ISIS - MANILA INTERNATIONAL MULTIDISCIPLINARY ACADEMIC CONFERENCE: Promoting Global Progress and Excellence in Academia

2014 ISIS/IAABR-MANILA International Multidisciplinary Academic Conferences Theme: Promoting Global Progress and Excellence in Academia Organized by Institute of Strategic and International Studies-ISIS And International Academy for Advancement of Business Research-IAABR Hosted by University of the East, Manila, The Philippines Dates: NOVEMBER 5th-7th, 2014 Place: MANILA, THE PHILIPPINES CENTURY PARK HOTEL (5-star) Address: 599 P. Ocampo Street, Malate - MANILA, THE PHILIPPINES The Conference Hotel is a 5-minute drive from the Cultural Center of the Philippines and the Philippine International Convention Centre. Wi-Fi is free in public areas. Century Park Hotel is a short 5-minute walk from Vito Cruz LRT Station. Ninoy Aquino International Airport is only 4 miles away. Deeply discounted rooms are still available at the Century Park Hotel for the ISIS/IAABR-Manila Conference Participants! TWO CONFERENCES, ONE LOCATION! You are invited to join the International Conference of INSTITUTE OF STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES-ISIS and the International Conference of the INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY FOR ADVANCEMENT OF BUSINESS RESEARCH-IAABR in MANILA. The conferences are on the same days, at the same venue, and ONE REGISTRATION FEE will allow you to ATTEND BOTH CONFERENCES and to have YOUR PAPER PUBLISHED in one of the double-blind peer-reviewed journals sponsoring the conferences! The ISIS/IAABR ORLANDO Conferences offers the expected participants from around the World the popular ISIS 2 FOR 1 ADVANTAGE: 2 OPPORTUNITIES (an OPPORTUNITY to PUBLISH your accepted paper in one of ISIS peer-refereed publications plus an OPPORTUNITY to PRESENT the results of your work at an INTERNATIONAL FORUM) for 1 LOW FEE!!! The Editors and Editorial Board Members of the ISIS/IAABR journals are truly distinguished faculty, who earned their Doctoral degrees from leading academic institutions, such as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and who are holders of numerous international awards, among which is the recognition as "The Most Outstanding World Researcher". All members of the ISIS/IABR Academic Boards represent recognized universities from all continents. MANILA is the capital of the Philippines. Listed as a Global City by the Globalization and World Cities Study Group and Network, it has its strengths in the arts, commerce, education, entertainment, finance, healthcare, media, professional services, research and development, tourism and transport making it the historical, cultural, political, economic and educational center of the Philippines. Dubbed "The Pearl of the Orient", Manila attracts over 1 million tourists each year. Major destinations include the walled city of Intramuros, museums such as the National Museum of the Philippines, and other tourist attractions including Ermita, Santa Cruz, Chinatown, and events such as the Feast of Black Nazarene, free performances in Rizal Park and events within the Cultural Center of the Philippines, located close to the Conference Hotel. Journals Sponsoring 2014 ISIS/IAARB International Multidisciplinary Academic Conferences in MANILA: - Journal of Strategic and International Studies - Review of Strategic and International Studies - Journal of Academy for Advancement of Business Research - Review of Business and Economic Studies - Review of Social Studies, Law, and Psychology Papers related to all areas of Accounting, Banking, Business Ethics, Communication and Media, e-Business, e-Government, e-Learning, Ecology, Economics, Engineering, Environment and Life Sciences, Entrepreneurship, Finance, Gender Studies, Globalization, Human Resources, IT, Law and Legal Studies, Leadership, Logistics, Management, Marketing, Political Science, Psychology, Security Studies, Social Sciences, Social Work, Sustainable Development, and Women Studies are invited for the above international conferences, which is expected to be attended by authors from nearly all parts of the World. People without papers can also participate in these conferences, and they are invited to serve as session chairs or discussants, as well as informal contributors to the academic quality of this international event. To submit your full paper or abstract for these conference, please email it as an attachment (acceptable formats are .doc and .docx;) to Conference@ISISWorld.org (Please put the words "MANILA CONFERENCE" in the Subject line of your message). All conference submissions will be double blind peer-refereed by members of the Conference Review Committee. Authors will be notified of the review outcome within 3-4 weeks after the arrival of their submissions. FULL PAPERS submitted by OCTOBER 5TH, 2014 will be considered for publication in one of the double-blind, peer-refereed Journals Sponsoring 2014 ISIS/IAABR-Manila International Multidisciplinary Academic Conferences or the refereed Conference Proceedings with ISBN number. The authors of these articles will receive their publications in person while still attending the ISIS/IAABR conferences in Manila (one copy per a registered participant will be provided free of charge), as long as they satisfy all Editorial requirements or provide a clear explanation stating why (some of) these requirements can't be done. Authors of ABSTRACTS submitted by OCTOBER 15TH, and which would meet the selection criteria of the Conference Review Committee, will be given the chance to present their work in progress at the ISIS/IAABR Conferences in Manila. These abstracts will be published in a separate section of the refereed Conference Proceedings. If the authors decide to complete their work in progress after the conferences in Manila, they could also submit their COMPLETED PAPERS by February 15th, 2015, in order to be considered for publication in a later issue of one of the double-blind, peer-refereed ISIS Journals (again subject to meeting all Editorial Requirements). Authors, who could NOT travel to Manila for visa or other reasons, may PARTICIPATE VIRTUALLY in the ISIS/IAABR conferences, and these authors will have the same publication opportunities, as the regular conference presenters. Regular Registration Deadline: OCTOBER 15TH, 2014. The regular registration fee is 295 EUR (the reduced registration fee for virtual participants via Skype is 275 EUR), and the regular registration fee includes: 1) the popular ISIS 2 FOR 1 ADVANTAGE: 2 OPPORTUNITIES (an OPPORTUNITY to PUBLISH your accepted paper in one of ISIS peer-refereed publications plus an OPPORTUNITY to PRESENT the results of your work at an INTERNATIONAL FORUM) for 1 LOW FEE; 2) one printed issue of the journal or Proceedings CD containing your paper; 3) an Official Certificate for International Conference participation; 4) the Conference Luncheon and Keynote Address; 5) Attending all Conference sessions 6) Attending all Social and Networking events; 7) Attending the Welcome Reception and Coffee Breaks; 8) Listing of your presentation in the program; 9) an Opportunity to meet, exchange ideas, and network with your international colleagues in a friendly environment and 10) Explore Manila, "The Pearl of the Orient"! For any inquiries, please contact the Conference Organizing Committee via admin@ISISWorld.org or visit our Website www.ISISWorld.org. Conference Chair: Prof. Dr. Ester Albano Garcia, President, University of the East, Manila, The Philippines ISIS Global Office: Miami Beach, Florida 33139, USA

International Workshop on CGE and SAM_Brochure attached

Capacity Building and Training Workshop on Village Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) and Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) Modelling: Application in Agricultural Research and Development Studies

November 3 – 10, 2014

Venue:  D.T. Lakdawala Hall

Gujarat Institute of Development Research

Ahmedabad

Organized by:

Rationale: 

Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) and Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) models are very widely used for ex-ante and ex-post assessment of direct and indirect impacts of policy interventions, including its distributional implications, and impacts across social institutions. They help capture a wider set of economic impacts of the implementation of a specific policy reforms. The village SAM and CGE are used to understand the full range of impacts of policies and programmes. However, despite the importance of these models, there is an inadequate expertise in this area in developing countries. These tools are usually not included in the present syllabus of MS and Ph.D. programmes of most of the agricultural universities in India, and in other developing countries. Thus, many of the empirical analytical issues that demand the application of SAM and CGE remain unanswered.  

2. Who should attend the course? 

Young scholars with PhD and/or equivalent degree in applied economics, development economics, and agricultural economics are eligible to apply. Junior and young-career faculty and researchers from India and other South Asian countries like Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Nepal, Bangladesh and Pakistan are especially encouraged to apply for this course. 

3. Training Fee

Foreign participants: US$ 125; Indian participants: INR 7500. 

GIDR will reimburse a maximum of US$ 400 (including round-trip travel, Visa cost, Health insurance and Local travel) to selected foreign students coming from South Asian Countries. The Indian students will be reimbursed IIIrd AC train ticket for the shortest route. GIDR will arrange for hotel accommodaton and food expenses of the selected participants during the training programme. 

4. How to Apply? 

Interested researchers may send a concept note and CV to Ms. Sheela (email id sheela@gidr.ac.in) and mark a copy to Mr. Chandra Sekhar Bahinipati (email id: chandrasekharbahinipati@gmail.com). 

Important Dates and Information: 

• Date of training Workshop: November 3-10, 2014.

• Last date for receiving application at GIDR: September 30, 2014.

• Communication to selected candidates: October 3, 2014.

• Venue: Lakdawala Hall, Gujarat Institute of Development Research,  Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India.

FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS: 3rd Global Business and Finance Research Conference

FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS 3rd Global Business and Finance Research Conference Dates: 9 â€" 10 October 2014 Venue: Howard Civil Service International House, Taipei, Taiwan Conference Website: www.taiwanconfo.com Email: admin@taiwanconfo.com Submission Deadline: 1 September 2014 Registration Deadline: 22 September 2014 Theoretical and empirical papers or case studies relating to all broad areas of Accounting, Banking, Finance, Economics, Management, Marketing, Business Statistics, Business Law and Business Education are invited for the above international conference. This conference is sponsored by eight international peer reviewed journals which are all Cabell's indexed and 5 of which are ERA listed and ranked and awaiting ISI indexation, such as Journal of Business & Policy Research, Global Economy and Finance Journal. International Review of Business Research Papers, World Journal of Management, Global Review of Accounting and Finance, World Review of Business Research, World Journal of Social Sciences and Journal of Accounting, Finance and Economics and four international organisations such as World Business Institute, Australia, WBI London limited, UK, American Research and Publications International, USA and National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan. A. Paper Submission and Review Process Please submit full papers and/or abstracts by 1 September 2014 (please note you can submit papers any time before this deadline). To submit paper, please click on "Submit Paper" Link in the website and fill in the form, attach your paper and click submit. Authors will be informed about the review outcome within ten working days. Authors of all accepted abstract must send full papers by 22 September 2014, if you want them to be considered for our peer reviewed journals. B. Best Paper Award and Journal Publication All accepted outstanding papers will be published in the above international refereed journals subject to compliance to the review report, editorial comments and payment of applicable submission fees. Best paper award will be announced at the conference dinner on the last day of the conference and the best papers will be published in any of the above journals and a certificate will be issued to the author. C. Refereed Conference Proceedings and Paper Evaluation Report All accepted abstract and full papers that register for the conference will be published in the refereed conference proceedings with ISBN and will be published electronically via a separate website www.wbiworldconpro.com which also contains proceedings of previous conferences. All authors who present a paper at the conference will receive written feedback in the form of a Paper Evaluation Report within one-two months after the conference. D. Conference Fees and Publication of Paper in Journal Basic registration fee: USD 225 Student registration fee: USD 200 Please visit the Conference fees link provided on the website to find out more about the conference registration fees and discount packages and early bird registration discounts. Please visit the journal link provided to learn more about WBI journals and the cost of publication. We aim to publish accepted papers in journals within 6 â€" 9 months after the conference, subject to payment of applicable fees and compliance to editorial reports. E. FREE Conference Dinner at Taipei 101 The end of the conference will be celebrated by a formal sit down 3 course dinner at Taipei 101 on the evening of 10 October, 2014, from where you can take in breathtaking views of Taipei. Best papers will be announced at the dinner. Dinner is free of cost to the registered participants. Please indicate your preference to attend the dinner on the registration form. F. Further Information For full information about this international conference, Please visit the links provided on the website: www.taiwanconfo.com Conference Chair Professor Ming Chang Cheng, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan

2nd Global Conference: Letters and Letter Writing

2nd Global Conference: Letters and Letter Writing Sunday 22nd March – Tuesday 24th March 2015 Lisbon, Portugal Call for Presentations: In the eighteenth century, the letter, which had been the foremost medium of long-distance communication since antiquity, came to be considered as a particularly intimate, natural, and authentic form of expression and communication, capable of providing unadulterated insights into the writer's mind. Epistolary novels dominated the literary market, and the letters of celebrated public figures became equally popular reading material. 'In a man's letters, you know, Madam, his soul lies naked, his letters are only the mirror of his breast, whatever passes within him is shown undisguised in its natural process', Samuel Johnson wrote in a letter to Hester Thrale in 1777. Today, this idealisation of the letter's natural spontaneity and authenticity seems naïve at best. Letters can be manipulated as well as manipulative; they can be intercepted, censored, or fatally misread; a letter-writer might engage in histrionic self-dramatisation or active deception; genuine epistolary expression might be compromised by linguistic, social, cultural, sexual, and moral conventions alike. Letters can be almost completely impersonal, as in the case of spam mail, business communications, bills, circulars, or newsletters. And, of course, even when a correspondent believes himself or herself to be completely genuine at the moment of writing a letter, the recipient might still read a profoundly unreliable document, since the fixed materiality of the letter clashes with the mutability of the human mind and heart. Letters are central to research in many disciplines yet have rarely been addressed in a genuinely multi-disciplinary way. The first interdisciplinary conference on letters and letter writing opened up a number of interesting avenues of inquiry. From Roman epistles to neo-epistolarity; from high Victorian fiction to literary modernism; from concentration camps to asylums; the letter has a bewildering variety of functions, forms and meanings. We would like to continue this dialogue by opening up a call for presentations around issues arising out of this discussion. Proposals of 300 words are invited for this inter-disciplinary conference on the following themes for any historical period or geographical location: -What is a letter? -Social class or status and letter writing -The materiality of letters and letter-writing: letters on ostraca (potsherds), tablets, papyri, vellum; handwritten letters versus typewritten letters; the significance of stamps, ink, envelopes, writing-desks and other paraphernalia of epistolary communication -Love letters / hate mail -Dear John… -Letters to oneself -Open letters -Famous letter writers, for example Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, the Brontës, Elizabeth Gaskell, Thackeray, Hardy, Eliot, Trollope, Wilkie Collins -The epistolary novel -Letters in literature -Letters in other art forms (e.g. letters in songs, envelope art) -Methods and networks of delivery/postal services? -Letters versus conversations -Letters and posterity -Communication across space and time -The role of letters in doing business -Letters in the internet age and digital letters -Letters and authorship -Editorial decisions in collecting letters -Letters as historical data -Methods of epistolary research What to Send: 300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 31st October 2014. All submissions are minimally double blind peer reviewed where appropriate. If an abstract is accepted for the conference, a full draft paper should be submitted by Friday 23rd January 2015. Abstracts should be submitted simultaneously to the Organising Chairs; abstracts may be in Word or RTF formats with the following information and in this order: a) author(s), b) affiliation, c) email address, d) title of abstract, e) body of abstract, f) up to 10 key words. Emails should be entitled: Letters2 Abstract Submission Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using footnotes and any special formatting, characters or emphasis (such as bold, italics or underline). We acknowledge receipt and answer to all paper proposals submitted. If you do not receive a reply from us in a week you should assume we did not receive your proposal; it might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest, then, to look for an alternative electronic route or resend. Organising Chairs: Linda McGuire: linda.mcguire@escdijon.eu Rob Fisher : letters2@inter-disciplinary.net The conference is part of the At the Interface programme of research projects. It aims to bring together people from different areas and interests to share ideas and explore various discussions which are innovative and exciting. All papers accepted for and presented at the conference must be in English and will be eligible for publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected papers may be developed for publication in a themed hard copy volume(s). All publications from the conference will require editors, to be chosen from interested delegates from the conference. Inter-Disciplinary.Net believes it is a mark of personal courtesy and professional respect to your colleagues that all delegates should attend for the full duration of the meeting. If you are unable to make this commitment, please do not submit an abstract for presentation. For further details of the conference, please visit: http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/education/letters-and-letter-writing/call-for-presentations/ Please note: Inter-Disciplinary.Net is a not-for-profit network and we are not in a position to be able to assist with conference travel or subsistence.

6th Annual QM Conference on Quality Assurance in Online Learning: Charting the Course

Join Us! Attend the QM Conference on Quality Assurance in Online Learning September 29-October 1, 2014. Learn, collaborate, and connect with people and organizations that have succeeded in creating high-quality online courses and programs. What: 6th Annual QM Conference on Quality Assurance in Online Learning: Charting the Course Where: Baltimore, Maryland, When: Monday, September 29-Wednesday, October 1, 2014 The QM Conference focuses on quality assurance in online learning for Higher Education, K-12, and Continuing and professional education. There will be 1 day of workshops and 2 days of sessions in 6 tracks. In addition to breakout sessions, there will be plenary sessions. The event brings together faculty and teachers, instructional designers, program administrators, publishers, researchers, and other distance education and institutional leaders who participate in our international community on quality education. This meeting, "Charting the Course," is our most collaborative and inclusive event to date. You'll hear a thought-provoking keynote discussion and network with peers, decision-makers and QM staff. During concurrent sessions, you will have an opportunity to collaborate to address tough topics in education while exploring effective ways for improving course quality. We encourage you to question, create, learn and engage in open and authentic ways. Regular Registration (July 24 - September 17) 585 USD for subscribers 695 USD non-subscribers After September 18 (September 18 - September 30) 675 USD for subscribers 775 USD for non-subscribers Enquiries: events@qualitymatters.org Web address: https://www.qualitymatters.org/events/6th-annual-conference-2014-0 Sponsored by: Quality Matters

The 2015 International Symposium on Economics and Social Science (ISESS 2015)

Dear Colleague, The 2015 International Symposium on Economics and Social Science (ISESS 2015) is to be held in Bangkok, Thailand on January 21-23, 2015. ISESS 2015 aims to provide a platform which focuses on certain important topics of economics and social science. Detailed information about the symposium can be found on the official website. We sincerely invite your participation for this event. Submitted papers will be subject to a double-blind review process. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISSN reference, on CD-ROM support. Conference Website: http://soci-science.org/isess2015/ Online Submission: http://soci-science.org/isess2015/PaperSubmission.html Enquiries: isess.conference@gmail.com Submission Deadline: September 30, 2014 Sincerely yours, Chen-Ling Fang, National Taipei University (Taiwan) Conference Chair, ISESS 2015

All India Student Conference - Govt.Law College, Thrissur

Dear All

With this letter I would like to inform you that the Centre for Economy Development & Law, Govt. Law College, Thrissur, is calling papers for a student conference on "Restructuring Indian State, Society and Economy: An Inquiry into today and tomorrow " held on 8th and 9th  of November, 2014. The conference will gather eminent scholars and students engaged in varied facets on public policy, economic & foreign policies.

In the attachments you can find the concept note of the program, important dates and other necessary information. For any further details please feel free to contact.

Ph: 09633876835
Mail me: srinathnamboodiri@gmail.com / cedlconference@gmail.com

Regards
Sreenath Namboodiri
Fellow, Centre for Economy Development & Law;

Convenor
1st All India Student Conference,
Centre for Economy Development & Law
Govt. Law College, Thrissur