Write up about the Conference The International Conference on Solid Waste Technology and Management (ICSW) is an annual conference where researchers, government officials, consultants, educators, managers and community leaders from 40 countries meet to present and discuss important topics of solid waste technology and management. The ICSW is a conference sponsored by the Widener University and the Journal of Solid Waste Technology and Management. This year, the 29th ICSW was held in Philadelphia, PA USA from March 30 – April 2, 2014. The following are the highlights of activities during the 29th International Conference on Solid Waste Technology and Management: 200 presentations […]
RDG Conference Report of Kristyl N. Obispado
Write up about the Conference Congreso Internacional en Estudio de Mujeres y Género held its first conference last March 19-22, 2013 in Zacatecas City, Mexico. This annual conference aims to provide an academic space where original researches can be presented and reviewed, and to create new knowledge from these studies. It also intends to generate links with the international academic community that has the same interest and line of research in the field of women’s and gender studies. Related areas of knowledge include literature, education, arts, politics, laws, migration and development, psychology, health, violence, communication media, science and technology, and […]
IPA Recipients for February 2016
Juan M. Pulhin Department of Social Forestry and Forest Governance College of Forestry and Natural Resources UP Los Baños “Towards an Effective Policy for Forest Management in Asia” in Multi-level Forest Governance in Asia: Concepts, Challenges and the Way Forward. Makoto Inoue and Ganesh P. Shivakoti (editors). New Delhi, India: Sage Publications, 2015 Juancho A. Collera Department of Mathematics and Computer Science College of Science UP Baguio “Harvesting in Delayed Food Web Model with Omnivory” in Progress in Applied Mathematics in Science and Engineering Proceedings. Hamzah Asyrani Sulaiman, Mohd Azlishah Othman, Mohd Shakir Md Saat, Abd Majid Darsono, Mohamad Zoinol Abidin Abd. Aziz, […]
RDG Conference Report of Louie T. Navarro
Write up about the Conference Conference Theme: Intersecting Belongings: Cultural Conviviality and Cosmopolitan Futures. With around 350 panels spread over a four-day period and more notably, the participation of around 1500 scholars from all-over the world, the Eighth International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS 8) lived up to its claim as the “largest international network of scholars and experts working on Asia” in the humanities and social sciences. Aiming to engage participants in a (global) dialogue across disciplines, this conference not only provided a venue in which knowledge is shared, but also afforded an exchange between audience and presenters towards […]
RDG Conference Report of Katrina Angela R. Macapagal
Write up about the Conference Conference Theme: Intersecting Belongings: Cultural Conviviality and Cosmopolitan Futures. Contemporary challenges and contexts of the local, regional, national and global raise urgent questions about cultural conviviality and cosmopolitan futures across the world. These are times when trans-cultural, trans-national and multicultural belonging are particularly being tested through environmental catastrophe, economic volatility, parochialism, fundamentalism, notions of cosmopolitan and multicultural exhaustion, and war. A key challenge lies in the paradox of culture, in which belonging has become a fundamental question of preservation, atavism, tradition and survival as well as hybridity, transgression, possibility and transformation. The aim of this conference […]
RDG Conference Report of Zenaida D. Ligan
Write up about the Conference The conference is annual event participated by an international pool of scholars. There were scholars from Hong Kong, Taiwan, Indonesia, Thailand, Macau, Kansas, Virginia, Pennsylvania and Texas, U.S.A., Moscow, Russia, Middlesex, U.K., Vietnam, Malaysia, and of course the Philippines. This year, there were over 200 papers that were read, half of the abstract that were submitted during the call for papers. Several parallel sessions were held and I was in Session 9E: Environment and Sustainable Development in Asia moderated by Dr. Rital Li Yi-man. I was the first presenter of the panel. Feedback on paper […]
RDG Conference Report of Mae Claire G. Jabines
Write up about the Conference The Conference is organized by the Asian Studies Association of Hong Kong (ASAHK) from March 8-9, 2013. This is the 8th year of the conference, which started in 2006. This year’s theme was on “Transformations, Development and Culture in Asia: Multidisciplinary Perspectives”; and with sub-themes on (1) Business and social entrepreneurship; (2) Creativity, media and culture; (3) Digital Culture; (4) Education social change and culture; (5) Environment and sustainable development; (6) History of Hong Kong, China and Asia; (7) Literature and culture; (8) Managing urbanization in Asia; (9) Public policies and governance; and (10) Sustainability and […]
RDG Conference Report of Paul P. Ignacio
Write up about the Conference The conference was well attended by seasoned mathematicians from different countries. In fact, I was the youngest participant in the conference. The paper presentations came from varied fields of mathematics including topology, mathematical modeling, number theory, algebra, differential equations, and fixed-point theory. It is worth mentioning that a great number of these presentations were delivered by PhD’s (in Mathematics) with prolific research records. The presentations were chaired by professors from different institutions who ably facilitated insightful discussions after each talk. The conference was well organized and the organizing committee was very efficient throughout the conference. […]
RDG Conference Report of Eloisa May P. Hernandez
Write up about the Conference The 7th European Southeast Asian (Euroseas) was held at the School and Political Science of the Technical University of Lisboa in Lisbon, Portugal on July 20 to 5, 2013. It was a well-attended conference with scholars from countries in Europe, the United States, and Asia. It brought together hundreds of specialist of Southeast Asia from all over the world. Noticeable is the relatively small contingent of Filipino scholars from the Philippines, though this is supplemented with the participation of Filipino scholars who study and/or work in Europe and the United States. The panels were held […]
RDG Conference Report of Cynthia T. Hedreyda
Write up about the Conference The American Society for Microbiology (ASM) has more than 39,000 members with more than one third of its members located outside the United States. Members belong to 26 disciplines of microbiology plus a division for microbiology educators. ASM holds its annual meeting in the late spring to bring together microbiologists from different countries with a program to educate participants in fields such as diagnostic microbiology, epidemiology, pathogenesis, host response mechanisms, general and applied microbiology, molecular microbiology, physiology, and virology. There are also hands-on workshops organized before or after the meeting. The programs include oral paper […]
