The 7th Graduate Studies Conference (IHU GradCon 2024) took place on Thursday, June 6, 2024. Held in a hybrid format at the Media and Events Centre and via Zoom, it created an interdisciplinary platform for graduate students to share their academic studies.
The opening program of the conference, which was held at the Media and Events Centre Event Hall, began with welcoming speeches by Ibn Haldun University Rector Prof. Dr. Atilla Arkan, Director of the School of Graduate Studies Prof. Dr. Ali Osman Kuşakçı and Director of the Alliance of Civilizations Institute Assoc. Prof. Dr. Vahdettin Işık. In the opening seminar of IHU GradCon 2024, Prof. Dr. Alparslan Açıkgenç, a Department of Philosophy faculty member, met with graduate students. In his seminar entitled 'Scientific Process as a Dynamic Element in the Civilizational Process', Açıkgenç evaluated the place of knowledge and science in the development processes of civilisations.
The papers accepted by the IHU GradCon 2024 Scientific Committee for the 7th Graduate Studies Conference and the presenters met in online sessions. Students continuing their graduate studies at different universities presented 128 papers in 23 sessions. Graduate and postgraduate students from various disciplines such as Religion and Thought, Education and Psychology, Communication, Law, Economics, Business Administration, Political Science and International Relations, History and Civilisation, and Air Transport Management had the opportunity to answer the questions posed to them after their presentations, which were chaired by leading academics.