Events Calendar
This section of the GDN-NA Web site will provide users with regularly-updated information on conferences, training workshops, fellowship applications, and other opportunities for professional development, both in and out of the Global Development Network.
If you have information about an upcoming event you would like to share with GDN-NA members, please register as a GDN-NA member and/or send the material to us.
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| PISTA '04 to Highlight Latest Research on ICT and Politics | July 21, 2004, 8:00 am | July 25, 2004, 8:00 pm |
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Organizers of the Second International Conference on Politics and Information Systems, Technologies, and Applications hope that the meeting -- scheduled for July 2004 -- provides researchers with an opportunity to share their latest research results and policy analyses concerning the transforming role in society played by information and communications technologies.
Location: Orlando, Florida, USA
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| KLI Calls for Papers in Advance of June 2004 Regional Congress on Industrial Relations | June 23, 2004, 12:00 am | June 26, 2004, 11:45 pm |
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The Korea Labor Institute has announced an agenda for the Fifth Asian Regional Congress of the International Industrial Relations Association, scheduled in Seoul for 23-26 June 2004.
The Agenda consists of four tracks related to under general theme "Dynamics and Diversity: Employment Relations in the Asia-Pacific Region," including: * Human-Resource Management; * Human-Reource Development; * Labor and Social Problems; and * Industrial Relations in the Asia-Pacific Region. The program should provide insights and perpsectives from both developing and developed countries.
Location: Seoul, Republic of Korea
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| University System of Georgia Announces Seventh Annual Conference on the Americas | February 20, 2004, 12:00 am | February 21, 2004, 11:45 pm |
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The University System of Georgia's Americas Council stages an annual conference, so presenters and
participants may explore critical socio-cultural, political, economic, global, regional, and national issues: These topics may include the challenges and opportunities facing Latin America, the Caribbean, and Canada. The Council asks that scholars submit proposals for individual papers and panels on specific topics.
Location: Savannah, Georgia
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| CQRM Institute an Opportunity for Training in Qualitative Methods | January 4, 2004, 8:00 am | January 17, 2004, 6:00 pm |
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The Consortium on Qualitative Research Methods (CQRM) announces its third annual training institute in qualitative methods for graduate students and junior faculty.
Topics include research design, concept formation, methods of structured and focused comparisons of cases, typological theory, case selection, process tracing, comparative historical analysis, congruence testing, path dependency, interpretivism, counterfactual analysis, interview and field research -- including archival techniques -- necessary and sufficient conditions, fuzzy-set methods, and philosophy-of-science issues relevant to qualitative research.
Location: Tempe, Arizona
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| Proposals Sought for Travel Grants to January 2004 Berlin Conference on Transnational Risks | January 2, 2004, 12:00 am | January 10, 2004, 11:45 pm |
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On 2-10 January 2004, the Irmgard Coninx Foundation, the Social Science Research Center in Berlin, and Humboldt University will convene the first of a series of conferences and workshops on transnational phenomena. The first of these events will focus on the theme "Transnational Risks -- The
Responsibility of Social Sciences and the Media." Scholars and journalists selected by organizers to participate will have costs of travel and accommodation for the conference.
Location: Berlin, Germany
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| Americas Trade and Sustainable Development Forum | June 3, 2003, 1:00 pm | November 20, 2003, 12:00 am |
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Several nongovernmental organizations met in Washington, DC to discuss plans for a civil-society forum at the Ministerial Meeting on the Free Trade Area of the Americas planned for this November in Miami. Interested GDN-NA visitors may download the report from this meeting.
Location: Miami, Florida
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| Fourth Annual Global Development Conference Convened in Cairo | January 9, 2003, 12:00 am | January 31, 2003, 11:00 pm |
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Brief outline of Cairo conference, web link to detailed page(s) at GDN website.
Location: Cairo, Egypt
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