Conference Bid Season in the USA

The British Council would like to announce that it is Conference Bid season in the USA. Most notably are the NAFSA, Forum on Education Abroad, and NACAC conferences.

NAFSA is taking place in Boston, MA from Sunday 24 May to Friday 29 May, 2015. The 2015 Call for Proposals is due by Friday 1^st August for Session Workshop Proposals, and you can enter your submission here.  Poster Proposals are due Monday 15 December.

Forum on Education Abroad will take place on Wednesday 25 March to Friday 27 March, 2015 in the Sheraton New Orleans in New Orleans, LA. The deadline to submit is 22 August 2014, and can be done so here.

NACAC will take place Thursday 1 October to Saturday 3 October, 2015 in San Diego, CA. The Call for Proposals will open in late October/early November 2014.

More conference information can be found here:

Association of International Education Administrators (AIEA)

• Dates: Sunday 15^th February to Wednesday 18^th February, 2015
• Location: Washington Marriott Wardman Park, Washington, DC
• Theme: Leading Global Learning: Envisioning New Paradigms.
• Key question - How do we as educators and leaders anticipate and embrace the challenges of the higher education landscape of the early twenty-first century, and prepare our students to navigate this unfamiliar topography? Sub themes include; Diversity and Global Learning, The Senior International Officer (SIO) and Campus Leadership, The SIO and Accountability, Technologically-Facilitated Global Learning and Global Responsibilities. See more - http://www.aieaworld.org/2015-call-for-proposals
• Proposal Deadline: 15^th August 2014

American Council on Education (ACE)

• Dates: Saturday 14^th March to Tuesday 17^th March, 2015
• Location: Washington Hilton, Washington, DC
• Theme: See more - http://www.acenet.edu/news-room/Pages/Call-for-Proposals-Annual-Meeting-2014.aspx
• Proposal Deadline: Friday 25^th July, 2014

American Educational Research Association (AERA)

• Dates: Thursday 16^th April – Monday 20^th April, 2015
• Location: Chicago, Il
• Theme: “Towards Justice: Culture, Language, and Heritage in Education in Research and Praxis”. See more - http://www.aera.net/EventsMeetings/AnnualMeeting/2015AnnualMeetingTheme/tabid/15492/Default.aspx
• Proposal Deadline: Tuesday 22^nd July, 2014

Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

• Dates: Thursday 12^th February to Monday 16^th February, 2015
• Location: San Jose, CA
• Theme: Innovations, Information and Imaging. See more - http://meetings.aaas.org/program/meeting-theme/
• Proposal Deadline: Poster submission deadline 23^rd October 2014, Deadlines for submitting symposia proposals (28^th April 2014) and career development workshop proposals (6 May 2014) already happened.

Modern Languages Association (MLA)

• Dates: Thursday 8^th January to Sunday 11^th January, 2015
• Location: Vancouver, Canada
• Theme: Negotiating Sites of Memory. See more - http://www.mla.org/2015_pres_theme
• Proposal Deadline: Session proposal deadline already happened (1^st April 2014).

American Council on Learned Societies (ACLS)

• Dates: Thursday 7^th May to Friday 9^th May, 2015
• Location: Sheraton Society Hill Hotel, Philadelphia, PA

Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U)

• Dates: Wednesday 21^st January to Saturday 24^th January, 2015
• Location: Grand Hyatt Hotel, Washington, DC
• Theme: America’s Global Future: Are College Students Prepared? See more - http://www.aacu.org/meetings/annualmeeting/AM15/symposium.cfm
• Proposal Deadline: Monday 14^th July 2014The British Council would like to announce that it is Conference Bid season in the USA. Most notably are the NAFSA, Forum on Education Abroad, and NACAC conferences.