Anniversary Conference Research Articles

Preface to the Special Issue: ILA-Korea’s 60th Anniversary Conference on Private International Law

Preface to the Special Issue: ILA-Korea’s 60th Anniversary Conference on Private International Law

International anniversary scientific conference “Problems of social and economic psychology: research results and prospects”

On December 7–8, 2023, the International Anniversary Scientific Conference “Problems of Social and Economic Psychology: Research Results and Prospects” was held at the Institute of Psychology of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow), dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the Laboratory of Social and Economic Psychology of the IP RAS and the 75th anniversary of RAS Academician A.L. Zhuravlev. The conference included plenary and seven breakout sessions, a master class and a round table. As a result, a collection of scientific papers was published. The conference made it possible to discuss the leading scientific problems of psychology, present breakthrough areas of research (the psychology of competition, socio-psychological understanding of collective and interpersonal solidarity, scientometric analysis combining bibliometric and thematic indicators), and outline prospects for further research and cooperation. Meetings of many sections were accompanied by active discussion on issues of methodology and concept development. Also, in a number of reports, the interdisciplinary and organizational-scientific contribution in the development of modern domestic psychology of A.L. Zhuravlev was presented.

X anniversary international conference of young scientists “Psychology — the science of the future”

On November 16–17, 2023, the X anniversary international conference of young scientists “Psychology — the Science of the Future” was held at the Institute of Psychology of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow) with the support of the Faculty of Psychology of the State Academic University of Humanities. The event was dedicated to discussing topical issues of psychological science, new methods of research and data processing, and the development of cooperation between young scientists from various universities and scientific institutes. The conference featured presentations by participants from more than 30 cities of Russia, near and far abroad in nine scientific areas, breakout sessions, master classes, a round table and lectures. As a result, an electronic collection of conference materials was released. Also experts highlighted the best reports with the right to publish articles in the twelfth collection of young scientists “Psychological Research”, published by the by the Faculty of Psychology of the State Academic University of Humanities and the Institute of Psychology of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Images, clusters and types – Making sense of (large) image corpora and related practices in and with digital media

In November 2021, the Visual Communication Division of the German Communication Association (DGPuK) celebrated its 20th anniversary at the University of Trier with a one-year pandemic delay. Marion G. Müller, Katharina Christ and Christof Barth organized an excellent conference to mark the occasion and to reflect on past and current trends, topics, and challenges in visual communication research. Resuming the thematic scope of the division’s first conference held in Hamburg in 2000, the conference focused on “The power of images – Images of power. On visual political communication in digital contexts.” While analyses of press photography in the tradition of political iconology were the main approaches twenty years ago, the program of the anniversary conference demonstrated diversified thematic foci and methodological approaches. The presentations examined a broad range of visual digital media and visual communication exerted by various actors ranging from the press to politicians to activists and citizens. Concurrently, we also saw a considerable diversity concerning methodological approaches and a rising influence of computational methods for analyzing the increasingly large numbers of images in digital media environments. With the panel “Image type / image cluster analysis as an approach to analyzing large numbers of images in online environments,” a discussion on diverse methodological approaches and their potentials and challenges among our members started. After the conference, we decided to open up our internal discussion and reach out to international colleagues working on similar questions. The long-term result is this Thematic Section on diverse methods for structuring image data corpora drawing on different traditions of visual analysis.

Abstracts of Papers Presented at the Society of Dairy Technology 80th Anniversary Conference: Digitalisation of Processing in the Dairy industry at University College Cork, Ireland 22/11/23 – 24/11/23

Abstracts of Papers Presented at the Society of Dairy Technology 80^th Anniversary Conference: Digitalisation of Processing in the Dairy industry at University College Cork, Ireland 22/11/23 – 24/11/23

Modern Lines in Geochemistry: Anniversary Conference

Abstract—On 21–25 November, 2022, Vinogradov Institute of Geochemistry, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Irkutsk), organized and held an All-Russian conference celebrating the 65th anniversary since the foundation of the Institute and the 105th anniversary since the birth of its first director, Academician Lev Vladimirovich Tauson, who headed the Institute from 1961 to 1989. The results reported at the conference encompass a wide range of research fields in modern geochemistry, including isotope geochemistry of igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks in various geodynamic settings; chemistry of ore-magmatic systems and modern methods of mineral exploration; environmental geochemistry, geoecology, and paleoclimate; laboratory modeling and thermodynamic calculations of natural and production-related processes and materials; advanced analytical methods and information technologies for geosciences. The conference presentations pay tribute to Lev Tauson whose academic carrier, as well as all creative activity, had been closely related with the development of the Institute of Geochemistry. The preface paper provides a review of topics discussed at the conference concerning various geodynamic and geochemical problems, including sources of material, petrogenesis, and metallogeny.

Examiners’ Feedback Reports and their Effects on Mathematics Performance in Tanzanian Secondary Schools

The National Examination Council of Tanzania (NECTA) issues Candidates Items Response Analysis reports (CIRA) as feedback reports for improving performance in secondary schools. Despite such initiative, the performance is in critical condition. Therefore, this paper presented in the NECTA 50th years’ anniversary conference which had the theme about ‘Assessment bodies as stirrers for effective learning’, evaluated such reports. Specifically, the study explored students’ awareness of candidates’ items response analysis reports; examined the perceived usefulness of candidates’ items responses analysis reports; evaluated the availability of candidates’ items analysis reports, assessed students access of candidates’ items response analysis reports and evaluated the influence of candidates’ items responses analysis reports on mathematics performance in secondary schools. The study adopted a sequential exploratory mixed methods design, multiple regression model and feedback intervention theory. Data were collected through semi-structured questionnaires and interview from students and teachers in secondary schools. The study found that, most of the students in secondary schools are not aware of examiners’ feedback reports issued by the National Examination Council of Tanzania, hence do not make use of them, as the results they influence little on mathematics performance. Therefore, the study concludes that, there is a dire need for enforcing the effective utilization of such reports for improving performance. The study recommends therefore, teachers’ professional training institutions, T.I.E and ADEM to incorporate the use of feedback reports in their training packages. Further study may develop intervention programme on effectiveness use of feedback reports for improving performance in secondary schools.

Practice of antitrust and industrial policy (Proceedings of the round table discussion at the anniversary conference of the Chair of Competition and Industrial Policy of the Faculty of Economics, Lomonosov Moscow State University)

In modern conditions, the issues of choosing a reasonable balance between antitrust and economic regulation, instruments of antimonopoly and industrial policy — vertical and horizontal — have become actualized. This is due to the fact that several factors have intertwined: digitalization that transforms the usual business models and ideas about acceptable conditions for the functioning of markets; the search for solutions to the problems of sustainable development (low-carbon economy); a dramatic change in geopolitical conditions of doing business in Russia. In 2023, the Chair of Competition and Industrial Policy of the Faculty of Economics of Lomonosov Moscow State University turned 10 years old. On June 14, 2023 an anniversary conference was held to discuss a wide range of issues that the school of institutional studies of competition, industrial and competition policy, which has been formed in Russia, touches upon in its research. Within the framework of the conference, a round table was held on applied issues of antimonopoly and industrial policies in new conditions. Researchers, practicing consultants, and business representatives were invited to the discussion.

20th anniversary conference of the ICAL program – Evolution or revolution: have we mastered international arbitration or do we need a new blueprint for the future?

20th anniversary conference of the ICAL program – Evolution or revolution: have we mastered international arbitration or do we need a new blueprint for the future?

Under the Radar: Children and Childhoods Missing from Nordic Childhood Studies

This year, 2023, our journal Barn – forskning om barn og barndom i Norden celebrates its 40th anniversary! On August 16–17, the Anniversary Conference At Critical Crossroads in Nordic Childhood Studies will be held in Trondheim, Norway to celebrate our birthday. Looking back, we are proud to see the wide variety of research that has been published in Barn, embracing a range of disciplines, geographic locations, topics, children and childhoods.

"Big, Black, and Dangerous": Primal Scene Of Racial Trauma?

Based on a presentation given at the thirtieth anniversary conference of the International Association for Forensic Psychotherapy in London, May 2022, this article identifies the transgenerational racial archetype "Big, Black, and Dangerous". It is suggested that this unconscious construct is most accurately regarded as a dangerous state of mind, contributing to the disproportionate rates of adultification, criminalisation, and deaths of vulnerable and distressed Black people by law enforcement agents in the UK, the US, and beyond. Well known to Black people, but not typically mentalized outside of the Black community, I argue that "Big, Black, and Dangerous" non-thinking functions as a primal scene of racial trauma. In the absence of a shared mentalization around this, high profile examples from the media are reviewed in order to elucidate and support this idea. Ideas about how forensic psychotherapy might potentially help address this stubborn dimension of racial trauma are suggested.

At the intersection of health and aesthetics: Sechenov University held the anniversary conference “Rakhmanov readings”

On May 12, 2023, 40-th Rakhmanov readings were held in Moscow. The conference, which has long become traditional, has now become a major interdisciplinary and international forum bringing together representatives of not only therapeutic, but also aesthetic medical specialties.
 The program of the anniversary conference "Rakhmanov readings 40 years" was rich: it covered new trends in dermatology and cosmetology; issues of diagnosis, treatment, prevention and rehabilitation of dermatoses. At the same time, the participants got acquainted and established interdisciplinary contacts.
 In total, 11 sections, 10 symposiums, 1 quiz were held within the framework of the scientific and practical conference "Rakhmanov Readings"; 100 scientific reports on dermatovenerology and cosmetology were presented.

Lehre am Sprachenzentrum der UZH und der ETH Zürich: Positionspapier

Abstract This activity report This Activity Report is a follow up of reflections and ideas based on a paper by Sabina Schaffner. 2022. Lehre am Sprachenzentrum der UZH und ETH Zurich: Positionspapier. In Anna Maria De Bartolo & Jean M. Jimenez (eds.), Approccio Umanistico e Creativo nella Didattica Universitaria: Riflessioni e Best Practice. Studi in onore di Carmen Argondizzo. Quaderni del Dipartimento di Linguistica Università della Calabria 30, 491-508. Armadillo Editore. is based on teachers’ experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting reflection on teaching that the Language Center of University of Zurich (UZH) and ETH Zurich initiated. Framed in the context of Higher Education, the report takes into account both the discussion on the future of teaching at UZH, which was launched by the Vice President of Education and Student Affairs for Teaching and Learning, as well as the Language Center’s teaching strategy. In addition, course evaluations at the Language Center in the 2020 Spring and Autumn Semesters, research on digital (language) teaching, recommendations on university didactics, and results of additional international surveys on language teaching in Higher Education during the pandemic are examined. The aim of the report is to strategically define the future of language teaching at the Language Center of UZH and ETH Zurich and to identify the fields of action associated therewith. With this detailed report of the activities that we implemented at the UZH Language Center throughout the years, we would like to make a contribution to the (inter)national positioning of university language centers. At a panel organized at the Language Center’s Twentieth Anniversary Conference on 10 June 2022, stakeholders shared their thoughts on the services the Center currently provides and ideas for further developing these services. The stakeholders’ feedback features prominently in this activity report, thereby adding to the impact that the report can have on potential readers.

Progress Report to The IMFC on The Activities of The Independent Evaluation Office of The IMF

Since the 2022 Annual Meetings, good progress has been made in advancing evaluation work at the IMF. The IEO has completed one evaluation and commenced two new evaluations selected from a menu of possible topics previously discussed with the Executive Board. A book drawing from the IEO 20th Anniversary Conference was published in early April. The current IEO Director, Charles Collyns, completes his term in April and will be succeeded by Pablo Moreno in May.

Faculty and Management Rights In Higher Education Collective Bargaining: A Faculty Perspective

Originally published by the National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions, Proceedings, Twenty-Fifth Annual Conference, April, 1997, Silver Anniversary Conference: 25 Years of Higher Education Collective Bargaining, Beth H. Johnson, Editor

In the Beginning, Long Time Ago: A Brief History of the National Center’s Origin and Evolution

This article presents a brief overview of events leading to the creation of the National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions (National Center) in 1972 at the City University of New York (CUNY) and then summarizes the National Center’s evolving leadership, programming, research, and publications over the past half-century. The article is tied with the theme of the National Center’s 50th anniversary conference in March 2023: Collective Bargaining in Higher Education: Looking Back, Looking Forward: 1973-2023. It demonstrates the uniqueness of the National Center’s origin as a higher education labor-management research center, distinct in character, and structure from labor education and labor studies programs at other institutions. While the National Center’s priorities and methods have evolved over the decades, it remains an interdisciplinary research center that organizes national and regional conferences, hosts webinars, collects data, and produces scholarship on unionization and collective bargaining in higher education.

EDITORIAL by Dean Alberto B. Roxas

This special issue of the Acta Medica Philippina is dedicated to the 25 years of existence of Clinical Epidemiology in the Philippines. The Rockefeller Foundation in the early 1980’s, issued a call to major medical schools in the world to participate in an initiative which would promote clinical practice based on the best evidence of effectiveness and the efficient use of resources. Thus, the first Clinical Epidemiology Unit (CEU) in the Philippines was established in 1984 at the University of the Philippines College of Medicine (UPCM) under the sponsorship of Dr. Ernesto Domingo, then Chairman of the Department of Medicine UPCM. This issue includes Dr. Domingo’s reflection of the early years of clinical epidemiology and its future directions during his talk at the anniversary conference last July 30, 2009. This issue also pays tribute to the late Dr. Renato Dantes, third Director of the UP-CEU and noted pulmonologist and clinical epidemiologist. His daughter Anna and colleague and friend Dr. Charles Yu reflect on his legacy.One of the milestones of Clinical Epidemiology in the Philippines is the establishment of the Master of Science in Epidemiology – Clinical Epidemiology (MSE-CE) at the UPCEU. Physicians from various specialties and institutions were trained through this program. The UPCEU eventually became the Department of Clinical Epidemiology (DCE) in 1998 under the leadership of Dean Ramon L. Arcadio. Graduates of the MSE-CE became leaders in promoting clinical epidemiology as a discipline in their respective institutions. New CEUs were established in De la Salle Health Sciences campus, University of Santo Tomas and the Cebu Institute of Medicine.For the past 25 years, Clinical Epidemiology has emphasized multi-disciplinary collaboration across various institutions. This form of collaboration is evident in the articles in this issue–clinical economists working with cardiologists and parasitologists in the two cost analysis studies; socialscientists working with clinical epidemiologists to introduce an effective intervention (Zinc in acute diarrhea management) and to develop and validate measurement instrument (Pictorial Pediatric Symptom checklist); and biostatisticians working with various clinical specialties (oncology, radiology, nursing, infectious diseases). Most of the findings in these researches were used for health policy formulation. DCE, in the pursuit of improving its graduate program, also collaborated with the National Teacher Training Center for the Health Professions to evaluate theMSE-CE program.
 I would like to congratulate the Department of Clinical Epidemiology and its partners and join them in celebrating their 25th anniversary. As you reached this milestone, I encourage you to pause, reflect and identify the lessons that will make your Department stronger in the yearsto come.
 ALBERTO B. ROXAS, MDProfessor & DeanUP College of Medicine

Report on the jubilee international conference "Towns that created Europe. 70 years of Polish archaeological research in Wolin", Wolin, 26-28.08.2022

On 26-28 August 2022, an anniversary conference was held in Wolin entitled 'Towns that created Europe. 70 years of Polish archaeological research in Wolin'. The event was organised as part of the 6th Wolin Medievalist Meetings by the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, the Andrzej Kaube Regional Museum in Wolin, the National Museum in Szczecin and the Wolin Municipality. The event was held under the honorary patronage of the Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Culture and National Heritage, Prof. dr. hab. Piotr Gliński, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Prof. dr. hab. Zbigniew Rau, Minister of Education and Science, Dr. hab. Przemysław Czarnek, Deputy Minister of Infrastructure Marek Gróbarczyk, West Pomeranian Voivode Zbigniew Bogucki, and the Polish National Committee of the International Council for Monuments Protection ICOMOS POLAND. The conference was attended by nearly 70 participants (including 19 speakers) from Poland, Denmark, Sweden, Germany, Spain, Estonia, Ukraine and England. During the conference, a letter of intent to include Wolin on the UNESCO World Heritage List was signed.

Musical sources: 70 years of RISM

Celebrating the 70th anniversary of Répertoire International des Sources Musicales (RISM), the international conference ‘Musical sources: past and future’ took place between 7 and 9 October 2022 in the Plenarsaal of the Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur of Mainz, in cooperation with the local Johannes Gutenberg-Universität. The aim of the conference, according to the organizers, was to discuss past, present and future scholarship concerning musical sources, not just focusing on research linked to RISM’s scope but also reflecting on new methodologies, types of sources and geographical locations hitherto overlooked by RISM. The conference opened with messages from officials of the Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur of Mainz, the International Association of Music Libraries, the International Musicological Society, the Schweizerische Akademie der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften, and the International RISM Association, who welcomed the delegates and paid tribute to RISM’s 70th anniversary. This was followed by the third edition of the RISM Lecture, which functioned also as the keynote address of the conference. Inaugurated online during the winter of 2021, the RISM Lectures were launched as a forum to promote among musicologists and musicians some of the most interesting collections of sources around the world, during a time when travelling was generally impossible owing to the COVID-19 pandemic. Previous lectures celebrated the Fondo Cappella Sistina of the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana and the Bach collections of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. The third one, given at the RISM anniversary conference, moved the focus beyond Europe by being dedicated to the musical sources of Mexico. In their lecture, titled ‘From data, understanding the past, orienting the future’, the three speakers, Lucero Enríquez, Drew Edward Davies and Analía Cherñavsky, reflected on their experience of cataloguing the music archives of Mexico City Cathedral. They debunked the myth of a preponderance of Renaissance sources (stemming from Mexico City’s heritage as part of the early modern colony of New Spain), instead showing how the majority of sources date from the 19th century. The examination of some settings of the Mass Ordinary, in the form of bass lines used by organists, revealed that these were originally from German prints, and offered an extremely interesting starting point for discussing the completeness of these sources. Furthermore, focusing on a location previously considered peripheral by mainstream musicology provided remarkable insights on the ways that scholars treat these sources.

Французские чтения – 2022

The article presents a review of a three-day conference session “French lectures: teachers and students” (“Lectures françaises: maîtres et disciples”) as part of the 50th International scientific philological anniversary conference named after L. A. Verbitskaya, which took place on March 15–23, 2022, at St. Petersburg State University. The work of this session was dedicated to the memory of its founder, Tatyana Solomonovna Taymanova (1954–2020), who made a significant contribution to the development of the Russian and French literary and intellectual ties. This year the format of the “French lectures” has been transformed in order to expand the chronological framework and specify the theme range, which will be annually updated, according to the organizers’ design. The topic of the past breakout session – “Teachers and students” – focused the scientific discussion on the issue of the continuity of the ideas of writers, philosophers, literary scholars, on the impact of the poetics of one author on the oeuvre of others, on the reception of works in different types of art and national cultures. The presentations of the Russian and foreign participants addressed a wide range of works from the Middle Ages to the 21st century, various genres (fairy-tale, essay, novel, epistolary, autobiography, travelogue, comics), classical and modern French authors (J.-B. Moliere, Ch. Montesquieu, G. Sand, M. Proust, P. Claudel, Ch. Peguy, G. Perec, C. Laurens, Shan Sa, etc.), the reception and influence of the Russian writers and thinkers in France (F. M. Dostoyevsky, N. A. Berdyaev, A. S. Lappo-Danilevsky, M. I. Tsvetaeva), traditional and new approaches to the analysis of a literary text. “French lectures – 2022” have confirmed their status of an outstanding platform which promotes strengthening the scientific relationships and Russian and French interaction.