Dr. Berch Berberoglu is a Foundation Professor of Sociology and Emeritus in the Department of Sociology at the University of Nevada, Reno. He has served as Founding Director of the Ozmen Institute for Global Studies from 2018 to 2021. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Oregon in 1977. He has taught and conducted research at the University of Nevada, Reno for 45 years, during the period 1977-2022. He has served as Chair of the Department of Sociology on three different occasions, totaling 14 years, during the period 1993-2016, and as Director of the Graduate Program in Sociology for 25 years, from 1993 to 2018.

Lanlan Kuang is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Central Florida. An award-winning documentary film producer and a published author since 1997, Kuang is Chair of the Florida Folklife Council and Distinguished Fellow of the Center for Ethnic and Folk Literature and Arts (CEFLA). Her monographs include 敦煌壁画乐舞：“中国景观”在国际语境中的建构、传播与意义 (Social Sciences Academy Press, 2016) and Staging Tianxia: Dunhuang Expressive Arts and China's New Cosmopolitan Heritage (Indiana University Press, 2024). During the years 2008-2009, Kuang conducted research and ethnographic fieldwork on the arts in China as a U.S. Fulbright-IIE Fellow. Her areas of specialties include: Aesthetics, Asian arts and humanities, Heritage and Museum Studies, Multimedia and Film Studies, Silk Road Studies (Dunhuangology). For more photos and videos from her fieldwork, you can visit her website, https://lanlankuangofficial.pub/

More than 50 published papers, almost papers and artworks in prespective of unconventional fashion, wearable art, fashion as art and futuristic fashion....etc.
Author of two books: entitled "Art of Fashion: Studies and Artistic Visions" 2014, "Fashion Design: Between Innovation and Research" 2023 in Arabic. participation in many International fashion and art conferences all over the world. in person: England, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Indonesia, Malaysia and South of Africa, online: Turkey, Japan, France.. and others  

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Associate Professor in School of Nursing and Midwifery, Community Nursing Research Center, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Iran