The Department of Economics at UMass Boston (social-economics friendly economics department) invites applications for two visiting assistant professor positions for one-year appointments starting September 1, 2017.

This/These position(s) will support our growing cohorts of undergraduate majors in the areas of microeconomics and macroeconomics. We are especially interested in candidates who include an international comparative approach, heterodox political economy, feminist approaches, applied policy analysis, and/or innovative methodologies in their research.

Qualifications: Candidates should have a successful teaching record and the capacity to contribute to undergraduate general education and the economics major. Evidence of successful teaching with diverse students, including international students, is highly desirable. Candidates must complete the Ph.D. by no later than August 31, 2017. Evidence of progress towards an excellent scholarly record is necessary.

Review of applications will begin on March 15, 2017.

Please submit a letter of application, curriculum vitae, a sample of written work, evidence of teaching effectiveness, and the names and email addresses of three references. Please include in your letter of application an explanation of how your work would complement the heterodox nature of the Department.

Questions can be directed to Julie Nelson at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Please note that the university does not facilitate visas for non-US applications for one-year positions.

Temple University, Philadelphia PA. Temple University's Department of Geography and Urban Studies (GUS) invites applications for a full-time, non-tenure track Assistant Professor position for academic year 2017-2018, with responsibilities for teaching in the areas of 1) nature/society relations and 2) Geographic Information Systems.

The appointment will be for one year only. It is possible that the position may be renewable, pending continued college-level funding and satisfactory performance. GUS (www.cla.temple.edu/gus) offers two interdisciplinary undergraduate majors in Geography and Urban Studies and Environmental Studies with approximately 170 majors. GUS also offers a M.A. and a Ph.D. in Geography and Urban Studies as well as a Professional Science Masters in GIS. 

The position is teaching intensive. We seek instructors committed to undergraduate education who will be able to teach a combination of introductory and mid-level courses connected with a university-wide general education program and the two majors offered in our department. The successful candidate will be able to teach courses including Sustainable Environments, Digital Mapping, Environment and Society, and Fundamentals of GIS. Ability to teach other methods courses such as web mapping, cartography or remote sensing is desirable. A Ph.D. in Geography or a related field is required by the start of employment.

Please send a letter that addresses teaching and research interests, a copy of your most recent curriculum vitae, evidence of teaching excellence, and contact information for three references to: Maggie Cogswell, Administrator, Department of Geography and Urban Studies, 1008A Gladfelter Hall, 1115 W. Pollett Walk, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA  19122.  Electronic applications are required and should be sent to: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Review of applications will begin May 1, 2017 and will continue until the position is filled.

Temple University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer and the University especially encourages applications from women, minorities, veterans and people with disabilities.

Economic Development Quarterly (EDQ) is seeking evidence-based research manuscripts for a special issue of the journal that highlights effective economic development and workforce policies designed to foster manufacturing innovation and growth in the United States. The W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research and Sage Publications are collaborating with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) network, SSTI, and the Center for Regional Economic Competitiveness (CREC) in sponsoring this special issue.

The partnering organizations are seeking high quality research that would advance the state of practice in support of manufacturing. Selected papers will be submitted for peer review and those that receive peer approval will be published in an EDQ special issue on manufacturing in 2018. Top papers may be eligible to receive an award.

Please feel free to share this Call for Papers with peers who you think might be interested in submitting a proposal. Proposed abstracts/research outlines should be submitted to John Marotta at  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Proposed abstracts/research outlines are due May 1, 2017.  

For questions or additional information, please contact John Marotta (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) or Ken Poole (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).

North American Regional Scientists - If you have any materials or announcements to include in the June issue of the NARSC newsletter, please send them to Elizabeth Mack (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) or Ran Wei (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) by May 1. 

This is an alert that we have some remaining assistantships to fund Ph.D. students for study to begin in Fall 2017.

Our program provides interdisciplinary training in a variety of public policies, focusing on urban policy. Our program features a strong training in policy analysis, advanced statistical methods, and substantive policy areas. Students also have the opportunity to learn methodology for big data analytics.

If you have some training in Economics and hold a Masters degree (Public Administration, Political Science, Economics, Geography, or Sociology), apply today for a position in our Fall 2017 cohort.

For information, please contact Dr. Martha Kropf, Interim Director of the Public Policy Ph.D. program at 704-687-7332 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Mediterranean Symposium on Smart City Applications (SCAMS 2017)

It’s a great pleasure to invite you to submit your research paper and attend The Mediterranean Symposium on Smart City Applications (SCAMS 2017)that will be held in Tangier, Morocco from 25 to 27 October 2017.

http://www.medi-ast.org/scams17/index.html

SCAMS 2017, is a forum for scientists,computer scientists, health researchers and industrial engineers to discuss and exchange experimental or theoretical results, novel designs, work-in-progress, experience, case studies, and trend-setting ideas in the area of smart City. 

Smart City is a new approach that covers clean technology and emerging information technology and their application in fields of urban services, domotics, industry, security, education, environment, healthcare, transportation, sustainability, etc

The SCAMS Proceedings will be published by  ACM International Conference Proceedings and will be indexing ThomsonReuter , SCOPUS, DBLP,  Inspec, IET.

All accepted papers will be available inACM Digital Library.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

· Track 1.  Smart Cities.

· Track 2.   Smart Building and Home Automation

· Track 3.   Smart Earth and Smart Agriculture

· Track 4.   Information Technologies and Computer Science

http://www.medi-ast.org/scams17/topics.html

Important Deadlines:

· Paper Submission Deadline   : 15  April 2017

· Notification of Paper Acceptance : 15 June  2017

· Camera Ready Paper Submission : 15 July 2017

· Authors Registration Deadline : 30 July  2017

· Symposium Date    : 25 – 27 October  2017

Submission link :http://www.medi-ast.org/scams17/submission.html

We would like your kindness to forward this Call for Paper to your colleagues/students.

Please email your questions to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Looking forward to meet you in SCAMS 2017, Tangier Morocco.

Sincerely yours,

SCAMS Committee

"Public Policies, Cities and Regions" workshop

December, 14-15, 2017
at GATE Lyon (Ecully)

Topics: Public policies are often closely related to urban and regional issues. Place-based policies such as enterprise zone or industrial cluster policies, but also local public policies, are by nature spatially differentiated. Moreover, many national public policies related to the housing market (e.g. tax incentives for rental investment), land use (e.g. zoning policies) and environment (e.g. protected areas) use delineation rules to target specific types of locations or agents.
The workshop will gather original research papers shedding light on the issues raised by these public policies for urban and regional economies. The workshop welcomes submissions of theoretical and empirical contributions. Accepted papers will be presented over two days and will complement two keynote speakers’ presentations.

Keynote speakers: Nathaniel Baum-Snow (University of Toronto) and Kurt Schmidheiny (University of Basel)

Scientific Committee: Pierre-Philippe Combes (GATE, CNRS), Nelly Exbrayat (GATE, UJM), Laurent Gobillon (Paris School of Economics), Florence Goffette-Nagot (GATE, CNRS), Florian Mayneris (Univ. of Louvain-la-Neuve), Sonia Paty (GATE, Univ. Lyon 2), Frédéric Robert-Nicoud (Univ. of Lausanne), Elisabet Viladecans (Univ. of Barcelona)

Organizing committee: Sylvie Charlot (GATE, Univ. Lyon 2), Pierre-Philippe Combes (GATE, CNRS), Sylvie Démurger (GATE, CNRS), Nelly Exbrayat (GATE, UJM), Florence Goffette-Nagot (GATE, CNRS), Sonia Paty (GATE, Univ. Lyon 2)

Deadline for submissions: September 15, 2017.

Workshop webpage: https://www.gate.cnrs.fr/ppcr

Dear All,

Thanks for all of your support and the supportive expressions you shared here after the death of Dr. Raymond Florax. The presence of so many of his former and current students as well as colleagues from around the world at Raymond's memorial service was a tremendous expression of his lasting impact on our lives. 

We have established a fund to honor Raymond. The proceeds of the endowment will fund faculty and graduate student exchanges between the Purdue Department of Agricultural Economics and universities in The Netherlands with preference given to visits to and from the Vrie University where Raymond continued to maintain a strong partnership. In fact, he brokered and encouraged several such exchanges during his time on the Purdue faculty. We discussed the various things that Raymond was passionate about and helping graduate students and young professionals build their skills and network continued to come to the top of the list. I hope that you all will help us honor Raymond in this way. If we all give a bit then we can reach the minimum goal of $25,000 to endow the fund. Here is a link (http://giving.purdue.edu/FloraxMemorial) where you can make online contributions. You can always send a check or money order to us here at Purdue with a note directing it to the Dr. Raymond J.G.M. Memorial Exchange Fund. Thanks for your continued support and kindness.

Sincerely,

Dr. Ken Foster, PhD
Professor and Head|Department of Agricultural Economics |Purdue University
Krannert Building | Room 653 | 403 W. State St. |West Lafayette, IN 47907-2056
Phone: 765-494-4191 | Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | Website: www.agecon.purdue.edu

Goa in India will host the RSAI World Congress of 2018. Regional Science Association of India is collaborating with Birla Institute of Technology to organise this event under the aegis of RSA International. The choice of India as the destination for the World Congress is extremely significant in the context of impacts of globalisation in South Asia. The purpose of this Congress is to create an opportunity for bridging the networks established by the supra-regional organizations and to provide a scientifically and socially attractive event for scholars and postgraduate students and from all parts of the world.