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The 2nd International Congress on Social Sciences and Business (ICSSB)

August 28-30, 2013
Sheraton Macao Hotel, Cotai Central

 

Submission Deadline Extension: June 15, 2013
The 2nd ICSSB is a forum of communication for academics, researchers, practitioners, and policy makers in the areas of Business, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Information Management, Education, Psychology, Communication, Law, and Politics (Social Science) will be held in Macau during August 28-30, 2013. Through its broadly defined scope, we welcome interdisciplinary perspectives such as politics, psychology, government and management. Please pass on this news to your friends and colleagues who might be interested in join this academic conference. Should you have questions, feel free to contact us by email : icssb@icssb.org
Full papers and Abstracts are invited to submit. Interesting topics are listed on the official website (http://www.icssb.org/) for your reference only but not limited. If you have any inquiries, do not hesitate to contact the secretariat by email icssb@icssb.org.
To Register as a ICSSB member: http://www.icssb.org/Registration.asp
To Submit Abstract/Full Papers: http://www.icssb.org/guide.asp
Email to the Secretariat: icssb@icssb.org
*Publication Opportunities* 

All ICSSB accepted papers will have the chance to be published in the following co-journals. 

Current Research Journal of Social Science
Print ISSN:2041-3238
Online ISSN:2041-3246

Asian Journal of Business Management
Print ISSN:2041-8744
Online ISSN:2041-8752

Current Research Journal of Economic Theory
Print ISSN:2042-4841
Online ISSN:2042-485X

Research Journal of Information Technology 
Print ISSN:2041-3106
Online ISSN:2041-3114

International Conference on New Horizons in Education: INTE 2013

25-27 June 2013
Rome, Italy
Call for papers
International Conference on New Horizons aims to provide a multinational platform where the latest trends in education can be presented and discussed in a friendly environment with the aim to learn from each other. Prospective presenters are encouraged to submit proposals for papers and posters/demonstrations that offer new research or theoretical contributions. Presentations should be in Italian, Turkish, English, Czech, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Russian languages and should address both theoretical issues and new research findings. Furthermore if the presenter is unable to attend the oral presentation, the virtual presentations and video presentations are available. For further information on how to submit, please refer to the Paper Submission section on our website. For paper guidelines, please refer to the Paper Guidelines section. INTE 2013 conference is supported by Sakarya University and TASET and will take place on June 25-27, 2013 in Mercure West Rome Hotel, Rome, Italy.
We would like to invite you to share your experience and your papers with academicians, teachers and professionals. 
 
Conference Language
The official languages of the conference are Italian, Turkish, English, Czech, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Russian Language. Proposals can be sent and be presented in either language. But all submission proccess will be done in English. Please, submit your proposal according to the following presentation category descriptions in paper guidelines.
 
Conference Venue
INTE 2013 will be held in Mercure West Rome Hotel, Rome, Italy.
Deadlines
Abstract Deadline : Until June 18, 2013
Full Article Deadline : Until June 19, 2013
Registration Fee Deadline : Until June 19, 2013

For more information, please go to www.int-e.net.

 

Congress of the International Society of City and Regional Planners

1-4 October 2013
Brisbane, Australia


The 49th Annual ISOCARP congress will take from 1-4 October in Brisbane, Australia. Brisbane is considered “Australia’s New World City,” a fast-growing, innovative, multicultural urban region of nearly three million people in the subtropics.

This year's main theme is Frontiers of Planning: Evolving and Declining Models of City Planning Practice.

Ten reasons for taking part:
  • The Congress is for professionals in planning and related disciplines, members of city and regional governments, and all interested in the future of cities and regions
  • Hear leading keynote speakers and international papers on cutting-edge planning practices
  • Attend workshops on planning practice at the frontiers
  • Choose from over 100 technical papers
  • Attend the International Planners Exchange
  • Attend technical seminars and technical tours of Brisbane and its region
  • Join post-Congress tours
  • Explore Brisbane, Australia’s new world city, the Australian tropics, and the Great Barrier Reef
  • Visit Sydney on the way to or from the Congress
  • Visit Canberra, Australia’s planned capital city, in its centenary year

The 3rd International Congress on Engineering and Information

28-30 August, 2013
Macau, China

Abstract Submission Deadline Extended to 15 June

The 2013 ICEAI is to offer industry researchers, scientists, engineers, academics and graduate students to present, share, and exchange their research results and experiences about All accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings as well as recommended to the cooperation journal. All submissions will be under a peer-review conducted by experts in the field based on originality, significance, quality and clarity.
Submission deadline: May 15, 2013 June 15, 2013
Notification of acceptance: June 5, 2013
Registration due: June 25, 2013
Conference dates: August 28-30, 2013
  
If you are interested in organizing a special session, please contact the secretariat at info.iceai@iceai.org. Otherwise, please submit abstract or full paper directly via the website management system.
For more information please visit http://www.iceai.org.

 

Public Health 2013 

2 October 2013
The Barbican, London


Registration now open for Public Health 2013: Working together to improve outcomes
 
As the dust begins to settle following the public health reforms it is vital that local authorities hit the ground running and take the lead in improving the health of their communities.
 
The new health and wellbeing boards have the opportunity to coordinate local strategies that improve people's health and wellbeing and lead to more positive outcomes.
 
Do you want to improve the health of local communities? Are you interested in driving a reduction in health inequalities and delivering innovative approaches?
 
Confirmed speakers include:

Our conference chair will be Simon Gillespie, Chief Executive, British Heart Foundation

Tim Baxter, Head of Public Health Development, Department of Health

Dr Janet Atherton, President, Association of Directors of Public Health 

David Herne, Deputy Director of Public Health, NHS Salford

Subjects to be discussed on the day include:

Improving Public Health Outcomes: Developing integrated and locally tailored solutions
Tackling health Inequalities – What progress since the Marmot Review? 
Meeting complex needs, tackling local problems
Local action: Tackling obesity and related conditions
Alcohol-related harm

At this the sixth event in our Public Health series, we will be exploring leading initiatives and best practice case studies that will help delegates develop their plans to improve the health of local communities. The agenda will explore how to best tackle the real issues that blight local areas and encourage people to live longer, healthier and more fulfilling lives.

 

The Pandemic City: Governing Urban Health and Disease

26 June 2013, 09.00-13.00
LSE Cities, London School of Economics and Political Science, 32 Lincolns Inn Fields, LG.18
This workshop examines concerns about health and illness and the role they play in shaping the governance of urban spaces, populations and bodies. Focusing on the intersection of technical projections and cultural imaginaries, it seeks to highlight how cities become objects of medical expertise and intervention and how urbanism serves as a resource for thinking about topics such as fitness and disease.
The Urban Uncertainty workshop series is an integral part of LSE Cities’ collaborative investigation into emerging ways of envisioning and governing the future of cities. Each session focuses on a different dimension of urban uncertainty, from health and housing to crime and climate, and brings together scholars from a handful of disciplines whose work converges on common themes.
The events are open to the public but will be kept deliberately small in order to encourage focused conversation. To register your interest in attending, please send an e-mail that includes your name, institutional affiliation, and area of expertise to a.zeiderman@lse.ac.uk
 
A summary will be made available after the event on the LSE Cities website.
 

Imagine the Great Transition: A Day of Performance and Film 

22 June 2013
Toynbee Studios E1 

Artsadmin & LIFT in association with nef as part of Imagine 2020

Are we trapped in business-as-usual? Could the ‘less’ make us happier than the ‘more’? What do we really value? In 2009 nef (new economics foundation) published The Great Transition, “the first comprehensive blueprint for building an economy based on stability, sustainability and equality”. Now as part of Imagine 2020, a European network of eleven arts organisations engaged in arts and climate change, Artsadmin and LIFT present the first in a series of events across Europe imagining and initiating how the Great Transition might look through performance, film and discussion.
 
The programme includes a keynote lecture by Andrew Simms (fellow of the New Economics Foundation and author of Cancel the Apocolypse: The New Path to Prosperity) plus contributions from Inua Ellams, Michael Pinsky, David Greig, Feimatta Conteh and Alison Tickell amongst others.
 
Imagine the Great Transition takes place on the final day of Artsadmin’s Two Degrees festival, a week of art events about climate, consumerism and community.

Two Degrees: Climate, Consumerism, Community

17-22 June 2013
Toynbee Studios E1

What is broken in our world and what can we do to mend it? Artsadmin's biennial festival on climate, consumerism and community returns to Toynbee Studios in East London this June. With new works from UK and European artists the festival includes Kate McIntosh's Worktable, which invites audiences to disassemble and reassemble everyday objects, a new immersive performance from arts activists Platform which takes audiences deep into the belly of London's oil economy, Davis Freeman's 7 Promises, where environmental pledges are rewarded with shots of vodka, and an opportunity to contribute your most precious water to Amy Sharrocks' Museum of Water.

Multilingual Streets: London's Litmus Strips of Change

Public Lecture by Dr Suzanne Hall

5 June 2013, 18.30-20.00
Alumni Theatre, New Academic Building, LSE
 
LSE Cities and the London Festival of Architecture are delighted to host a lecture by LSE Cities Research Fellow Suzanne Hall on ‘Multilingual Streets: London’s litmus strips of change’, followed by discussion and drinks. Suzanne will discuss how accelerated change is expressed in the cultural and economic life of London’s streets. Focusing on Peckham Rye Lane and the Walworth Road, the urban dimensions of spatial and social exchange will be explored. Suzanne leads the ‘Ordinary Streets‘ research project at LSE Cities, and is author of City, Street and Citizen: The measure of the ordinary(Routledge, 2012).


Slade Shows 2013: MA/MFA Fine Art

Private view: Wednesday 5 June, 6 - 9pm
Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT


Open to the public: 6 - 12 June, 10am - 8pm (weekdays), 10am - 5pm (weekends) 
www.ucl.ac.uk/slade 
Featuring previous Cities Methodologies exhibitors Rachel Alliston, Dana Ariel, Anja Borowicz, and Vanessa Maurice-Williams.

 

Cities. Crisis? Creativity! Modelling creative zones

13 - 15 June 2013
Metaal Kathedraal, Utrecht, The Netherlands

CURE Creative Urban Renewal in NW-Europe Knowledge Event
 
Medium sized cities in Europe are struggling to cope with the urban crisis. When looking for revival Creative Zones take central stage. Building or strengthening your own urban creative zone is the core focus of the international CURE-Summerschool on June 13 14 15 2013.
 
City planners, creative professionals, researchers, educators and urban project leaders share new knowledge and innovative experiences. Prominent speakers like Prof Christa Reicher (Dortmund University), Edna Dos Santos-Duisenburg (Former director Creative Economy UNCTAD), Philipp Kern (director KEA, European Research Institute Brussels), Giep Hagoort (professor cultural entrepreneurship in Utrecht University), Rene Kooyman (senior researcher HKU) and Hans Mommaas (professor urban and regional development Tilburg University) will confront the participants with future trends. The CURE-cities of Brudge (Be), Colchester (UK), Dinslaken (Ge), Edinburg (UK), Hagen (Ge), Kettwig (Ge), Lille (Fr) present their Creative Zones Projects. And finally the new academic framework Creative Zone Innovator and its functioning in practice will be presented.
 
The Summerschool programme, organized by the Utrecht School of the Arts (HKU NL) has an interactive character, and covers 10 key-note presentations, 8 lectures, more than 20 small events including kitchentables, roundtables and workshops, and cultural events organized by masterstudents Art of Economics of HKU.
 
The Summerschool will take place in the Metaal Kathedraal near the city of Utrecht, the Netherlands. The Metaal Kathedraal is an artists driven initiative. Entrance fee: € 250,- (reader, lunches, tea/coffee, drinks, dinner and cultural events, transfers included).
 
Full programme and how to sign up, follow the link: http://www.ideenpool.de/cure-mailing/cure.html
 
For any questions please contact Meike Sturm, CURE project coordinator, +49-201-47441238,  meike@cep-sturm.de

Mobilising London's Housing Histories: The Provision of Homes since 1850

27-28 June 2013
The Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

 

Registration is now open for the above conference. 

As a growing metropolis, London is in the middle of a severe housing crisis, widely evidenced in the press and featuring in political debates. The problem of creating adequate homes for a growing demand is not new. The Centre for Metropolitan History (IHR), in association with the Survey of London (English Heritage) and the Urban Laboratory (UCL), is organising a two-day conference to explore issues relating to the history of urban or suburban housing from the mid-19th century to the present day. This conference will seek to examine the history of housing provision in London, and how historical research may be mobilised to address the contemporary crisis.

Keynote speakers: Professor Jerry White (Birkbeck), Professor Andrew Saint (Survey of London).

Please see the conference programme for further details.

Registration and directions are available online


Elephant & Castle Mini Maker Faire

6 July 2013, 10am - 6pm 
London College of Communication, Elephant & Castle SE1 6SB

Elephant & Castle Mini Maker Faire is a day of family friendly making, learning, crafting, inventing and tinkering in the heart of London. Be inspired by arts, crafts, engineering, science and technology from the Makers of the capital. Entry is free and there will be many opportunities to get hands on. 
Call for Makers
The Call for Makers is now open, we are looking for submissions from those who want to present work or give hands on demonstrations. We welcome submissions at any stage in the process from early work-in-progress and prototype projects, through to finished projects, installations and creations! We are looking to hear from Makers, tinkerers and crafters from across the London area and beyond, so please 
check out our website to find out more details about the Call for Makers.
Makers & Designers Meet-up

Alongside the Maker booths we will also be running a programme of talks, panels discussions and workshops both on the Saturday at LCC and on the Sunday at the Victoria and Albert where we will focus on discussion around the Maker culture. We are looking to hear from those who would like to talk, join a panel or run a workshop, so please check out our website to find out more details about the open call.

Launch of dpusummerLab 2013 workshop series

 
The UCL Development Planning Unit is very happy to officially announce the launch of the dpusummerLab 2013 workshop series.

Drawing on the progressive action-research and practice-based ethos of the DPU in collaboration with local partners in various host cities, dpusummerLab aims to leverage the reality of the city as a laboratory for developing socially responsive design measures. It is intended to provoke, stimulate, and reconsider the role of practitioners in promoting spatial justice.

The workshops are geared toward students (alumni, current and prospective) and emerging professionals with backgrounds and/or keen interest in the urban environment and offer a vital testing ground for the proposing of contextual, hybridized spatial interventions embedded with socio-political agendas.

The schedule of the DPU summerLab 2013 series is:

Medellin (Colombia) – Growth in Transit, 26 - 31 August

Santiago (Chile) – Providencia in Transformation, 2 – 7 September         

Rome (Italy) – Occupation City, 9 – 14 September

London (UK) – Localising Legacies, 16 – 21 September

For currently enrolled DPU students and DPU Alumni the workshop fee is £300. For UK and international participants the fee is £400. Please note these fees do not include travel or accommodation. The application deadline for all dpusummerLab workshops is July 15.

Thanks to an active involvement from Julio D. Davila, DPU Director and generous support from UCL International Affairs and Santander Universities, for the 2013 series there are five (5) scholarships available for the Medellin workshop and five (5) scholarships available for the Santiago workshop open to all currently registered UCL students. These scholarships will cover all fees, travel, and accommodation.

Please visit the dpusummerLab page on the DPU website for more info and to apply. You can also contact William Hunter, summerLab coordinator or Camillo Boanodirector if you have any questions.

Visit http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/dpu/programmes/summerlab/2013-series 
 

2014 TORINO Call for Papers

June 19-21 2014

The European Architectural History Network is organizing a third international meeting in Turin, Italy, in 2014. In accordance with the EAHN mission statement, this meeting proposes to increase the visibility of the discipline, to foster transnational, interdisciplinary and multicultural approaches to the study of the built environment, and to facilitate the exchange of research results in the field.

The call for papers is now open: abstracts are invited for the 24 thematic sessions and 3 round tables. Members of the larger scholarly community are invited to submit proposals related not only to Europe's geographical framework, but also to its transcontinental aspects. Abstracts of no more than 300 words should be submitted between April 15 and September 30, 2013 through the Conference website.

The complete Call for Papers can be downloaded from the Conference website: www.eahn2014.polito.it
 

Twentieth Century Society: The Architecture of Public Service

Call for abstracts
 
As part of its long-running series Twentieth Century Architecture, the Society is planning a journal for publication in 2015 on the commissioning and design of town halls, libraries, health centres, police stations, fire stations, post offices and government buildings in all parts of the BritishIsles from 1914 to 2000. Housing and educational buildings will not be included in this publication. While studies of individual buildings may be included,broader surveys covering building types which may be at risk of alteration and demolition are particularly welcomed.
 
Delivery would be 1 October 2014, length 2000-5000 words, with up to 10 images per article. Contributors are expected to provide and pay for images of publishable quality. Articles will be peer reviewed. Contributors with varied backgrounds and experience,including architects who worked on relevant building, are encouraged to submit proposals.
 
In the first instance, please send your ideas in the form of an abstract up to 300 words with a brief CV and list of publications to date to elain.harwood@english-heritage.org.uk, who will also answer any queries. Submissions will be selected by the editorial committee of the journal, drawn from members of the Twentieth Century Society Publications Committee.
 

Urban Photography Summer School 2013

Application deadline: June 10
Summer school: 19 - 31 August 
Goldsmiths, University of London

Designed for photographers, artists and urbanists whose work address notions of urban space and culture, the international Summer School provides a highly intensive two-week practical and theoretical training in key aspects of urban visual practice. The course aims to offer participants a wide range of relevant skills resulting in the production of a photography portfolio drawn from London’s urban environments, combined with a collective final exhibition.

The programme has been developed in collaboration with Urban Encounters (Tate Britain), the Centre for Urban and Community Research (CUCR), Photofusion and the International Association of Visual Urbanists (iAVU). The course is taught by experienced tutors from Goldsmiths’ top-ranked Sociology Department and the international MA in Photography and Urban Cultures. The programme draws on the advanced theoretical, research and practical image-making specialisms of key practitioners in the field.

Summer School tutors include: Paul Halliday (MA in Photography and Urban Cultures Course Leader), Beatriz Véliz Argueta (Coordinator/Goldsmiths), Les Back (Goldsmiths), Caroline Knowles (Goldsmiths), Mandy Lee Jandrell (Southampton Solent University/Goldsmiths), Peter Coles (Oxford/ Goldsmiths), Alex Rhys-Taylor (Goldsmiths), Manuel Vazquez (Goldsmiths), Laura Cuch (Goldsmiths) and Jasmine Cheng (Goldsmiths).

The programme will explore how the practice of urban image making informs the development of a reflexive and critical research perspective and will include assignments and guided fieldtrips focusing on (1) urban landscapes, (2)  street-based photography and (3) material objects.

http://www.gold.ac.uk/cucr/summer-school/

The Summer School will take place from 19 – 31 August 2013. Application deadline is June 10.


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