13th ISSI Conference 2011, Durban, South Africa, 4th-7th July

 
The I3th ISSI conference in South Africa is organised by the ISSI 2011 Conference Local Organising Committee with the participation of six Universities and Research Centres: Durban University of Technology (the conference venue - http://www.dut.ac.za/site/default.asp), University of Cape Town (http://www.uct.ac.za), University of KwaZulu Natal (http://www.ukzn.ac.za), National Research Foundation (http://www.nrf.ac.za), University of South Africa (http://www.unisa.ac.za), University of Pretoria(http://www.up.ac.za) and University of Zululand (http://www.unizulu.ac.za).

Previous Conferences

South Africa won the bid to host the 13th ISSI International conference in 2011, to be held in Durban. ISSI meets regularly bi-annually. Previous ISSI conferences took place in Belgium (1987), Canada (1989), India (1991), Germany (1993), USA (1995), Israel (1997), Mexico (1999), Australia (2001), China (2003), Sweden (2005), Spain (2007) and Brazil (2009). There was strong support for the ISSI conference to be hosted in Africa (South Africa) for the first time and also recognition that South Africa is research leader in Africa and an emerging research contributor from the developing world.