The following events and conferences are not posted in any particular order. Scroll for a full listing of opportunities.
Delhi Urban Workshop - The first session of the exciting Delhi Urban Workshop, running from January 3 to 21, 2011, will bring together urban professionals, educators and scholars to explore the challenges facing India’s dynamic capital city. Among the major themes will be planning and development, transportation and infrastructure, environmental conditions and social and economic change. Led by practitioners and university faculty, the Workshop will consist of lectures and discussions, visits to historic and contemporary sites, small group projects and weekend trips to Chandigarh, Agra and Jaipur. The second session will be held in October 2011. For information visit www.delhiurbanworkshops.org. For information on similar workshops in other cities visit www.urbanworkshops.org.
41st Annual Urban Affairs Association Conference - Reclaiming the City: Building a Just and Sustainable Future. Call for Participation: www.udel.edu/uaa/annual_meeting/call_for_participation.html. We invite you to submit a proposal for participation in this exciting event. UAA conferences are noted as a welcoming context for perspectives from multiple disciplines. Come and explore the usual broad array of topics as well as issues raised by the conference theme. Proposal deadline October 1, 2010.
2010 National Forum of Digital Technology Education for Schools of Architecture, Tongji University - Call for Submissions of Academic and Professional Works. In the duration of 2010 National Forum of Digital Technology Education for Schools of Architecture(seeing Notification of 2010 National Forum of Digital Technology Education for Schools of Architecture and Second Call for Essay Submissions for details), a simultaneous exhibition, Omnipresent Calculations—From Architectural Creation to Construction, will be on display featuring works of students and architects. The exhibition will extend to the Annual Meeting of the National Council of Higher Education in Architecture (600 persons), which will be held one week later. This exhibition will invite architecture schools and offices from home and abroad to show digital design related works.
CALL FOR PAPERS: 2011 Community Affairs Research Conference - The Changing Landscape of Community Development: Linking Research with Policy and Practice in Low-Income Communities. The Community Affairs Officers of the Federal Reserve System invite paper submissions for the seventh annual Federal Reserve Community Affairs Research Conference, to be held April 28-29, 2011, in Arlington, Virginia. The goal of the conference is to highlight new research that can directly inform community development policy and practice in the wake of the deepest recession since the pre-War period. We invite researchers from a wide variety of disciplines to submit papers that present new and innovative research under the following five broad topic areas: Understanding Community Change, The Future of Consumer Credit, Bridging the Divide between People and Place, Measuring the Impact of Community Development, and Community Development Finance. Papers outside of these specific topics that fit within the underlying theme also are welcomed, including research papers on small business, microenterprise, social enterprise and self-employment, economic development, economics and identity, green building and the green economy, and neighborhood stabilization. The deadline to submit a paper or extended abstract is September 15, 2010. If you have further questions, please contact Carolina Reid, Research Manager, Community Development, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, carolina.reid@sf.frb.org.
CALL FOR PAPERS: Suburbs and the 2010 Census - National Conference Co-Sponsored by George Mason University and Hofstra University in Arlington, Virginia Thursday, July 14 - Saturday, July 16, 2011.
Canadian Institute of Planners, "Climate Change and Communities: A Call to Action" is scheduled for October 2-5, 2010 in Montreal, Quebec.
Call for the 14thInternational Planning History Society Conference, Istanbul
ARES 2011 Meeting, April 13-16, Seattle Waterfront Marriott - We welcome your papers for presentation, proposals for themes for panels and special paper sessions. Sign up for the meeting at www.ARESnet.org or contact Grant Thrall, 2011 Program Chair, at ares@businessgeography.com.