Dates: April 10-12, 2008
Deadline for submission of proposals: February 8, 2008
Co-sponsored by the Regional Science Consortium at the Tom Ridge Environmental Center.

Proposals for papers and panels are invited for an innovative conference that will examine the creative and cooperative roles that national governments, international organizations, and NGO’s can play in addressing the crucial economic, environmental, and social problems in an age of globalization.

Proposals are especially welcome in the following areas:

• Prospects for international cooperation and the future of the United Nations
• A call for creative interaction: governments and NGOs in the 21st century
• Human rights: national perspectives, international alliances
• Women and development: breaking the barriers
• Freedom of information in the digital era
• Health care and the medical profession: a national and global crisis?
• Energy options in an age of global industrialization 
• Our threatened ecosphere: conservation as self-defense

Proposals in related areas of interest are also encouraged. Selected papers will be published.

Send all paper and panel proposals to:
Dennis Hickey
Department of History & Anthropology
Edinboro University of Pennsylvania
Edinboro, PA. 16444
dhickey@edinboro.edu 

Please limit your proposals to 250 words. Include your professional affiliation/title,
your mailing address and e-mail address with your submission.