ICCSR announces the third in the Marie Curie Core series of conferences on ‘The potential of CSR to contribute to the implementation and integration of EU strategies’. The third conference is on the topic ‘The potential of CSR to drive integration in an enlarged EU’.

Papers might address such questions as:

• Can CSR contribute to the integration of new member states into the EU?
• What distinctive CSR challenges face companies, civil society and governments in new member states?
• How do companies operating in old and new member states manage their CSR across borders?
• How do companies in new member states learn about and practice CSR?
• What are the drivers for companies in new member states to develop CSR?
• Are there distinctive government and civil society roles in the CSR of the new member states? 

Funding is available for the following groups of researchers:

1. Early-stage researchers
2. Mid-career researchers
3. European Researchers active outside the Union
   

Further information is available on the ICCSR website.

The Journal of Corporate Citizenship is inviting papers for consideration for a special edition which will identify and discuss the relevance of key events, initiatives, scandals, publications or laws in the evolution of the field over the past 20 years.

Papers may consider the influence of changes to the legal framework, such as the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833, or the Limited Liability Acts of 1856, '58 and '62; meetings such as the Earth Summit in Rio or the WTO meeting in Seattle; environmental disasters such as Bhopal, the Exxon Valdez spill and Hurricane Katrina; the founding of initiatives such as the Forest Stewardship Council, the Global Compact or the Kimberley Process; or corporate scandals such as BCCI, Enron or Google in China.

Essays may also consider how important key texts have been in shaping and guiding the field; by Adam Smith, Milton Friedman or C.K. Prahalad, for example. Or the influence of the Brundtland or Stern Reports. What impact have movies and books such as The Corporation, No Logo, Super-size Me or An Inconvenient Truth had in creating space for action and theory? And what can we make of the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to Muhammad Yunas and Grameen Bank, and Al Gore and the IPCC in the last two years?

This special edition of the Journal of Corporate Citizenship will form the Winter 2008/2009 issue. Please submit papers for peer-review by 30 April 2008 to the Editor, Malcolm McIntosh. (Write "Landmarks" in the subject line.) Papers submitted may also be considered for an edited book to be published in 2009.

Editorial guidelines are available from Greenleaf Publishing.

For the third Core conference in the Marie Curie Core series of conferences on "The potential of CSR to contribute to the implementation and integration of EU strategies", taking place in June 2008, Nottingham University Business School has issued a call for papers. The third conference is on the topic ‘The potential of CSR to drive integration in an enlarged EU’. 

Papers might address such questions as:

• Can CSR contribute to the integration of new member states into the EU?
• What distinctive CSR challenges face companies, civil society and governments in new member states?
• How do companies in new member states learn about and practice CSR?
• How do companies operating in old and new member states manage their CSR across borders?
• Do governments and civil society have distinctive roles to play in the CSR practices of the new member states?
• What are the drivers for companies in new member states to develop CSR?

The closing date for papers is the 21 March 2008. For further information please visit the conference website and the Marie Curie website.