History of Well-Being
Symposium
October 28-31, 2013
The Sofitel, Philadelphia
Sponsored by:
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History of Well-Being Symposium
Presentation Schedule
(Showing catering and AV services)1
N=25-30 persons
SESSION #
DAY/DATE/TIME
Sunday
October 27
TOPIC
PRESENTER(S)
EARLY ARRIVAL DAY
On your own. Richard, however, will be available at the hotel around 2:30 p.m.
to help with any issues or questions.
Monday
October 28
DINNER
PRECONFERENCE DAY
Scheduled arrival and informal dinner at Sofitel
Monday
October 28
6:30-9:30 p.m.
Informal cocktail hour and informal,
but elegant, dinner
at the Sofitel Hotel
 Venue: Sofitel, Strasbourg Room
Dress: Informal
BREAKFAST
BUFFET FOR
PARTICIPANTS
ONLY
Tuesday
October 29
7:00-8:30 a.m.
Opportunity for informal
communication and planning
with teams of authors and project codirectors

Venue: Sofitel, Marseilles Room
SESSION
1
Tuesday
October 29
9:00-9:40 a.m.
Welcome

Venue: Sofitel, Montpellier Room
Introduction to project

Richard J. Estes, Professor of Social Policy and Practice,
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Note: All sessions will be equipped with Internet-accessible laptop, a data projector and screen, and microphones. Participants will have Internet access for their personal mobile instruments throughout the conference area as well as in their sleeping rooms.
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SESSION #
DAY/DATE/TIME
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
BREAK1
SESSION
2
Lunch
Tuesday
October 29
9:45-10:25 a.m.
Tuesday
October 29
11:00 a.m.-12:15
p.m.
Tuesday
October 29
12:30-1:50 p.m.
Lunch
Videotaped
session
Tuesday
October 29
1:00-1:45 p.m.
SESSION
3A
Tuesday
October 29
2:00-2:40 p.m.
TOPIC
Review of project goals
Outcomes of project
Project deliverable dates
Oral history initiative2
Self-Introductions of participants
PRESENTER(S)
University of Pennsylvania

M. Joseph Sirgy, Management Psychologist, Professor of
Marketing, & Virginia Real Estate Research Fellow; Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia
Tech)

Harry Halloran, President and Chairman, Halloran
Philanthropies, West Conshohocken, PA

Michael B. Frisch, Professor of Psychology, Department
of Psychology and Neuroscience, Baylor University

Self-introductions of project participants

Venue: Sofitel, Marseilles Room
Using Timelines to Identify “Drivers”
of Well-Being

Richard J. Estes, University of Pennsylvania, School of
Social Practice & Policy
Lunch

Venue: Sofitel, Marseilles Room
Part 1:

South Asian Conceptions of the History of
Well-Being

Isabelle Decès-Clark, Professor of Anthropology ad Director of South Asian Studies, Princeton University
Frederick Smith, Professor of Sanskrit and Classical Indian Religions, Department of Philosophy, University of
Iowa
Coffee/Tea Break
Informal conversation and planning
Part 1:

Western Conceptions of Well-Being: From
Ancient to Modern Times
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Alex Michalos, Professor Emeritus of Political Science,
University of Northern British Columbia; Editor-in-Chief,
Social Indicators Research; Editor-in-Chief, Encyclopedia
of Quality of Life and Well-Being. (Via Skype hookup)
SESSION #
SESSION
3B
BREAK
SESSION
4A
SESSION
4B
DINNER
DAY/DATE/TIME
Tuesday
October 29
2:45-3:30 p.m.
Tuesday
October 29
3:30-3:55 p.m.
Tuesday
October 29
4:00-4:40 p.m.
Tuesday
October 29
4:45-5:30 p.m.
Tuesday
October 29
7:00-9:30 p.m.
TOPIC
PRESENTER(S)

Daniel Weijers, Post-Doctoral Fellow in Philosophy, University of Victoria at Wellington, New Zealand

Wolfgang Glatzer, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany

Juergen Kohl, Max Weber Institute of Sociology, University of Heidelberg, Germany
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Venue: Sofitel, Marseilles Room
Part 1:

Shawn Arthur, Professor of Religions, Appalachian State
University, Boone, NC
Asian Conceptions of Well-Being
(East Asia)

Victor Mair, Prof. of Chinese Language & Literature,
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
Contemporary East Asia

Takashi Inoguchi, Professor Emeritus, University of Tokyo; President, University of Niigata Prefecture, Japan
Contemporary South Asia

Krishna Mazumdar (unable to attend)
Contemporary Southeast Asia

Mahar Mangahas, President, Social Weather Stations,
Manila, Philippines

Edilberto "Ed" de Jesus, Professor Emeritus, Asian Institute of Management (unable to attend)

Venue: Davio’s Restaurant, 111 South 17th Street
Part 3:
Contemporary Europe (N,S,W)
Coffee/Tea Break
Part 3:
Elegant Evening Dinner
Dress: Business attire
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SESSION #
DAY/DATE/TIME
TOPIC
BREAKFAST
BUFFET
Wednesday
October 30
7:00-8:30 a.m.
Breakfast and
Informal discussion

Venue: Sofitel, Marseilles Room
SESSION
5A
Wednesday
October 30
9:00-9:40 a.m.
Part 1:

Robert Biswas-Diener , Professor of Psychology, Portland State University (to be represented by Prof. Howell)
Conceptions of Well-Being of “First Peoples”

Ryan Howell, Professor of Psychology, San Francisco
State University
Part 2:

Richard J. Estes, University of Pennsylvania
Domains of Well-Being

Audrey Selian, Senior Project Officer, Halloran Philanthropies

Joe Sirgy, Virginia Tech
Coffee/Tea Break
Informal Discussion

Venue: Sofitel, Marseilles Room
Part 3:

Habib Tiliouine, Professor and Head of Laboratory of
Educational Processes & Social Context (Labo-PECS), Department of Psychology & Educational Sciences, Faculty
of Social Sciences, University of Oran, Algeria. Will attempt a SKYPE hookup and a backup AC disk.

Mohammed Meziane, Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences,
University of Oran, Essenia, Algeria (to be presented by
Prof. Tiliouine).
Part 3:

Sub-Saharan Africa

Valerie Moller, Professor Emeritus of Quality-of-Life
Studies, Rhodes University, South Africa
Benjamin Roberts, Coordinator, South African Social
Attitudes Survey, South Africa
SESSION
5B
BREAK
SESSION
6A
SESSION
6B
Wednesday
October 30
9:45-10:30 a.m.
Wednesday
October 30
10:30-10:55 a.m.
Wednesday
October 30
11:00-11:40 a.m.
Wednesday
October 30
11:45 a.m.-2:30
p.m.
PRESENTER(S)
North Africa and the Middle East
(tentatively set for
DVD presentation )
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SESSION #
LUNCH
SESSION
7A
SESSION
7B
BREAK
SESSION
8A
SESSION
8B
EVENING OUT
DAY/DATE/TIME
Wednesday
October 30
12:30-1:55 p.m.
Wednesday
October 30
2:00-2:40 p.m.
Wednesday
October 30
2:45-3:30 p.m.
Wednesday
October 30
3:30-3:55 p.m.
Wednesday
October 30
4:00-4:40 p.m.
Wednesday
October 30
4:45-5:30 p.m.
Wednesday
October 30
TOPIC
Lunch

PRESENTER(S)
Venue: Sofitel, Marseilles Room
“Presenting Complex Data Simply”

Neil Halloran, Visual Budgeting
Part 3:

Mariano Rojas, Professor of Economics, Universidad de
las Americas-Pueblo, Mexico

José “Pepe” de Jesús García Vega, Professor of Economics, Universidad de Monterrey, Mexico

Alex Michalos, see description above. (Via SKYPE connection)

Rhonda Phillips, Rhonda Phillips, Professor and Dean,
Honors College, Purdue University, USA; President Elect,
International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies (ISQOLS)

Ken Land, Demography, Professor of Demography, Duke
University

Venue: Sofitel, Marseilles Room

Carol Graham, Senior Fellow and Charles Robinson Chair
at the Brookings Institution, and College Park Professor
at the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland, Washington, DC

Robert Cummins, Professor of Psychology, Deakin University, Australia
Latin America and the Caribbean
Part 3:
North America
Coffee/Tea Break and
Informal Discussion
Part 3:
Successor States to the
Former Soviet Union:
South Central Asia and Eastern Europe
Part 3:
Oceania
Cultural Evening Out
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Informal dinner on your own/various
cultural venues
SESSION #
DAY/DATE/TIME
6:30-9:30 p.m.
TOPIC
(Partial financial allowance will be provided)
PRESENTER(S)

Pam Fried will provide list of activities taking place that
evening

Venue: Sofitel, Marseilles Room

Liz Eckermann, Associate Professor of Health Sociology,
Deakin University, Australia
Your choice of venue and activities
BREAKFAST
BUFFET FOR
PARTICIPANTS
ONLY
SESSION
9A
SESSION
9B
BREAK
SESSION
10A
SESSION
10B
LUNCH
Thursday
October 31
7:00 a.m.-8:30
a.m.
Thursday
October 31
9:00-9:45 a.m.
Thursday
October 31
9:45-10:30 a.m.
Thursday
October 31
10:30-10:55 a.m.
Thursday
October 31
11:00-11:40 a.m.
Thursday
October 31
11:45 a.m.-12:30
p.m.
Thursday
October 31
12:30-1:45 p.m.
Informal discussion and planning
Part 3:
Women and Well-Being
Part 3:

Richard Estes, University of Pennsylvania
Well-Being and Historically
Disadvantaged Population Groups

M. Joseph Sirgy, Virginia Tech
Coffee/Tea Break and
Informal Discussion

Venue: Sofitel, Marseilles Room

Pamela Fried, Consultant and Editorial Assistant
Special Session

Richard J. Estes, University of Pennsylvania
Review and Integration

M. Joseph Sirgy, Virginia Tech
Farewell Luncheon

Venue: Sofitel, Marseilles Room
Special Session
Editing and the Editorial Process
1
Nonparticipants will need to pay for their expenses for meals and coffee/tea breaks.
2
Oral history interviews will be conducted in the following locations:
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1. Monday October 28: Michael Frisch’s Suite. Check at front desk. Allow 45 minutes for the interview—preparation, the interview, the
wrap-up
2. Tuesday October 29-Thursday October 31: Strasbourg Room. Interviews on these days will take place in the Strasbourg Room, a few
doors away from the main meeting room (Montpellier Room). Richard Estes, Joe, Sirgy, or Pamela Fried will accompany you to the meeting.
Date: 131023
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