do this.


Pre-Recorded Virtual Presentations & Virtual Poster Presentations

A number of presenters have submitted pre-recorded virtual video presentations or virtual poster presentations. We encourage you to view these presentations and provide feedback through the comments.


Previous Programming

View details of programming for past ERI conferences via the links below.

Learning Beyond Boundaries, Learning Beyond Borders
Featured Interview: Tomoaki Ishigaki

Education has long played an important role in expanding people’s minds beyond the places and spaces into which they were born and raised. This includes from the home to the classroom, and from there to trips to local museums, places of interest and beyond. For many, this intellectual curiosity leads students, teachers and academics to travel, study and work abroad, and in doing so, they forge important personal and professional relationships between their home countries and those abroad.

However, as travelling beyond borders of discipline can have its risks, collaborating and colluding across cultural and international borders has its own, not least in times of global unrest. This interview with Japanese diplomat and legal scholar, Tomoaki Ishigaki, Minister at the Japanese embassy, will look at some of the challenges and opportunities faced in international education, research and innovation, drawing on his international experience and knowledge, with a particular focus on Japan and the United States.

Read presenter's biography