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| Beautiful Dubai, one place we normally book a stayover on our way to or back from a conference, but the IAFOR also uses Dubai as a conference venue. |
The International Academic Forum (IAFOR) is
a Japan based organisation, established in 2009. The IAFOR do much more than
just conferencing and it is worthwhile to visit the web page. The web page
states the mission of the organisation as to promote international exchange, to
facilitate intercultural awareness, to encourage interdisciplinary discussion
and to generate and share new knowledge; all of which are important to
academics in general.
To
me, the different locations where conferences take place and the variety of
topics, are of importance. Conferences are linked to the following categories:
Education and language, Social Sciences and sustainability, Arts, Humanities,
Media and Culture.
The conferences take place in Asia, Europe,
the Middle East and North America which means that academics have a huge choice
about where they want to go and what they can afford. The Asia conferences are
held in Hong Kong and Japan. Within Japan, there are three conference
locations: Tokyo, Osaka and Kobe. In Europe, the conference venues are Brighton
in England and Barcelona in Spain. The Middle East conferences take place in
Dubai and in North America there are also more than one conference venue to
choose from: New York, Honolulu in Hawaii and Roanoke in Virginia.
Good news for PHD students and early career
academics (who completed their PHDs in the past five years), is that there are
also travel and accommodation grants and scholarships available to attend and
present at these conferences.
Personally, as yet, I did not attend one of
these conferences, but I am looking for new and exciting conferences and
conference venues for 2019 (when the IAFOR will be celebrating ten years of
providing these and other services to academics worldwide) and the options
provided by the IAFOR are inviting. But the question remains: Where do you want
to go in 2019 and at what forum do you want to present?
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