Dr. Satiadarma is a clinical psychologist who has been teaching psychology at Tarumanagara University since 1994. He was one of the founders of the Department of Psychology at Tarumanagara, as well as the Dean of Psychology, Vice Rector and Rector of the university. He is the co-chair of IAFOR’s Asian Conference on Psychology and the Behavioral Sciences and has nationally published a number of books. Dr Satiadarma has a particular interest in educational psychology, and in music and art therapy, methods with which he treated survivors of the Indonesian tsunami on behalf of the International Red Cross and the United Nations. He is a board member and area chair of the International Council of Psychology, and a founder and board member of the Asian Psychology Association.

Dr. Satiadarma was a Spotlight Presenter at the IAFOR Asian Conference on Education 2014 in Osaka, Japan (ACE2014). In his presentation on Stockholm Syndrome Dr. Satiadarma discusses three unique cases involving families as the source of a) intermittent explosive behavior, b) hypochondriasis, and c) major depression. Sense of helplessness, fear of losing, and dependent personality can be found as a result and can become health threatening issues in a number of seemingly successful families.

Prof. Alec Klein of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University sits down for an interview to discuss the Medill Justice Project.

Since 1999 the Medill Justice Project, has uncovered revelatory information, influenced legal proceedings and successfully challenged government agencies to abide by the First Amendment. Wrongful convictions aren’t exclusive to the United States; they occur in every country. Recognizing a need for an international community of people and organizations focused on uncovering injustices in the criminal justice system, The Medill Justice Project has built the Journalism Justice Network to foster connections among those who examine law enforcement, the courts and correctional institutions. The Journalism Justice Network embraces the multitude of ideas and approaches the network’s members discuss as each tackles its own investigation related to the universal issues involving miscarriages of justice.

Prof. Klein was a Keynote Speaker at the IAFOR Conference on Media and Mass Communication 2014 (MediAsia2014) in Osaka, Japan.

This presentation traces the encounters of Europeans and Asians in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries during the colonial period. Concentrating mainly on the movement of people and ideas between Scotland and Japan - from the earliest moment of diplomatic activity in 1858 - the presentation considers the part played by individuals cast in the role of transnationals. Operating at the edge of their known worlds they nevertheless acted critically as agents of change and their actions augmented the cross-cultural flow of ideas that shaped the modern world.

The role of artists in the translocation of ideas during this period is particularly evident, as the presentation demonstrates. By appropriating and re-contextualizing traditional art forms gathered from other places, they were able to reinterpret their own cultural identity and thereby make a profound impact on their national consciousness. David Hume reminds us that “The minds of men are mirrors to one another...only in so far as they are accompanied by a reflection, of which custom renders us insensible”.

Lord Charles Bruce is a member of the International Advisory Council of IAFOR. He has studied at the University of St Andrews, where he received an MA in Economic History; and at the University of Dundee, where he received an MSc in Spatial Planning and Sustainable Urban Design. He manages a family estate in Scotland which includes an internationally significant collection of private papers relating to British diplomatic history in South East Asia. He is descended from James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin, a British proconsul who served in China and Japan and negotiated the Treaties of Tientsin and Edo in 1858, and the Treaty of Peking in 1860; and ended his career as Viceroy of India.

Lord Charles Bruce was a Keynote Speaker at The European Conference on Arts and Humanities 2014 (ECAH2014) in Brighton, England.

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In his Keynote Presentation at the Asian Conference on Psychology and Behavioral Sciences 2014 (ACP2014) Dr. Minoru Karasawa spoke on the issue of fairness and bias when choosing punitive measures as a form of punishment. In this interview IAFOR Executive Director, Dr. Joseph Haldane, sits down with Dr. Karasawa to continue the discussion on the motives and morals involved in punishment.

Dr. Karasawa’s primary research area has been social cognition, covering various issues such as social categorization, intergroup cognition and emotions, and the role of culture and language in social inferences. He is also heading a research project on the psychological mechanism underlying judgments of responsibility and punitive motives in legal contexts.

Dr. Karasawa was a Keynote Speaker at ACP2014 in Osaka, Japan.

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Conflict surrounds us on many levels. The interdisciplinary field of Conflict Resolution continues to evolve and offers a variety of options, designed to manage and resolve conflict. Specifically, mediation, in the United States and beyond, is increasingly recognized as being an efficient and effective tool, saving time and money. Many organizations, agencies, and court systems around the world embrace the process.

Where there is an interpersonal and interdependent relationship involved, as there often exists in the workplace, mediation is effective in convening the stakeholders for collaborative discussion. Mediators assist the parties’ focus on the issues so they may consider together, how best to resolve the conflict, and addresses underlying concerns.Discussion may include the assertion of rights, but the focus is on the parties’ interests and needs. The basic principles of mediation ensure that parties’ voluntarily participate, exercise self determination, have the authority to bind, and discussions are informal and confidential. The mediation process allows space for the parties to be emotionally open, preserve their dignity, and offers a place to rebuild trust.

A mediator’s perspective about the mediation process will be shared along with lessons learned about how basic mediation skills are essential for everyone in the workplace environment and beyond. Listening skills and the idea of generating options are valuable in any conflict laden situation.

Linda Toyo Obayashi, attorney mediator, is currently the Senior Mediation Officer for The World Bank Group Internal Justice System. Obayashi’s experience as a mediator includes cases involving employment, commercial, and domestic matters. Ms. Obayashi has mediated well over 1000 cases for state and federal courts and agencies. A few of the rosters she has served on include: Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, United States Congress-Office of Compliance, and the Federal Shared Neutrals Program. She has also provided training to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of the Treasury, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Department of Agriculture.

Linda Toyo Obayashi was a Keynote Speaker at The North American Conference on the Social Sciences 2104 (NACSS2014).

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In her Keynote Presentation at The IAFOR European Conference on Literature and Librarianship 2014 (LibEuro2014) Prof. Svetlana Ter-Minasova discussed how national literature shapes and preserves national identity. In this follow-up interview with IAFORs Executive Director, Dr. Joseph Haldane, Prof. Ter-Minasova shares more of her personal experiences and thoughts on how her generation came of age in Russia and the impact literature and arts has had on the nations identity.

Prof. Svetlana Ter-Minasova is President of the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Area Studies and Professor Emeritus at Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia. She is President of the National Association for Applied Linguistics (NAAL), Chair of the Russian Ministry of Education’s Foreign Language Research and Methodology Council, and President and founder of both the National Society for English Language Teachers in Russia, and the National Association of Applied Linguistics.

Prof. Svetlana Ter-Minasova was a Keynote Speaker at LibEuro2014 in Brighton, England.

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There is exciting work being done on how to borrow from a successful on-campus class to make a successful MOOC. But what about the other way around? What can an original on-campus course gain from its younger sibling MOOC?

Dr. Pia Sörensens hypothesis is this: Some specific pedagogical challenges that you overcome when you create a successful MOOC provide resources and opportunities that can be channeled back to the next generation of the original residential class.

The result is that we can view the creation of online courses not as an end in itself, but as part of an ongoing process

of give and take, between a residential course and its online version.

Dr. Sörensens evidence is based on Science and Cooking, an on-campus course for non-majors at Harvard University. The course aims to teach basic chemistry and physics through food and cooking, and was recently converted to an online MOOC on the edx platform. This approach to science education appears to resonate with and motivate a broad audience – more than 90,000 people from around the world registered for the course, arguably making this one of the largest chemistry courses ever taught.

In this talk, Dr. Sörensen begins by introducing the pedagogical ideas and structure of the course, and proceeds to discuss three

specific benefits that the MOOC offered back to the on-campus course.

(1) By being forced to reconceive of the course material for a different audience, numerous ideas were generated

for redeveloping the labs and homeworks with more intuitive experiments and problems.

(2) By making the video material for the MOOC an assignment before class, class time was able to be used

for a learning experience which instructors would not have otherwise had time or preparation for.

(3) By offering the online materials as what is essentially an interactive textbook, the residential students had

access to a resource that is otherwise difficult to provide for experimental teaching ventures of this kind.

Dr. Pia Sörensen is Preceptor of Science and Cooking at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University. She is a co-instructor of the residential Science and Cooking course at Harvard. She earned her PhD in Chemical Biology at Harvard University, studying small molecule inhibitors of cell division. Dr. Sörensen’s recent work aims to encourage creative and intuitive approaches to science education and to increase awareness for the roles physics and chemistry play in our everyday lives.

Dr. Sörensen was a Featured Speaker at The North American Conference on Education 2014 (NACE2014).

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In their Spotlight Presentation at The Asian Conference on the Social Sciences 2014 (ACSS2014) Dr. Amy Szarkowski and Dr. Yukinori Komine discussed the applicability of the concept of soft power in U.S. foreign policy with regard to international treaties, in particular the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), through the lenses of both political science and psychology. In this interview IAFOR Executive Director, Dr. Joseph Haldane, continues the discussion on soft power with Dr. Szarkowski and Dr. Komine.

Amy Szarkowski, PhD, is a Psychologist in the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Program at Boston Children’s Hospital and an Instructor in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Clinically, she specializes in conducting psychological assessment with children who are Deaf or hard of hearing and providing counseling services to families impacted by hearing loss. Areas of research interest include social-emotional functioning and quality of life issues in Deaf and hard of hearing children (including those with complex medical conditions), combined autism and hearing loss, and disability rights issues.

Yukinori Komine, PhD, is an Associate in Research at the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University. He is an internationally trained political scientist whose area of expertise is U.S. Foreign Policy and International Relations of the Asia-Pacific region.

Dr. Amy Szarkowski and Dr. Yukinori Komine were Spotlight Speakers at ACSS2014 in Osaka, Japan.

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In his Keynote Speech Jun Arima discusses how Abenomics is affecting the Japanese economy and shows the economic signals pointing to recovery. Mr. Arima goes over the implementation of the Abe government’s Growth Strategy, including various structural reforms, inward FDI promotion and economic integration. Mr. Arima also highlights the Japanese economy’s current situation and its reform process.

Jun Arima is the Director General of the Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) London. JETRO London’s top priorities are to promote foreign direct investment in Japan, promote export from Japan and support EU-Japan Free Trade Agreement and Economic Partnership Agreement negotiations.

Mr. Arima was a Keynote Speaker at The European Business and Management Conference 2014 (EBMC2014) in Brighton, England.

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Dr. John Hope, Associate Dean (International Programmes), at the Faculty of Education, University of Auckland, speaks with Dr. Joseph Haldane, Executive Director of IAFOR, at the Asian Conference on Technology in the Classroom (ACTC2014).

Dr. Hope is a passionate researcher and is particularly interested in issues pertaining to international education. In this interview Dr. Haldane and Dr. Hope discuss the importance of international education and how, with proper care and attention, it can help change the world.

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