The First International Conference of Business Anthropology
May 17-20, 2012

“The First International Conference in Business Anthropology will take
place in Sun Sat-Sen University (Guangzhou, China). We are currently
inviting paper submission. This conference will consider critical and
timely questions in the development of business anthropology. There
are several purposes to our conference:
- To generate an exchange of ideas between scholars... Read more »

Department of International Relations
and Department of Economic Geography,
Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin, Poland,
in association with Polish Geographical Society, Lublin section
are pleased to announce a conference on

"Border Conflicts in the Contemporary World"

to be held in Lublin, Poland, on November 3-5th, 2011.

We would like to meet academics representing different disciplines and
also practitioners deali... Read more »

Applications are invited for a full time, permanent professorship in
Community Work at the Faculty of Health and Social Sciences, Bergen
University College.

Community Work is an action-oriented discipline in which we, through
research and scholarly development, inquire into the conditions for
social participation. The professor is expected to contribute to new
and strengthened research concerning Community Work and to the further
scholarly d... Read more »

Vacant PhD scholarships at CBS
Copenhagen Business School

With some 18.000 full and part-time students, 600 full-time faculty
members, 200 PhD and 630 administrative staff CBS is a unique
business-oriented university with a full portfolio of Bachelor,
Masters, MBA/EMBA, PhD and Executive programmes delivered in English
and Danish. Our academic staff includes internationally-recognised
experts in classical business disciplines as well as in p... Read more »

Paid Open-PhD Positions at Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM)
Rotterdam School of Management

ERIM is the research institute of management at Erasmus University
Rotterdam, and was founded by Rotterdam School of Management (RSM) and
Erasmus School of Economics (ESE), both of which excel in their
research and teaching programmes. ERIM distinguishes itself by high
level and international character of its research and has repeatedly
... Read more »

13th Global Conference: Perspectives on Evil and Human Wickedness

15th March - 17th March 2012
Prague, Czech Republic

Call for Papers:
Hitler. Spitzer. Torquemada. Weiner. Genghis Khan.
Lucrecia Borgia. Ronald Reagan. Ivan the Terrible.
Bill Clinton. What do all these people
have in common? They are all considered evil by
a few, some, many, or all others who know anything
about them. Why? What makes them evil? Or
e... Read more »

SHAPING EUROPE 2020: SOCIO-ECONOMIC CHALLENGES
Bucharest, Romania

The objective of the symposium is to share our experiences in the
socio-economic field in the context of Europe 2020. We are living in a
changing and unpredictable world, and the only way to cope with it is
to build a powerful strategy for EU’s growth that will reflect on our
everyday lives. Three ambitious pillars are established for this
strategy: EU economy should become a ... Read more »

International Conference on Communication, Media, Technology and Design
- ICCMTD -
May 09 - 11, 2012 - Istanbul – Turkey
http://www.cmdconf.net/

Deadline for panels/abstracts: 31st of December 2011

Call for Papers

Journal of East European and Asian Studies

Place of publication: Bucharest , Romania
Type of publication: print and online
Publication date: October 2011
Published/Edited by: Center for East
European and Asian Studies
Topics: The editors of the
Journal of East European and Asian Studies (JEEAS) are encouraging
contributions for the 2nd issue, vol
II, of JEEAS. The Journal welcomes manuscripts on all... Read more »

Select Biosciences is pleased to announce our Lab-on-a-Chip European
Congress to be held 28th and 29th March 2012 in Edinburgh, Scotland.

CALL FOR PAPERS

We are currently accepting oral abstract submissions for the
conference. Please click here to submit an abstract if you would like
to be considered to make a presentation at this event. Deadline 30th
September 2011

Agenda Topics:

Point-of-Care Diagnostics
Sin... Read more »

Call for Expression of Interest for Contributions in
Tourism Development and Management in the Balkans

Institute for Sustainability and Development of Youth (ISDY) & IQ
Consulting looking
for Experts in Tourism Development and Management for participating in a
regional research project covering countries of Albania, Kosovo, Montenegro,
and Macedonia. The research aims at mapping tourism industries in the four
countries and develop evidence-b... Read more »

Research Scientist: “Big Data” Distributed Data-intensive Systems Architecture

Technical professionals are defined by what they create. Samsung has
the risk taking corporate culture, strategic R&D investments and
global know-how to imagine, develop and market products that lead the
industry. Samsung is the world’s largest manufacturer of memory chips
such as DRAM and NAND (FLASH). Samsung R&D’s new research group,
working on Intelligent Storage Arc... Read more »

IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine
Special Issue on Semantic Web Meets Computational Intelligence

Call for papers

The Semantic Web (SW) carries out the vision of a global web of data
usable for both human and machines. This web, consisting of
inter-connected instance data annotated with possibly expressive
ontologies, promises a huge opportunity for web-based applications in
many domains. As an open, decentralized, and complex sy... Read more »

Symposium on Research in International Business and Finance, November
24-25, 2011, Dromoland Castle, Ireland
Theme: New Directions in Modeling International Finance
Deadline: September 10, 2011 for papers.

All papers presented will be considered for a special issue of the
Research in International Business and Finance

http://www.stephenkinsella.net/2011/05/10/special-issue-of-research-in-international-business-and-finance/

*Havighurst Center for Russian & Post-Soviet Studies* *11th Annual
International Young Researchers Conference*

*POSTCOMMUNIST CORRUPTION: CAUSES, MANIFESTATIONS, CONSEQUENCES*

Organizers: Gulnaz Sharafutdinova and Venelin Ganev Miami University Oxford, OH

March 29 – April 1, 2012

After more than two decades of research on post-communist
transformations, a consensus has emerged that corruption is a major
phenomenon associate... Read more »

http://www.batory.org.pl/doc/Thinktank.pdf

The Think Tank Fund and the East East: Partnership Beyond Borders
Program of the Open Society Foundations announce a Request for
Proposals to launch a grant competition which will support bilateral
partnerships between think tanks in Central and Eastern Europe/former
Soviet Union and Southeast Asia, and between think tanks in Central
and Eastern Europe/former Soviet Union and Latin America. The
obje... Read more »

The first winter school of the DK+ will be held at the university
centre in Obergurgl.

Arrival: Sat, January 28, 2012 morning
Departure: Wed, February 1, 2012 afternoon

Topics:

* mathematics (numerical analysis)
* computer science
* astrophysics
* complex systems
* computational mechanics
* computational chemistry

Speakers:

* Christian Bucher (Technical University of Vienna)
*... Read more »

Call for Papers
Advances in Econometrics, Volume 29
Essays in Honor of Jerry Hausman

Professor Jerry Hausman has pioneered many areas of econometric
research. The aim of
this call for papers is to produce a research volume on the theory and
practice of
econometrics that is linked to, or related to, or inspired by the work
of Jerry Hausman.

http://www.economics.uci.edu/~ivan/AIEcallV29.pdf

2nd Winter School: Bayesian Methods for Empirical Macroeconomics by
Prof. Gary Koop
Queen Mary, University of London, 14-16 December 2011

http://hosted.busman.qmul.ac.uk/cgr/Summer%20Schools/44157.html

A hands-on course on BVARs and models which can be put in state space
form: DSGE models, multivariate stochastic volatility and TVP-VARs.
Morning lectures will be followed by hands-on computer sessions in
the afternoon. This course was p... Read more »

The Forschungszentrum Telekommunikation Wien (FTW) is a dynamic
company with an international atmosphere that carries out
application-oriented research in telecommunications. Our mission is to
fill the gap between science and industry, pursuing a challenging
research program in collaboration with both academic and industrial
partners. Currently we are hiring for the following position:

***Web and Semantic Technology Developer***

(http:... Read more »

Fondul Tematic Cercetare
Romanian - Swiss Research Programme 2011-2016

In cadrul Programului de Cercetare Romania – Elvetia se finanteaza
proiecte comune de cercetare din urmatoarele domenii:
- Research on major diseases: cancer, cardiovascular diseases,
diabetes and obesity;
- Impact of waste and pollutants on environment and climate;
- Sustainable energy;
- Economic Growth and Social Disparities.
Institutiile eligibile din Ro... Read more »

3rd Global Conference--Urban Fantasies: Magic and the Supernatural

18th March - 20th March 2012
Prague, Czech Republic

Call for Papers:

Jimmy Paz. Harry Dresden. Matthew Swift. Felix
Castor. Sookie Stackhouse and Bill Compton.

These are among the more recent characters that
fill the shelves of Urban Fantasy in local or
online bookshops. The novels that constitute
the genre are set in cities or gritty inner-cit... Read more »