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32nd Annual Pacific Rim International Conference on Disability and Diversity

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Deadline: 17 December 2015

Pacific Rim is inviting applicants for its 32nd Annual Pacific Rim International Conference on Disability and Diversity in order to promote thoughtful discussion and suggest new ways to integrate education, technology, advocacy, activism and interdisciplinary research.

Pacific Rim International Conference, is one of the most diverse gatherings in the world that encourages and respects voices from “diverse” perspective across numerous areas, including: voices from persons representing all disability areas; experiences of family members and supporters across all disability and diversity areas. Pacific Rim strives to strengthen communities and enhance the lives of all human beings.

Thematic Areas

  • Foundational Program Themes- This program area or theme refers to those topical areas in which the Center on Disability Studies traditionally has been or is currently engaged in through projects or activities under interdisciplinary training, research, advocacy or service.
  • Exploration Program Themes- This program area of the conference encompasses those topic areas not presently addressed through research or advocacy initiatives at the Center on Disability Studies yet prevail as salient issues important to our diverse communities.
  • Innovational Programmatic Themes- This programmatic area is interested in dynamic, creative ideas and sustainable solutions which can be adopted in a society or community, resulting in positive social changes.

How to Apply

Interested applicants may apply online or send their application forms at the address given on the website.

For more information, please visit International Conference on Disability and Diversity.

Submit Papers for Better Understanding for a Better World (BUBW) Conference 2015, Indonesia

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 Deadline: 10 November 2015

Civilizations Exchange and Cooperation Foundation is currently inviting eligible applicants  around the world to submit papers on International Better Understanding for a Better World (BUBW) Conference to be held in Indonesia.

The conference serves as a critical step to create a better world, with people living together more collaboratively, and less in conflicts.

Conference Objectives

  • Facilitate mutual understanding and appreciation between students from diverse regional, economic, social, religious, cultural and ethnic backgrounds.
  • Learn about and discuss the practice of religion and faith in a pluralistic society with the objective of promoting tolerance, mutual respect, and an awareness of common values.
  • Discuss the danger of religious extremism, fanaticism or ethnic nationalism, which has historically been the recipe for wars and conflicts in many civilizations.
  • Introduce various aspects of leadership in the age of a “global village,” including those involving business and entrepreneurship.
  • Forge ties of friendship between the participants, who are without doubt, the future leaders of tomorrow.

Themes

  • Grand theme: Better Understanding as a Grand Tool to Face the World and South East Asia Challenges.
  • Subtheme: Leadership roles in the age of global village.
  • Subtheme: The blessing of religious and cultural diversity.
  • Subtheme: Conflict resolution in managing challenges of social changes.

Prizes

15 finalists will be chosen and invited to present their papers during the international conference free Conference fee (accommodation is excluded). There will be special rewards for the best paper presenters:

  • 1st Best Presenter: IDR 7,500,000
  • 2nd Best Presenter: IDR 5,000,000
  • Two Best Participants: IDR 1,500,000 each paper

Eligibility Criteria

  • The participants are expected to be 18-30 years old (Call for Application) and no age limit (Call for Paper) highly motivated individual, who demonstrate leadership through academic work, community involvement and extracurricular activities.
  • Each paper is original work without any issues of plagiarism.
  • Applicants can come from any region all over the world.
  • Proficient in English.
  • The participants should have a strong interest in interfaith and global understanding, pluralism, global citizenship, conflict resolution, and sustainable development.
  • The participant are suggested to have a proven track record of previous and current activities on interfaith and global understanding, pluralism, global citizenship, conflict resolution, and sustainable development.
  • Indicate a serious interest in learning about Indonesia with its pluralism.
  • Be mature, responsible, independent, confident, open-minded, tolerant, thoughtful and inquisitive.
  • Be willing and able to fully participate in the Better Understanding for Better World 2015 program.
  • Be comfortable and prepared to share living accommodations, able to make adjustment to cultural and social practices different from those of their home country.
  • International participants are highly recommended to have passports.

How to Apply

Applicants must download the application form through the website and should send it via email.

 For more information, please visit BUBW.

29th Annual Research & Policy Conference on Child, Adolescent & Young Adult Behavioral Health (March 13-16, 2016)

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Deadline: 30 October 2015

The Conference Planning Committee is inviting proposals for 29th Annual Research & Policy Conference on Child, Adolescent & Young Adult Behavioural Health on March 13-16, 2016 at Hilton Tampa Downtown Hotel.

The Children’s Mental Health Research & Policy Conference was first held in 1988 and has continued each year, bringing together more than 500 participants to share dialogue about important issues such as health, education and welfare, share new knowledge, and identify challenges that remain for the field. As the field and issues have evolved, so too has our focus to expanding both age range and a broader area of topics.

The Research & Policy Conference on Child, Adolescent, and Young Adult Behavioral Health provides a forum where participants can:

  • Learn, inform, network, and discuss issues related to research, policy, and practice
  • Explore behavioral health topics from a systems and community perspective
  • Discover new research and policy ideas that are individualized, community-defined, evidence-based, culturally/linguistically competent, family-driven, and youth-guided.

Topic of the conference

  • Policies and community-based services and strategies that address disparities and disproportionalities
  • Research on system and organizational level structures and processes that impact effectiveness
  • Research regarding family, youth, and young adult roles in behavioral health services
  • Research and policy supporting the implementation of evidence-based practices
  • Integration of policy and practice across sectors (such as health/behavioral health, primary care, child welfare, schools, and juvenile justice)
  • Innovative approaches to research, evaluation and performance measurement in complex behavioral health settings
  • Policies and community-based approaches that address Substance Abuse/Dual Diagnosis services
  • Early childhood behavioral health
  • Building Tribal, Urban Indian Health and Federal capacity to provide coordinated behavioral health community responses to American Indian/Alaska Native families
  • Community-based participatory research with diverse and rural populations
  • Using “big data” at a state, system, or organizational level to inform policymaking and service improvement
  • Research & policies that support high quality care coordination for youth and families with the most complex and costly needs
  • Research & policy on fiscal incentives at a state, system, or organizational level to promote uptake of effective methods by providers
  • Research, policy, and services to support the behavioral health needs of older youth and young adults.

Eligibility Criteria

Researchers from all around the world can apply.

How to Apply   

Applicants must apply online through the website.

For more information, please visit Conference on Behavioral Health.

Submit Applications for 2015 Asia-Pacific Urban Youth Assembly in Jakarta, 17-18 October (APUFY)

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Deadline: 30 September 2015

Are you a young person from Asia and the Pacific aged 18-32, and passionate about urban issues? If yes, then register and attend the APUFY Summit 2015 in Jakarta!

The Asia-Pacific Urban Forum Assembly (APUFY) provides a regional platform for Asia-Pacific’s youth to articulate urban issues and solutions impacting their lives and communities. As the first gathering of diverse organizations and groups representing youth in discussions of urban agenda at the regional level, APUFY offers a step towards strengthening constructive partnership with youth as key stakeholder in issues facing Asia-Pacific cities.

Summit Objectives

  • To articulate priority issues and strategies for further strengthening youth participation in governance in Asia-Pacific cities
  • To facilitate capacity building based on a variety of successful youth leadership models and youth-led solutions for sustainable and inclusive urban development
  • To demonstrate youth’s ability and knowledge by having a high degree of volunteer-led design, management, and participation in a diverse and innovative set of activities
  • To strengthen voices of Asia-Pacific youth in regional and global urban policy dialogues by linkages with APUF-6 and the Habitat-III process, including inputs to UN MGCY-Habitat III, and beyond.

Benefits

Accommodation and food will be provided during the event on October 17-18. There are no registration fees, however, international participants will be required to find funding for flights through their own personal and community networks.

Eligibility Criteria

All young people between the ages of 18 to 32 from Asia-Pacific region are eligible to register for this summit.

Note: Please note, applications for Indonesian participants has closed and selected participants will be announced shortly.

How to Apply

Applicants must register for the summit online through the website.

For more information, please visit APUFY Summit 2015.

READ Alliance Innovation Workshops 2015 in Lucknow, Bhopal, Hyderabad and Guwahati

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The READ Alliance is organizing innovation workshops in the cities of Lucknow, Bhopal, Hyderabad and Guwahati. These workshops are organized to encourage the design of creative and out-of-the-box solutions to address the complex challenge of low reading skills among children in India.

Workshops will also help participants to apply for support under the Early Grade Reading Innovation Challenge (EGRIC 2015)

We invite interested organizations and people to join us during these workshops.

REGISTER NOW for Innovation Workshops. Agenda will be shared with registered participants.

Innovation Workshops Dates and Venue Details:

Lucknow | 15th Sep 2015 | 1.30 – 6.00 pm

Venue – La Place Sarovar Portico, 6, Shahnajaf Road, Hazratganj, Lucknow

Hyderabad – 16th Sep 2015 | 1.30 – 6.00 pm

Venue – Hyderabad Marriott Hotel & Convention Centre, Tank Bund Road, Opposite Hussain Sagar Lake, Hyderabad, Telangana

Bhopal – 18th Sep 2015 | 9.30 – 2.00 pm

Venue – Noor Us Sabah Palace, V.I.P. Road, Koh-E-Fiza, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh

Guwahati – 22nd Sep 2015 | 1.30 – 6.00 pm

Venue – Hotel Royale de’ Casa, Dr Bhabendra Nath Saikia Path, Beltola, Guwahati, Assam

To register for the workshops, please visit READ Alliance.

Learn about the READ Alliance’s Call for Proposals for Early Grade Reading Innovation Challenge 2015.

Submit Papers for the first PUPOL International Conference- Leadership Challenges in a Global World 7-8 April 2016, Netherlands

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Deadline: 1 December 2015

Papers are invited for first PUPOL International Conference!

The aim of the PUPOL (Public and Political Leadership) international academic network is to contribute to solutions and help societies and their leaders address such challenges through scholarship specifically focusing on the role of leaders and leadership in the public and political domain. One way to achieve this aim is through organizing international conferences – the first of which will be held on 7-8 April 2016 in the Netherlands.

The event will offer participants the opportunity to discuss their research. Paper proposals can be theoretically and/or empirically based, employ any of the existing methodologies (or introduce even new ones), as long as they highlight a specific (public or political) leadership topic linked to the conference theme. Paper proposals conveying research findings of interest to the real world are particularly encouraged.

Key Dates

  • Submission deadline paper proposals and abstracts: 1 December 2015
  • Submission deadline full papers and registration: 1 February 2015

Topics/Themes

  1. The role of leadership in solving wicked problems, on a national or international level. Especially comparative studies are encouraged;
  2. Processes and outcomes of leadership at societal, organizational, team and/or individual levels on key organizational outcomes such as public value(s) creation and public service delivery, creativity and innovation, PSM and/or public service ethos, ethical climate and organizational commitment etc.;
  3. Studies using one or more established leadership approaches (e.g., servant leadership, transformational leadership, ethical leadership, LMX);
  4. Development of public and/or political leadership measures;
  5. Negative forms of leadership (destructive leadership, abusive supervision, toxic leadership);
  6. Leadership and culture, especially intercultural comparison of leadership approaches and outcomes;
  7. Original methodological perspectives or the comparison of different methodological perspectives to study leadership, such as studies of biographies of leaders, historical studies, observations, Q-studies etc.

Submission Guidelines

  • Applicants must submit an online application form available on the website.
  • The paper proposal should include applicant’s contact details, title of the paper, keywords and theme to which the paper is linked and an abstract.
  • The abstract itself (excluding references) should be max. 1 A4 to facilitate the selection process.
  • Based on the full papers, the organizers will invite authors of six papers for a special issue on the conference theme Leadership Challenges in a Global World.

For more information, please visit Call for Papers 2016.

World Bank Group Youth Summit 2015 from November 16-17, 2015 in Washington, DC

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Deadline: 3 October 2015

The World Bank Youth Summit 2015 will be held from November 16-17, 2015 in Washington, DC, USA on the theme of ‘Crowd-Sourcing Solutions for Climate Change.’ The Summit invites young people from around the world to use their knowledge and creativity to crowdsource solutions for climate change that contribute to growth and development in developing and emerging countries.

This is an opportunity for young professionals to present their creative solutions, and spark a global dialogue on innovative ways to address the reality of climate change impacts.

The aim of the Youth Summit is to provide a platform for young people to act as change makers and help solve one of the world’s most complex challenges. The Youth Summit 2015 will feature a live competition in which selected young professionals will present their final competition proposals in front of a jury.

The competition will crowd-source: “Innovative ideas on how to mainstream climate change and achieve development needs in a specific World Bank Group client country.”

Participants must submit proposals that provide business or policy level ideas or a combination of both on how to tackle climate change impacts and achieve development needs in a specific country.

The competition is open to individuals and teams of up to 5 people. Participates must be between the ages of 18 to 35 at the time of submission.

For more information, visit World Bank Group Youth Summit 2015.

Historical Justice and Memory Network 2015 Conference: Register for Free!

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Deadline: 15 September 2015

Submit papers for Historical Justice and Memory Network 2015 Conference!

The 2015 conference aims to explore issues relating to memory, victimhood and violence. Possible themes include the changing nature and identity of victims and the theme of contested victimization, with a particular interest in topics that explore the anniversaries of historical violence and the way such events are remembered. Papers are invited that reflect on how these events are being remembered, on the evolution and politics of these memories.

Each December, the Historical Justice and Memory Network holds a multi-day conference that brings affiliates – scholars and practitioners who work in the field of historical dialogue – together. These individuals have the opportunity to present their projects, scholarly papers, and case studies. The conference provides a space for networking, opportunities to share knowledge and experiences, and establishes AHDA’s identity as a forum for historical dialogue. As an annual event, the conference is also used to explore different topics and challenges within the field, and to reach out to a wide cross-section of practitioners and scholars working in the field.

2015 Conference Topic, Date & Venue

The Politics of Memory: Victimization, Violence and Contested Narratives of the Past Columbia University, New York December 3-5, 2015.

How to Register

  • Applicants can register online through the website. Registration is free.
  • For paper submission, please e-mail a 300-500 word abstract and a 2-3 sentence bio as well as contact information via email. The abstract and bio should be sent as a single e-mail attachment.
  • Applications for panels or roundtables are also welcome. In order to accommodate participants who need to apply for travel grants, abstracts will be accepted on a rolling basis beginning in mid-July.

For more information, please visit Conferences 2015.

2016 AMENDS Conference – April 6-10, 2016

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Deadline: 15 September 2015

AMENDS is a student initiative at Stanford University that brings together the most promising youth change agents from across the Middle East, North Africa, and United States to learn from each other, connect with global leaders and resources, and share, through TED style talks, their ideas and experiences with the world.

AMENDS has three main components: networking, summit, and the AMENDS Talks. During the summit, delegates will share their ideas, collaborate on their initiatives, and interact with world leaders in workshops, panel discussions, and formal networking events. The conference will culminate in the AMENDS Talks, presentations from all of the delegates on their initiatives, ideas, and experiences. These presentations will be shared online for the world to see.

Applicants must:

  • be 18 – 28 years old.
  • have innovative ideas and well thought-out initiatives that could affect positive change in the world.
  • have initiatives addressing political, social, or economic issues pertaining to the Middle East in innovative ways.
  • demonstrate the potential to further understanding between the respective regions and demonstrate potential to influence
  • American-Middle Eastern affairs.

Delegates will be selected based on the level of their dedication to promoting change in the MENA region and/or in U.S.- MENA relations. AMENDS will also heavily consider the past experiences and backgrounds of each delegate that will enable him/her to contribute a unique perspective to the conference, in order to ensure a rich, diverse group of delegates.

For more information, visit AMENDS conference.

Proposals invited for Clinical Workshops for International Audience during EAOO Conference in Berlin

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Deadline: 14 September 2015

Abstracts for clinical workshops are now invited for the European Academy of Optometry and Optics’ (EAOO) next annual conference, Berlin 2016.

The conference, taking place from May 19–22 in Germany, will bring together professionals from over 30 countries to discuss and share the latest research, education and clinical practice in optometry, optics and dispensing, as well as vision science.

Abstracts can be submitted by anyone wanting to share their clinical skills with an international audience. They will form the basis for practical clinical workshops at beginner, medium or an advanced level.  All presenters will receive a certificate of presentation and all delegates will receive a certificate of attendance

Workshop topics covered at last year’s conference included visual processing dysfunctions, binocular vision, advanced slit lamp techniques and vision therapy techniques.

Eligibility Criteria

  • Abstracts can be submitted by anyone wanting to share their clinical skills with an international audience.
  • Abstracts can be on any topic, but we would be particularly interested in workshops which cover binocular vision in some form.
  • The clinical workshop should:
    • be very practical, with only very little introductory information
    • involve equipment and where possible patients
    • last 2-3 hours
    • should make clear how the content can be used by delegates as soon as they return to practice.

How to Apply

All abstracts must be submitted using the online submission form. Please complete all the information as requested. Attach the following documents-

  • your abstract
  • concise biography for the first author (400 words maximum)
  • concise biography of co-presenters, if any, and facilitators (400 words maximum each)
  • JPEG files of any images used in the abstract

For more information, please visit Workshops.

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