Call for Papers: Annual International Conference on Regional Studies: Asian, American, African and European

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IMPORTANT DATES

Full Paper Submission Deadline 26 June 2015 Final Paper (Camera-Ready) Submission Deadline: 21 August 2015 Early Bird Registration Deadline: 18 September 2015 Late Registration Deadline: 16 October 2015 Conference Dates: 23 - 24 November 2015

CONFERENCE THEME

The Annual International Conference on Regional Studies: Asian, American, African and European (AAAE) aims to bring together researchers and academics across the globe to present and share their recent research developments on the global economic amalgamation, fast development in the evolving world economies and technological change. To serve as a platform to interact and discuss innovations in infrastructure, urban governance, economic development strategies, and finance. At the same time, the obstacles to such innovations, from existing political arrangements, engrained interests, segregation, and poorly adapted theories and models. To discuss these important issues, to establish the need and nature of future research requirements, and to address the concerns and challenges confronting policymakers and practitioners.

CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS

Keynote Addresses

Dr. Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury "Radicalism: Need for a Counternarrative" Principal Research Fellow Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS), National University of Singapore, Singapore. Prof. Xu, Guoqi "Chinese and Americans: a shared history" Professor of History The University of Hong Kong Pokfulam, Hong Kong

The Conference Proceedings (all accepted papers of the conference) will be indexed by Ulrichsweb, EBSCO, CrossRef, ProQuest and will be submitted to Scopus, ScienceDirect and Cabell's Directories amongst others, where applicable.

Journal: All authors who present their papers at the conference will be invited to submit an extended version of their research paper for the GSTF Journal of Law and Social Sciences (JLSS) (Print ISSN: 2251-2853, E-periodical: 2251-2861). All submitted papers will go through blind review process for acceptance. All accepted papers (after the review process) will be included in the JLSS on a complimentary basis (free-of-charge). GSTF JLSS is hosted and published on Springer’s Open Access publishing platform - Global Science Journals (GSJ). In addition, it will be indexed by EBSCO, CrossRef, IndexCopernicus, ProQuest, Cabell's Directories, Citeulike and will be submitted to Google Scholar, Scopus, amongst others.

Best Paper Awards and Best Student Paper Awards will be conferred at the conference (in order to qualify for the award, the paper must be presented at the conference).

AAAE 2015 will also constitute a Special Panel Session.

Panel Proposals are invited for submission. A minimum of three papers centering on a specific topic will be accepted for submission under Panel Category.

PROGRAM CHAIR

Dr. Robin M. Chandler Associate Professor Department of African American Studies Northeastern University, USA

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Assoc. Prof. Yong Chen Associate Professor, History Asian American Studies School of Humanities University of California, Irvine

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Dr. Aparajita Sagar Associate Professor Asian Studies Purdue University, USA Dr. Abdul R. JanMohamed Augustus Baldwin Longstreet Professor English Department Emory University, USA Dr. Ho-fung Hung Associate Professor Department of Sociology The Johns Hopkins University, USA. Dr. Ricky Law Assistant Professor Department of History Carnegie Mellon University, USA Dr. Pradeep Dhillon Associate Professor European Union Center Faculty University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Dr. Maik Nwosu Associate Professor Department of English University of Denver Denver, USA

For a complete list of Committee Please visit http://aaae-conf.org/Committee.html

GSTF PARTNER UNIVERSITIES For a complete list of GSTF Partner Universities, click here.