Looking Ahead to December...

Lots of 1 December deadlines looming... :

4th Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Refugee and Forced Migration Studies (CARFMS), Montreal, 11-13 May 2011 [info]
- The theme is "Forced Migration: Human Rights Challenges." Abstracts are due by 1 December 2010.

World Conference on Humanitarian Studies, Medford, MA, 2-5 June 2011 [info]
- The theme is "Changing Realities of Conflict and Crisis." Panel proposals will be accepted until 1 December 2010.

Third Biennial Conference of the Asian Society of International Law, Beijing, 27-28 August 2011 [info]
- The theme is "Asia & International Law : A New Era." Papers welcome on "Migration and Dislocation: Refugees, Migrant Workers, Internally Displaced Persons." Submit abstracts by 1 December 2010.

Annual Winter Course on Forced Migration, Kolkata, 1-15 December 2010 [info]
- The course "discusses the root causes for migrations/displacements (both internal and cross-boundary), and issues such as racism, immigration and xenophobia in the context of displacements thus fall within its purview and are discussed in some details."

Environmental Change and Migration: From Vulnerabilities to Capabilities, Bad Salzuflen, Germany, 5-9 December 2010 [info]
- Aims to "shed light on the complex dynamics of environmentally induced migration and the associated societal processes."

A Decade On: A New "Good Practice Review" on Operational Security Management, London, 7 December 2010 [info]
- The "new edition both updates the original material and introduces new topics, such as the security dimensions of 'remote management' programming, good practice in interagency security coordination and how to track, share and analyse security information."

High Commissioner's Dialogue on Protection Challenges, Geneva, 8-9 December 2010 [info]
- The theme is "Protection Gaps and Responses."

Seminar Series on International Refugee Law, Institutes of Advanced Legal Studies and Commonwealth Studies & UNHCR, London, 25 October 2010-9 June 2011 [info]
- The next seminar will be held on 9 December 2010 and will focus on "A transnational legal order and European refugee law."

Palestinian Refugee Camps in Jordan: A Lasting Temporariness: Population, Space and Social Practices, 1990-2010, Amman, 7 March 2011 [info]
- Abstracts are due by 10 December 2010.

[Picture credit: Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group]

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