Northeastern Regional Conference

The 2008 Northeastern Regional Conferecnce "The Fierce Urgency of Now: Black Scholars in a Rapidly Changing World" was held at Bloomsburg University in Pennsylvania from November 14-16th, 2008. The next meeting of members from the Northeastern Regional will be the Northeastern Regional Mixer at the 21st Annual NBGSA National Conference in Houston, Texas. If you would like to become a member of NBGSA please fill out the online membership application or download a printable version and mail it in.

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Registration Fee

The conference registration fee for the 2009 Northeastern Regional Conference will be announced as soon as information as available. If you would like to make a general donation, please feel free to use the link below.

Make a donation here:

(please use the link below until our problems with the original form are solved)

Click here for a printable version of the regional conference application.

Hotel Information

The conference hotel for the 2009 Northeastern Regional Conference is still being determined.

Call for Papers

We invite you to join the Northeast Region at the 2009 Northeastern Regional Conference as we reflect and repair, acknowledge and ascend, prepare and produce, envisage and encourage, and boldly blaze new trails!  We are calling for posters addressing any ACADEMIC topic of interest to the diverse membership of the National Black Graduate Student Association.

Poster Submission Guidelines

Posters are ideal for presenting speculative, late-breaking results or for giving an introduction to interesting, innovative work.  Posters are intended to provide authors and participants with the ability to connect with each other and to engage in discussions about the work.  Poster sizes are not specified; however, they should be at least 17” by 22”.

Proposal Submission Instructions

The following information is required for poster submissions:

  1. Proposal Submittal Form: This includes the title of the paper, poster, panel, or presentation, authors(s)/ presenter(s), phone number, category, presentation format and length, and audiovisual requirements. Proposal downloads for the 2009 Northeastern Regional Conference will be available sometime soon.
  2. Poster Abstract: The abstract text must contain the title and a 250-word (maximum) detailed description of the poster presentation.  If submitted electronically, the abstract should be in Microsoft Word format.

The information above may be submitted electronically via email to nerep02@nbgsa.org.