Freedom of Association: Harmonizing Canadian norms with international commitments, Saskatoon, February 25 - 27, 2010

Freedom of Association
Harmonizing Canadian norms with international commitments
Saskatoon, February 25 - 27, 2010

Join us on February 25 - 27, 2010at the Collegeof Law, Universityof
Saskatchewan, for a conference on one of the most critical issues facing
the Canadian labour relations and human rights communities: freedom of
association in the workplace.

This conference will: review the character, evolution and status of
freedom of association at work as a global right; examine domestic law
and practice in light of Canada's international obligations; and,
explore ways that Canadian norms may be harmonized with Canada's
international obligations.

Although a broad range of issues will be discussed, particular
attention will be paid to recent Canadian jurisprudence, the right to
strike, and non-statutory unionism as an alternative or complement to
majoritarian exclusivity.

Speakers will include:
Janice Bellace, Universityof Pennsylvaniaand Chair ILO Committee of
Experts
Lee Swepston, human rights consultant and former ILO Senior Advisor on
Human Rights
Bernard Adell, Queen's LawSchooland editor, Canadian Labour and
Employment
Law Journal
Robin Basu, Ontario Attorney General's Office
Stewart Saxe, Baker & McKenzie
Tonia Novitz, U. of Bristol, UK, author of International and European
Protection of the
Right to Strike
Larry Haiven, St. Mary's University
Neil Tudiver, Canadian Association of University Teachers
Lucien Royer, Canadian Labour Congress
Mark Harcourt, University of Waikato, New Zealand
Anthony Giles, Director General, Strategic Policy, Analysis, and
Workplace Information
Directorate, HRSDC
James Clancy, President, National Unionof Public and General Employees
Peter J. Barnacle, Woloshyn & Company

For more information and to register:

To contact Roy Adams
306.966.5606
roy.adams@usask.ca

To Register
www.usask.ca/law/sallows

Sponsored by the Collegeof Law, Universityof Saskatchewanand the
Johnson-ShoyamaGraduateSchoolof Public Policy

YCISS Contentious Conflict and Canadian Society Series: The Sri Lankan Civil War and the Politics of Conflict in Canada: Wednesday 2nd December 2009 4.30-6.30pm

The YCISS Contentious Conflicts and Canadian Society Series:

The Sri Lankan Civil War and the Politics of Conflict in Canada

Wednesday 2nd December 2009
4.30-6.30pm
YRT Conference Centre
Room 519, 5th Floor
York Research Tower (YRT)
York University

The Government of Sri Lanka and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam have
waged a civil war against each other for several decades. The experiences
and effects of the violence of this conflict have been registered in the
lives of Tamil and Sinhalese diaspora living in Canada.

As part of the YCISS Contentious Conflict and Canadian Society Series this
panel discussion will explore how diasporas affected by the Sri Lankan
civil war mobilize to shape public opinion and influence official views
and policy.

Key questions to be addressed may include:

1) How is the civil war in Sri Lanka represented by the diaspora living in
Canada?
2) What are the political options for members of a diaspora in terms of
both direct and indirect action and can they exert a positive influence on
Canadian foreign and domestic policies?
3) What should be the policy response in Ottawa to calls for intervention
or action from diasporas in Canada?
4) How can the diasporas contribute to developing an effective and
peaceful response to the problems within the community in both Sri Lanka
and Canada?
5) What should be the role of universities in providing a space for the
debate of contentious conflicts within Canadian society?

The panel consists of representatives from the communities affected by the
violence, subject matter experts and members of organisations with
knowledge of the conflict and its impact on Canadian society.

The panel includes:

Dr R. Cheran, University of Windsor
Ken Kandeepan, Canadian Tamil Congress
Stewart Bell, National Post
John Argue, Amnesty International
Clem Marshall, Moderator

Please note that due to space restrictions, participation for this event
is by pre-registration via this link

http://www.yorku.ca/yciss/forms/view.php?id=2

For further details on this event please see:
http://www.yorku.ca/yciss/news/upcoming.html

JOB ANNOUNCEMENT: TWO TERM POSITIONS: RESEARCH ASSOCIATE & GRADUATE RESEARCH ASSISTANT

JOB ANNOUNCEMENT
TWO TERM POSITIONS: RESEARCH ASSOCIATE & GRADUATE RESEARCH ASSISTANT
o Research associate: full-time, January 4 to August 27 2010. $35 000
per annum, prorated.
The research associate must have 2 to 3 years experience, possibly acquired
during a research-based graduate degree in a relevant field.
o Graduate research assistant: full-time, January 4 to August 27 2010.
$17 850 per annum,
pro-rated. The graduate research assistant must be enrolled in the
research or thesiswriting
phase of a relevant health-related graduate program in anthropology,
sociology,
geography, nursing or public health.
o Applicants may be considered for both positions.
Language:
Very good spoken and written English is necessary. Excellent written
French will be an asset.
Sackville is an English-speaking community located near the
French-speaking communities of
Memramcook and Dieppe.
Successful applicants will be part of a small team based at Mount
Allison University carrying out
funded research on breastfeeding.
Job Duties:
o assisting with literature surveys, assisting with coding interview
transcripts using
NVIVO8, assisting with analysis and write-up
o assisting with dissemination of results in English and French to
public and health
professionals
o assisting in the training of undergraduate researchers
Qualifications:
o familiarity with analysis of qualitative or ethnographic data
o high level of proficiency in MSWord and demonstrated capacity to
master new software
(NVIVO8)
o good writing skills (see note on Language above)
o demonstrated familiarity with on-line medical and social science indexes
o strong interpersonal skills with an ability to work closely and
confidentially
o demonstrated ability to work independently
Interested candidates should apply with one or two relevant writing
samples, cover letter, and
cv before December 1 2009 to:
Dr. Patricia Kelly Spurles, Associate Professor, Mount Allison
Breastfeeding Research Group /
Department of Anthropology, 144 Main Street, Sackville, NB, E4L 1A7.
Applications may also be
sent by email to pkellyspurles@mta.ca.

Call for CASCA2010/Appel CASCA 2010

(la version française suit)

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CALL FOR PAPERS

The 2010 Canadian Anthropology Society Annual Conference
will be held from May 31 to June 3, 2010, at Concordia
University in Montreal, within the framework of the Congress of the
Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences.

This year's theme chosen by the Canadian Federation for
Humanities and Social Sciences is "Connected Understandings".

In order to relate to this theme while framing it with an
anthropological perspective, the program committee of CASCA 2010
proposes to explore the following theme :

Anthropological connections: New Spaces and New Networks?

The program committee seeks proposals by January 20, 2010.
Early submissions and registration are welcome.
For more detailed information on the conference theme,
the conference venue, and on how to become a member of CASCA,
register for the conference, submit proposals and
buy tickets for the CASCA 2010 banquet, go on CASCA's website
and follow the instructions:

http://www.cas-sca.ca/

For further information, please contact us at:

CASCA2010@gmail.com

We look forward to seeing you all in large numbers!

Marie Nathalie LeBlanc

Vered Amit

Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier

Joseph Lévy

Deirdre Meintel

and Géraldine Mossière,

Program Committee, CASCA 2010.

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APPEL DE SOUMISSIONS

Dans le cadre du Congrès 2010 des Sciences humaines,
le colloque annuel de la Société Canadienne d'Anthropologie
se tiendra cette année à Montréal, du 1er au 3 juin,
sur le campus de l'Université Concordia.

Le thème choisi cette année par la Fédération
des sciences humaines est celui du « Savoir branché ».

Pour faire écho à cette thématique tout en la cadrant
dans une perspective anthropologique, le comité de programmation
du colloque annuel de CASCA 2010 propose d'explorer le thème suivant :

Branchements anthropologiques : nouveaux espaces et nouveaux liens ?

La date limite pour les soumissions est le 20 janvier 2010.

Pour de l'information détaillée sur le thème du colloque,
le lieu du colloque et son organisation, et sur l'adhésion à CASCA,
l'inscription au colloque, les soumissions et l'achat de billets
pour le banquet du colloque CASCA 2010, veuillez vous référer au site
internet de CASCA et suivre les instructions :

http://www.cas-sca.ca/

N'hésitez pas à nous contacter à:

CASCA2010@gmail.com

Au plaisir de vous y voir nombreux !

Marie Nathalie LeBlanc

Vered Amit

Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier

Joseph Lévy

Deirdre Meintel

et Géraldine Mossière,

Comité de programmation, CASCA 2010

Mount Allison University - 2 term positions available

JOB ANNOUNCEMENT
TWO TERM POSITIONS: RESEARCH ASSOCIATE & GRADUATE RESEARCH ASSISTANT

o Research associate: full-time, January 4 to August 27 2009. $35
000 per annum, pro-rated. The research associate must have 2 to 3
years experience, possibly acquired during a research-based graduate
degree in a relevant field.
o Graduate research assistant: full-time, January 4 to August 27 2009.
$17 850 per annum, pro-rated. The graduate research assistant must be
enrolled in the research or thesis-writing phase of a relevant
health-related graduate program in anthropology, sociology, geography,
nursing or public health.
o Applicants may be considered for both positions.

Language:
Very good spoken and written English is necessary. Excellent written
French will be an asset. Sackville is an English-speaking community
located near the French-speaking communities of Memramcook and Dieppe.

Successful applicants will be part of a small team based at Mount
Allison University carrying out funded research on breastfeeding.

Job Duties:
o assisting with literature surveys, assisting with coding interview
transcripts using NVIVO8, assisting with analysis and write-up
o assisting with dissemination of results in English and French to
public and health professionals
o assisting in the training of undergraduate researchers

Qualifications:
o familiarity with analysis of qualitative or ethnographic data
o high level of proficiency in MSWord and demonstrated capacity to
master new software (NVIVO8)
o good writing skills (see note on Language above)
o demonstrated familiarity with on-line medical and social science indexes
o strong interpersonal skills with an ability to work closely and
confidentially
o demonstrated ability to work independently

Interested candidates should apply with one or two relevant writing
samples, cover letter, and cv before December 1 2009 to:

Dr. Patricia Kelly Spurles, Associate Professor, Mount Allison
Breastfeeding Research Group / Department of Anthropology, 144 Main
Street, Sackville, NB, E4L 1A7. Applications may also be sent by email
to pkellyspurles@mta.ca.

La bourse d=?iso-8859-1?Q?=92=E9tude?= Richard F. Salisbury/The Richard F. Salisbury Student Award

The Richard F. Salisbury Student Award ($1,500)

CASCA is again holding a competition for the Richard F. Salisbury
Student Award. The Salisbury Award is given in memory of Dr. Richard
Frank Salisbury, a founding member of the McGill University Department
of Anthropology as well as the McGill Centre for Developing Areas
Studies. Dr. Salisbury was the author of From Stone to Steel (1962)
and A Homeland for the Cree (1986). His leadership on the James Bay
Project helped the James Bay Cree and the Government of Quebec work
out the historic treaty that has become a model for reconciling
aboriginal autonomy with economic development. Dr. Salisbury passed
away in 1989.

The Richard F. Salisbury Student Award is given each year to a PhD
candidate, enrolled at a Canadian university, for the purposes of
defraying expenses incurred while carrying out dissertation fieldwork.
The amount of the award for the current competition has been set at
$1,500. The winner of each award is also invited to present their
preliminary findings to the annual meeting of the Canadian
Anthropology Society/Société Canadienne d'Anthropologie.

The deadline for this year's competition is March 19, 2010.

The application form and further information is available on the CASCA
website: www.cas-sca.ca

Or the Salibury Award web page:

http://cas-sca.ca/casca/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6&Itemid=24&lang=en

La bourse d'étude Richard F. Salisbury (1500 $)

La Bourse d'études Richard F. Salisbury est octroyée en mémoire de M.
Richard Frank Salisbury, un membre fondateur du département
d'anthropologie de l'Université McGill et du Centre d'études sur les
régions en développement de l'Université McGill. M. Salisbury est
également l'auteur des ouvrages From Stone to Steel (1962) et A
Homeland for the Cree (1986). Son leadership lors des négociations
entourant le projet hydroélectrique de la baie James a contribué à la
conclusion du traité historique entre le gouvernement du Québec et les
Cris de la région de la baie James. Cet accord est ensuite devenu un
modèle de rapprochement entre l'autonomie autochtone et le
développement économique. M. Salisbury est décédé en 1989.

La Bourse d'études Richard F. Salisbury est accordée chaque année à
une étudiante ou à un étudiant inscrit à un programme de doctorat dans
une université canadienne, dans le but de l'aider à couvrir ses
dépenses durant ses études sur le terrain. Le montant prévu cette
année est de 1500 $. La ou le récipiendaire de chaque bourse est
également invité à présenter ses conclusions préliminaires à
l'occasion de l'assemblée annuelle de la Canadian Anthropology
Society/Société canadienne d'anthropologie.

La date limite est le 19 mars 2010.

Le formulaire et des renseignements complémentaires sont accessibles
sur le site Web de la CASCA : www.cas-sca.ca

Ou sur la page de la Bourse d'études Richard F. Salisbury :

http://cas-sca.ca/casca/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6&Itemid=24&lang=fr

University of Ottawa/l'Universit=?iso-8859-1?Q?=E9_d'Ottawa_-_conf=E9rence_publique_donn=E9e?= par Mme Jennifer Rowell/public lecture given by Jennifer Rowell

CARE Canada and the School of International Development and Global
Studies (SIDGS), in collaboration with the Institute of Women's
Studies (IWS) at the University of Ottawa invite you to a public
lecture given by Jennifer Rowell, CARE's Advocacy Coordinator, on
November 25, 2009 at 2:30 pm, Desmarais Building, room 3120. Entitled
"Women's empowerment and aid effectiveness in Afghanistan", the
lecture will be in English only.

CARE Canada et l'École de développement international et
mondialisation (ÉDIM), en collaboration avec l'Institut d'études des
femmes (IÉF) de l'Université d'Ottawa vous invitent à une conférence
publique donnée par Mme Jennifer Rowell, Coordonnatrice de la défense
des droits à CARE, le 25 novembre 2009 à 14h30 au Pavillon Desmarais,
salle 3120. Intitulée "L'autonomisation et le renforcement des
capacités des femmes et l'efficacité de l'aide en Afghanistan", la
présentation aura lieu en anglais seulement.

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Jennifer Rowell animera une conférence sur l'autonomisation et le
renforcement des capacités des femmes et l'efficacité de l'aide en
Afghanistan. Lors de sa présentation, elle abordera la hausse et le
déclin de l'activisme des femmes en Afghanistan et clarifiera la
situation présente des femmes afghanes neuf ans après la chute du
régime taliban. Elle examinera des sujets tels que la façon dont la
structure actuelle de l'aide internationale aide (ou n'aide pas) à
renforcer la situation des femmes afghanes, la meilleure façon par
laquelle l'aide internationale pourrait aider les femmes afghanes à
être plus autonomes, et si la structure de la communauté d'aide
internationale permet réellement de relever le défi de l'émancipation
des femmes.

Jennifer Rowell milite pour les droits de la personne depuis 1998.
Elle a passé trois ans au Pérou, dont deux à oeuvrer auprès des
familles déplacées en raison de la guérilla du Sentier Lumineux et qui
négociaient afin de pouvoir retourner chez elles, dans le haut pays.
Pendant cinq ans, elle a travaillé avec CARE du Royaume-Uni, à partir
de Londres, pour soutenir une douzaine d'équipes réparties en Afrique,
en Amérique latine et en Asie (incluant en Afghanistan) pour défendre
les droits de ceux qui habitent des bidonvilles. C'est à ce titre que
madame Rowell a dirigé les efforts de CARE pour que les personnes
démunies des régions urbaines soient reconnues comme citoyens à part
entière pouvant avoir accès aux mêmes droits et responsabilités qui
leurs sont refusés, tels que les droits à l'éducation, à de l'eau
potable et aux soins de santé.

Avant de retourner en Afghanistan en tant que Coordonnatrice de la
défense des droits de CARE, madame Rowell était Directrice nationale
adjointe de CARE au Tchad, où elle supervisait un programme visant à
assurer les besoins fondamentaux, la sécurité et la dignité de plus de
60 000 réfugiés soudanais. En Afghanistan, elle dirige les recherches
et le dialogue sur les politiques touchant les droits des femmes et
des filles, la militarisation du travail d'assistance, et les
relations civilo-militaires dans le pays.

Jennifer Rowell est native de Peterborough et diplômée du programme
d'Études en développement international de l'Université de Toronto
(1998) et du programme de Gestion de catastrophes de l'Université
Cranfield en Angleterre (2001).

...............................................................................................

Jennifer Rowell will present a lecture on women's empowerment and aid
effectiveness in Afghanistan. Her presentation will look at the rise
and decline of women's activism in Afghanistan, clarify the actual
situation for Afghan women, nine years after the fall of Taliban.
Jennifer will examine questions such as how foreign aid is currently
structured to empower (or not) Afghan women, how can aid best
contribute to women's empowerment in Afghanistan, and whether the
International Aid community is really set up to take on the challenges
of emancipating women?

Jennifer Rowell has worked on human rights issues since 1998. She
spent three years in Peru, two of which working with families
displaced from the Shining Path Guerilla crisis as they negotiated
their right to return to their highland homelands. For five years she
worked with CARE UK, based in London, supporting a dozen team across
Africa, Latin America and Asia (including Afghanistan) to defend the
rights of slum-dwellers. In this role, Rowell led CARE's efforts for
the world's urban poor to be recognized as citizens and be awarded
both the rights and responsibilities denied to them in their informal
status, such as access to education, potable water, and health care.

Before returning to Afghanistan as CARE's Advocacy Coordinator, Rowell
was the Assistant Country Director for CARE in Chad, overseeing a
program ensuring that the basic needs, security, and dignity of over
60,000 Sudanese refugees were met. In Afghanistan she leads research
and policy dialogue on the rights of women and girls, the
militarization of aid, and civil-military relations in the country.

Jennifer Rowell is a Peterborough native and a graduate of the
University of Toronto International Development Studies program
(1998), and the Disaster Management program at Cranfield University,
UK (2001).

YCISS Contentious Conflict and Canadian Society Series: The Sri Lankan Civil War and the Politics of Conflict in Canada: Wednesday 2nd December 2009 4.30-6.30pm

The YCISS Contentious Conflicts and Canadian Society Series:

The Sri Lankan Civil War and the Politics of Conflict in Canada

Wednesday 2nd December 2009
4.30-6.30pm
YRT Conference Centre
Room 519, 5th Floor
York Research Tower (YRT)
York University

The Government of Sri Lanka and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam have
waged a civil war against each other for several decades. The experiences
and effects of the violence of this conflict have been registered in the
lives of Tamil and Sinhalese diaspora living in Canada.

As part of the YCISS Contentious Conflict and Canadian Society Series this
panel discussion will explore how diasporas affected by the Sri Lankan
civil war mobilize to shape public opinion and influence official views
and policy.

Key questions to be addressed may include:

1) How is the civil war in Sri Lanka represented by the diaspora living in
Canada?
2) What are the political options for members of a diaspora in terms of
both direct and indirect action and can they exert a positive influence on
Canadian foreign and domestic policies?
3) What should be the policy response in Ottawa to calls for intervention
or action from diasporas in Canada?
4) How can the diasporas contribute to developing an effective and
peaceful response to the problems within the community in both Sri Lanka
and Canada?
5) What should be the role of universities in providing a space for the
debate of contentious conflicts within Canadian society?

The panel consists of representatives from the communities affected by the
violence, subject matter experts and members of organisations with
knowledge of the conflict and its impact on Canadian society.

The panel includes:

Dr R. Cheran, University of Windsor
Ken Kandeepan, Canadian Tamil Congress
Stewart Bell, National Post
John Argue, Amnesty International

Please note that due to space restrictions, participation for this event
is by pre-registration via this link

<a href="http://www.yorku.ca/yciss/forms/view.php?id=2" title="Sri Lanka
and the Politics of Conflict in Canada">Sri Lanka and the Politics of
Conflict in Canada</a>

For further details on this event please see:
http://www.yorku.ca/yciss/news/upcoming.html

Forum du R=?iso-8859-1?Q?=E9seau_canadien_pour_la_sant=E9?= des femmes/The Canadian Women's Health Network's Forum

The Canadian Women's Health Network's Forum

Sex- and Gender-Based Analysis at Work:
What it means for Women and their Health

Monday, November 30, 2009 1:30 - 4:00 PM
Ottawa Public Library (Main Branch)
120 Metcalfe (at Laurier)
RSVP by emailing info@cwhn.ca

What is sex- and gender-based analysis, and why is it important?

The forum will explore sex and gender as determinants of health and
the concepts of sex, gender, diversity and equity as they relate to
health. Panelists from the Centres of Excellence for Women's Health
across Canada will discuss the importance of a sex- and gender-based
approach with practical examples from the brand new book, Rising to
the Challenge: Sex- and gender-based analysis for health planning,
policy and research in Canada. This forum is important for women,
those who provide their care, those who research their lives and plan
policies that affect them.

Topics include:

* Gender in Manitoba RHA community health assessments
* Women and water, (privatization)
* Clinical trials
* Long term care
* Systematic Reviews
* Sex, Gender and Health Inequities
* Obesity

Registration is free. Please emailing info@cwhn.ca by Thursday,
November 26 as space is limited.

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Forum du Réseau canadien pour la santé des femmes

L'analyse des influences du genre et du sexe:
L'impact de cette approche sur les femmes et leur santé

Lundi 30 novembre 2009, 13 h 30 à 16 h 00 (présenté en anglais)
Bibliothèque publique d'Ottawa (édifice central)
120, rue Metcalfe (à l'angle de Laurier)
RSVP par courriel, à l'adresse info@cwhn.ca

Qu'est-ce que l'analyse des influences du genre et du sexe et pourquoi
est-ce si important d'intégrer cette approche?

Le forum explorera le sexe et le genre en tant que facteurs
déterminants de la santé ainsi que les concepts du sexe, du genre, de
la diversité et de l'équité relativement à la santé.
Des panélistes des Centres d'excellence pour la santé des femmes de
tout le Canada discuteront de l'importance d'adopter une approche
intégrant le sexe et le genre, avec en main des exemples concrets
tirés du tout nouveau livre Se montrer à la hauteur du défi :
l'analyse des influences du genre et du sexe en planification, en
élaboration de politiques et en recherche dans le domaine de la santé
au Canada. Ce forum est un événement d'importance pour les femmes,
notamment celles qui dispensent des soins, mènent des recherches sur
le vécu des femmes et conçoivent des politiques touchant cette
population.

Les thèmes suivants figurent parmi les sujets qui seront traités :

o Le rôle du genre dans les évaluations de la santé des
collectivités des ORS du Manitoba
o Les femmes, l'eau et l'environnement
o Les essais cliniques
o Soins à long terme
o Les analyses systémiques
o Sexe, genre et inégalités face à la santé
o L'obésité

Cet événement est gratuit. Les places étant limitées, nous vous prions
de vous inscrire d'ici le jeudi 26 novembre au plus tard. Vous pouvez
vous inscrire par courriel dès aujourd'hui, à l'adresse info@cwhn.ca.

16 Days of Activism against Gender Violence - Launch Event

16 Days of Activism against Gender Violence

Launch Event

Tuesday, November 24th, 7:00pm

Amnesty International Office - 312 Laurier Avenue East

Join Amnesty International's newly formed Ottawa Gender Rights Network
as we launch the 16 Days of Activism against Gender Violence, which
runs from November 25 (International Day for the Elimination of
Violence Against Women) to December 10 (Human Rights Day) 2009. Find
out how you can get involved in taking a stand against gender violence
throughout the 16 Days and beyond!

This is an evening that will help us all to get connected and support
one another's work in ending gender violence. Organizations holding
events throughout the 16 Days of Gender Violence will be invited to
announce their events during the evening. We will also provide a
table for organizations to display their event flyers.

Light refreshments provided.

______________

Please circulate this invitation widely.

For more information, please contact:

Denise Glasbeek

Information Services Coordinator

Amnesty International, Canadian Section, English-Speaking

312 Laurier Ave. E.

Ottawa, ON K1N 1H9

613-744-7667, ext. 249

dglasbeek@amnesty.ca

La 8e édition de l'Université féministe d'été

La 8e édition de

l'Université féministe d'été

aura lieu à l'Université Laval, à Québec

du 30 mai au 5 juin 2010

sur le thème

Femmes et « développement durable » :

une alliance possible ?

Inscrivez ces dates à votre agenda!

Comme pendant les sept éditions précédentes,

ce vaste forum féministe et francophone réunira,

pendant une semaine de travail intensif (ponctué de moment festifs!),
des féministes oeuvrant au Québec et ailleurs

dans différentes disciplines et divers champs de recherche,

de militance et d'intervention.

L'atmosphère à la fois studieuse et conviviale qui règne à
l'Université féministe d'été est particulièrement propice aux échanges.

Pour une introduction au thème et

des renseignements généraux sur l'événement,

je vous invite à visiter notre site web

http://www.fss.ulaval.ca/universitefeministedete/
<http://www.fss.ulaval.ca/universitefeministedete/>

Jetez aussi un coup d'oeil sur notre album photos!

Au plaisir de vous accueillir le 30 mai prochain!

Huguette Dagenais, responsable

Université féministe d'été

Bureau 1475J, Pavillon Charles- De Koninck

Université Laval, Québec (Qc) G1K 7P4

universite-feministe-ete@fss.ulaval.ca

Téléphone : (418) 656-2131 poste 8930

http://www.fss.ulaval.ca/universitefeministedete/
<http://www.fss.ulaval.ca/universitefeministedete/>

Graduate courses in Iceland

Svartárkot, Culture - Nature

Svartárkot in northern Iceland is a farm at the edge of human
habitation: a perfect place to learn about the intricate and dynamic
relationship between culture and nature.

An educational and research centre is emerging here in a rural
community right next to the extensive wilderness of the Icelandic
Central Highland. We offer customized programmes for faculty members
who like to bring their own students and utilize our facilities and
expertise while studying culture and society in a spectacular natural
setting.

In 2010, we offer nine fully credited summer courses intended for
graduate students (MA and PhD) that like to travel independently. Five
of our courses are placed in and around Svartárkot in Bárðardalur
valley, two in Seyðisfjörður in eastern Iceland and two in
Bjarnarfjörður in the northwest. Course descriptions are being
prepared and will appear here as they become available.

For further details about course offerings, please go to http://svartarkot.is/

FINAL REMINDER: Call for Papers YCISS Annual Conference 4-5th Feb 2010 - (deadline for submission of papers: 15th November 2009)

FINAL REMINDER

Call for Submissions: YCISS 17th Annual Conference, February 4th and 5th
2010
New Directions: The Future of Canadian (in)Security Studies

Canadian security and defense in theory and practice has undergone
significant changes since Canada?s increased participation in
Afghanistan in 2006 and with the election of the Harper Conservatives.
Against this backdrop, the concept and study of security/insecurity
has been challenged, re-defined and
re-imagined in a changing political and theoretical global environment.
These shifts require a dialogue on recent turns in the field and
innovative and
multidisciplinary approaches that call into question traditional
understandings. These challenges have been taken up by growing numbers of
scholars within as well as outside of Canada. We may have reached the
point at which a distinctive Canadian voice in security study may be emerging.

This conference seeks to bring scholars together to engage questions of
security, both Canadian and global, from a variety of perspectives and
approaches that emphasize both new developments as well as critiques of
existing approaches. Recognizing that Canadian security studies can only
be thought about in a global context, we seek both papers that look
empirically at Canada as well as those that theorize security studies
within a global theoretical context.

Engagements with security from outside the traditional fields are offering
unique perspectives on the problematique of security and challenging our
understandings in important ways. From interrogating traditional
theorizing and security practices to recognizing how recent shifts in
areas such as new and interactive media and technology are impacting
security, this conference will critically engage with the past in
order to contribute to new and creative ways of thinking about the
future. Additionally, we want to challenge the misconception that
security is the purview of select disciplinary fields and thus we hope
to open what has tended to be an intellectually (and
physically!)securitized space of security studies to alternative
engagements through film, pictorial, digital, and multimedia art,
spoken word, and movement. We seek individual papers, organized
panels, and
print/video/motion art from any and all disciplines that may engage
but are not limited to the following topics:

&#9642; Revisiting Security (theoretical re-framings)
&#9642;Security from outside the discipline (cultural studies;
environmental
studies; geopolitics; communication studies; political economy; gender
studies;
etc)
&#9642; Canadian Critical Security Studies
&#9642; Impacts of technology on Security concerns
&#9642; How the media is impacting popular engagement with Security (news
media,
popular culture, new media; aesthetics)
&#9642; Beyond the Ivory tower/engagements with security beyond academe
&#9642; Gender, Race, Deviance, Bodies and Security
&#9642; Violence and Security (Militarization; Intervention; Torture)
&#9642; Food/Health/Economic (in)Security
&#9642; Security in the policy realm today (DND; CF)
&#9642; Security in the academy (Pedagogy; Methodology; Discourse, etc)

Please submit an abstract of your proposed presentation of no more than
250 words by November 15, 2009 to Lori Crowe at crowela@yorku.ca AND to Karen
Walker at k1walker@yorku.ca .

We strongly encourage both new graduate students who may be first time
presenters as well as more practiced speakers/scholars. There will be an
opportunity for publication in the YCISS Conference Proceedings.

Out of province students please note: There are a number of small travel
grants available for students attending from outside of the province. We will
contact you if your abstract is chosen to receive a travel grant for the
conference.
Conference information is also available on the YCISS website:
http://www.yorku.ca/yciss

Ethnographic Terminalia

Ethnographic Terminalia

The Icebox Project Space at Crane Arts will feature an innovative
group exhibition entitled Ethnographic Terminalia from December 2-20,
2009. Scheduled to coincide with the annual meeting of the American
Anthropological Association, this year in Philadelphia, the curators
have brought together an international group of artists and
ethnographers who are actively engaged in experimental and emergent
cultural forms. Visitors are invited to join in a multisensorial
happening that challenges the boundaries and borders that demarcate
the margins of ethnographic, anthropological, and art practices. In
this ground-breaking exhibition, a diverse group of artists and
anthropologists present boundary troubling works in eleven separate
installations. Each installation project in Ethnographic Terminalia
offers a thought provoking and playful (or agitating) alternative to
considering what lies both beyond and within imagined and constructed
boundaries of the skilled practices of artists and ethnographers.

This exhibition features original works by: Trudi-Lynn Smith; Erica
Lehrer and Hannah Smotrich; Kate Hennessy and Oliver Neumann; Marko
and Gordana Zivkovic; Chris Fletcher; Roderick Coover; Jayasinhji
Jhala; Craig Campbell; Mike Evans and Stephen Foster; Stephanie Spray;
and Scott and Jen Webel. While these works are deployed within the
rubric of anthropology they answer visual and aesthetic questions in
unique and particular fashion, decentering the priviledged categories
of both ethnography and art through various mediums.
According to the curatorial team: "This exhibit will be of great
interest not only to professional anthropologists but other publics as
well. By drawing the studied methodologies of ethnography into a
familiar art environment this collective exhibition delivers an all
too uncommon challenge to disciplinary and professional boundaries.
By engaging with the politics of representation, memory,
documentation, and archive Ethnographic Terminalia will impress upon
all visitors their own stake in the interpretation of cultural
worlds." The works presented in Ethnographic Terminalia address the
possibility of showing and interpreting cultural worlds outside of the
traditional cinematic, museological, and textual frameworks of
Cultural Anthroplogy while challenging the art world to consider the
sensuous complexities and textures of everyday life.

Visit the website for more details about the show:
www.metafactory.ca/terminalia

Exhibition Opening Reception & Shindig
4 December 2009 7-10.00pm

-----------------------------------

Location
Icebox Project Space at Crane Arts, Philadelphia (PA)

December 2-20, 2009
Wednesday to Saturday 12pm-6pm
Entry is free

-----------------------------------

Curators:
Craig Campbell, University of Texas at Austin (Austin, Texas)
Anabelle Rodriguez, Independent Curator (Philadelphia, PA)
Fiona McDonald, University College London (London, England)

Administrative Team:
Kate Hennessy, University of British Columbia (Vancouver, BC)
Stephanie Takaragawa, Chapman University (Orange, CA)

“Spot Tests for Material Characterization” workshop for July 2010-Turkey

"Spot Tests for Material Characterization" workshop for July 2010 To
be held in the new conservation laboratory at Kaman-Kalehoyuk
excavation, Turkey, by Nancy Odegaard and Scott Carrlee (formerly
Scott Carroll) from July 5 to July 8, 2010 (4 days). Kaman-Kalehoyuk
is located approximately 3 hours by automobile southeast from Ankara.
The workshop will be hosted by the Japanese Institute of Anatolian
Archaeology, sponsored by the Middle Eastern Culture Center in Japan
(MECCJ), (Tokyo). A maximum of 12 participants can be accepted. This
four day course provides conservators and other professionals with a
"tool kit" of practical tests for materials characterization, useful
for research and examination of artifacts. The instructors use their
text Material Characterization Tests for Objects of Art and
Archaeology (2005). The course takes a hands-on approach and most of
the course time will be spent by the participants preparing and
executing characterization tests in a lab setting. Curriculum will
include:
• micro-sampling techniques such as electrolysis of minute amounts of
artifact material onto filter paper • testing organic artifact
materials such as proteins, cellulosics, and plastics • testing
inorganic artifact materials such as metals and minerals • testing of
contextual materials such as surface deposits, stains, and soils
• background in the chemical processes and reaction stages used in
each test
• interpretation of test results The workshop will be held in the
English language and therefore fluency in English is required of the
participants. We anticipate that this workshop will be of particular
interest to conservators and archaeologists working in Turkey although
people who are working in other countries may also attend. Tuition is
820$, room and board is included in this cost. Payment in advance will
be required in order to hold your place in the workshop that will be
carried out by bank draft (wired) to Tokyo. Visas are required of
non-Turkish citizens to attend the course and must be applied for in
December 2009. Participants will be required to bring a few supplies,
including the publication Material Characterization Tests for Objects
of Art and Archaeology, by Nancy Odegaard, Scott Carroll, and Werner
Zimmt, Archetype Publications, 2nd ed., 2005. Please contact Alice
Boccia Paterakis for further information. To register for the course
please send your c.v. and a letter of interest to the email address
below as soon as possible. Your place in the workshop will be secured
once payment has been received in Tokyo. Further details regarding
payment procedure will be provided upon request. Those who are not
already planning to be working in Turkey in July 2010 will have to
apply for a visa in December 2009 so time is short. The cost of the
visa varies according to nationality. Alice Boccia Paterakis
Director of Conservation Kaman-Kalehoyuk Excavation Japanese Institute
of Anatolian Archaeology Turkey Email: alicepaterakis@yahoo.com

CFP: Health, Embodiment, and Visual Culture: Engaging Publics and Pedagogies" (conference)

CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Conference: "Health, Embodiment, and Visual Culture: Engaging Publics
and Pedagogies"

November 19-20, 2010
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Conference Co-Chairs:
Sarah Brophy, Associate Professor, Department of English and Cultural
Studies, McMaster University
Janice Hladki, Associate Professor, School of the Arts, McMaster University

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: January 15, 2010

CONFERENCE DESCRIPTION:
This interdisciplinary conference seeks to explore how visual cultural
practices image and imagine unruly bodies and, in so doing, respond to
Patricia Zimmermann's call for "radical media democracies that animate
contentious public spheres" (2000, p. xx). Our aim is to explore how
health, disability, and the body are theorized, materialized, and
politicized in forms of visual culture including photography, video art,
graphic memoir, film, body art and performance, and digital media.
Accordingly, we invite proposals for individual papers and roundtables
that consider how contemporary visual culture makes bodies political in
ways that matter for the future of democracy. Proposals may draw on
fields such as: visual culture, critical theory, disability studies,
health studies, science studies, autobiography studies, indigenous
studies, feminisms, queer studies, and globalization/transnationalism.

CONFERENCE EVENTS:
Confirmed Keynote Speakers:
*Rebecca Belmore,* internationally recognized Anishinabekwe artist,
Vancouver (exhibitions of her performance, video, installation, and
sculpture include: Venice Biennale, Sydney Biennale, Brooklyn Museum of
Art, Art Gallery of Ontario, Museum of Contemporary Native Arts);
*Lisa Cartwright,* Professor of Communication and Science Studies and
Affiliated Faculty in Gender Studies, Department of Communication,
University of California, San Diego (/Screening the Body: Tracing
Medicine's Visual Culture/; /Moral Spectatorship: Technologies of Voice
and Affect in Postwar Representations of the Child/)
*Robert McRuer,* Professor and Deputy Chair, Department of English,
George Washington University, Washington, DC (/Crip Theory: Cultural
Signs of Queerness and Disability/; /The Queer Renaissance: Contemporary
American Literature and the Reinvention of Lesbian and Gay Identities/);
*Ato Quayson,* Professor of English and Director of the Centre for
Diaspora and Transnational Studies, University of Toronto (/Aesthetic
Nervousness: Disability and the Crisis of Representation/; /Relocating
Postcolonialism/).

The conference will also feature /Scrapes: Unruly Embodiments in Video
Art,/ an exhibition curated by Sarah Brophy and Janice Hladki, at the
McMaster Museum of Art.

POSSIBLE THEMATICS:
1. Technologies
-- medical technologies (e.g. medical imaging, drug therapies,
prosthetics and other devices) and their implications for embodiment,
subjectivity, community, kinship, and politics
-- corporeality and the senses as sites/forms of knowledge-making
-- biopolitics and surveillance
-- the relationship between "old" and "new" technologies
-- how technologies mediate social spaces of embodiment and interaction
-- interrogations of the human and posthuman in medicine, science, and art

2. Cultural Production
-- cultural pedagogy; the production of knowledge in sites of cultural
production (e.g. galleries, festivals, classrooms, online, etc.)
-- counter-publics (e.g. disability culture)
-- indigenous modes of cultural production
-- diasporic/transnational issues and practices
-- new representational modes (e.g. digital arts, graphic memoir)
-- documentary practices
-- "doing politics in art" (Bennett)

3. Disability
-- medical, scientific, and cultural discourses of disability
-- performing and witnessing embodied difference
-- interrogations of impairment
-- genetics, reproduction, eugenics
-- dis-ease and disorder
-- "ability trouble" (McRuer)
-- "radical crip images" (McRuer)

4. Affect
-- explorations of "ugly feelings" (Ngai), "aesthetic nervousness"
(Quayson), "moral spectatorship" (Cartwright), "empathic vision"
(Bennett), and "seeing for" (Bal)
-- relationships to medicalization, regulation, and surveillance
-- affect as generative/productive in relation to concepts of ethical
spectatorship and witnessing
-- relationships between corporeality and theorizations of nature as
dynamic and agentic (Barad, Grosz, Haraway)
-- can we/should we move beyond the theories that posit /negative/
affect as a prime site for ethics?
-- affect and global politics: representations of global mobilities,
violence, war, terrorism

HOW TO SUBMIT A PROPOSAL:
We kindly invite submissions from scholars, artists, health
professionals, community members, and activists in all areas and
disciplines.
Concurrent sessions will be 90 minutes in length. Proposals for the
following formats will be considered:
1) Individual papers: 15 minutes in length
2) Roundtables: 4-5 participants, including a designated moderator and a
plan for facilitated discussion of ideas
All submissions will be peer-reviewed.

Individual paper submissions should include:
1) affiliation and contact information
2) a biographical note of up to 200 words
3) paper title and a 300-500 word abstract; the description of the
paper's content should be as specific as possible and indicate relevance
to one or more of the conference thematics.
4) details of audiovisual needs (e.g. DVD, LCD projection, and/or VHS).
Note that participants will need to bring their own laptops.

Roundtable submissions should include:
1) affiliation and contact information for each participant
2) a biographical note of up to 200 words for each participant
3) roundtable title and a 500 word proposal. The proposal should both
indicate the relevance of the roundtable to one or more of the
conference thematics and outline the organization of the proposed
discussion.
4) details of audiovisual needs (e.g. DVD, LCD projection, and/or VHS).
Note that participants will need to bring their own laptops.

All submissions should be sent via email attachment to
viscult@mcmaster.ca <mailto:viscult@mcmaster.ca> by January 15, 2010.
Please use the subject line "proposal for Health, Embodiment, and Visual
Culture." Attachments should be in .doc or .rtf formats.

If electronic submission is not possible, please mail or fax proposals
to arrive by January 15, 2010.
Address: Sarah Brophy & Janice Hladki: Health, Embodiment, and Visual
Culture Conference
c/o Department of English & Cultural Studies
Chester New Hall 321
McMaster University
1280 Main Street West
Hamilton, Ontario, L8S 4L9
Fax: 905-777-8316

ACCESSIBILITY:
Presenters are encouraged to explore ways to make physical, sensory, and
intellectual access a fundamental part of their presentation.
Suggestions include: large print (18 point font) copies of handouts,
large-print copies of paper or panel outlines, and/or audio descriptions
of any film or video clips and images. Presenters are also encouraged to
consider open or closed captioning of films and video clips.

POST-CONFERENCE PUBLICATION PLANS:
Papers from the conference will be considered for a special issue of
/The Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies/.

CONFERENCE SPONSORSHIP:
Sponsored by the Department of English and Cultural Studies at McMaster
University in Hamilton, Ontario (John Douglas Taylor Fund).

4th Annual Anthropology Film Festival at UBC

We invite submissions for the 4th annual anthropology film festival at UBC.

This year¹s theme is social justice and our festival will be co-sponsored
by, and held within, UBC¹s Museum of Anthropology, April 30, May1, 2010.

Submission deadline is January 21, 2010. Early submissions are appreciated
:)

The call for submissions and submission form is posted on our web site at:
http://anthfilm.anth.ubc.ca/events.html

We look forward to receiving your submissions!

With warm regards,

Charles Menzies and Jennifer Rashleigh
The Ethnographic Film Unit at UBC

Charles R. Menzies, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Anthropology [http://www.charlesmenzies.ca]
Director of The Ethnographic Film Unit at UBC [http://anthfilm.anth.ubc.ca]
Department of Anthropology [http://www.anth.ubc.ca]

PS. Please forward to your lists as appropriate.

Call for Submissions: 2009-2010 YCISS Working Paper Series

Call for Submissions: 2009-2010 YCISS Working Paper Series

The York Centre for International and Security Studies is accepting
submissions for the 2009-2010 YCISS Working Paper Series. Working Papers
are succinct, informative papers that explore topical themes that reflect
the centre?s research to stimulate feedback from other experts in the
field. The Working Paper Series is anonymously peer-reviewed, and geared
towards facilitating the development of works-in-progress. Accepted
Working Papers are published as hard copies and are publicly available on
the YCISS website.

Eligible papers may be on a diverse range of topics related to new
security environments, contexts, and practices, and / or on issues related
to the politics of security and defence. The Centre is particularly
interested in receiving submissions that deal with issues that have not
traditionally been considered relevant to an understanding of military
security and war - for example, migration and the movement of refugees,
economic change, social disintegration, local political dynamics,
terrorism, crime, and gender. Other key thematic areas include the
deployment of security and defence capabilities in non-traditional roles,
and critical engagements with political, ethical, and social justice
issues related to current Canadian security and defence policies and
practices.

For more information on thematic and topic areas, see the YCISS SDF
mandate at http://www.yorku.ca/yciss/security/mandate.html.

The Working Paper Series provides authors with an opportunity to receive
reviewer feedback and editorial comments on a project, and authors may
subsequently submit published Working Papers to scholarly journals. The
series is an excellent means to put an idea into circulation so as to
generate discussion and feedback from a broad audience.

Submissions to the YCISS Working Paper Series and / or questions regarding
the series should be sent to:

Mike Larsen
YCISS Working Paper Series Editor
mlarsen@yorku.ca

Call for Papers YCISS Annual Conference Feb 2010 - (deadline for submission of papers: 15th November 2009)

Call for Submissions: YCISS 17th Annual Conference, February 4th and 5th
2010
New Directions: The Future of Canadian (in)Security Studies

Canadian security and defense in theory and practice has undergone
significant
changes since Canada?s increased participation in Afghanistan in 2006 and
with
the election of the Harper Conservatives. Against this backdrop, the
concept
and study of security/insecurity has been challenged, re-defined and
re-imagined in a changing political and theoretical global environment.
These
shifts require a dialogue on recent turns in the field and innovative and
multidisciplinary approaches that call into question traditional
understandings. These challenges have been taken up by growing numbers of
scholars within as well as outside of Canada. We may have reached the
point at
which a distinctive Canadian voice in security study may be emerging.

This conference seeks to bring scholars together to engage questions of
security, both Canadian and global, from a variety of perspectives and
approaches that emphasize both new developments as well as critiques of
existing approaches. Recognizing that Canadian security studies can only
be
thought about in a global context, we seek both papers that look
empirically at
Canada as well as those that theorize security studies within a global
theoretical context.

Engagements with security from outside the traditional fields are offering
unique perspectives on the problematique of security and challenging our
understandings in important ways. From interrogating traditional
theorizing and
security practices to recognizing how recent shifts in areas such as new
and
interactive media and technology are impacting security, this conference
will
critically engage with the past in order to contribute to new and creative
ways
of thinking about the future. Additionally, we want to challenge the
misconception that security is the purview of select disciplinary fields
and
thus we hope to open what has tended to be an intellectually (and
physically!)securitized space of security studies to alternative
engagements
through film, pictorial, digital, and multimedia art, spoken word, and
movement. We seek individual papers, organized panels, and
print/video/motion
art from any and all disciplines that may engage but are not limited to
the
following topics:

&#9642; Revisiting Security (theoretical re-framings)
&#9642;Security from outside the discipline (cultural studies;
environmental
studies; geopolitics; communication studies; political economy; gender
studies;
etc)
&#9642; Canadian Critical Security Studies
&#9642; Impacts of technology on Security concerns
&#9642; How the media is impacting popular engagement with Security (news
media,
popular culture, new media; aesthetics)
&#9642; Beyond the Ivory tower/engagements with security beyond academe
&#9642; Gender, Race, Deviance, Bodies and Security
&#9642; Violence and Security (Militarization; Intervention; Torture)
&#9642; Food/Health/Economic (in)Security
&#9642; Security in the policy realm today (DND; CF)
&#9642; Security in the academy (Pedagogy; Methodology; Discourse, etc)

Please submit an abstract of your proposed presentation of no more than
250
words by November 15, 2009 to Lori Crowe at crowela@yorku.ca AND to Karen
Walker at k1walker@yorku.ca .

We strongly encourage both new graduate students who may be first time
presenters as well as more practiced speakers/scholars. There will be an
opportunity for publication in the YCISS Conference Proceedings.

Out of province students please note: There are a number of small travel
grants
available for students attending from outside of the province. We will
contact
you if your abstract is chosen to receive a travel grant for the
conference.
Conference information is also available on the YCISS website:
http://www.yorku.ca/yciss

Sessions on Holocaust and Genocide studies at the forthcoming AAR meeting

Subject: Sessions on Holocaust and Genocide studies at the forthcoming
AAR meeting in Montreal (Nov. 6-10).

Dear Colleagues,

At the American Academy of Religion meeting that begins this Saturday
in Montreal, there are several sessions of particular relevance for
those of you interested in Holocaust and Genocide studies. I want to
call your attention particularly to the two sessions of the ?Religion,
Holocaust and Genocide Group?:

A7-321 (Saturday, 4 ? 6:30pm, PDC 524B): ?Critical and/or Theological
Reflections on Melissa Raphael?s ?The Female Face of God at Auschwitz??
and
A9-225 (Monday, 1-3:30pm, PDC 511E): ?Ethics of Memory: Religious
Commemorations and Myth Construction?

In addition, I hope you can attend our session on Monday from 11:45 ?
12:45 (M9- 101, PDC-512B) ?Teaching the Tough Questions: Holocaust and
Genocide Studies in Contemporary Theological Education?, where I will
be discussing the new online resources and distance learning tools for
teaching the Holocaust that the Museum plans to offer professors and
students in religious studies. I hope this can also be an occasion to
compare notes on teaching models and resources. If you are unable to
attend but are interested in learning more about these resources,
please feel free to contact me at this email address:

vbarnett@ushmm.org

With best regards,

Vicki

Victoria Barnett Staff Director, Church Relations 202.488.0469
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies
100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW Washington DC 20024-2126
Fax 202.479.9726
www.ushmm.org

Canada-Latin America and the Caribbean Research Exchange Grants / Subventions pour la coop=?iso-8859-1?Q?=E9ration_en_recherche_entre_le_Canada,_l'Am=E9rique?= latine et les Antilles

French and Spanish follow.

Canada-Latin America and the Caribbean Research Exchange Grants (LACREG)

2009 Competition Launch

The Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada (AUCC) is
pleased to announce the launch of the 2009 Canada-Latin America and
the Caribbean Research Exchange Grants (LACREG) program. This program
has been managed by the AUCC with financial support from the
International Development Research Centre (IDRC) since 1995.

The purpose of this program is to strengthen international
partnerships and consolidate emerging networks among academic
researchers from Canada and Latin America and the Caribbean. It is
designed to support small collaborative research activities which will
contribute to the creation, dissemination and sustained application of
knowledge in the development process in at least one area of IDRC
thematic priority.

IDRC Thematic Priorities:

* Environment and natural resource management (ENRM)

* Information and communication technologies for development (ICT4D)

* Innovation, policy and science (IPS)

* Social and economic policy (SEP)

Eligibility: Applicants from Canada and eligible Latin American and
Caribbean (LAC) countries are encouraged to apply. The LACREG program
applies to collaborative research between Canada and the following LAC
countries: Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa
Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala,
Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay
and Venezuela.

Value: Support through this program will be cost-shared on a 2:1 ratio
by the program and the partner institutions, respectively. The
maximum value of each grant under this program will be $15,000 CDN.

Deadline: Monday, January 18, 2010

For program guidelines (available in English, French, Spanish and
Portuguese), visit the AUCC website at the following address:

http://www.aucc.ca/programs/intprograms/2009-10_e.html

For additional information please contact Claire Millington, AUCC:
cmillington@aucc.ca or lac@aucc.ca .

******

Subventions pour la coopération en recherche entre le Canada,
l'Amérique latine et les Antilles (SCR-CALA)

Lancement du concours 2009

L'Association des universités et collèges du Canada (AUCC) est fière
d'annoncer le lancement du programme de Subventions pour la
coopération en recherche entre le Canada, l'Amérique latine et les
Antilles (SCR-CALA) pour l'année 2009. Depuis 1995, ce programme est
administré par l'AUCC avec le soutien financier du Centre de
recherches pour le développement international (CRDI).

Le programme est destiné à renforcer les partenariats internationaux
et à consolider les réseaux émergents de chercheurs universitaires du
Canada, de l'Amérique latine et des Antilles. Ce programme est conçu
pour soutenir des activités de recherche concertée de petite envergure
qui serviront le processus de développement dans l'un ou l'autre des
domaines thématiques prioritaires du CRDI.

Thèmes prioritaires du CRDI :

* Environnement et gestion des ressources
naturelles (EGRN) <http://www.idrc.ca/fr/ev-43438-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html>

* Technologies de l'information et de la
communication au service du développement (TIC-D)
<http://www.idrc.ca/fr/ev-43441-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html>

* Innovation, politique et science (IPS)
<http://www.idrc.ca/fr/ev-90465-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html>

* Politique sociale et économique (PSE)
<http://www.idrc.ca/fr/ev-43439-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html>

Admissibilité : Les candidats du Canada et des pays d'Amérique latine
et des Antilles admissibles sont invités à poser leur candidature. Le
programme SCR-CALA soutient des projets de recherche entre le Canada
et les pays suivants de l'Amérique latine et les Antilles: Argentine,
Belize, Bolivie, Brésil, Chili, Colombie, Costa Rica, Cuba, Equateur,
El Salvador, Guatemala, Haïti, Honduras, Mexique, Nicaragua, Panama,
Paraguay, Pérou, République dominicaine, Uruguay et Venezuela.

Valeur : L'aide du programme sera partagée dans une proportion de 2 à
1 respectivement par le programme SCR-CALA et les établissements
partenaires. La valeur maximale de chaque subvention est de 15 000 $
CAD.

Date limite : lundi le 18 janvier 2010

Pour obtenir les lignes directrices (disponibles en anglais, français,
espagnol et portugais), veuillez consulter le site web de l'AUCC à
l'adresse suivante :

http://www.aucc.ca/programs/intprograms/2009-10_f.html

Pour obtenir un complément d'information, veuillez communiquer avec
Claire Millington, AUCC : cmillington@aucc.ca
<mailto:cmillington@aucc.ca> ou lac@aucc.ca <mailto:lac@aucc.ca> .

******

Becas para el Intercambio de Investigación entre Canadá-América Latina
y el Caribe (BII-CALC)

Lanzamiento del Concurso 2009

La Asociación de Universidades y Colegios de Canadá (AUCC) se complace
en anunciar el lanzamiento del programa de Becas para el Intercambio
de Investigación Canadá-América Latina y el Caribe (BII-CALC) 2009.
Este programa ha sido administrado por la AUCC con el apoyo financiero
del Centro Internacional de Investigaciones para el Desarrollo (IDRC)
desde 1995.

El propósito de este programa es fortalecer las alianzas
internacionales y consolidar las redes emergentes entre los
investigadores académicos de Canadá y de América Latina y el Caribe.
El programa apoya actividades de colaboración en investigación que
permitan contribuir a la creación, difusión y aplicación sostenida del
conocimiento para el proceso de desarrollo que correspondan con las
prioridades programáticas del IDRC.

Temas Prioritarios del IDRC:

* Manejo de del medio ambiente y los recursos
naturales (ENRM)

* Tecnologías de la información y comunicación
para el desarrollo (ICT4D)

* Innovación, políticas y ciencia (IPS)

* Política social y económica (SEP)

Elegibilidad: Solicitantes pueden provenir de Canadá o de los países
elegibles de América Latina y el Caribe (LAC). El programa BII-CALC es
aplicable a la colaboración en investigación entre Canadá y los
siguientes países de América Latina y El Caribe: Argentina, Belice,
Bolivia, Brasil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, El
Salvador, Guatemala,Haití , Honduras, México, Nicaragua, Panamá,
Paraguay, Perú, República Dominicana, Uruguay, Venezuela.

Valor de las Subvenciones: El financiamiento de las actividades será
compartido en una relación 2:1 entre el programa y las instituciones
solicitantes, respectivamente. El valor máximo de cada subvención
otorgada en este programa será CDN $15,000.

Fecha Límite para Las Solicitudes: lunes, 18 de enero de 2010

Bases del Programa: Las bases del programa están disponibles en
español, ingles, francés y portugués en el sitio web de la AUCC:

http://www.aucc.ca/programs/intprograms/2009-10_e.html

Para obtener más información sobre el Programa BII-CALC, comuníquese
con Claire Millington, AUCC: cmillington@aucc.ca o lac@aucc.ca .

Distinguished Critical Thinkers in World Politics Seminar Series: Professor Siba Grovogui York University Thursday 05 November 2009 2:30-4:30pm

YCISS and SDF: Distinguished Critical Thinkers in World Politics Seminar
Series:

Your Blues Ain?t My Blues: The Constitution of International Security and
Insecurity at the Edge of an African Landscape

Professor Siba Grovogui

Thursday 05 November 2009 2:30-4:30pm
YRT Conference Centre
Room 519, 5th Floor
York Research Tower (YRT)
York University

In this presentation, Professor Grovogui will present an examination of
the new Tuareg rebellions in Mali and Niger in the context of the US
Trans-Sahara Counter-Terrorism initiative. Professor Grovogui will also
address two seldom explored conditions of civil strife and insecurity in
postcolonial Africa. The first is of a political order. It is the
adoption by African states of globalized notions of order and security
that undermine regional and national systems that had previously sustained
life and secured the well-being of populations. The second condition of
insecurity, resulting from the first, is constitutional. It is the
failure of postcolonial states to align the constitutional order on the
exigencies of social life, specifically the securitization of domestic
systems of production, distribution, solidarity, justice.

Professor Grovogui is Professor of International Relations and Political
Theory at the Department of Political Science, Johns Hopkins University,
where he has been a faculty member since 1995. A specialist in
international relations theory and political theory, Professor Grovogui
has written frequently about African sovereignty, including Sovereigns,
Quasi-Sovereigns, and Africans: Race and Self-Determination in
International Law (1996) and "Regimes of Sovereignty: Rethinking
International Morality and the African Condition". Professor Grovogui
previously taught at Eastern Michigan University and holds a PhD from the
University of Wisconsin at Madison and a law degree from the Institut
Polytechnique, Gamal Abdel Nasser in Guinea.