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The article offers information on papers presented at the 58th annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS), held in San Francisco, California, from April 6 to 9, 2006. The papers discussed in a panel on Southeastern Coastal China in the 12th-15th Centuries: Local Society at the Crossroads of Culture and Commerce include one by Matoshi Oka of Hiroshima University and another by Yasuhiro Yokkaichi of Kyushu University. The Society for Ming Studies sponsored a panel on Local Visions of the Ming in the Lae Qing.

The article discusses the highlights of the 48th annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies held in Honolulu, Hawaii from April 11-14, 1996. Jingyuan Zhang of Georgetown University was the chairman of a panel on "Narrating the Empire: Literature, Culture, and the Body Politic in Early Modern China." Meanwhile Stephen H. West of the University of California-Berkeley was the chairman of a panel "In Honor of James I. Crump's Contribution to the Study of Yuan Drama, Part 1: Lust, Desire, and Love in Yuan Drama."

The article discusses the highlights of the 52nd annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) held in San Diego, California, from March 9 to 12, 2000. Papers relating to the Ming period that were presented during the meeting included one on politics and intellectual networking in the late Ming capitals. Joanna Handlin Smith chaired a panel discussion on status, power and identity in 16th-century China, while Paul S. Ropp chaired a panel discussion on male discourses on female suicide in the late Imperial China.

The article discusses the highlights of the 34th annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) held in Chicago, Illinois, from April 2 to 4, 1982. Several papers related to late imperial Chinese history were presented during the meeting. Albert Feuerwerker chaired a symposium on state granaries and food supply in Qing China.

The Young Engineers Colloquium 2023 (YEC2023) was organized by the Belgian and Dutch National Groups of IABSE and took place at Ghent University in Belgium. The event provided a platform for young engineers under 35 years old to present their research, engineering, and construction projects to fellow engineers in the structural engineering sector. The Colloquium included oral and poster presentations, as well as a keynote lecture by Prof. José Campos e Matos. The event also featured a city walk and a technical excursion to visit bridges under construction and the Oosterweel tunnel project. Awards were given for the best paper and poster presentations. The conference proceedings are freely available for download. [Extracted from the article]

B "What Got Us Here, Won't Get Us There" b 16th-20th October 2023 In the 25 years since its first international conference on doctoral education, the discipline of design research has developed into a maturing but still emerging discipline. B The 15th International Conference of the European Academy of Design, b with the theme of "Doctoral Education in Design" Join our biennial conference to connect with your values, grow your research leadership, and reflect on what is needed to fuel the future of design education. This conference explores doctoral design research and design research education over five themes, hosted by five higher education institutions: I The Discipline of Design - transdisciplinary practices i I Living in the Pluriverse i I Beyond Human-Centred Design Research i I Exploring the Social Impact of Design Research i I Extreme Making i We invite papers exploring design research and education across these themes. [Extracted from the article]

A conference paper about a 1973-76 study on oral history in Jamaica is presented. Narratives of African-Jamaicans of the labor riots that took place on the island in 1938 are examined. The author concludes that the socio-political events of 1938 occupy a less significant place in Jamaican oral history compared to natural disasters such as hurricanes.

A conference paper about the clinical strategy for patients who attempts an illusion of "oneness" with the therapist is presented. The strategy uses the "romantic" approach, as well as go beyond such approach. The author suggests using the patient-therapist bond to pinpoint inchoate psychic states. To create new ways of being and relating, the therapist must facilitate the therapist-patient bond to bring the merged relationship to realization.

A conference paper about the victimization of the patients and analysts in the analytic process is presented. It examines how an analyst's efforts in trying to expand the patient's ability to understand and integrate experiences of agency and victimization implicates him in internalized scenarios. Such a situation results in the analyst's inability to understand the patterns and becomes entangled in it. In turn, the patients are also victimized by the personalities of their analysts.