7th - 9th July 2025
Conference theme:
AI and diversity in a datafied world of work: Will the future of work be inclusive?
Past Conferences - EDI 2013 Athens
6th Equality, Diversity and Inclusion International Conference, 2013, Athens, Greece 1-3 July, 2013, Athens University of Economics and Business School
Conference theme: social solidarity, equality, diversity and inclusion
Indicative framework for the processing of papers by stream chairs
Abstracts' or Full papers’ first versions
February 15, 2013. Papers will have to be subjected to two peer reviews organized by stream chairs.
Deadline for 1st review
March 30, 2013.
(acceptance, acceptance with revisions following developmental feedback, rejection).
Deadline for revised abstract or paper
May 15, 2013.
Final acceptance decision, best paper nominations and submission of best papers to the relevant associated journal (as agreed by submitter)
June 1, 2013.
The review process of the best papers by partner journals remains under the total supervision of the respective journal chief-editors and independent from the conference dates.
A wide range of streams is being welcome about all types of research questions and strands of diversity. We welcome divergent thinking and challenging questions that help create spaces for the exchange of brave new ideas on social solidarity, diversity, equality and inclusion; explorations into forgotten areas and uncharted territories as well as exploitation of existing ideas with new interpretations and in different contexts; discovering and bringing to the fore of opportunities for innovative disruptions; focus on unusual organizational settings and new methods’ combinations; learning from other ‘languages’, those of philosophy, psychology, economics, and political science.
There will be a doctoral colloquium under the supervision of Dr Joana Vassilopoulou and Dr Dorota Bourne.
The 2013 edition also welcomes proposals for pre-conference workshops to be held June 30, 2013.
Publication partnerships of EDI 2013 Athens conference
Associated to this conference are: British Journal of Management, Cross-Cultural Management: an International Journal; Equality, Diversity, Inclusion: an International Journal, and the European Journal of Industrial Relations. Pre selected best papers of the conference will be submitted to these journals who will process them according to their usual standards.
Relevant papers will be eligible to be included in edited book of “Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in practice: Where are we? Where are we going? How can we get together?” (to be published in 2014 with Edward Elgar), under the chief-editorship of Olivia Kyriakidou.
Stream organizers are also advised that the book series Equality, Diversity and Inclusion at Work (Book series by Emerald) headed by Professor Mustafa Özbilgin is associated to the conference and relevant stream proposals will be eligible for this book series subject to acceptance decision by professor Özbilgin who will attend the conference.
Deadlines and review process of stream proposals and pre-conference workshops
Stream proposals and pre-conference workshop proposals should be sent to okyriakidou@aueb.gr no later than November 1, 2012.
Decision regarding streams/workshops and launch of call for papers: November 25, 2012; the call for papers will be circulated thereafter.
Scientific committee
Sophia Belghiti-Mahut, Université de Montpellier 2, France
Anne-Françoise Bender, Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, Paris, France
Diane Beddington, Director, Knowledge Perspectives
Regine Bendl, Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, Vienna, Austria
Lize Booysen, Antioch University, Greensboro, USA
Jean-François Chanlat, Université Paris-Dauphine, France
Penelope Codello-Guijarro, Université Paris-Marne-la-Vallée, France
Gwendolyn M. Combs, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
Annie Cornet, Université de Liège, Belgium
Simon Dolan, ESADE, Barcelona, Spain
Christophe Falcoz, IAE, Université Lyon III, France
Sana Henda, Ecole Supérieure de Commerce d’Amiens, France
Richard Hyman, London School of Economics, UK
Mine Karatas-Ozkan, University of Southampton, UK
Alain Klarsfeld, Toulouse Business School, France
Olivia Kyriakidou, Athens University of Economics and Business
Jacqueline Laufer, HEC, Paris, France
Christine Naschberger, Audencia, Nantes, France
Eddy Ng, Dalehousie University, Halifax, Canada
Mustafa Özbilgin, Brunel University, UK
Judith Pringle, AUT, Auckland, New-Zealand
Ian Roper, Middlesex University, UK
Cathrine Seierstad, Brunel University, UK
Victoria Showunmi, University of London, UK
Ahu Tatli, Queen Mary, University of London, UK
Maria Tsouroufli, University of York
Joanna Vassilopoulou, Brunel University, UK
