End of academic year conference at an Alpine hotel, with tours around Austria.
AUSTRIA (June 2009): Professor DeBruine's (in white cap) conference side session was running in earnest when the automatic sprinklers kicked in! (Photo: Girish Khoshy George)
Call For Abstracts
With the advent of globalization in the academic curriculum and accreditation criteria, there is a pressing need for educators to extend their pedagogical experience -- and their students' -- beyond the four walls of the classroom. While university budgets set aside money for conferences, many times they ignore the educators' need to experience geographical locations first hand for pedagogical reasons. IJAS seeks to close the budgetary gap by hitting two birds with one stone. The IJAS program (i) introduces registrants to geographical locations that are suitable for study abroad programs, and (ii) offers a conference podium for abstracts, papers and proposals in the following tracks:
Social Sciences and Humanities,
Business and Economics,
Teaching and Education, and
Technology and Science.
Complimentary Day Tours in Private Buses
Our attendees hail from all over the world and expect conferences to offer more than a certificate of attendance and a "parking" repository for research. A true researcher is a curious being, curious about what goes on within a conference hall and beyond the same premises. Cultural and educational developments know no boundaries. The distinguishing feature in all IJAS conferences is the availability of private buses that offer complimentary day tours. Click here to find out in more detail why such buses are an integral part of any IJAS conference.
RECOGNIZING THE BEST PAPERS at the Gottenheim, Germany conference (December 2008). Left to right: Volker Kieber (Mayor of Gottenheim), Joseph Bonnici (IJAS Conferences Coordinator), Cecilia White (University of Newcastle, Australia, and IJAS awards coordinator), Gu Yan (University of Melbourne), Tunde Adeleke (Iowa State University), Ratchanee Petchang (Rajabhat Uttaradit University, Thailand), Gerard T. McKee (University of Reading, UK), Sogand Noroozizadeh (K.N. Toosi University of Technology, Iran), and co-authors Tulay Korkmaz Devrani and Ipek Kalemci Tuzun (Baskent University, Turkey). Click on photo for German newspaper article about the conference.
The Journal
The International Journal of Arts & Sciences (IJAS) was founded in 2005 as a double-blind refereed journal available only in hard-copy. Starting in Fall 2009, it will also be available in CD-ROM format. Its editorial board welcomes submissions through calls for papers in a wide variety of disciplines. IJAS serves an international audience and actively promotes study abroad programs in its academic conferences. IJAS publishes the latest research coming out of universities around the world and its reviewers recognize the best papers through competitive awards.
ORLANDO CONFERENCE (Feb 2009): At the University of Central Florida, Dr. Zdzislaw Wasik (Adam Michiewicz University, Poland) proudly displays his award for the best interdisciplinary studies paper, flanked by (left to right) Dr. Dean L. Hubbard, President (Northwest Missouri State University, USA) who presented the awards; Dr. Aliana Leong Man Wai (Macau University of Science and Technology, China), winner of the social studies and humanities award; Dr. Shelly Vadhera (National Institute of Technology, India), winner of the engineering and technology award; and Dr. Henry Greene (Central Connecticut State University, USA) reading out the awards.
LAS VEGAS CONFERENCE (March 2009): Dr. Gill Nicholls (above), Pro-Vice Chancellor at the University of Salford, Manchester, UK, initiated the plenary session with her presentation entitled Disciplines and Scholarship: Challenging the Power. Research presenters (photos below, left to right) included Dr. Ching-Sung Wu (National University of Taiwan), Dr. Ali Abdi (University of Alberta), and Prof. Audrey Rogers (Pace Law School).
