The Variety and Depth of Impacts of Associations on Volunteers, on the Volunteer-Involving Organization (VIO),
on Service/Activity Recipients.
Speaker Biography:Dr. David Horton SMITH, Research and Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, USA;Honorary Visiting Research Professor, Centre for Studies of Civil Society and theNonprofit Sector, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russian Federation (2013+);Honorary Visiting Professor, School of Arts and Sciences,City, University of London, London, UK(2016+);Visiting Scholar, Institute for Philanthropy, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China (2015+);US Government Fulbright Commission Senior Specialist Award Grantee and Distinguished Visiting Lecturer (2010-2014);Editor-in-Chief, Voluntaristics Review, new academic journal of survey/review articles published by Brill Publishers, Leiden, Netherlands, and Boston, MA, USA (2014+);First Co-Editor, Brill [Publishers] Nonprofit Sector Research [Book] Series (2014+);Founder (2010+), President and CEO, ICSERA, the International Council of Voluntarism, Civil Society, and Social Economy Researcher Associations Inc.; an IRS 501(c)(3) Non-Profit Organization registered in Florida, USA (www.icsera.org);Founder (in 1971) and first President, ARNOVA, the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (www.arnova.org); Founder & first Editor-in-Chief of NVSQ (Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly), an SSCI academic journal.
Time: 8:30am~10:00am，March 27th
Location: 606-6311, The meeting room of School of Politics & Public Administration