The UM CIBER organizes and co-sponsors a series of academic conferences on international services to support its research objectives. These conferences, which bring together interdisciplinary research teams, include:

International Environmental Sustainability and Security Academic Conference 2013 (Back to Top)

This conference focuses on such topics as governmental and private response to global warming, climate change, preservation of the environment, and usage of renewable and non-renewable resources; international transfer of relevant knowledge, expertise and technologies, such as the aid of US-based oil service companies in Brazil’s new deep-water oil fields; assessment and protection from difficult-to-predict forces, such as hurricanes; comparative regions’ experiences; alternative energy sources; information technology to manage sustainability; competitiveness of government vs. private and subsidized vs. non subsidized firms; and companies’ responses when countries’ environmental regulations differ.

Additional information coming soon.

International Infrastructure Development Academic Conference 2014 (Back to Top)

This conference explores such topics as international markets for community planning; energy efficient and environmentally sensitive infrastructure; international partnerships for infrastructure; relationships between infrastructure and sustainable development; comparison of “demolition-reconstruction” with “cost savings and fast-track construction” cultures; and identification and measurement of determinant factors of productivity related to public and private projects.

Additional information coming soon. 

CIBER Business Language Conference 2013 (Back to Top)

See the official website HERE from the University of Indiana.

When: April 4 - 6, 2013

Where: Biddle Hotel and Conference Center - Bloomington, IN

"From April 4-6, 2013 the IU Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER), together with a consortium of CIBERs nationwide, will host the 15th annual Business Language Conference in Bloomington, Indiana. The theme for the conference, The Business of Language: Educating the Next Generation of Global Professionals, calls for an exchange of ideas on how to make the teaching of business language and culture a priority in the academic setting. Session topics will encourage participation from individuals and programs that supply training or instruction for the following:

• All levels of learning: K-12, college and university, and in-service;
• A wide spectrum of languages, including commonly taught languages as well as those languages for which the current needs are critically lacking;
• Small, medium, or large businesses, both multi-lingual domestic endeavors and globally based firms;
• Commercial sectors for goods, services, and professions including financial, tourism, high tech, banking, transportation, engineering, law, and security;
• Needs assessment of linguistic and cross-cultural skills required for successful communication in a particular business task or job.

The CIBER Business Language Conference is presented by a consortium of Centers for International Business Education and Research with support from the U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant program and the IU School of Global and International Studies."

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