Future Events
April 2010
Regional Studies Association 'Day of Sessions' - Regional Resilience
Plenary speaker: Professor Ed Glaeser
Date: 15th April 2010
Venue: AAG Annual Conference, Washington D.C., USA
To attend please register for the AAG Annual Conference. Day rates available. Discounts apply if booking before 17th March.
Regional Studies Journal Annual Lecture - Regional Resilience
Guest Lecturer: Professor Paul Krugman (Nobel Prize Winner)
Date: 16th April 2010
Venue: AAG Annual Conference, Washington D.C., USA
To attend please register for the AAG Annual Conference. Day rates available. Discounts apply if booking before 17th March.
International Section Event, Scotland: Gazelles and Regional Development: Growth Trajectories, Determinants and Spatial Implications
Date: 20th-21st April 2010
Venue: Scotland
Registration Form
May 2010
Regional Studies Association Annual International Conference 2010
Regional Responses and Global Shifts: Actors, Institutions and Organisations
Date: Monday 24th - Wednesday 26th May
Venue: Pécs, Southern Hungary
Register here
Call for Papers now closed
Useful information
Pécs map: Colour / Black & White
International Conference Bursary Scheme
Hotel accommodation
Transfers
Book your hotel and transfers
Useful information on Pecs
Photographs
Capital of Culture opening ceremony
Short films about Pécs, Cultural capital of Europe 2010
Draft Programme
Regional Responses and Global Shifts: Actors, Institutions and Organisations
Pécs, Hungary
Monday 24th - Wednesday 26th May 2010 (walking tour Sunday 23rd May)
Evening excursion to Villany (wine cellars) Tuesday 25th May
Key note speakers include:
Dirk Ahner, Director-General, EU Regional Policy, European Commission
Gerhard Stahl, Secretary General, Committee of the Regions
And more...
A. Innovative strategies and practices of firms in regional development
B. Labour markets and labour organisations and their continued relevance for regional
development
C. Non-Governmental Organisations (NGO) and Civil Society Organisations (CSO): facilitators of regional development?
D. Regional policies: government and quasi-government initiatives
E. Reassessing EU Regional Policy
F. People in regions: leadership, collective action and regional development
G. Financing regions: global financial crisis and beyond?
H. Cooperation across borders
I. Global environmental change and the future of regional development
J. Theory and research in regional studies
K. Spatial planning in cities and regions
L. Experience economy and experience society. Culture, leisure and experiences in spatial
strategies
M. Creative regions in a creative economy
N. Regional Policy and Development in Southern, Central and Eastern Europe
June 2010
RSA Research Network on Ecological Regional Development
Date: 11-12 June 2010
Venue: The Institute of Ecological and Regional Development, Dresden, Germany
Call for Papers
NORSA 2010
The Search: Future dynamics of regional development
www.ucs.fi/NORSA/
University consortium of Seinäjoki, University of Helsinki and University of Tampere would like to invite you to submit an abstract for a presentation at the third conference of NORSA, the Nordic section of the Regional Studies Association.
Further information on the conference programme and excursions, venue, abstract submission, registration fees etc. is available on the conference website www.ucs.fi/NORSA/ or by e-mail norsa2010@uta.fi.
Winter Conference 2010
Regions and the Environment
Friday 26th November 2010, London
Workshop themes:
- Water Security
- Food
- Renewable Energy
- Climate Change
- EU Programmes
- Regional Food Markets
- And more...
More information available soon www.regional-studies-assoc.ac.uk
2011
RSA Annual International Conference
Date: Sunday 17th - Wednesday 20th April 2011
Venue: Newcastle University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK
Further information to follow.
