Conference Opportunities

New Pathways for Diversity and Inclusion: Building Skills for Collaboration and Dialogue
NMCI and FWI offer the premier conference for in-depth professional development and dialogue on cutting-edge diversity and inclusion issues. The conference provides a unique opportunity to address diversity and inclusion in exciting and new ways.
Date: November 18-21, 2009
Location: Marriott Crystal City, Arlington, Virginia
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Forging New Pathways for Diversity and Inclusion
Reflecting one year after the election of our nation’s first biracial president, the United States continues to face challenges in creating a truly inclusive and equitable society. Although many organizations dedicated to diversity, inclusion, and civil and human rights share similar visions for inclusion and equity, often they find themselves isolated from, or even at odds with one another. In order to form a unified vision and mobilize our collective strength to create real change, advocates, practitioners and leaders must be equipped with the tools necessary for dialogue and coalition building.
Date: November 18-21, 2009
Location: Arlington, VA
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Out & Greek National LGBT & Ally
The second annual OUT & GREEK National Leadership Conference is the only conference of its kind for LGBT and ally fraternity and sorority leaders to share, network and learn strategies to create safer, more LGBT inclusive fraternity and sorority communities. The conference will be held November 19-22, 2009 on the campus of Kansas State University in Manhattan, KS. Never has there been a leadership conference to share, network and learn strategies to create safer, more LGBT inclusive fraternity and sorority communities. The conference is sponsored by the landmark Lambda 10 Project, an educational initiative of Campus Pride.
Date: November 19-22, 2009
Location: Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS
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The Publicpolicy & Leadership Conference
The Public Policy and Leadership Conference (PPLC) seeks to address the disproportionately low numbers of ethnic minorities enrolled in graduate programs in Public Policy and International Affairs.
Date: February 18-21, 2010
Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Performance Beyond Borders: Skills for Intercultural Training
Knowledge and awareness of intercultural issues are increasingly important when giving training to international groups, or when training people to work more effectively in the international field. In this workshop, you will review some of the key concepts in the intercultural field through a series of lively exercises and activities. You will then apply what you have learned to the design of courses for different types of intercultural training, such as working in multicultural teams, as well as considering how to enrich your current areas of training. The workshop also provides a good base for the workshop ‘Interactive Training Strategies’ by Thiagi (June 7 – June 9, 2010).
Date: April 14 - 16, 2010
Location: Hotel Wartmann, Winterthur, Switzerland
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Gender, Bodies and Technology
This upcoming conference, will showcase scholarship that explores the role of technologies, broadly defined, in constructing, reinforcing and destabilizing gendered bodies. As an assemblage of people and technologies, we view the conference itself as an enactment of this theme. Proposals for presentations, including performance art and new media as well as traditional text-based formats, are welcome from scholars in all disciplines. The topics that we anticipate exploring include, but are by no means limited to: new media and feminist aesthetics; gendered in/security and technologies of surveillance; technologies of development and eco-feminism; and the gendered production, design and deployment of technologies.
Date: April 22-24, 2010
Location: Hotel Roanoke, Roanoke, Virginia
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23rd Annual National Conference on Race & Ethnicity in American Higher Education
The NCORE conference series constitutes the leading and most comprehensive national forum on issues of race and ethnicity in American higher education. The conference focuses on the complex task of creating and sustaining comprehensive institutional change designed to improve racial and ethnic relations on campus and to expand opportunities for educational access and success by culturally diverse, traditionally underrepresented populations.
Date: June 1-June 5, 2010
Location: Washington, D.C.
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Performance Beyond Borders: Interactive Training Strategies Workshop
This workshop practices what it preaches. It helps you design and conduct 24 different types of effective training games, simulations, and activities. Based on 30 years of field research, these design formats enable you to create training faster, cheaper, and better. You will receive a hefty collection of training games during the workshop and have access to 2000+ web pages with additional games, activities, and facilitation tips. You will further experience a series of interactive exercises for mastering key strategies and applying them to your own situation in order to improve the performance of multinational teams.
Date: June 7 - June 9, 2010
Location: Hotel Wartmann, Winterthur, Switzerland
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Tenth International Conference on Diversity in Organisations, Communities and Nations
Date: 19-22 July 2010
Location: Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, Ireland
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"Emerging Paradigms in Critical Mixed Race Studies" Conference
It is our mission to advance Critical Mixed Race Studies [CMRS] as an academic discipline and a professional field committed to excellence in teaching, research and service to the community. CMRS addresses local and global systemic injustices rooted in systems of racialization.
Date: November 4-7, 2010
Location: Chicago, IL
Conference Details contact Wei Ming Dariotis dariotis@sfsu.edu, 925.864.1610