Provost Professor William Vega and Research Associate Professor Donald Lloyd represented the USC Edward R. Roybal Institute on Aging at the 2013 USC Global Conference, which was held from May 23-25, 2013 at the Grand Hyatt Seoul in Seoul, Korea.
The conference was a showcase of the intellectual capital of USC’s faculty and their connections to the research community in Asia. It focused on the interrelated themes of science, technology and health; global business, international stability and the rule of law; and education, the arts and cultural institutions.
Vega and Lloyd participated in a panel titled “The Future of Disability in China, South Korea and the United States.” The title of the session was “Intersectionality: Theorizing Health Inequalities by Race, Gender, Income, and Age.” Meng Liu, the vice president of China Women’s University, and In Han Song, the associate dean at Yonsei University Graduate School of Social Welfare, also participated in the panel.