Sixth Annual World Universities Forum

We are pleased to announce the Sixth Annual World Universities Forum.

10-11 January, 2013
UBC – Robson Square
Vancouver, Canada

For more information, please visit our website.

Call for Papers

The Forum examines the role and future of the University in a changing world. It is ambitious in its intellectual and practical, agenda-setting scope, and broad in its themes.

Paper presentations begin with the submission of an abstract. For information on current deadlines, proposals, presentation types, and other options please follow this link.

If your proposal is accepted, you will then need to fully register for the conference in order to be scheduled into the program.

Registration

Those who submit paper proposals should register following the acceptance of the proposal.  Conference delegates who do not intend to present may register at any time. For registration options, or to register for the 2013 World Universities Forum, please see this website

Themes

Theme 1: In the Interest of the Academy: Perspectives on the Nature, Purpose and Working of the University

• Knowledge Designs
• Learning Designs
• Organisational Designs
• Designs on the World

Theme 2: Academic Interests: Setting Intellectual and Practical Agendas

• Sciences
• Technologies
• Cultures, Identities, Humanisms
• Resources and Welfare
• Governance

For more information on our overall themes, please click here.