Congresses and Forums

    Wednesday 6th – Friday 8th July 2016RMIT University Europe Carrer de Minerva, 2, 08006 Barcelona, Spain The Centre for Education, Training and Work in the Asian Century (RMIT University, Australia) The Centre for Social Justice and Wellbeing in Education (Lancaster University, UK)     The 21st Century has so far been characterised by…

– – – International Conference on Outreach Work: Youth Gangs, Violence and Female Delinquency at the City University of Hong Kong, 3-5 December, 2015   Registration for the Conference is Opened Deadline of Abstract Submission: 31 August 2015   On behalf of Prof. Lo and Prof. Chui, the Co-chairs of the Conference, I would like…

Meeting the challenges facing youth in Asia and the Pacific Hobart (Tasmania) 30–31 July 2015   The first-ever Centre for Applied Youth Research (CAYR) Symposium—Insecurity/Innovation/Insight: Meeting the challenges facing youth in Asia and the Pacific—will bring together Australian and Asian-Pacific youth researchers and practitioners to share research, policy and practice expertise for the benefit of young people throughout the Asia…

Call for Abstracts International Conference on Outreach Work:Youth Gangs, Violence and Female Delinquency at the City University of Hong Kong, 3-5 December, 2015 Deadline of Abstract Submission: 31 May 2015   Empirical research results, theories, models, approaches or strategies in working with youth at risk, practice wisdom and experience in outreach work are welcome.  …

The Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship at the University of Bristol is pleased to announce a one-day symposium on: Ethnicity and educational inequality: The role of aspirations University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom 19th August 2015 (9:00 – 16:00)   The role of aspirations in understanding educational inequality has been the focus…

THE FUTURES WE WANT: Global Sociology and the Struggles for a Better World   Call for Abstracts 14 April 2015 – 30 September 2015 24:00 GMT Anyone interested in presenting a paper should submit an abstract on-line to a chosen session Abstracts must be submitted in English, French or Spanish.   RC34 “Sociology of Youth”…

THE FUTURES WE WANT: Global Sociology and the Struggles for a Better World   Call for Abstracts 14 April 2015 – 30 September 2015 24:00 GMT Anyone interested in presenting a paper should submit an abstract on-line to a chosen session Abstracts must be submitted in English, French or Spanish.   For more information, deadlines…

Social Neuroscience Perspectives on Child Development Leiden, The Netherlands September 16 – 17, 2015 Deadline is May 17, 2015. This SRCD Special Topic Meeting (Sept 16 – 17) is being conducted in close partnership with the 3rd Annual Flux Congress: Integrative Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience (Sept 17 – 19). Flux 3 is focused on neurocognitive development and includes sessions on critical…

ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF HIGHER EDUCATION (ASHE) 40th Annual conference “Inequality and Higher Education”, Nov. 5-7 2015, Denver, CO, USA COUNCIL FOR INTERNATIONAL HIGHER EDUCATION (CIHE) Pre-CONFERENCE FORUM Call for proposals 2015   The ASHE Council for International Higher Education (CIHE) will convene its 24th Annual Forum beginning Wednesday morning, November 4th, through noon…

Call for Papers & Symposia SLLS International Conference ‘Life Courses in Cross-National Comparison: Similarities and Differences’ Dublin, Ireland 18 – 21 October 2015 (dates include pre-conference workshop on 18th October)   Confirmed keynote speakers: Prof. Richard Layte –Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI), Ireland Prof. Rainer Silbereisen – Center for Applied Developmental Science (CADS), Germany…