ASIA-EUROPE INSTITUTE SEMINAR SERIES

hello everyone!how are we keeping up in our work places?

it has been a while since i blogged,well you can imagine how hectic things have been at AEI!

It's that time of the year when students were returning from December vacation so a lot had to be done to prepare for them. since they got back there has been a string of educational seminars presented by different visiting professors from various Asian and European countries.

now seminars need time and hard work to organize. first of all a guest speaker is invited to come and speak at the seminar and getting this guest speaker is not so easy. you need to write in and request for the presence of the speaker, propose a topic for them and wait for their response. once they give a positive responce by confirming that they will indeed come for the seminar then we start inviting students to attend, you would need to let them know well in time. wht we usually do is to email each and every student a memo(lucky enough they are not a large group). also a few posters are put up to inform the students,staff and public about the upcoming seminar. once we are done with invitations we prepare the seminar hall a day before the seminar. we make sure that everything is working and in proper shape. we also make sure that on the day of the seminar a food catering company will deliver the ordered food. as for food, it depends on what time the seminar has started and finishes, if it's a morning affair then breakfast will be provided and if it is an afternoon one then definitely lunch.

organizing events makes a very important part of public relations,call it event management. if one thing goes wrong, everything else might go wrong, so planing events such as seminars requires commitment even though it sounds so simply!

so far all the seminars that have been conducted went smoothly.

i had wanted to share with you a few pictures from the seminar series but when i upload them it messes up the post(mind you i had uploaded them on the last posts which i ended up having to delete because of this problem).