Technicalities of international conferencing

Studies and commentary about international conferences, and their challenges, are produced in various UIA publications and documents. For instance, we have long been concerned with the challenges of international conference organization. In the 1950s and 1960s, the focus was on the technicalities and logistics of conference organization: communication equipment, budgeting, interpretation, conference centre design, standards, and the like. Such issues were explored through a series of International Congresses on Congress Organization. In the past the UIA has also had several major projects gathering bibliographical information on the proceedings of international meetings, and the methods for organizing them (see bibliographical research):

• International conference proceedings
  • Bibliographical current list of papers, reports and proceedings of international meetings (1961-1968)
  • Bibliography of Proceedings of International Meetings (1957, 1958, 1959)
  • Yearbook of International Congress Proceedings (1960-67, 1962-69)
• International conference organization
  • Bibliography on Congress Theory and Practice
  • International Congress Science Series - 12 issues published from 1960-1984, in English and French (go to the UIA Publications page to search for individual issues)

Another resource of interest is a UIA study on Meeting Security published in 2001, covering the dangers and protective measures associated with international meetings.