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Explore the AfCA-IUCr Virtual Collection 📚 https://lnkd.in/edBPChuY We're excited to share this growing collection of articles by African authors published across IUCr Journals. This special collection was established to celebrate the founding of the African Crystallographic Association and to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the IUCr. 🌍 The AfCA Collection offers invaluable insights into the progress of crystallography in Africa, featuring research from scientists and articles on outreach initiatives that promote crystallography on the continent. With many open-access articles and others made free for a limited time, this collection is a powerful tool to share structural science research across the globe. Explore the issue here ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/edBPChuY

The Central Council for Research in Unani Medicine is preserving the past to shape the future! We are reviving the legacy of #UnaniMedicine with the reprinting of over 70 rare books, the translation of 66 classical volumes, the compilation of 22 books, and the preservation of an extensive collection of manuscripts to keep traditional knowledge alive. These initiatives go beyond preservation; they are about ensuring the legacy of Unani Medicine remains alive and relevant in today’s world. By bridging the past and the future, #CCRUM is paving the way for a #global appreciation of this traditional system of medicine.

The call for papers for the EISA PEC is now open! Our Standing Section at EISA conference (co-chaired with Jochen Kleinschmidt) explores non-state and societal dimensions of world politics: non-state actors, limited statehood, channels for foreign influence, policies and practices at the intersection of hierarchy and anarchy. We explore beyond-the-state world politics through: 1. Spaces: the outside(s), frontiers, boundaries, liminal spaces, "uncharted" terrains beyond the state power. Spatiality and territoriality beyond the modern state system; the international as a relational and liminal space. 2. Relations: dynamics, developments, strategies, and patterns of interactions and coexistence among state, non-state and societal actors. The contestation and the dynamics of the international beyond the state system. 3. Struggles: conflict, collaboration, persistence, survival and securitization among the state, non-state and societal actors. That includes related struggles in IR theory such as attempts to debunk statism and Eurocentrism. See you in Bologna! Abstracts are due by 20th March. The conference is scheduled for 25th-29th August in Bologna. #EISAPEC25

3 days left to submit a proposal for next year's Conference! 🗳️To submit, go here: https://lnkd.in/eD43z6SB The theme of this year's conference is Cultic Phenomena and Interdisciplinary Knowledge: Understanding for Better Intervention. The program will be divided into the following sub-themes: 🟩 Science in relation to cultic phenomena 🟦 Intervention with members or former members of high-control groups and their families 🟩 Perceptions of cultic phenomena within society and the role of the media. 🇬🇧🇫🇷The Conference Committee will consider proposals in English or French for in-person presentations and, for those unable to come to Montreal, pre-recorded sessions, which will be made accessible online. 🇨🇦To be held in Montreal, Canada in collaboration with Info-Secte / Info-Cult, who will be co-hosting the Conference with us. Deadline to submit is November 15, 2024.

Dear members, I am excited to call you to our conference in Kyparissia, Greece (1st to 6th of Sept) - for all the #DeSci enthusiasts! The conference will feature leading experts in Social Science and Political Science from Eastern Europe and the Middle East, focusing on how conflicts in these regions are struggling scientists and educators. Key topics include: - combating misinformation, - how exactly approaches for fighting misinformation leverage peer review crisis, - support of decentralized science amid regional pressures on scientists and educators within DAOs, - how specific DAO Governance constitutions may protect scientists and assist them, - announcement the Laboratory for Exemplary DeSci Practices. The conference is under support of the Briva Universitate (https://lnkd.in/dXRxgTdc), SCIENCE AT RISK.Emergency Office (Germany, https://lnkd.in/dxKS9E5i) and Jocelyn DAO for Scientists At Risk. Feel free to suggest your round tables and separate talks: https://lnkd.in/dGbXUhXt The flyer is for DeSci part. Here - the general conference with keynote speakers: https://lnkd.in/diqxEEwP

📌JICA Staff Blog In 2021, the Ogata Research Institute launched the "Politics and Governance" research cluster as its newest research field. To advance development cooperation in the current international situation, it has become increasingly important to gain in-depth knowledge of politics and governance. To understand how research can contribute to improving development cooperation, Dr. Orita, a principal researcher at the Ogata Research Institute, shares her reflections on the deeply intertwined and nuanced relationship between development cooperation and politics👇 ✅https://lnkd.in/gS35Ji85

ARE THERE STRUGGLES FOR SCIENTISTS because of REGIONAL CONFLICTS? YES! Join us on conference in Kyparissia, Greece, from 1st to 6th of September. The conference will feature leading experts in Social Science and Political Science from Eastern Europe and the Middle East, focusing also on how conflicts in these regions are struggling scientists and educators. Key topics include: - combating misinformation, - how exactly approaches for fighting misinformation leverage peer review crisis, - support of decentralized science amid regional pressures on scientists and educators within DAOs, - how specific DAO Governance constitutions may protect scientists and assist them, - announcement the Laboratory for Exemplary DeSci Practices. The conference is under support of the Briva Universitate, SCIENCE AT RISK.Emergency Office (Germany) and Jocelyn DAO for Scientists At Risk. Feel free to suggest your round tables and separate talks! 

Innocent Azilan (Institut méditerranéen des sciences de l'information et de la communication, France), Hanae Hroul (Ecole des Sciences de l'Information, Morocco), Nadia Barnoussi (Ecole des Sciences de l'Information, Morocco) and Pascal Aventurier (IRD, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, France) will present their research on the internationalisation and visibility of African Open Access journals at the Open Science Conference in the South, to be held in South Africa from 9 to 11 December. This research has been made possible by the availability of data from the ISSN portal (https://swll.to/JaMgdYN). The programme is available here: https://lnkd.in/ecEVfsVx

Super-tight deadline alert: if you are undertaking novel empirical research on information manipulation/interference, consider submitting an abstract to our #ISA2025 panel.

🎉 On the occasion of its 45th anniversary, Info-Cult is pleased to welcome you to the next International Cultic Studies Association (ICSA) 2025 conference, to be held in Montreal, Canada. The conference will take place from July 3-5, 2025, with pre-conference workshops on Wednesday, July 2, 2025. The theme of this year's conference is Cultic Phenomena and Interdisciplinary Knowledge: Understanding for Better Intervention.  🔎 The program will be divided into the following sub-themes :  🔸 Science in relation to cultic phenomena  🔹 Intervention with members or former members of high-control groups and their families  🔸 Perceptions of cultic phenomena within society and the role of the media 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 The Conference Committee will consider proposals in English or French for in-person presentations and, for those unable to come to Montreal, pre-recorded sessions, which will be made accessible online. ➡️ For more information, and to submit a proposal go here :  https://lnkd.in/ey2-U7hJ