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7 unusual facts about academic conference


1945 Australian National Airways Stinson crash

In December 1946 the University of Melbourne organised an international symposium titled The Failure of Metals by Fatigue, the first such symposium in an English-speaking country.

Canadian Society of Transplantation

Its annual scientific conference, which is usually held in Spring at a ski resort, brings together CST members, representatives from transplant centres, allied health professionals working in the field, personnel from organ and tissue retrieval organizations and others from the Canadian and international transplantation communities.

Center for the Study of Religion and Society

Activities facilitated by CSRS include major data collection projects, seminars, colloquia, lectures, conferences, grant writing and the building of an infrastructure for survey, interviews-based, and participant-observation social research.

Elizabeth Adekogbe

The conference contained all the major women's organization in the country.

Hacktivity

The Hacktivity conference is a traditional event in Budapest, Hungary where official and alternative representatives of the information security profession meet with all those interested in this field in framework which is at the same time informal and informative, and sometimes very in-depth technological.

Sandwatch

Sandwatch representatives are often invited to participate in regional and international workshops and conferences, where they share their experiences and data and forge partnerships with similar environmental groups.

Stephen and Harriet Myers House

Local historian Paul Stewart and his wife, Mary Liz, after researching Myers and his work, formed the Underground Railroad History Project of the Capital Region, hosting an annual conference on slavery with speakers from around the world starting in 2001.


Eurocomb

Eurocomb, the European Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory and Applications, is a highly reputable academic conference in the mathematical field of combinatorics.

European Public Relations Education and Research Association

It organizes and promotes various conferences, including an annual congress and a spring symposium, held in collaboration with selected universities across Europe, as well as the annual International Bled Symposium in Bled, Slovenia.

Ibn Sina Academy of Medieval Medicine and Sciences

To strive for bringing about adjustment, integration and synthesis and to organize / sponsor educational programmes, seminars, symposia, workshops and conferences as well as to promote academic work of all kinds in order to advance and develop the medical science.

IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games

The IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games (CIG) is a series of annual conferences on computational and artificial intelligence in games sponsored by the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society.

International Congress of Americanists

The International Congress of Americanists (ICA) is an international academic conference for research in multidisciplinary studies of the American Continent.

Journal of Physics: Conference Series

Journal of Physics: Conference Series (JPCS) is a peer-reviewed, open-access publication from IOP Publishing providing readers with the latest developments in physics presented at international conferences.

Mensur Akgün

He has traveled extensively and participated in various international conferences as a speaker representing both academia and civil society.

Stephen Gilson

Gilson has received invitations to keynote at national and international conferences on disability studies and distinguished lectures at University of Illinois at Chicago, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Smith College, NYU, University of North Carolina, Ono Academic College, Research Institute for Health and Medical Professions, and others.


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Halil Berktay

In September 2005, Berktay and fellow historians, including Murat Belge, Edhem Eldem, Selim Deringil, convened at an academic conference to discuss the fall of the Ottoman Empire.

The Pale King

The first academic conference about The Pale King took place at the University of Antwerp in Belgium from September 22 to 23, 2011.

The Science and Information Organization

The SAI Organization also organizes its annual academic conference Science and Information Conference in Cooperation with Springer and IEEE.