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Announcements

RSA 15 month membership is now available for new members. Join now and enjoy your RSA membership benefits from 1st October 2011 to 31st December 2012. Register now
The new RSA Early Career Grant Scheme has just been launched. Applicants must be based within an eligible higher education institution (HEI) and must be a current, early career member of the Regional Studies Association and throughout the duration of the grant. Deadline for application is 16 December 2011.
More information and application pack.
The Regional Studies Association announces the appointment of Professor John Agnew to the post of editor-in-chief of the new journal Territory, Politics, Governance, which will be launched in 2013 and published by Taylor and Francis.
Press release

Conferences and Events

Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG)
Special Series of Sessions organized by the Regional Studies Association: Evolutionary Economic Geography, Agglomeration, and Geographies of Knowledge Production 24th - 28th February 2012, New York
Outline and Abstracts
Parlimentary Seminar: The case for High Speed Rail: a regional, social and economic perspective, 1st February 2012, London.
9th OPEN DAYS 2011 - European Week of Regions and Cities
Poster Competition
Date: 11th - 13th October 2011
Venue: Brussels
Highlights from the 2011 OPEN DAYS Poster Competition
The Regional Studies Association's Annual President's Event 2011
Date: 7th October 2011
Venue: Foreman's Fish Island, Stour Road, Fish Island, London, E3 2NT
London 2012, Olympic Site
Highlights from the 2011 President’s event
Regional Studies Association One Day Winter Conference
Contested Regions: Territorial Politics and Policy
25th November 2011, London, UK
More information.
Regional Studies Association One Day Conference
Localism: Sufficient and fit for purpose?
3rd November 2011, University of Manchester Conference Centre, Manchester, UK
Call for Papers
Map
Conference update
Final programme
Register
The 2011 OPEN DAYS, Investing in Europe's future: Regions and cities delivering smart, sustainable and inclusive growth
Poster Competition
11th-13th October 2011, Brussels
Structure of the Competition and Guidelines
Press release
More information
Open Days 2010
4th - 7th October Brussels, Belgium
The Directorate-General for Regional Policy, European Commission and the Regional Studies Association: OPEN DAYS 2010 Poster Competition for early career researchers in European regional policy at, European Week of Cities and Regions (4th-7th October). Prize: €750 for the overall winner and €250 for the first runner-up.

This year, the Regional Studies Association has been invited to organize four sessions within the Open Days programme.

The topics will be:

Place leadership
Migration
What is territorial cohesion?
Place-based vs sectoral-based policies

We are also delighted to announce an "early career research" competition (1,000 word submission on EU related themes) and we will be organizing a book launch.

Regional Studies Association 'Day of Sessions' - Regional Resilience with Professor Ed Glaeser, 15th April and Regional Studies Journal Annual Lecture - Regional Resilience with Professor Paul Krugman (Nobel Prize Winner), 16th April
Venue: AAG Annual Conference, Washington D.C., USA

Call for Papers

Regional Insights: call for papers
Editors are currently seeking submissions of paper proposals for short articles (max. 3,000 words). All Student and Early Career members of the Regional Studies Association are eligible to publish in Regional Insights. Contributions are welcomed from any discipline in the field of Regional Studies and with any geographical focus. Next deadline for paper proposals is 14th February 2012.
More information.
Enterprise and Entrepreneurship in Different Regional Environments
Call for Papers for a Special Issue of Regional Studies
edited by Michael Fritsch and David Storey
Spatial Economic Analysis: The journal of the Regional Studies Association and the Regional Science Association International (British and Irish Section)
Call for Papers

Press Releases

The new Regional Studies Association US Project Office
25th October 2011, 04:30 pm UK time, 08:30 am in Los Angeles. The Regional Studies Association celebrates the opening of the new US Project Office in collaboration with the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA).
Press release
Territory, Politics, Governance - New Journal for 2013
The Regional Studies Association seeks to appoint a team of Editors including an early career editor and members of the Editorial Advisory Board for a new start international journal titled Territory, Politics, Governance to be published by Routledge.
Call for Papers
More information
New Critical Survey Editor for Regional Studies Appointed
New £250k investment in research, collaboration and knowledge transfer
Responding to a rapidly changing state-of-play in higher education, the Regional Studies Association (RSA) announces a major funding initiative to support its members in research, collaboration and knowledge transfer activities over the next three years.
The Regional Studies Association is investing £250,000 in research, collaboration and knowledge transfer. More about this investment

Regional Studies Association announces the appointment of Professor Philip McCann, University of Groningen, a long standing and active member of the RSA, as a Special Adviser to Johannes Hahn, the European Commissioner for Regional Policy. Philip will work alongside the other newly-appointed Special Adviser, Fabrizio Barca, Director General of the Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance and author of the Independent Report "An Agenda for a Reformed Cohesion Policy".
Further information
Hear both Fabrizio Barca and Philip McCann at the EU Cohesion Policy plenary session jointly hosted by the RSA and the RSAI(B+I Section) at the ERSA Conference in Jónkóping, Sweden, 19th - 23rd August 2010.
The new Regional Studies Association US Project Office
25th October 2011, 04:30 pm UK time, 08:30 am in Los Angeles. The Regional Studies Association celebrates the opening of the new US Project Office in collaboration with the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA).
Press release

Publications

Regional Studies: A Virtual Special Issue on Asia
Get free access to a selection of leading research papers that cover the Asia region, plus a list of further recommended reading.
Access now (please note that this requires signing in to gain the free access).
RSA In House Publications: Order now!
The launch issue of Regional Insights is now available to read online!
Regional Insights is a magazine published by the Regional Studies Association which seeks to make research findings from early career researchers more accessible to a wider audience.
Regional Studies: The journal of the Regional Studies Association
Editor's Choice Articles and Special Issues

Research Networks

New RSA Research Network: Mega-Events, Regional Development and Regeneration

Videos and Presentations

RSA Annual Spatial Economic Analysis Lecture 2010
The Future of European Regional Policy by Fabrizio Barca
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Regional Resilience Conference: Day of Sessions and Regional Studies Annual Lecture
Please note the following two recent events and newly available materials:

1. Regional Resilience Conference - held as a day of sessions within the Washington DC, Association of American Geographers (AAG) conference on 15th April 2010. Professor Ed Glaeser, presented the key note presentation and Professor Ann Markusen spoke as discussant.
If you are a current member of the RSA, access the list of presenters and their slides via the Members' Lounge.
If you are not a current member of the RSA, access the list of presenters and their slides here.

2. Regional Studies Annual Lecture - held also at the Washington AAG meeting and attended by in excess of 1,600 people. Nobel Laureate, Professor Paul Krugman gave the Regional Studies Annual Lecture 2010 with Professor Michael Storper acting as discussant.
This session was filmed and following the edit this will be made available to members through the Members' Lounge.
If you are a current member of the RSA, access Professor Krugman's slides via the Members' Lounge.
If you are not a current member of the RSA, access Professor Krugman's slides here.

View videos of the Washington AAG meeting here