Advertisement 1 March 2011 Upcoming International Congresses Europe Annual Congress of the European Society of Association Executives, 15-16/03/11, Brussels +++ 3rd QQML: Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries International Conference, 24-27/05/11, Athens +++ 15th International Conference of the European Fuel Cell Forum, 28/06-01/07/11, Lucerne Asia 7th World Congress on Science and Football of the World Commission on Science and Sport, 26-30/05/11, Nagoya +++ Conference of the Asian Fuzzy Systems Society, 21-25/06/11, Surabaya/Bali +++ 16th Congress of the International Association of Applied Linguistics, 23-28/08/11, Beijing America 3rd Congress of the Latin American Society of Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology, 20-24/06/11, Panama +++ International Mihajlov Symposium of the International Christian Studies Association, 04-07/08/11, Pasadena CA +++ 20th Congress of the Italo-Latin American Ethnomedicine Society,19-22/09/11, Fortaleza Africa 5th Symposium of the African Acarology Association, 16-20/05/11, Livingstone +++ 16th Annual Conference of the African Association for Lexicography, 05-07/07/11, Windhoek +++ 6th Biennial Forum of the European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership, 09-12/10/11, Addis Ababa Pacific 40th Annual Conference of the South Pacific Underwater Medicine Society, 23-28/05/11, Tamuning +++ 18th Congress of the International Farm Management Association, 20-25/03/11, Christchurch +++ Congress of the Australasian Cleft Lip and Palate Association, 13-16/03/11, Perth More conferences on the UIA Congress Calendar Online Perfect Storming By Tim Casswell, Vice President UIA Collaboration. 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