The Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER), a world association of academics and researchers, organizes its 6th Annual International Conference on Urban Studies & Planning, 6-9 June 2016, Athens, Greece. Call for papers Please submit a 300-word abstract before 4 April 2016, by email (atiner@atiner.com), addressed to Dr. Nicholas N. Patricios, Director, Engineering & [...]
The “Joint 3D Athens Conference 2016” is to be held in Athens, Greece The conference includes: the “11th International 3D GeoInfo Conference” (20-21 October 2016) the “5th International FIG 3D Cadastre Workshop” (18-20 October 2016) a 3D Indoor Workshop (19 October 2016) More information can be found on the 3D Athens Conference website or on the [...]
February 17-19, 2017, Grainau, Germany 38th Annual Conference of the Association for Canadian Studies in German-speaking Countries Canada, over the last several decades, has become not only a highly urbanized country but, in fact, “an overwhelmingly suburban nation” (Bourne 1991: 25, emphasis added). There is little doubt that Canada’s urban experience in the early part [...]
IGU Commission C12.29. Marginalization, Globalization and Regional and Local Responses is hosting a conference in Slovenia (Ljubjana, Koper, Maribor) from 1st to 5th September, 2016. The hosting institution is University of Primorska together with two other Slovenian public universities. The conference will start at the University of Ljubljana with the organizational help of the Department of [...]
The International Year of Global Understanding is now completely underway! The Opening Ceremony was a great success and went very well. It was well attended and received, with participants traveling countries as far away and as diverse as from Australia, to Mali, India to the USA, and luckily enough all managed to arrive home safely. [...]
C12-39: URBAN CHALLENGES IN A COMPLEX WORLD 2016 IGU Urban Commission Meeting - Shanghai 15-21 August 2016 Co-organized by Urban Geography Commission IGU (IGU-C12-39), East China Normal University & Center of Urban Studies and Urban Planning, The University of Hong Kong, and Urban Geography Committee, Geographical Society of China (UGC-GSC) Conference venue: East China Normal [...]
Everyday Life in Global Context The increasingly noticeable global consequences of local action call attention to the fact, that changing the world is everyone’s business. Taking action on global issues locally involves an understanding of the manifold ways in which the local and the global are intertwined. This is the central idea of the 2016 [...]
Nominations and applications are invited for the position of Director of the School of Planning in the Faculty of Environment, at the University of Waterloo. Located in southern Ontario, Waterloo Region is globally recognized for the high quality of life it offers, blending rural traditions with a dynamic high-tech knowledge sector, fueling a socio-economic and [...]
Welcome to 2016, which has been declared the International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU). For more information visit: http://www.global-understanding.de This is an IGU initiative led by Professor Benno Werlen at the Friedrich-Schiller University of Jena. What are the key elements of IYGU? Linking the global and the local Everyday actions matter for global climate change. Everyday decisions [...]
Makerere University through the department of Geography, Geoinformatics & climatic Sciences is leading the organization of the above named conference that will take place between 24th and 28th October 2016 in Kampala Uganda. Theme; Our earth, our heritage: Harnessing Geo-spatial Technologies for sustainable development in Africa. Important dates: Submission of abstracts deadline - 31 May [...]
