African Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter

African Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter seeks to highlight the complexities of our field through dialogue and exchange. This newsletter also serves as the vehicle to engage with centuries of muted voices uncovered by the archaeological record, politics of representation and narrative, as well as intersections of power, privilege and oppression. One of the many challenges of our discipline is to figure out how to push the scholarly parameters and think more complexly about life across the Diaspora. The material record is always in conversation with the social world, thus reminding us to keep these discussions open.

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Best Text Collection

The Best Text Collection is one way the Writing Program (WP) works to highlight and circulate texts created by University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst) students for writing courses at all undergraduate levels. Texts are reviewed and prepared for publication by graduate writing instructors, further deepening the WP focus on mentoring teachers of writing on inclusive pedagogical practices by extending these practices to graduate level instruction.

Published annually, each issue presents projects created for any Writing, Identity, & Power (ENGLWRIT111), College Writing (ENGLWRIT112/112H), or Junior Year Writing courses written by current UMass Amherst undergraduate students.

Best Text has moved to our new open-source publishing platform: https://openpublishing.library.umass.edu. Please see https://openpublishing.library.umass.edu/best_text/ for all issues.

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Building Technology Educator's Society

The Building Technology Educators’ Society serves the community of academics and professionals who are involved most directly with the construction and structure of the built environment. The mission of BTES is to promote and publish the best pedagogic practices, relevant research, scholarship, and other creative activity to facilitate student learning, advance innovation, and enhance the status of building technology disciplines in the profession at large.

This is an open access conference proceedings which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author.

This journal has moved to our new publishing platform: https://openpublishing.library.umass.edu/. All issues can be found here: https://openpublishing.library.umass.edu/btes/.

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communication +1

communication +1 provides a forum for exploring and sharing ideas about communication across modes of inquiry and perspectives. Its primary objective is to push the theoretical frontiers of communication as an autonomous and distinct field of research. Suspending any judgement regarding distinction between theory and practice, this journal encourages critical reflections on communication and seeks to encourage these reflections to and among those who place communication at the center of their thinking and writing.

We are a platinum open access journal and never charge authors for publication or anyone for access.

communication +1 is part of Open Humanities Press and is indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals.

Our current Call for Papers can be found here.

This journal has moved to our new publishing platform: https://openpublishing.library.umass.edu/. All issues can be found here: https://openpublishing.library.umass.edu/cpo.

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Contributions in Black Studies (Afro-American Studies)

Contributions in Black Studies: A Journal of African and Afro-American Studies (CIBS), was a periodical publication of the Five Colleges, Inc.: Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke, and Smith Colleges and the University of Massachusetts, that appeared more or less annually from 1977 to 1997. The W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies at UMass Amherst is pleased to provide open access to the articles that appeared in CIBS through this electronic repository.

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Democratic Communiqué

See the Aims and Scope for complete coverage of the journal.

This journal has moved to our new publishing platform: https://openpublishing.library.umass.edu/. All issues can be found here: https://openpublishing.library.umass.edu/democratic-communique.

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Dose-Response: An International Journal

Dose-Response, the journal of the International Dose-Response Society, is a quarterly peer-reviewed electronic journal publishing original findings on the occurrence of dose-response relationships across a broad range of disciplines. Particular interest focuses on experimental evidence providing mechanistic understanding of nonlinear dose-response relationships.

This version, located in ScholarWorks, is an effort to archive and make available the issues of Dose-Response published 12 months ago and prior. Go to Dose-Response to receive more information from the official site.

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EDGE - A Graduate Journal for German and Scandinavian Studies

Edge is a peer-reviewed, open access, interdisciplinary graduate journal for German and Scandinavian Studies. The journal is published annually under the direction of graduate students in the German and Scandinavian Studies program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst with the support of the W.E.B. DuBois Library.

Edge showcases the best new scholarly articles in German and Scandinavian Studies by graduate students, as well as reviews of films and the latest books of interest in the field. We welcome submissions from all disciplines with a connection to German and Scandinavian Studies, including but not limited to comparative literature, cultural studies, history, film and media studies and philology.

Each issue is written, refereed, and edited by graduate students. If you are interested in serving as a reviewer, please .

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Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) Conference Proceedings

Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) Conference Proceedings is a collection of all selected academic works presented in oral and poster format during global or regional FOSS4G conferences on the development and usage of FOSS4G and open-data.

Additional volumes can be found here:

• FOSS4G 2021, Buenos Aires – Academic Track:https://www.int-arch-photogramm-remote-sens-spatial-inf-sci.net/XLVI-4-W2-2021/
• FOSS4G 2019 – Academic Track, Bucharest, Romania: https://www.int-arch-photogramm-remote-sens-spatial-inf-sci.net/XLII-4-W14/
• Volume 18, No. 2 (2018) - Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania: https://www.int-arch-photogramm-remote-sens-spatial-inf-sci.net/XLII-4-W8/
• Volume 17, No. 2. (2017) - Marne La Vallée, France https://www.int-arch-photogramm-remote-sens-spatial-inf-sci.net/XLII-4-W2/index.html

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International Journal of Soil, Sediment and Water

Welcome to the site of the new publication The International Journal of Soil, Sediment, and Water. This publication is no longer being published. Past issues incorporate the selected manuscripts from the Annual International Conference on Soils, Sediments, Water and Energy, and expands the opportunity for investigators to exchange innovative, high-quality, important and time-critical research findings in an open-access format.

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ISCCL Proceedings

The International Scientific Committee on Cultural Landscapes (ISCCL), of the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS), is a committee of scientific experts that develop international guidance on cultural landscape documentation, management and policy. The committee functions as a joint effort with members from both ICOMOS and the International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA).

A major part of the ISCCL's brief is to "Gather, study and disseminate information concerning principles, techniques and policies" related to cultural landscapes (ICOMOS Statutes 5b). This series serves as the publication of the work of the Committee.

Please click on the "Submit Article" link to the upper left to submit a paper to the ISCCL Proceedings. Submissions are limited to ISCCL members who were accepted to present at this year's Symposium, or who are invited to submit - no un-invited papers will be accepted. The Symposium presentations can be accessed at https://scholarworks.umass.edu/icomos_isccl/

FRANÇAIS:

Le Comité scientifique international des paysages culturels (ISCCL), du Conseil international des monuments et des sites (ICOMOS), est un comité d'experts scientifiques qui élabore des orientations internationales sur la documentation, la gestion et la politique des paysages culturels. Le comité fonctionne comme un effort conjoint avec des membres de l'ICOMOS et de la Fédération internationale des architectes paysagistes (IFLA).

Une partie importante de la mission de l'ISCCL consiste à « rassembler, étudier et diffuser des informations concernant les principes, les techniques et les politiques » liés aux paysages culturels (Statuts de l'ICOMOS 5b). Cette série sert de publication des travaux du Comité.

Veuillez cliquer sur le lien "Soumettre l'article" en haut à gauche pour soumettre un article aux Actes de l'ISCCL. Les soumissions sont limitées aux membres de l'ISCCL qui ont été acceptés pour présenter au Symposium de cette année, ou qui sont invités à soumettre - aucune communication non invitée ne sera acceptée. Les présentations du Symposium sont accessibles à https://scholarworks.umass.edu/icomos_isccl/

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Journal of Hospitality Financial Management

Welcome to the Journal of Hospitality Financial Management.

The Journal of Hospitality Financial Management (ISSN 1091-3211 for print version, E-ISSN 2152-2790 for online version) is the official refereed publication of the International Association of Hospitality Financial Management Educators (iAHFME), a premier academic organization devoted to the study and promotion of knowledge about finance, financial economics and accounting in hospitality and tourism. Published twice a year, the journal is committed to featuring leading research in the area of finance, financial economics and accounting related to hospitality and tourism. The journal also features invited papers on special interest hospitality finance/accounting topics, viewpoints, research notes, book reviews and abstracts of papers presented at the Annual Symposium of the International Association of Hospitality Financial Management Educators (iAHFME). Research article submissions in this journal typically undergo a double blind review process. Some of the key criteria for evaluation include innovativeness of research ideas, rigor and quality of research, clarity, and relevance to the practice and/or education of financial management and accounting in hospitality and tourism.

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Journal of Medicinally Active Plants

Journal of Medicinally Active Plants

The Journal of Medicinally Active Plants is a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary, on-line professional journal sponsored by the American Council for Medicinally Active Plants. The Journal publishes scientific manuscripts related to the analysis, application, bioactivity, collection, conservation, cultivation, growth, harvest, identification , physiology, processing, and other issues related to medicinally active plant material. Investigators working with these plant materials are invited to submit articles for publication. Guidelines for publication are here.

This journal has moved to our new publishing platform: https://openpublishing.library.umass.edu/. All issues can be found here: https://openpublishing.library.umass.edu/jmap.

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Landscapes of Violence

New Call for Proposals

LoV Seeks Photo Essay Proposals on Refugees and Forced Migration

With the intensification of global inequity and the rise of the national security state, human migration, mobility, and transculturality have become central concerns for both policy-makers and researchers. The study of documented and undocumented migration reveals the violent relationship between the Global North and the Global South and the “contentious relationship between sovereignty, space, and freedom of movement” (De Genova and Peutz, 2010). As law making and policy debates devise new ways to criminalize migrants and deploy harsher immigration legislation, it becomes necessary to politically and theoretically interrogate these processes by considering the local and global policies that render new forms of social control not only effective, but also popular.

In this thematic edition of Landscapes of Violence—Refugees and Forced Migration—we seek contributors that explore issues related to migration and refugees across academic disciplines and institutional boundaries. This issue seeks to deepen understanding of the impact of immigration law enforcement and policy-making on people and communities through the lens of studies of violence. We welcome proposals from photographers, community members, students, researchers, and others engaged in work on refugee and forced migration for photo essays. Proposals that consider the historical and cultural contexts and processes in which migration occurs are particularly welcome.

Deadline for proposals: April 21, 2017

To submit a proposal:

Email to LoV Managing Editor Sarah Mathena-Allen at lov@sbs.umass.edu: a 250-word abstract, 50 to 100-word bio-sketch, and up to 5 high-resolution photographs (300dpi ".jpg" file) with a caption and credit in a Word document.

Selected Authors

If selected, authors will be asked to submit a 500-word essay and up to 10 high-resolution photographs (300dpi .jpg file) with captions and credits in a Word DOC. Authors must have all relevant permissions to publish in LoV any multimedia content not belonging to them. All submissions must follow LoV submission requirements.

Accepted photo essays will be published in Landscapes of Violence after review by two independent peer referees considered experts in the subject field.

Tentative publishing date: June 30 2017.

Questions:

Most questions can be answered by reviewing the "about the journal" or "peer-review and open access policies" sections of our webpage.

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The goal of Landscapes of Violence (LoV) is to provide a balanced approach to the causes of violence and offer a voice for the human experience behind it. This journal deals with the interrelationships between society and violence seen through the analytical eyes of trans-disciplinary researchers.

For information about Landscapes of Violence (LoV), please see About this Journal.

For information about the affiliated UMass Violence and Conflict Laboratory, please see VCL.

To access past issues of LoV, please use the drop-down menu located in the left sidebar menu or visit our Archive.

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Living Languages • Lenguas Vivas • Línguas Vivas

Living Languages • Lenguas Vivas • Línguas Vivas

This journal has moved to our new publishing platform: https://openpublishing.library.umass.edu/. All issues can be found here: https://openpublishing.library.umass.edu/livinglanguages.

English: Living Languages is an international, multilingual journal dedicated to topics in language revitalization and sustainability. The goal of the journal is to promote scholarly work and experience-sharing in the field. The primary focus is on bringing together language revitalization practitioners from a diversity of backgrounds, whether academic or not, within a peer-reviewed publication venue that is not limited to academic contributions and is inclusive of a diversity of perspectives and forms of expression. This is an open access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. For more information click here.

Español: Lenguas Vivas es una revista internacional y multilingüe dedicada a temas de revitalización y sostenibilidad lingüística. El objetivo de la revista es promover el trabajo académico y el intercambio de experiencias en este campo, reuniendo a personas de diferentes orígenes que trabajan en la revitalización lingüística y que quieren difundir su trabajo en una publicación que no se limite a las contribuciones académicas y que incluya una diversidad de perspectivas y formas de expresión. Es una revista de acceso abierto, lo que significa que todo el contenido está disponible de forma gratuita para el usuario o su institución. Para más informaciones haga click aquí.

Português: Línguas Vivas é uma revista internacional e multilingue dedicada a temas de revitalização e sustentabilidade linguística. O objetivo da revista é promover o trabalho acadêmico e o compartilhamento de experiências na área, reunindo pessoas de diferentes origens que trabalhem com a revitalização linguística e que queiram divulgar os seus trabalhos em uma publicação que não se limite a contribuições acadêmicas e que inclua uma diversidade de perspectivas e formas de expressão. É uma revista de acesso aberto, o que significa que todo o conteúdo está disponível gratuitamente para o usuário ou sua instituição. Para mais informações clique aqui.

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mOthertongue

Welcome to mOthertongue: A Multilingual Journal of the Arts.mOthertongue is a student-run literary journal closely associated with the Comparative Literature Program at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Every spring, the journal publishes non-English poetry and prose as well as student art and photography.

See our About Page to learn more about us.

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North East Linguistics Society (Graduate Linguistics Students Association (GLSA))

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Paperbark Literary Magazine

Digital open access issues of Paperbark will be added to this site on a yearly basis.

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Perspectives in Asian Leisure and Tourism

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Portuguese Cultural Studies

PCS, an online international journal, is published bi-annually at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

This journal has moved to our new publishing platform: https://openpublishing.library.umass.edu/. All issues can be found here: https://openpublishing.library.umass.edu/p.

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Practical Assessment, Research, and Evaluation

Practical Assessment, Research, and Evaluation is an online journal providing access to refereed articles that can have a positive impact on assessment, research, and evaluation. Manuscripts published in PARE are scholarly syntheses of research and ideas about methodological issues and practices, and offer unique contributions to the literature. PARE is intended to help members of the community keep up-to-date with effective methods, trends, and research developments from a variety of settings.

PARE is also committed to highlighting research that focuses on equity in assessment and measurement. To that end, we encourage the submission of manuscripts that address issues of equity and fairness – particularly articles that focuses on the assessment experiences and outcomes for historically marginalized populations.

This journal has moved to our new publishing platform: https://openpublishing.library.umass.edu/. All issues can be found here: https://openpublishing.library.umass.edu/pare/.

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Proceedings of the Annual International Conference on Soils, Sediments, Water and Energy

Welcome to the site of the Proceedings of the Annual International Conference on Soils, Sediments, Water and Energy. This publication will incorporate the conference proceedings from 2005 conference to the present.

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Proceedings of the Fábos Conference on Landscape and Greenway Planning

The Fábos Conference on Landscape and Greenway Planning is held every three years to bring together experts who are influencing landscape planning, policy making and greenway planning from the local to international level. It is intended to highlight recent trends and expand the literature about landscape and greenway planning. The aim is to explore how experts from around the world have approached greenway planning and to understand how greenways have been tailored to each county’s unique geographical, cultural, and political circumstances.

This journal has moved to our new publishing platform: https://openpublishing.library.umass.edu/. All issues can be found here: https://openpublishing.library.umass.edu/fabos.

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Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics

The Society for Computation in Linguistics (SCiL) is devoted to facilitating and promoting research on computational and mathematical approaches in Linguistics. SCiL aims to provide a central forum for exchange of ideas and dissemination of original research results on computational approaches in any area of linguistics. In addition to providing a forum for researchers already working in these areas, SCiL hosts regular meetings (the first of which was co-located with LSA 2018 in Salt Lake City, Utah) that feature high-quality research presentations and peer-reviewed proceedings published with the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) Anthology as well as in our own standalone open access publication, the Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics.

This journal has moved to our new publishing platform: https://openpublishing.library.umass.edu/. All issues can be found here: https://openpublishing.library.umass.edu/scil.

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Rasenna: Journal of the Center for Etruscan Studies (CES Electronic Resources)

Welcome to Rasenna: Journal of the Center for Etruscan Studies. This site includes the current issue of Rasenna, an archive of earlier issues, Guidelines for Contributors, and information about the composition of the Editorial and Advisory Boards.

For more information about Rasenna and the Center for Etruscan Studies please contact Anthony Tuck or Rex Wallace.

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Semantics of Under-Represented Languages in the Americas (Graduate Linguistics Students Association (GLSA))

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SHARP News

The Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing.

For more information about SHARP go to http://www.sharpweb.org/main/.

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Translat Library

This journal has moved to our new publishing plaftorm: https://openpublishing.library.umass.edu/.

All issues can be found here: https://openpublishing.library.umass.edu/tl/.

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University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics (Graduate Linguistics Students Association (GLSA))

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University of Massachusetts Undergraduate History Journal

Founded in 2016 by members of Phi Alpha Theta, the national history honor society, the UMass History Journal is devoted to showcasing the diverse historical work of undergraduate students. This publication includes essays, book reviews, and historical reflections written either within or outside the framework of undergraduate courses. Authors may be history majors, minors, or non-majors who have interests in the study of history.

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Warring States Papers

Volume 1 (cover date 2010) became available in print form in May 2012. The online edition will appear here when the print edition is exhausted. To acquire the print edition, please visit the Project web site at http://www.umass.edu/wsp/journal/index.html.

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ACRL New England Chapter Annual Conference (ACRL New England Chapter)

This site is a repository for conference materials from the ACRL New England Chapter's Annual Conferences.

If you are a SIG chair and would like to have your own conference materials uploaded to a similar site, please contact the Open Access Committee at oar.acrl.nec [at] gmail dot com.

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ALADN

Founded in 1995, ALADN is the Academic Library Advancement and Development Network — a professional network of academic library fundraising professionals, university librarians, and deans who practice in North America who work to raise money from individuals, corporations, and foundations to fund library resources, products, programs, and initiatives. Attendees from academic libraries across the United States and Canada gather annually to share innovations, best practices, and organizational successes related to fundraising for libraries, including communication and marketing strategies. To find out more join the ALADN Listserv.

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Art & Power in Movement

The Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies thanks all the scholars and activists, writers and artists, youth and elders, who came together November 18-20, 2010, to mark our 40th year on the University of Massachusetts Amherst campus, as well as to support the exchange of knowledge about the dynamic period in which academic Black Studies units like ours were established. The conference drew over 400 participants. Please click the poster to go to the conference website. We will be posting photos, as well as links to video and audio files of many conference presentations, especially by our keynoters Sister Sonia Sanchez, Amiri Baraka, and others.

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Center for Heritage and Society Conference Proceedings

The Center for Heritage and Society sponsors conferences on various aspects of the role of heritage in the world today. Past conferences include:

2016

Nature and Culture: Heritage in Context, Prague, Czechia (co-sponsored by the Czech University of Life Sciences; US/ICOMOS; International Scientific Committee on Cultural Landscapes; and Taylor & Francis)

2014

Heritage & Healthy Societies: Exploring the links among cultural heritage, environment, and resilience (co-sponsored by The Center for Heritage at Kent; The Joukowsky Institute, Brown University; Maney Publishing; Sustainable Preservation Initiative; and at UMass Amherst, Interdisciplinary Studies Institute, The School of Public Health and Health Sciences, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, International Programs Office, Department of History and the Public History Program, Department of Landscape Architecture and regional Planning, and the Department of Anthropology.

2013

The Past for Sale? New Perspectives on the Economic Entanglements of Cultural Heritage (co-sponsored by The International Coalition of Sites of Conscience; The Joukowsky Institute, Brown University; Maney Publishing; The Sustainable Preservation Initiative)

2012

High-Tech Heritage: How Are Digital Technologies Changing Our Views of the Past? (co-sponsored by College of Social and Behavioral Sciences; UMass Amherst Office of Research and Development; Institute for the Visualization of History)

2011

Why Does the Past Matter? Changing Visions, Media, and Rationales in the 21st Century (co-sponsored by UMass Amherst Graduate School; College of Social and Behavioral Sciences; Fondazione Romualdo Del Bianco; Life Beyond Tourism; Oxford University Press; Archaeological Institute of America; Cultural Heritage Partners; International Coalition of Sites of Conscience; Maney Publishing; Sustainable Preservation initiative; Left Coast Press)

2009

Heritage in Conflict and Consensus: New approaches to the social, political and religious impact of public heritage in the 21st century (co-sponsored by The Institute for Advanced Theology, Bard College; Penn Cultural Heritage Center; Research Leadership in Action Program, UMass Amherst)

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Clean Energy Connections

Clean Energy Connections is a career and business development information and networking event. It is a forum for the individuals and organizations that will accelerate the growth of our clean energy economy.

Click here to see the 1st Annual Conference and Opportunity Fair, 2008

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Climate Change and the Future of Nuclear Power

The Physics Department at the University of Massachusetts Amherst is proud to host the 2011 joint Fall meeting of the New England sections of the American Physical Society, the American Association of Physics Teachers and the Society of Physics Students, on November 18-19, 2011.

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Conference on Cellulosic Biofuels

Those interested in the Commonwealth’s developing biofuels industry are invited to participate in the annual Conference on Cellulosic Biofuels. The conference is hosted by The Institute for Massachusetts Biofuels Research (TIMBR) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. TIMBR is a growing interdisciplinary research group focused on expanding biofuels research on the Amherst campus and enabling translational research through strategic partnerships between academia, industry, and state and federal government (www.ecs.umass.edu/timbr).

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Corpus of Massachusetts Regional Dialects (Commonwealth Honors College)

This corpus study focuses on collecting linguistic data in the state of Massachusetts and publishing it for future research purposes. With more than 70 validated speakers (aged 18-25) from various regions of Massachusetts, this corpus aims to be a “linguistic snapshot” of current linguistic variation within the state. This corpus also bridges a gap in the current literature to better comprehend the linguistic patterns of racial minorities and historically under-represented regions of Massachusetts, which represent ~33% and ~25% of the current corpus, respectively. Participants were recruited through Prolific and their linguistic and demographic data was collected through LinQ, an app currently in development. The survey included spontaneous audio-response questions about their opinion of their community, curated readings to elicit well-known linguistic variables in the region, and questions about certain related social factors, among other variables. Their responses will be uploaded to Scholarworks, an online archive maintained by the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Given the wide range of data collected on each participant, linguists interested in variation in this region will find something within this published data set that supports their research interests-- including, but not limited to, sociophonetic, prosodic, and morphosyntactic variation.

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Corpus of Spanish and Portuguese in the Diaspora (CORSPID) (Spanish and Portuguese)

Este proyecto tiene como objetivo construir un corpus oral del español y portugués hablado en un contexto diaspórico. Este corpus lingüístico permitirá realizar estudios en diferentes áreas de investigación a partir de entrevistas sociolingüísticas. Estas muestras se clasifican según la lengua, español o portugués, y el lugar geográfico en el que viven actualmente los hablantes. Además, para cada muestra se presentan datos sociodemográficos como el género, edad, lugar de origen, y lengua(s) del hablante.

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Digital Quadrangle Series (University Libraries)

The Digital Quadrangle series was established in the spring of 2006 as a lecture series to explore scholarly communication topics as they relate to research, scholarship, and teaching in the digital age. It is sponsored by the University Libraries, Office of Research, Center for Teaching, and Graduate School. For more information, please contact Marilyn Billings, mbillings@library.umass.edu, or Marla Michel, marla@research.umass.edu.

Please check out the following link for previous conferences: http://scholarworks.umass.edu/dq/

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Energy for the 21st Century

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Ethics Day: Engaging Librarians in the Responsible Conduct of Research

The UMass Amherst Libraries hosted “Ethics Day: Engaging Librarians in the Responsible Conduct of Research,” a professional development program for New England area librarians, on Friday, October 8, 2010. The Ethics Day program included morning sessions, which introduced research ethics and the responsible conduct of research, and afternoon sessions, which explored some of the ethical concerns in the field of librarianship. This site makes the presentations available.

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FalConference

May 19, 2022, 9 a.m.-1 p.m.

Welcome! FalConference 2022 is a half-day virtual conference where the community is invited to join the Du Bois Falcon team and their collaborators on- and off-campus as they discuss all things peregrine.

Registration: Register here. The event is free and open to the public. If the event reaches capacity, registrants will be directed to a link to view the event livestreamed on YouTube.

About the Du Bois Falcons: Peregrine falcons have successfully nested on the roof of the Du Bois Library at UMass Amherst since 2003. A live web camera was installed atop the Library in 2012, made possible by the UMass Amherst Facilities Planning Division, UMass Amherst Information Technology (IT), the Libraries' Systems and Web Management Department, the Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife (MassWildlife), and the generous donors to the Du Bois Falcons Fund.

This year, a new nest box was installed on the Library roof to offer better weather protection for the falcons and their eggs; however, due to supply shortages, the box installation was delayed, and the falcons chose to nest in an old nest box on the adjacent Thompson Hall. Secondary cameras were set up to monitor their new nest. Viewers can stream the webcam from the Library website and follow the falcons on Twitter at @DuBoisFalcons.

Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife: The Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife (MassWildlife) is responsible for the conservation of freshwater fish and wildlife in the Commonwealth, including endangered plants and animals. MassWildlife restores, protects, and manages land for wildlife to thrive and for people to enjoy. MassWildlife’s Natural Heritage & Endangered Species Program (NHESP) focuses on conserving rare species and their habitats throughout Massachusetts. More than 400 plants and animals are listed under on the MA Endangered Species Act. These species play an important role in keeping all of the Commonwealth's natural communities diverse and thriving. Learn about NHESP’s rare species success stories and ways you can help endangered species.

Support the Falcons: The Du Bois Falcons Fund supports new equipment (high-definition cameras, etc.), hardware, and software for the falcon cam, and offsets the cost of livestreaming video for bird watchers around the globe.

Merchandise:

• Du Bois Falcons Coloring Pages (Free)

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Film and Digital Media in the Classroom

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Final Examination (Commonwealth Honors College)

We imagine the end of the world as an exotic, even unreal phenomenon. In movies, superheroes battle world-ending threats. In religion, the end times can stand as a time of judgment or renewal. In reality, however, world-ending processes are routine. From the time the Puritans, fired by apocalyptic visions, arrived in New England to now, when rising sea levels threaten coastal towns, Massachusetts has seen more than its share. In this podcast series, Commonwealth Honors College students look at the politics of the end of the world in projects created as their course’s Final Examination.

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Graduate Student Research Conference in Hospitality and Tourism (Hospitality & Tourism Management)

General Information

2011 Call for Papers

Conference Registration

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Heritage Languages Around the World 2

New deadline for submissions: Dec 17th, 2023

After the very successful HLAW 1 at the University of Lisbon in 2022, the Heritage Languages Around the World 2 (HLAW2) conference will be held at the University of Massachusetts Amherst from May 29th to 31st, 2024. This is a joint initiative of the Portuguese and Brazilian Studies Program and the Hispanic Linguistics Program at UMass Amherst together with the Centro de Linguística da Universidade de Lisboa, the Centro de Estudos Humanísticos da Universidade do Minho, and the Portuguese Program at UMass Dartmouth. This initiative is also supported by Camões Institute through the Lydia Jorge Chair in Portuguese Studies at UMass Amherst.

We welcome submissions on the following areas:

1. Linguistic properties of heritage languages in child and adult bilinguals
2. The role of input and cross-linguistic influence in heritage language acquisition
3. Research methods in heritage language development
4. Understudied heritage languages (e.g. Native American, African and Asian languages)
5. New trends in heritage language education
6. Heritage language policies
7. Attitudes and identity in heritage languages
8. Heritage languages and the preservation of linguistic diversity

Important dates:

• New Deadline: December 17th, 2023
• Notification of acceptance: January 31st, 2024
• Early Bird Registration: TBA
• Conference: May 29th - 31st, 2024

See the links on the side menu for more information.

Sponsors:

• Lidia Jorge Chair in Portuguese Studies

• Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at UMass Amherst

• College of Humanities and Fine Arts at UMass Amherst

• Portuguese and Brazilian Studies Program at UMass Amherst

• Spanish and Portuguese Unit at UMass Amherst

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International CHRIE Conference-Refereed Track (Hospitality & Tourism Management)

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International CHRIE Conference-Symposium Track (Hospitality & Tourism Management)

2011 Call for Papers

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International Conference on Engineering and Ecohydrology for Fish Passage (Fish Passage Community at UMass Amherst)

The International Conference on Engineering & Ecohydrology for Fish Passage is a three-day conference with concurrent sessions in engineering, biology, and management and social issues. The conference features plenary talks, professional networking opportunities, and a poster session.

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ISCCL Scientific Symposia and Annual General Meetings // Symposiums scientifiques et assemblées générales annuelles de l'ISCCL // Simposios científicos yy las Asambleas Generales Anuales

The International Scientific Committee on Cultural Landscapes (ISCCL), of the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS), is a committee of scientific experts that develop international guidance on cultural landscape documentation, management and policy. The committee functions as a joint effort with members from both ICOMOS and the International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA).

The Annual Symposium is intended to engage committee members in topics of current research and practice. In addition, publication of the Symposium abstracts, presentations and selected papers is intended to expand the research of the Committee with state-of-the-art materials on cultural landscapes.

The Annual General Meeting is the working meeting of the Committee, where annual progress and work plans of the Bureau and Working Groups are discussed.

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Le Comité scientifique international sur les paysages culturels (ISCCL) est un comité scientifique d'experts qui, dans le cadre du Conseil international des monuments et des sites (ICOMOS), travaille au développement de d’orientations internationales pour la documentation, la gestion et les politiques pour les paysages culturels. Le comité fonctionne comme un effort conjoint des membres de l'ICOMOS et de la Fédération internationale des architectes paysagistes (IFLA).

Le colloque annuel a pour but d'engager les membres du comité aux questions de recherche et de pratique actuelles. En outre, la publication des résumés, des présentations et d'une sélection d'articles du colloque a pour but d'élargir la diffusion des recherches des membres experts du Comité en tant que matériel de pointe sur les paysages culturels.

L'assemblée générale annuelle est la réunion de travail du Comité, où sont discutés les progrès annuels et les plans de travail du Bureau et des groupes de travail.

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El Comité Científico Internacional sobre Paisajes Culturales (ISCCL) es un comité científico de expertos que, como parte del Consejo Internacional de Monumentos y Sitios (ICOMOS), trabaja en el desarrollo de directrices internacionales para la documentación, gestión y políticas para los paisajes culturales. El comité funciona como un esfuerzo conjunto de miembros tanto del ICOMOS como de la Federación Internacional de Arquitectos Paisajistas (IFLA).

El Simposio Anual está destinado a involucrar a los miembros del comité en temas de investigación y práctica actuales. Además, la publicación de los resúmenes, presentaciones y artículos seleccionados del Simposio tiene como objetivo ampliar la diseminación de las investigaciones de los miembros expertos del Comité, como materiales de última generación sobre paisajes culturales.

La Asamblea General Anual es la reunión de trabajo del Comité, en la que se debaten los progresos anuales y los planes de trabajo de la Mesa y los Grupos de Trabajo.

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Browse the presentations and selected papers of current and past conferences:

Explorer une sélection de présentations et d’articles issus des conférences actuelles et passées :

Explore las presentaciones y artículos seleccionados de conferencias actuales y pasadas:

or by using the "Search" box to the upper left and typing in the author, any portion of the session title or any keywords - there is full text search.

ou en utilisant la case "Rechercher" en haut à gauche et en tapant l'auteur, n'importe quelle partie du titre de la session ou n'importe quel mot-clé - il y a une recherche plein texte.

o utilizando el cuadro"Buscar" en la esquina superior izquierda y escribiendo el autor, cualquier parte del título de la sesión o cualquier palabra clave; hay una búsqueda de texto completo.

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Library Career Reception (University Libraries)

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Massachusetts GIS Day

Massachusetts GIS Day is an annual celebration of geospatial technology and the tools and approaches that makes up the field of geographic information science. The event is a collaboration of organizations across the Commonwealth, featuring posters, lightning talks, and guest speakers.

This site is a repository for materials presented at MA GIS Day, starting with its 2020 inaugural year.

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Massachusetts Statewide Undergraduate Research Conference (Commonwealth Honors College)

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About the Conference

Each year undergraduate students of diverse backgrounds from across the Massachusetts Public System of Higher Education gather to present the results of their original work in oral and poster presentations before their peers, faculty and the public.

Students present work related to:
• Thesis research
• Creative work in the visual and performing arts
• Independent study
• Community service
• Study abroad

First held in 1995 for the four undergraduate campuses of the UMass system, the conference has grown to involve more than 500 students from nearly all of the public colleges and universities in Massachusetts.

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National Environment and Recreation Research Symposium

In order to submit an abstract to the 2018 National Environment and Recreation Research Symposium, begin the submission process by clicking Submit Abstract (found on lower left-side of this webpage).

The deadline for submissions is Monday, November 27, 2017. Detailed conference information can be found at the conference website. All submitted abstracts will follow a blind review process and authors of accepted abstracts will be invited to submit a full paper for review following the conference. The abstracts will be published in electronic format in the Conference Proceedings (hosted by Scholarworks@UMass).

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New England Conference for Student Success

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New England Library Instruction Group (ACRL New England Chapter)

The New England Library Instruction Group (NELIG) is a volunteer organization that sponsors events and an annual program, all of which provide a forum to showcase the innovations, talents, and lessons learned of librarians in New England and to discuss nation-wide trends in library instruction. Founded as NEBIC (New England Bibliographic Instruction Committee) in 1974, NELIG is the oldest of the ACRL | NEC interest groups.

Use this repository to view and access programming materials from NELIG's past events and conferences.

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North American Cranberry Researcher and Extension Workers Conference (Cranberry Station)

Cranberry research and extension workers from across North America meet every other year to share research information and participate in working groups at the North American Cranberry Research and Extension Workers (NACREW) Conference. Attendees of the conference generally represent the growing regions of MA, WI, WA, NJ, OR, Quebec, British Columbia, and New Brunswick. Most of the attendees are from Universities, but others are affiliated with governmental research branches, industry support groups, grower companies, and handler organizations.

Community Collaborators & Partners

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Northeast Regional OER Summit

Welcome to the proposal submission and presentation repository for the Northeast OER Summit. To submit a proposal, click on the Submit Conference Proposal link in the right hand column.

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Open Access Week (University Libraries)

Open Access is a growing international movement that uses the Internet to throw open the locked doors that once hid knowledge. It encourages the unrestricted sharing of research results with everyone, everywhere, for the advancement and enjoyment of science and society. Open Access is the principle that all research should be freely accessible online, immediately after publication, and it’s gaining ever more momentum around the world as research funders and policy makers throw their weight behind it.

Open Access Week is an opportunity to broaden awareness and understanding of Open Access to research, including access policies from all types of research funders, within the international higher education community and the general public. The now-annual event has been expanded from a single day to accommodate widespread global interest in the movement toward open, public access to scholarly research results. (From: http://www.openaccessweek.org/)

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Open Educational Resources Event (University Libraries)

Open Educational Resources (OER) is a relatively new movement in education; educators and learners as well as learning institutions are driving its development. OER provides an alternative to the rising costs of education. For example, in some countries like South Africa, some educator and learners are tapping into OER as the only source for textbooks. OER provides an opportunity to try new ways of teaching and learning, many of which are more collaborative and participatory.

Some educator are using OER as a way to get students more involved, using the OER process as a way to collaborate with them on content creation. This process brings students into a larger context of learning and sharing knowledge beyond the four walls of their classroom.

Flexibility is a key concept in OER. Materials can be adapted for your specific needs. Because these materials can be searched by a wide variety of criteria, you can quickly find what you specifically need.

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Rudd Adoption Research Program Annual Conferences (Rudd Adoption Research Program)

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Symposium on Valuing Engagement

The UMass Amherst Sesquicentennial is an important milestone in this institution’s history. As part of its celebration, the Sesquicentennial Committee sponsored two events, a morning symposium, "Valuing Engagement" and an afternoon workshop "Making It Work: Community Engagement in Research, Teaching and Service." Engaged scholarship was at the core of the land grant mission on which UMass Amherst was founded in 1863 and remains a core value for the campus 150 years later.

The two complementary events were designed to engage senior campus leadership, faculty, staff, students, and community partners in strategic discussions on national best practices in Community Engagement for Research, Teaching, and Service. They also served to convene the campus as it prepares to resubmit its application for the Carnegie Foundation’s “Community Engaged University” voluntary designation, initially awarded to the campus in 2008. The events were organized by the Faculty Senate’s Outreach Council and the Provost’s Committees on Service Learning and on Community Engagement.

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Trajectory: A Student Success Podcast (UMass Amherst Podcasts)

Trajectory is a bi-weekly production that focuses on the voices and narratives of UMass Amherst students as they share their journeys defining and achieving their own college success. Honoring that there are as many paths to success as there are students, our primary goal is giving students space to tell their stories while allowing others to listen and learn – and become inspired.

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Travel and Tourism Research Association: Advancing Tourism Research Globally

The TTRA 2024 Academic Program committee is excited to announce the first Call for Papers for the 54th Annual TTRA International Conference which will be held June 11 - 13, 2024 in Burlington, Vermont.

The theme for this year’s conference centers on Global Insights, Local Stories Shaping Tourism Research. In this spirit we invite you to submit abstracts that feature how your research generates insights that can inform the travel and tourism industry at the global or local (glocal) level. While we seek a diverse range of submissions, several related sub-themes to consider for your submission include:

• Sustainability and stewardship
• Visitor experience and value
• Residents and community

In preparation for the 2024 TTRA International Conference, we are crafting sessions that showcase the synergy between academics and practitioners, emphasizing their joint efforts to propel research and leverage data to address challenges within the tourism industry. We invite abstract submissions showcasing instances of collaborative research between academics and practitioners. Particularly, we encourage submissions where both practitioners and academics can actively engage and participate in the presentation.

All abstracts should be 500 - 2500 words, should not be previously published, and can include work that is being developed, in progress, or completed. The TTRA International Conference offers many ways to share your research, including:

1. Oral Presentation - Share your research in one of two ways:
• In a 15 minute oral presentation accompanied by a slide deck or other medium (e.g., spoken word, documentary, ethno-drama, etc…)
• In a conversational approach with a short introduction of your topic followed by small group conversation with session attendees
• An award will be presented for the Best Oral Presentation.
2. The Ideas Fair: Visual Presentation - Presented in person visually (as a poster, slideshow on a personal computer, or a combination) at the Ideas Fair event. The best presentation will be recognized with the Ideas Fair Winner Award. For further information and inspiration, please see here.
3. Qualitative Research Methods Workshop - Presented in a non-traditional round table discussion format. The Qualitative Research Methods Workshop is a great opportunity to sharpen your skills in applying qualitative methods and analyzing qualitative data. Learn from your fellow tourism researchers during the research roundtables where presenters will share their qualitative methods and findings. These roundtables are designed to provide opportunities for attendees to learn from each other through discussion and engagement in a more intimate setting.In addition to the research roundtables this workshop features a conversation with experts on the use of qualitative research methods within the study of travel & tourism. The best submission will be recognized with the Qualitative Research Award.

Graduate students are encouraged to submit their work for consideration in any of the above formats. Graduate students serving as the primary presenter (as indicated in the ScholarWorks submission) will be featured in the conference program as Emerging Leaders and will have the opportunity to participate in Emerging Leader programming during the conference.

TTRA International highly values diversity, equity, and inclusion. We believe that having talented and dedicated diversity in gender, race, ethnicity, and chapter representation, along with varied skills, perspectives, and career experiences (including representatives from the academic community, practitioners working for DMOs, and vendor practitioners) contributes to a balanced and effective organization and conference. We ask that you consider this while crafting your submissions.

We encourage you to review the abstract template and guidelines for authors before making your submission on ScholarWorks.

Accepted authors may choose to have a full paper, full abstract, or shortened abstract included in the conference proceedings.

Key Dates

• January 12, 2024 Abstract submissions due
• March 15, 2024 Authors notified of decisions on abstracts
• April 19, 2024 Abstracts finalized for proceedings

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UMassBRUT Community

UMassBRUT is a multidisciplinary campaign designed to reshape perceptions of the UMass Amherst and UMass Dartmouth Brutalist architecture in order to advocate for the conservation and renovation of these historic and internationally significant buildings.

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UMass IPM Fruit Loop

Welcome to The UMass IPM Fruit Loop! While Hawkeye does most of the talking, this is a co-creation of weekly contributions from Extension Educators Jon Clements and Elizabeth Garofalo. Extension and Stockbridge School of Agriculture's Dr. Jamie Piñero contributes weekly insect updates and integrated pest management strategies. Stockbridge School of Agriculture's Dr. Daniel Cooley is the team's resident plant pathologist and Dr. Duane Greene gives us the skinny on all things thinning and growth regulated. When we are extra lucky, we get a guest to join us. The possibilities are endless!

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USBI Biochar Conferences

This site features biochar conferences held in North America. The 2013 North American Biochar Symposium is at UMass Amherst October 13-16, 2013.

Previous conferences include:

2012 US Biochar Conference in Sonoma, CA
2010 US Biochar Conference, University of Iowa
2009 North American Biochar Conference, University of Colorado
2009 PVBI Northeast Biochar Symposium, UMASS Amherst

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War, Dictatorship, and Memory: An Interdisciplinary Symposium on Spain

This symposium brings together a diverse group of scholars in literature, film, anthropology and political science to explore the controversies that surround the politics of memory in Spain today. Highlights include two keynote lectures, three sessions of scholarly talks, a multimedia presentation on the newly created digital archive of Civil War testimonials and the US premiere of a new documentary by Spanish photojournalist Clemente Bernad.

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Wood Structures Symposium

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