Kim Scipes's delegation to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Kim Scipes, Professor of Sociology at Purdue University Northwest (PNW) in Westville, Indiana, USA, got his college dean, Elaine Carey, to co-sponsor and support a delegation to the “International Conference on Innovations in Social Sciences and the Humanities 2019” at Ton Duc Thang University (TDTU) in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam on October 4-5, 2019. Co-sponsors, besides TDTU and PNW, included Universitat Leipzig (Germany), Warwick University (UK), University a Degli Studi di Trieste (Italy), and National Chiao Tung University (Taiwan).  Eventually, five PNW faculty presented papers, plus a Memorandum of Understanding for student and faculty exchanges was signed between TDTU and PNW.  Scipes presented a paper on “Innovations in Labor Studies:  Incorporating Global Perspectives,” served on the Scientific Committee of the Conference, and Chaired a session on “Innovations in Public Engagement for Social Sciences and Humanities.”