Check out Zee's list over at The Next Web. I think this is exactly what you are looking for. It has the dates as well as links to all the conferences: thenextweb.com/2009/06/30/entrepreneur-s... Also, check out Mashable's list of the top 10 events for bloggers: mashable.com/2007/11/03/10-events-for-bl... ***Also, note that Mashable posts a weekly summary every week of the top web events/conferences going on in the world for that week.
Tamar is the blogger over their that is in charge of this post every week. Here is the latest one: mashable.com/2009/11/02/mashable-events-... Hope this helps! :) Mike.
The O'Reilly conferences are worthy of consideration, especial Web 2.0. If you are more interested in where the web is going than Web 3.0 or Semantic Web is the place to be.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.