This is a blog recording the announcements that are sent out on the CASCA listserv.

Thursday, November 29, 2012

The Centre for Women=?iso-8859-1?Q?=92s?= Studies in Education (CWSE) Presents: The Feminist History of Education - U of Toronto

The Centre for Women's Studies in Education (CWSE) Presents:

The Feminist History of Education

with Rosa Bruno-Jofre, PhD

Rosa Bruno-Jofre will discuss her analysis of the work of two congregations
of Nuns in the Canadian Prairies between 1898 and 1930. She explores the
Sisters' understandings of mission and education, how their spirituality
and the Catholic Church related to their educational work, and the
intersections of the Sisters' ministry with the cultural and political
life in local communities.

Tuesday, December 4, 2012

2:00—4pm

Free

at the CWSE: room 2-227, OISE building, 252 Bloor Street West, Toronto

Rosa Bruno-Jofre, PhD, is a professor and former Dean of the Faculty of
Education at Queen's University. Her research focuses on History of
Education and Educational Theory. She has written several books and
published many articles on religion and education, and has received awards
and recognition for her contributions to public education in Ontario.

cwse@utoronto.cawww.oise.utoronto.ca/cwse

Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Tenure-track faculty position to be based in Goose Bay, Labrador

Position #: VPA-ARTO-2012-001

The Faculty of Arts and the Labrador Institute invite applications for a
tenure-track faculty position to be based in Goose Bay, Labrador.  The
successful candidate will have a deep interest in the history, culture and
people of Labrador, and will bring a commitment to research and community
engagement to the position. Candidates with expertise in linguistics,
archaeology, anthropology, sociology or folklore are encouraged to apply.

The Tenure-Track position will normally commence July 1, 2013, subject to
budgetary approval, and will be made at the rank of Assistant Professor. All
positions normally require a completed doctoral degree in the appropriate
discipline. A completed earned doctorate (or  recognized terminal
qualification in the discipline) is required for the appointee to receive
the rank of Assistant Professor and to be in a tenure-track position.  (If a
successful candidate has not completed an earned doctorate, he/she shall be
appointed to a regular term, non-renewable three-year appointment at the
rank of Assistant Professor.  If the candidate completes all the
requirements for the doctorate during the first 24 months of the term
appointment, he/she shall begin a tenure-track appointment following
completion of the requirements of the degree.). Letters of application ,
accompanied by a current  curriculum vitæ, a teaching dossier, the names and
addresses of three persons who can supply a letter of reference should be
forwarded to Dr. Lynne Phillips, Dean, Faculty of Arts, Memorial University
of Newfoundland, 230 Elizabeth Avenue, St. John¹s, NL, Canada, A1C 5S7; 
Telephone: (709) 864-8254;  email: dkennedy@mun.ca. The application must
provide evidence of excellence in teaching and research. Applications should
reach the Dean no later than January 11, 2013. 

Colloquium Series - Diaspora and Transnational Studies - University of Toronto

The Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies at the University of
Toronto cordially invites you to our research methods colloquium series,
Methods Café. This week's seminar features a discussion of a recently
published book by Prof. Andrea Muehlebach "The Moral Neoliberal: Welfare and
Citizenship in Italy" (2012, The University of Chicago Press).
Discussant comments to be provided by Prof. Tania Li.

The seminar will take place at JHB100A (ground floor) at the Jackman
Humanities Building, 170 St. George.

Andrea Muehlebach and Tania Li
Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto
Discussing "The Moral Neoliberal: Welfare and Citizenship in Italy"
Friday, November 30th
2:00 - 4:00 pm

Abstract for the book:

Set within the shifting landscape of neoliberal welfare reform in the
Lombardy region of Italy and visiting sites from Milanese high schools to
he offices of of social workers to the homes of the poor, "The Moral
Neoliberal" examines the phenomenal rise of voluntarism during Italy's
current withdrawal of social service programs. Mounting a powerful and
paradoxical argument that morality in Italy has become an indispensable
tool for capitalist transformation, Muehlebach explores the state's mass
mobilization of selflessness as a means to cement - and to sometimes also
unintentionally undermine - some of its most controversial reforms.

5th European Conference on African Studies, 2013

5th European Conference on African Studies: African dynamics in a
multipolar world (Lisbon, 26-28 June 2013)

The call for papers is now open and will close on 16th January 2013.

Please browse the list of accepted panels
(http://www.nomadit.co.uk/ecas/ecas2013/panels.php5) and make your
proposal to an appropriate panel. On the panel page, beneath the long
abstract you will find a link stating 'Propose a paper'. Click that to
access the online form.

More information at: http://cea.iscte.pt/ecas2013/cfp.shtml

Fellowship in Ethnographic Writing, Fall 2013 (UTSC)

Fellowship in Ethnographic Writing, Fall 2013

The Centre for Ethnography (CE) at the University of Toronto at
Scarborough (UTSC) is accepting applications for their annual
Fellowship in Ethnographic Writing. Writing is a key component of the
work of an anthropologist, but it takes time and benefits from some
distance from the fieldwork itself, and from other obligations. In
recognition of this fact the CE introduced a Fellowship in
Ethnographic Writing in 2010. We are now seeking applications for the
Fall Term of 2013, to be held at UTSC.

The recipient of this award is expected to devote their time fully to
writing and may not teach or hold any other form of employment during
the tenure of the award. They are expected to attend all talks and
colloquia at the CE, to work several days a week on campus at UTSC,
and to contribute a presentation of their work in progress to the
colloquia. In addition, the Fellow will be available to coach students
completing an undergraduate writing assignment, in tandem with a
professor teaching a core introductory course. This work will be
limited to 5 hours in total.

Applicants should supply a statement of no more than 5 double-spaced
pages describing their writing project, indicating the stage that it
is at, and precisely what they wish to accomplish during the duration
of the Fellowship. Explicit attention to questions of genre,
narrative, and audience are welcome but not essential. Successful
applicants will either be at the post-doctoral stage (engaged in
transforming a thesis into a book or articles) or in the final stages
of completing the doctoral thesis. All applicants must have completed
their doctoral fieldwork and have already submitted significant
portions of their dissertation to their committee. The current stipend
is set at $10,000 for a period of ten weeks.

The closing date for this competition is March 1, 2013. Please send
all applications, as well as the names of two referees, electronically
to the Centre for Ethnography <centreforethnography@utsc.utoronto.ca>.

Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Tim Harrison Talk - November 28

Nov. 28 Tim Harrison Talk

Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Prof. Tim Harrison (U of T, Near & Middle Eastern Civilizations)
"Lions, Statues and Treaties: Cultural Heritage Preservation in Southeastern
Turkey"
Presented by Near & Middle Eastern Civilizations, in conjunction with the
Turkish Community for Turkish Studies Association and the Canadian Institute
for Mediterranean Studies
6:30pm, Room 108, Koffler House, 569 Spadina Ave. Reception to follow.

View the poster at
http://anthropology.utoronto.ca/news-amp-events/events/NMC%20Nov.%2028%20Harrison%20Talk.pdf

Centre for Ethnography Talk with Amira Mittermaeir - 28 November

Nov. 28 Centre for Ethnography Talk with Amira Mittermaeir

The Centre for Ethnography (Department of Anthropology, UTSC) will be
holding its final talk for this semester, on Wednesday, 28 November,
1-3pm, at MW 296.

Prof Amira Mittermaeir (University of Toronto)

"Islamic Charity in Egypt: On Ethics and Its Limits"

Prof. Mittermaier is the author of the award-winning book "Dreams that
Matter: Egyptian Landscapes of the Imagination" (2011, University of
California Press).

We look forward to seeing you there!

Abstract: Drawing on fieldwork at one of Cairo's largest charity
organizations, this paper offers a critical engagement with the anthropology
of ethics and morality. Over the past ten years, and even more so since the
uprising in January 2011, thousands of young Egyptians have become involved
in charitable activities. In this paper I reflect on the volunteers' own
understandings of their charitable work. Whereas some describe charitable
giving as inherently ethical (as responding to need and suffering), others
insist that their actions are not for "the poor" but for God. Their goal is
not being ethical but following God's commands. By cultivating a radical
orientedness toward God, they explicitly reject the language of
'amalal-khayr, the "doing of good deeds," and offer a critique of "empathy"
and "compassion." I suggest that this "anti-ethical" stand invites not only
an expansion but also a critical rethinking of the ethical turn in
anthropology.

Saturday, November 24, 2012

RA Session // Moments of Suspension, Moments of Transition (Nov 30)

Simone de beauvoir Institute - Upcoming Presentation, Nov. 30


Moments of Suspension, Moments of Transition:
Liminality in the Writings of Katherine Mansfield and Elizabeth Bowen
Emma Short (Newcastle University)


Friday, November 30, 2012 at 2pm
SdBI lounge


(2170 Bishop) MU 203


Free


Writing to her cousin from her room at Queen’s College, London,
Katherine Mansfield recounts a teacher’s dismissal of her as ‘a little
savage from New Zealand,’ thus recognizing the way in which her
colonial status precludes her from truly belonging either to her
now-distant birthplace, or to the Imperial centre of London. As an
Anglo-Irish writer, the site of Elizabeth Bowen’s home is similarly
uncertain. Neither English nor Irish, but a hybrid of both, she, like
Mansfield, does not belong to either country, existing instead in an
unstable, liminal sphere. Bowen’s admiration for Mansfield is
well-documented, and while Bowen was undoubtedly influenced by
Mansfield’s style, technique and talent, this paper foregrounds a
deeper connection between the two authors in their shared, fractured
histories, and in the effect that this had on their writing. Charting
the persistence of in-between spaces across the work of Mansfield and
Bowen, this paper considers the way in which the use of such spaces by
the two writers not only signifies their shared histories of hybridity
and dislocation, but also enables them to interrogate the shifting
existence of women in modernity. Critical work on the respective
output of these writers has noted their fascination with the liminal
spaces of everyday existence (Smith [1999]; Ellmann [2003]).
Staircases, windows, hallways and corridors haunt the fiction of both
authors, alongside the larger, more complex spaces of the hotel and
the boarding-house which exist in between the public chaos of
modernity and the private confines of the domestic. Through engagement
with readings of modernist female subjectivity (Gan [2009]) and with
postcolonial theories of exile and belonging (George [1996]), this
paper reveals the dialogues operating across the writings of Mansfield
and Bowen through the spaces of the in-between.

Emma is the Network Facilitator for the Leverhulme International
Network Approaching War: Childhood Cultures and the First World War,
1880-1920, and a part-time tutor at Newcastle University. She
completed her Ph.D. at Newcastle University in early 2012. Her current
research explores the relationship between subjectivity and space in
women’s written representations of travel in the early twentieth
century. She has published several chapters on the hotel and women’s
travel. She is also co-editor of The Female Figure in Contemporary
Historical Fiction (Palgrave, 2012).

&

Friday, 7 December, 2012 at 2 p.m.

Queering Georgette Heyer
Dr Stacy Gillis


http://wsdb.concordia.ca

Thursday, November 22, 2012

SSEA Symposium Weekend Schedule November 30-December 2

SSEA Symposium Weekend Schedule November 30-December 2

Friday, November 30th, 2012
SSEA Scholars' Colloquium - Day 1, 9am to 5pm at the Royal Ontario Museum
This event is free. Museum gallery admission is not included. Enter via
the ROM South Entrance

Saturday, December 1st, 2012
Royal Ontario Museum Eaton Theatre, 9am to 5pm
"CITIES IN THE SAND: Urban Life in Ancient Egypt"
ROM & SSEA members: $80; $40 students; $90 general public

Sunday, December 2nd, 2012
SSEA Scholars' Colloquium - Day 2, Papers in Honour of John S. Holladay, Jr.
1pm to 5pm at the Royal Ontario Museum, Eaton Theatre.
This event is free. Museum gallery admission is not included. Enter via
the ROM South Entrance

Schedules are attached for our 38th Annual Symposium, and our two days of
scholarly presentations. Day 2 of our Scholars' Colloquium is composed of
Papers in Honour of John S. Holladay, Jr.

There are volunteering opportunities for graduate and undergraduate
students at this event. Please contact G. Cole at sseainfo@gmail.com
before Monday, November 26th.

The Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities/Société pour l'Étude de
l'Égypte Ancienne
thessea@gmail.com
www.thessea.org

CFHSS/FDSH: Communique: November 2012

Cliquez ici pour la version française: http://idees-ideas.ca/bulletin

In This Issue
Visit the Congress 2013 website for all the latest info
Read about the Federation's new look
Big Thinking caps off a successful year on Parliament Hill
The Federation presents at the Canadian Science Policy Conference
Graham Carr in the Globe and Mail and L'Actualité
Follow us on Twitter for the latest calls for proposals
World Social Science Forum issues a call for proposals
Happy holidays from the Federation
Visit the Congress 2013 website for all the latest info
If you're wondering what Congress is all about, check out this
mini-documentary produced by Memory Tree on behalf of Wilfrid Laurier
University and the University of Waterloo at Congress 2012!

Congress of the Humanities 2012

Be sure to visit the Congress 2013 website for regular updates about
the program, special events, travel, accommodations and local
attractions. Visit the website at congress2013.ca.

Early bird registration for Congress 2013 opens in January.


Read about the Federation's new look
Last month, we unveiled a new visual identity, including a new
website, logo and tagline - Ideas can... If you missed the
announcement, read about our transformation and about the process we
undertook to reimagine our identity here.


Big Thinking caps off a successful year on Parliament Hill
Next Thursday, November 29, Dilip Soman from the University of
Toronto's Rotman School of Management will present the last Big
Thinking lecture of 2012 on the topic of financial literacy and
behavioral economics. Read more about the lecture here. Registration
is open until November 26.

In October, Timothy Caulfield, Canada Research Chair in Health Law and
Policy, spoke on "Stem cells and medical tourism: The challenge for
health and science policy" to a full room. Check out a video of his
lecture below:

Timothy Caulfield on Stem cells and medical tourism: The challenge for
health and science policy
Timothy Caulfield on Stem cells and medical tourism: The challenge for
health and science policy


The Federation presents at the Canadian Science Policy Conference
The Federation, in partnership with the Canada Foundation for
Innovation, organized a panel at this year's CSPC, held earlier in
November in Calgary, titled "Building sustainable health care:
Policies, perceptions and an aging population." Panelists Antonia
Maioni, the Federation's president-elect, Janice Keefe, Canada
Research Chair in Aging and Caregiving, and doctor and consultant
Michael Rachlis were interviewed by a number of media channels,
including Radio-Canada's Le café show and the Calgary Herald.


Graham Carr in the Globe and Mail and L'actualité
Federation president Graham Carr published an op-ed last month in the
Globe and Mail on the importance of preparing graduate students for
careers outside of academia. He was also quoted in an article by
Isabelle Grégoire in L'actualité on the employment prospects of
students in the social sciences, arts and humanities.


Follow us on Twitter for the latest calls for proposals
As we near Congress, our member associations are all issuing calls for
proposals. Whenever possible, we retweet CFPs on Twitter at
@ideas_idees, and share them on Facebook. If you would like us to
highlight your association's CFP on our social media channels, email
us at media@ideas-idees.ca.


World Social Science Forum issues a call for proposals
The 2013 World Social Science Forum, which will be held on 13-15
October in Montreal, has issued a call for panel proposals. You can
submit your proposals until January 15.


Happy holidays from the Federation
This will be our last newsletter of the year. We wish all our
subscribers happy holidays! We will be back in January with another
newsletter, more Big Thinking lectures on the Hill and updates about
Congress 2013.

CIHR-IPPH November e-Bulletin | e-Bulletin novembre IRSC-ISPP

NOVEMBER 21, 2012 | LE 21 NOVEMBRE 2012



ENGLISH VERSION
CONTENTS:

* Canadian Public Health Association 2013 Annual Conference
* /Preventive Medicine/ Call for Population Health Intervention
Research Papers
* Health Systems Evidence

* Report on the State of Public Health in Canada
* Advance your Career in Population Health

ADDITIONAL NEWS:

* Funding Opportunities / Grants / Awards
* Calls for Abstracts / Papers
* Scholarship / Fellowship / Internship / Educational Opportunities
* Job Opportunities

* Have you Read / Seen?
* Calendar of Upcoming Events
* Share your Publications and Success Stories

CANADIAN PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION 2013 ANNUAL CONFERENCE

Moving Public Health Forward: Evidence, Policy, Practice — Canadian
Public Health Association 2013 Annual Conference
June 9-12, 2013 – Ottawa Convention Centre

The Canadian Public Health Association (CPHA) is pleased to launch the
Call for Reviewers for the CPHA 2013 Annual Conference Moving Public
health Forward: Evidence, Policy, Practice.

The timeframe for review is December 3 to December 21, 2012. The
maximum length of each abstract is 250 words and you will be assigned
approximately 10 abstracts. Each abstract will be evaluated by two
reviewers.

If you are able to participate, please register[7] by Tuesday,
November 27. In order to best match abstracts to reviewers, you will
be prompted to indicate your language preference and area(s) of
expertise (as per the Conference tracks).

All reviewers will be entered into a draw to win a complimentary
conference registration (non-transferrable).

For further information, please contact:
CPHA Conference Department
Telephone: 613-725-3769, ext. 126
conference@cpha.ca

/PREVENTIVE MEDICINE/ CALL FOR POPULATION HEALTH INTERVENTION
RESEARCH PAPERS
/Preventive Medicine/ in collaboration with Guest Editors Mark
Petticrew, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and Louise
Potvin, Universite de Montreal, invite researchers to submit papers on
population health intervention research for a themed section of the
journal.

A working definition of Population Health Intervention Research (PHIR)
is Â"the use of scientific methods to produce knowledge about policy,
program, and resource distribution approaches that operate within or
outside of the health sector and have the potential to impact health
at the population level.Â"

This themed issue will feature conceptual and theoretical papers about
the foundations of PHIR, systematic and realist reviews of literature
on population health interventions and related processes/outcomes, and
research articles describing the processes and/or results of
population health intervention studies using a range of research
designs and methods. We also encourage submissions involving multiple
jurisdictions, sectors, disciplines, and communities in high, middle-
and low-income countries.

For more information, visit the website[8].

/DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: NOVEMBER 30, 2012/

HEALTH SYSTEMS EVIDENCE

A newly enhanced version of Health Systems Evidence[9] has been
launched that gives policymakers, stakeholders and researchers access
to more comprehensive evidence on how to strengthen or reform health
systems. The service now contains complete inventories of economic
evaluations of health system reforms published since 2007,
descriptions of health systems around the world and descriptions of
health system reforms. For more details on the launch, visit the
website[10].

REPORT ON THE STATE OF PUBLIC HEALTH IN CANADA
The Report on the State of Public Health in Canada, 2012: Influencing
Health – The Importance of Sex and Gender[11] was tabled in
Parliament on October 26, 2012.

It explores the influence of sex and gender on public health and the
health status of Canadians. Differences in health experienced by men,
women, boys and girls can be attributed to biological diversity as
well as the social roles and responsibilities assumed by each of us.


As a society we need to better understand how sex and gender interact
with other determinants of health. Policy makers need to consider
gender-based evidence when making decisions on programs and
initiatives to support more effective and efficient health outcomes.

There is a wealth of experience and knowledge in Canada, and around
the world, and there are opportunities for positive change. Throughout
the report, there are many examples of what is working well and the
differences we can make in the lives of Canadians. Collectively we can
influence our health and create a better and healthier future for all
Canadians.


ADVANCE YOUR CAREER IN POPULATION HEALTH - JANUARY COURSES

The new on-line Professional Specialization Certificate in Population
Health Data Analysis program provides a unique opportunity for health
professionals to learn a diverse set of skills from multiple
disciplines. The flexible entry program allows you to start in any
term and to take up to two courses without applying to the full
program.
Spring Courses include:
• Epidemiological statistics (January to April 2013)
• Longitudinal analysis and multi-level modeling of population health
data (January to April 2013)
To learn more about the program visit the website[12].

FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES / GRANTS / AWARDS /(ORGANIZED BY DEADLINE)/
IPPH funding opportunities can be found here[13] by selecting the
Institute of Population and Public Health under the CIHR Institute
dropdown menu.

2012-13 CIHR-IPPH INSTITUTE COMMUNITY SUPPORT (ICS) PROGRAM
The ICS is designed to foster community development by providing
grants and awards (including travel awards) to individuals and
organizations for the purposes of:
— Aiding research and knowledge translation activities where the
circumstances fall outside CIHR's programs
— Supporting organizations and activities whose goals are consistent
with the Institute's and CIHR's vision, mandate and strategic
directions
Visit the IPPH ICS website[14] for more information. Please note that
travel awards are now administered through ResearchNet[15].
Application deadlines: March 15, 2013
Travel award deadline: January 2013


CALLS FOR ABSTRACTS / PAPERS
Centres for systematic reviews in low- and middle-income countries
The Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research is pleased to
announce a call for proposals to support Centres for systematic
reviews in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) for a period of
two years.
For more information, visit the website[16].
/SUBMISSION DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 28, 2012/

21st IUHPE World Conference on Health Promotion
The Global Scientific Committee of the 21st IUHPE World Conference on
Health Promotion is calling for the submission of abstracts[17] for
symposia, workshops and oral papers/posters to be presented and
discussed at the conference and contributing to the conference theme:
Best Investments for Health.
/SUBMISSION DEADLINE: DECEMBER 20, 2012/


SCHOLARSHIP / FELLOWSHIP / INTERNSHIP / EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES

Enhancing Intervention Research and Practice in Public Health in
Canada: Strategic Training Program: Promotion, Prevention and Public
Policy (4P)
The Strategic Training Program in Transdisciplinary Research on Public
and Population Health Interventions: Promotion, Prevention and Public
Policy (4P) is funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Strategic Training Initiative in partnership with the Quebec
Population Health Research Network. It concerns Quebec or Canadian
universities PhD students and Postdoctoral fellows who will do their
research project in a formal public health organisation in Quebec such
as the Quebec National Public Health Institute, a public health
department, a center for health and social services (CSSS), the
General Public Health Division of the Ministry of Health and Social
Services. The Public Health Agency of Canada is also an eligible
milieu.
/APPLICATION DEADLINE: DECEMBER 4, 2012/
For more information, visit the website[18].

CENTRE FOR ADDICTION AND MENTAL HEALTH COMMUNITY-BASED RESEARCH
FELLOWSHIP APPLICATION
The objective of the Postdoctoral Fellowship Program is to provide
postdoctoral fellows with a comprehensive training program in the
fields of addiction and/or mental health and with training in research
techniques. Postdoctoral fellows are expected to make independent
contributions to knowledge during their appointment. These may be in
the form of a contribution to an existing project, or through the
development of an original project.
Visit the website[19] for more information.
/APPLICATION DEADLINE: DECEMBER 5, 2012/

ST. MICHAEL'S: CALL FOR POST-DOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP APPLICATIONS
This opportunity aims to equip new researchers with the competencies
necessary for closing the gap between measuring inner city health
inequities and reducing them. The program has two main foci:
• Population Health and Health Services Interventions Research
• Community Engagement, Partnerships, and Knowledge Translation
Visit the website[20] for more information.
Application deadline: February 13, 2013


JOB OPPORTUNITIES

PUBLIC HOSPITALS AUTHORITY, COMMONWEALTH OF THE BAHAMAS: MEDICAL
EPIDEMIOLOGIST
For more information, or to apply, contact Dr. Gerry Eijkemans[21].
/APPLICATION DEADLINE: DECEMBER 1, 2012/


HAVE YOU READ / SEEN?
Joining up action to address social determinants of health and health
inequities in Canada[22]
PRISMA-Equity 2012 Extension: Reporting Guidelines for Systematic
Reviews with a Focus on Health Equity[23]
Knowledge translation impact stories


CALENDAR OF UPCOMING EVENTS
Visit the website[24].


SHARE YOUR PUBLICATIONS AND SUCCESS STORIES

Has your research led to a breakthrough, the development of a new
product/program, or changes in policy and practice? We want to hear
about it! Your story may be featured on our web site or in the next
issue of our Institute newsletter - POP News[25]. Please email your
publications and / or impact stories to Emma Cohen[26], IPPH Knowledge
Translation and Communications Officer.


VERSION FRANÇAISE

Contenu:

Conférence annuelle 2013 de l'Association canadienne de la santé
publique
Invitation à présenter des articles de recherche
interventionnelle en santé des populations pour la revue Preventive
Medicine
Health Systems Evidence
Rapport de l'administrateur en chef de la santé publique au Canada
Advance your career in population health (anglais seulement)

D'autres nouvelles:

Possibilités de financement, subventions, et prix
Appel d'abrégés / de communications
Bourses / Bourses de recherche / Occasions de stage
Possibilités d'emploi
Avez-vous lu / vu ?
Calendrier d'événements à venir
Partager vos contributions scientifiques ou votre histoire de succès

Conférence annuelle 2013 de l'Association canadienne de la santé publique
Faire progresser la santé publique : preuves, politiques, pratiques —
Conférence annuelle 2013 de l'Association canadienne de la santé
publique
Du 9 au 12 juin 2013 – Centre de congrès d'Ottawa

L'Association canadienne de santé publique (ACSP) a le plaisir de
lancer un Appel aux évaluateurs pour sa Conférence annuelle 2013 de
l'ACSP Faire progresser la santé publique : preuves, politiques et
pratiques.

La période d'évaluation s'étendra du 3 décembre au 21 décembre 2012.
Les résumés feront 250 mots au maximum et nous confierons environ 10
résumés à chaque évaluateur. Chaque résumé sera évalué par deux
personnes.

Si vous pouvez participer inscrivez-vous à avant mardi le 27 novembre.
Pour que nous puissions assortir les résumés aux évaluateurs, le
système vous demandera de préciser votre préférence linguistique et
votre domaine de compétence (selon les axes de la conférence).

Nous ferons tirer une inscription gratuite à la conférence parmi tous
les évaluateurs (non transférable).

Pour de plus amples renseignements, veuillez communiquer avec le :
Service des conférences de l'ACSP
613-725-3769, poste 126
conference@cpha.ca

Invitation à présenter des articles de recherche interventionnelle en
santé des populations pour la revue Preventive Medicine
La revue Preventive Medicine, en collaboration avec les rédacteurs en
chef invités, Mark Petticrew, de la London School of Hygiene and
Tropical Medicine, et Louise Potvin, de l'Université de Montréal,
invitent les chercheurs à soumettre un article de recherche
interventionnelle en santé des populations (RISP), pour une section de
la revue consacrée à ce sujet.

Selon une définition pratique de la recherche interventionnelle en
santé des populations, la RISP « nécessite le recours à des méthodes
scientifiques pour produire des connaissances sur les interventions en
matière de politiques, de programmes et d'approches de répartition des
ressources qui sont effectuées à l'intérieur ou à l'extérieur du
secteur de la santé et qui peuvent avoir un impact sur la santé des
populations ».

Ce numéro à thème présentera des articles conceptuels et théoriques
sur le fondement de la RISP, des examens systématiques et réalistes de
la littérature sur les interventions en santé des populations et des
processus et résultats connexes, ainsi que des articles de recherche
décrivant les processus et/ou les résultats des études
interventionnelles en santé des populations au moyen d'une vaste gamme
de plans et de méthodes de recherche. Nous encourageons également la
présentation d'articles de plusieurs régions, secteurs, disciplines et
communautés, et ce, des pays à revenu élevé, intermédiaire et faible.

Pour plus d'informations, veuillez consulter le site web (en anglais
seulement).

Date limite de soumission : le 30 novembre 2012

Health Systems Evidence
Une nouvelle version améliorée de Health Systems Evidence (anglais
seulement) vient tout juste d'être lancée. Cette nouvelle version
offre aux responsables de politiques, aux parties prenantes et aux
chercheurs un accès à des données probantes encore plus complètes sur
les façons de renforcer ou réformer les systèmes de santé. Le service
comprend maintenant des inventaires complets d'évaluations économiques
sur des réformes du système de santé publiées depuis 2007, des
descriptions de systèmes de santé de partout à travers le monde, et
des descriptions de réformes de la santé. Pour plus de détails sur le
lancement, veuillez consulter le site web (anglais seulement).

Rapport de l'administrateur en chef de la santé publique au Canada
Que le 26 octobre 2012, la Rapport de l'administrateur en chef de la
santé publique au Canada 2012 : Le sexe et le genre – Leur influence
importante sur la santé a été présenté au Parlement.

Il explore l'influence du sexe et du genre sur la santé publique et
l'état de santé des Canadiens. Les différences sur le plan de l'état
de santé des hommes, des femmes, des garçons et des filles peuvent
être attribuées à la diversité biologique ainsi qu'aux responsabilités
et aux rôles sociaux de chacun.

En tant que société, nous devons comprendre davantage comment le sexe
et le genre interagissent avec d'autres déterminants de la santé. Les
décideurs doivent tenir compte des données liées au sexe et au genre
au moment de prendre des décisions concernant les programmes et les
initiatives à mettre en œuvre en vue de trouver des façons plus
efficientes et efficaces d'améliorer la santé des Canadiens.

L'expérience et les connaissances – au Canada comme à l'étranger –
peuvent donner lieu à des changements positifs. Le rapport contient de
nombreux exemples de ce qui fonctionne bien et présente les
différences que nous pouvons apporter dans la vie des Canadiens.
Ensemble, nous pouvons agir pour améliorer notre santé et assurer un
avenir meilleur et plus sain pour tous les Canadiens.

Advance your career in population health - January courses (anglais
seulement)
Pour plus d'informations, veuillez consulter le site web.

Possibilités de financement, subventions, et prix (organizé par date limite)
Les possibilités de financement de l'ISPP peuvent être retrouvées ici
en sélectionnant l'Institut de la santé publique et des populations du
menu déroulant.

Programme d'appui communautaire (PACI) de l'Institut de la santé
publique et des populations (ISPP) 2012-13
Les instituts des IRSC recourent au PACI pour fournir des
subventions/bourses à des personnes et à des organisations appartenant
à leurs milieux respectifs, afin qu'elles s'en servent pour :
— Fournir des subventions ou des bourses pour des activités de
recherche et d'application des connaissances qui ne sont pas couvertes
par les autres programmes des IRSC
— Appuyer des organismes et des individus dont les buts concordent
avec la vision, le mandat et les orientations stratégiques des IRSC et
des leurs instituts.
Pour de plus amples renseignements, consultez le site-Web pour le PACI
de l'ISPP. Veuillez noter que les bourses de voyage de l'ISPP sont
maintenant administrés par RechercheNet.
Date limite de présentation des demandes : 15 mars 2013
Date limite de présentation des demandes pour des bourses de voyage :
janvier 2013


Appel d'abrégés / de communications
Centres for systematic reviews in low- and middle-income countries
(anglais seulement)
The Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research is pleased to
announce a call for proposals to support Centres for systematic
reviews in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) for a period of
two years.
Pour plus d'informations, veuillez consulter le site web.
Date limite pour la soumission : 28 november 2012

21ème Conférence mondiale de l'UIPES sur la Promotion de la Santé
Les sujets des résumés porteront sur des questions centrales pour la
promotion de la santé ainsi que sur les liens essentiels entre la
promotion de la santé et les problématiques environnementales,
économiques et sociales.
Pour plus d'informations, veuillez consulter le site web.
Date limite pour la soumission : 20 decembre 2012


Bourses / Bourses de recherche / Occasions de stage

Accroître la capacité de recherche et d'action sur les interventions
de santé publique au Canada Programme de formation 4P: Promotion,
Prévention et Politiques Publiques
Le Programme stratégique de formation en recherche transdisciplinaire
sur les interventions de santé publique : Promotion, Prévention et
Politiques Publiques est financé par l'Initiative stratégique de
formation en recherche des Instituts de recherche en santé du Canada
(IRSC) et par le Réseau de recherche en santé des populations du
Québec (RRSPQ). Il s'adresse aux doctorants et post-doctorants de
l'une ou l'autre des universités au Québec, ou au Canada, désirant
réaliser leur recherche dans un milieu formel de santé publique
québécois tel l'Institut national de santé publique, une direction de
santé publique, un centre de santé et des services sociaux, la
direction générale de santé publique du ministère de la Santé et des
Services sociaux. L'Agence de santé publique du Canada est un autre
milieu admissible.
Pour plus d'informations, veuillez consulter le site web.
Date limite pour présenter une demande : 4 decembre 2012

Centre for Addiction and Mental Health Community-Based Research
Fellowship Application (anglais seulement)
Pour plus d'informations, veuillez consulter le site web.
Date limite pour présenter une demande : 5 decembre 2012

St. Michael's: Call for Post-Doctoral Fellowship Applications (
anglais seulement)
Pour plus d'informations, veuillez consulter le site web.
Date limite pour présenter une demande : 13 février, 2013


Possibilités d'emploi
Public Hospitals Authority, Commonwealth of the Bahamas: Medical
epidemiologist (anglais seulement)
For more information, or to apply, contact Dr. Gerry Eijkemans.
Date limite pour présenter une demande : 1 decembre 2012



Avez-vous lu / vu?
Joining up action to address social determinants of health and health
inequities in Canada (anglais seulement)
PRISMA-Equity 2012 Extension: Reporting Guidelines for Systematic
Reviews with a Focus on Health Equity (anglais seulement)
Récits sur l'impact de l'Application des connaissances


Calendrier d'événements à venir
Veuillez consulter le site web.


Partager vos contributions scientifiques ou votre histoire de succès

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révolutionnaire, le développement d'un nouveau produit/programme ou
les changements dans la politique et la pratique ? Nous voulons en
entendre ! Votre histoire peut être présentée sur notre site Web ou
dans l'édition suivante de notre bulletin d'Institut - POP Nouvelles.
S'il vous plaît envoyez vos publications et / ou vos histoires
d'impact à Emma Cohen, Agente en application des connaissances et en
communications, ISPP.

University of Saskatchewan - tenure track job

Dear colleagues,

Please see below for information on a tenure track job, at the
assistant or associate level, in environmental social
science/sustainability science, at the University of Saskatchewan's
School of Environment and Sustainability. For us anthropologists
already at U of S, it would be nice to see an anthropologist hired in
this position, which could allow for a joint appointment with the
Department of Archaeology and Anthropology.

http://www.usask.ca/sens/career_and_research_opportunities/employment_opportunities.php

regards,
Clint Westman

Dr. Clinton N. Westman
Assistant Professor
Department of Archaeology and Anthropology
55 Campus Drive #221
University of Saskatchewan
Saskatoon, SK, S7N 5B1
306-966-4179

Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies: Winter 2013

Upcoming Programs
> Wednesday, February 13, 7–8:30 p.m.
> 2013 J. B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Annual Lecture
> Understanding Local Genocide: A Galician Town in the Time of the Holocaust
> Helena Rubinstein Auditorium
>
> Tuesday–Wednesday, February 26–27
> Symposium
> New Research and Resources on Children and the Holocaust
> Helena Rubinstein Auditorium
>
> Wednesday, March 13, 7–8:30 p.m.
> 2013 Ina Levine Annual Lecture
> Hitler's Path to Power
> Helena Rubinstein Auditorium
>
> Calls for Applications
> Summer Research Assistantships for Graduate Students
> June–August 2013
> Applications due January 15
>
> 2013 Annual Seminar for Seminary and Religious Studies Faculty
> The Overlooked Revolution: The Shift in Catholic Teaching on the Jews since
Vatican II
> June 10–14, 2013
> Applications due February 19
>
> 2013 Curt C. and Else Silberman Seminar for University Faculty
> Teaching about the Holocaust: Antisemitism, the Final Solution, Jewish
Response,
> and Denial
> June 3–14, 2013
> Applications due February 25
>
> Emerging Scholars Program:
> Forthcoming Publications
> Albert Kaganovitch, University of Manitoba and 2009–2010 Matthew Family
Fellow
> The Long Life and Swift Death of Jewish Rechitsa (University of
Wisconsin Press 2013)
>
> Corry Guttstadt, University of Hamburg and 2008–09 Charles H. Revson
Foundation
Fellow
> Turkey, the Jews, and the Holocaust (Cambridge University Press 2013)
>
> Center-Sponsored Publications about the Holocaust
> Jewish Responses to Persecution, Volume III, 1941–1942
> By Jürgen Matthäus with Emil Kerenji, Jan Lambertz, and Leah Wolfson
>
> Center-Sponsored Journal
> Holocaust and Genocide Studies
>
>
>
> PROGRAM
> WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 7–8:30 P.M.
> 2013 J. B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Annual Lecture
> Understanding Local Genocide: A Galician Town in the Time of the Holocaust
> Helena Rubinstein Auditorium
>
> Omer Bartov is the John P. Birkelund Distinguished Professor of European
History
and professor of history and professor of German studies at Brown University.
Considered one of the world's leading specialists on the subject of
genocide, he
is the author of seven books and the editor of three volumes. His most recent
book, Erased: Vanishing Traces of Jewish Galicia in Present-Day Ukraine
(2007),
examines the politics of memory in western Ukraine and removal of both the
memory
and the few material remains of Jewish culture there. He is currently
writing a
book titled The Voice of Your Brother's Blood: Buczacz, Biography of a Town.
>
> This lecture will describe and analyze the mass murder of the Jewish
population of
Buczacz, a small town in eastern Galicia, in 1941–44. Buczacz had been a
multiethnic town for four centuries, inhabited by Poles, Ukrainians, and
Jews.
During the German occupation in World War II, about half of the Jewish
residents
were taken to extermination camps, while the other half were murdered in
the town
and its vicinity in what were often public acts of mass violence. The
killings
were accomplished with a great deal of local collaboration, especially by
Ukrainian policemen and auxiliaries. In the latter part of the occupation,
the
Polish population was violently ethnically cleansed by Ukrainian nationalist
militants. The lecture will investigate why this community of coexistence was
transformed into a community of genocide; to what extent this was a common
phenomenon at the time in eastern Europe; and what sources can be used to
reconstruct the event and understand the motivations of the protagonists.
>
> The J. B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Senior Scholar-in-Residence Fellowship,
endowed
by the J. B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Charitable Trust, enables the Center
to bring
a distinguished scholar to the Museum each year to conduct innovative
research
about the Holocaust and to disseminate this work to the public. The
scholar-in-residence also leads seminars, lectures at universities in the
United
States, and serves as a resource for the Museum, educators, students, and the
general public.
>
> This lecture has been made possible through the generosity of the J. B. and
Maurice C. Shapiro Charitable Trust.
>
> A reception follows the lecture. To attend this lecture, RSVP online at
ushmm.org/events/shapirolecture2013.
>
>
>
>
>
> SYMPOSIUM
> TUESDAY–WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26–27
> New Research and Resources on Children and the Holocaust
> Helena Rubinstein Auditorium
>
> Ten years after the first conference on this topic convened by the
Center, this
symposium explores the evolution of the study of children and the
Holocaust. These
presentations utilize new Museum resources to interrogate familiar
subjects such
as hiding and rescue, as well as probe new areas of research such as postwar
identity; history and memory; and the challenges and opportunities
presented by
child survivor testimony itself.
>
> Susan Rubin Suleiman, C. Douglas Dillon Professor of the Civilization of
France
and professor of comparative literature at Harvard University, will
deliver the
keynote address.
>
> For a full schedule, please visit ushmm.org/research/center.
>
> This program is made possible by the Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus Fund for
the Study
of the Fate and Rescue of Children.
>
> Reservations are requested. To attend this symposium, RSVP online at
ushmm.org/events/childrensymposium2013.
>
>
> Children who have been selected for deportation bid farewell to their
families
through the wire fence of the central prison, during the Gehsperre action
in the
Lodz ghetto, 1942. US Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Beit Lohamei
Haghetaot
>
>
>
> 2013 INA LEVINE ANNUAL LECTURE
> WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 7–8:30 p.m.
> Hitler's Path to Power
> Helena Rubinstein Auditorium
>
> Sybille Steinbacher is professor of contemporary history, comparative
dictatorship, violence, and genocide studies at the Institute for
Contemporary
History at the University of Vienna, Austria. She served in the Department of
Modern and Contemporary History at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena,
Germany, from 2005 to 2010. She earned her Habilitation in 2010 at the
Faculty of
the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, with venia legendi in modern and
contemporary history, after which she was a visiting professor at the
Fritz Bauer
Institute for the History and Impact of the Holocaust at the Department of
Philosophy and History of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in
Frankfurt am
Main, Germany. Professor Steinbacher is the author of the book Auschwitz: A
History (2006).
>
> Professor Steinbacher's lecture will focus on German society and its
relationship
to the Nazi movement during the years of Hitler's path to power. She will
discuss
the hopes and desires that the Nazis set free and ask how antisemitism became
socially acceptable.
>
> The Ina Levine Invitational Scholar Award, endowed by the William S. and
Ina
Levine Foundation of Phoenix, Arizona, enables the Center to bring a
distinguished
scholar to the Museum each year to conduct innovative research on the
Holocaust
and to disseminate this work to the American public.
>
> This lecture has been made possible through the generosity of the
William S. and
Ina Levine Foundation.
>
> A reception follows the lecture. To attend this lecture, RSVP online at
ushmm.org/events/levinelecture2013.
>
>
> A large crowd gathers in front of City Hall to hear the exhortations of
Julius
Streicher during the Beer Hall Putsch. Munich, Germany, 1923. US Holocaust
Memorial Museum, courtesy of William O. McWorkman
>
>
>
> CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
> Summer Research Assistantships for Graduate Students
> JUNE–AUGUST 2013
> Applications due January 15
>
>
> The Center invites applications for the Summer Graduate Research Assistant
program, designed for students accepted to or currently enrolled in a
master's
degree (MA) program or in their first year of a PhD program. Students who
have
completed more than one year of doctoral work will not be considered. The
objective of this program is to acquaint promising MA and first-year PhD
students
with Holocaust Studies via participation in the broad range of scholarly and
publicly available educational programs offered by the Museum during the
summer
months. Applications are welcome from students in all academic disciplines,
including history, political science, literature, Jewish studies, psychology,
sociology, geography, and others.
>
> Projects may include, but are not limited to: (1) conducting research on
Holocaust-specific and Holocaust-relevant courses in the United States,
including
assisting with statistical assessments of the state of the field; (2)
facilitating
projects related to the International Tracing Service digital collection
at the
Museum; and (3) supporting the research, the annotation, the
contextualization,
and the editing required for advancing the Museum's Encyclopedia of Camps and
Ghettos, 1933–1945 (vols. 3–6) and the archival source series on
Documenting Life
and Destruction, especially for Jewish Responses to Persecution, 1933–1946
(vols.
4–5), and topical volumes, including The Holocaust in Hungary.
>
> In addition to each applicant's involvement in these projects,
recipients will be
expected to participate in a weekly training seminar led by Museum staff,
introducing them to key subjects, essential tools, useful methods and
approaches,
as well as career opportunities in Holocaust research. Each recipient will
meet
with a staff mentor who will assign and review weekly tasks and project
goals.
Recipients will be expected to familiarize themselves with relevant topics
through
assigned readings and will be expected to actively engage with Center staff.
>
> Assistants will be required to be in residence at the Museum for 12
consecutive
weeks, arriving on June 3, 2013 and departing on August 23, 2013. Awardees
will
receive a stipend of $2,500/month, as well as a stipend to offset the cost of
direct, economy-class travel to and from Washington, DC. Local awardees
will not
receive a travel allowance.
>
> Applications and questions regarding this program should be addressed to
Jo-Ellyn
Decker, Visiting Scholar Programs, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies,
United
States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, SW,
Washington, DC
20024-2126; (fax: 202.479.9726; e-mail: SGRA@ushmm.org).
>
> For more information and for the full call for applications, please visit
ushmm.org/research/center/fellowship/summergra.
>
>
>
>
>
> CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
> 2013 Annual Seminar for Seminary and Religious Studies Faculty
> The Overlooked Revolution: The Shift in Catholic Teaching on the Jews since
Vatican II
> JUNE 10–14, 2013
> Applications due February 19
>
>
> Designed for professors of all disciplines but particularly seminary and
religious
studies faculty, this seminar will explore the shift in Catholic thought
on the
Jews since 1965 resulting from the promulgation of the Vatican II declaration
Nostra Aetate ("In Our Age"). The statement about the Jews in Nostra Aetate
reversed and refuted ideas that went back to the Church's earliest days
and grew
out of deep theological reflection occasioned by witnessing the Holocaust.
While
the best-known images from Vatican II emphasize the deliberations of
bishops, the
actual intellectual impetus for the revolution came from the margins of the
Church, specifically a small group of converts to Catholicism, many of
them from
Judaism. How did they succeed in making themselves heard in an institution
that,
to many, had seemed impervious to change? This seminar will examine the
primary
influences—historical, theological, and biographical—on this revolution in
Catholic teaching.
>
> The seminar will be taught by John Connelly, professor of history at the
University of California at Berkeley. Professor Connelly is the author of
From
Enemy to Brother: The Revolution in Catholic Teaching on the Jews, 1933–1965
(2012) and Captive University: The Sovietization of East German, Czech and
Polish
Higher Education (2000), which won the 2001 George Beer Award of the American
Historical Association; and co-editor of Universities Under Dictatorship
(2005).
His articles have appeared in Minerva, the Journal of Modern History, Slavic
Review, the Nation, the London Review of Books, and Commonweal.
>
> Applications are due on February 19, 2013. For application guidelines,
please
visit
ushmm.org/research/center/seminars/announcement.php?content=religion&year=2013.
>
> Please address inquiries and applications to Dr. Victoria Barnett, staff
director,
Committee on Church Relations and the Holocaust, University Programs,
Center for
Advanced Holocaust Studies at 202.488.0469 or vbarnett@ushmm.org.
>
> This seminar is made possible by the Hoffberger Family Fund and by
Joseph A. and
Janeal Cannon and Family.
>
>
>
>
>
> CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
> 2013 Curt C. and Else Silberman Seminar for University Faculty
> Teaching about the Holocaust: Antisemitism, the Final Solution, Jewish
Response,
and Denial
> JUNE 3–14, 2013
> Applications due February 25
>
>
> Designed for college and university faculty from all disciplines who are
teaching
or preparing to teach Holocaust-related courses, this year's seminar will
strengthen participants' backgrounds in Holocaust history and ensure a firm
scholarly grounding for Holocaust courses. The seminar will consist of
presentations on Holocaust history, participant-facilitated discussions on
classroom teaching methods, and roundtable discussions on teaching strategies
across multiple disciplines. Presentations and discussions will include an
overview of Holocaust history and topics as well as new research findings
to be
incorporated into course syllabi.
>
> The seminar will be led by Christopher Browning, Frank Porter Graham
Distinguished
Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Professor
Browning specializes in the history of the Holocaust and Nazi Germany. His
research has focused on the decision-making process that launched the Final
Solution and the motivation of perpetrators. Among his many influential
monographs
are Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in
Poland
(1993); The Origins of the Final Solution: The Evolution of Nazi Jewish
Policy
(2007); and his most recent work, Remembering Survival: Inside a Nazi
Slave Labor
Camp (2010).
>
> Applications are due on February 25, 2013. For application guidelines,
please
visit ushmm.org/research/center/seminars/seminars.php?content=silberman.
>
> Please address inquiries and applications to Dr. Dieter Kuntz, program
officer,
University Programs, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at 202.314.1779 or
dkuntz@ushmm.org.
>
> The Curt C. and Else Silberman Foundation endowed the Silberman Seminar for
University Faculty in memory of Curt C. and Else Silberman. The Foundation
supports programs in higher education that promote study of the Holocaust,
and
protect and strengthen Jewish values in democracy, human rights, ethical
leadership, and cultural pluralism.
>
>
>
>
>
> EMERGING SCHOLARS PROGRAM
> Albert Kaganovitch, University of Manitoba and 2009–2010 Matthew Family
Fellow
> The Long Life and Swift Death of Jewish Rechitsa
> University of Wisconsin Press 2013
>
>
> Corry Guttstadt, University of Hamburg and 2008–09 Charles H. Revson
Foundation
Fellow
> Turkey, the Jews, and the Holocaust
> Cambridge University Press 2013
>
>
> CENTER-SPONSORED PUBLICATIONS
> ABOUT THE HOLOCAUST
> Jewish Responses to Persecution, Volume III, 1941–1942
> By Jürgen Matthäus with Emil Kerenji, Jan Lambertz, and Leah Wolfson
> Forthcoming Spring 2013
> Published by AltaMira Press in association with the United States Holocaust
Memorial Museum
>
>
> This volume examines Jewish reactions in countries within and beyond the
scope of
Axis rule to the unfolding implementation of the Final Solution in Europe
from the
beginning of 1941 up to July 1942, when selections began in Auschwitz. Topics
include hiding, resistance, rescue, and evasion, as well as deportations and
reflections on the unfolding genocide.
>
>
>
>
>
> CENTER-SPONSORED JOURNAL
> Holocaust and Genocide Studies
>
>
> The Museum's scholarly journal is published three times a year by Oxford
University Press. Under the editorship of American University Professor
Richard D.
Breitman, a member of the Academic Committee of the United States Holocaust
Memorial Council, the journal is the major international,
multidisciplinary forum
for the publication of new scholarship on the Holocaust. Discounted
subscriptions
are available to students and Museum members. For more information, please
visit
hgs.oxfordjournals.org.
>
> Highlights from Holocaust and Genocide Studies, vol. 26, no. 3, include:
>
> "Anne Frank in South Africa: Remembering the Holocaust During and After
Apartheid," by Shirli Gilbert
> "Cash for Genocide? The Politics of Memory in the Herero Case for
Reparations," by
David Bargueño
> "Behind the Battle Lines: Italian Atrocities and the Persecution of Arabs,
Berbers, and Jews in North Africa during World War II," by Patrick Bernhard
> "Nazi Propaganda toward French Muslim Prisoners of War," by Raffael Scheck
>
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> Sara J. Bloomfield, Museum Director
> Paul A. Shapiro, Director, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies
> Robert M. Ehrenreich, Director, University Programs
>
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> So we may ensure sufficient space, please register online at the web
address
provided after each program description. For additional information, visit
our
website at ushmm.org/research/center. If you have questions, please e-mail
university_programs@ushmm.org.
>
> All programs are free and, unless otherwise noted, held at the United
States
Holocaust Memorial Museum, 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, SW, Washington, DC
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>
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>
>
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inspires citizens and leaders worldwide to confront hatred, prevent
genocide, and
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place on
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CFP: Edited Volume(s) on International Anthropology of the United States

Apologies for Cross-Postings:


Call for Papers - Edited volume(s) on the International Anthropology of
the U.S.



GOAL:


&#8203;We are working to publish an edited volume (or even volumes) on the
international
anthropology of the U.S. and are looking for possible inclusions.



RATIONALE:


&#8203;For several years now, a group of anthropologists located outside
the US have come
together with US-based anthropologists to share and discuss their field work
experiences and research - their study of and in the US. In their effort to
cultivate "the development of a different kind of international
scholarship on the
United States, one that truly decenters U.S. scholarship while challenging
it with
new formulations, new questions, and new critiques" ("Rethinking American
Studies in
a Critical Internationalism," American Quarterly 1996:484), Virginia
Dominguez and
Jane Desmond, co-founded the International Forum for US Studies (IFUSS)
from which
has emerged the "international anthropology of the United States." For
further
information about IFUSS, please check the website:
ips.illinois.edu/ifuss/<http://ips.illinois.edu/ifuss/>



&#8203;In our effort to "reconceive of the U.S., or the more metaphorical
'America,' as a
complex imaginary" ("Towards a prismatic 'American Studies'," Safundi
2007:8) we
have gathered together research ranging from the study of the media and
politics to
migration, dance and performance, sexual identity, activism, and the
practices of
everyday life. In our work, "'America' is not a thing, a place, an idea,
or a
political 'entity.' It is, rather, all of these and the multiple and
conflicting
ways in which it is imagined, i.e., called into being, named, understood,
consumed,
produced, used, and experienced by individuals, groups, and states around
the world"
(ibid.).



&#8203;To date, those directly engaged in these conversations are
professors Helena Wulff
(Sweden), Ulf Hannerz (Sweden), Moshe Shokeid (Israel), Jasmin Habib
(Canada), and
Keiko Ikeda (Japan). While the range of the research is wide,
surprisingly little
attention has been focused on the study of the US by those located outside
its
borders. In this call for papers, we seek to fill that gap by bringing to
greater
focus empirical as well as theoretical implications for anthropological
research and
practice.



SUBMISSION, DEADLINE, AND CONTACT DETAILS:



&#8203;If you have conducted anthropological fieldwork in the US, and you
are interested
in contributing to a one- or two- volume publication on the international
anthropology of the US, please send us an electronic copy of your 25-30 page
double-spaced paper by February 1, 2012. All papers should be sent to
Jasmin Habib
at jhabib@uwaterloo.ca<mailto:jhabib@uwaterloo.ca> and Virginia Dominguez at
dominguezvr@gmail.com<mailto:dominguezvr@gmail.com>

UN Trust Fund to EVAW/G 17th Grant Cycle

Dear colleagues,

The United Nations Trust Fund in Support of Actions to Eliminate Violence
against Women is accepting applications for its 17th grant cycle (2012)
from government authorities, civil society organizations and networks —
including non-governmental, women's and community-based organizations and
coalitions, and operational research institutions — and UN Country Teams
(in partnership with governments and civil society organizations).

The 2012 UN Trust Fund Call invites proposals in the following areas of
action:
i. Closing the Gap on the Implementation of National and
Local Laws, Policies and Action Plans that Address Violence against Women

ii. Addressing Violence against Adolescent and Young Girls

Applicants are invited to submit grant proposals for a minimum of
US$100,000 up to a maximum of US$1 million for a period of two to three
years. The application deadline is 21 January 2013.
The complete Call for Proposals detailing criteria, eligibility
requirements and application guidelines is available at:

http://grants.unwomen.org

or via the UN
Women homepage www.unwomen.org.

Apologies for any cross-posting.

Student Anthropologist - Call for Papers and Peer Reviewers

*Student Anthropologist*

The Journal of the National Association of Student Anthropologists



*Call for Papers and Peer Reviewers: Submission Deadline January 14, 2013*



*Student Anthropologist *is the flagship peer-reviewed journal of the
National Association of Student Anthropologists (the largest organization
of anthropologist students in the world). It is an annual digital
publication. Students from all levels and disciplines are encouraged to
contribute.



*Aim and Scope*

With each issue, *Student Anthropologist *will explore thematic areas and
new directions in anthropology from the perspective of the best young
anthropologists. We seek a plurality of voices from all subfields in each
issue. *Student Anthropologist *welcomes not only original research
addressing anthropological issues and problems but also submissions that
explore how anthropological skills, ideas, and ethnography can have an
impact on contemporary social issues.

* *

We seek scholarly submissions from undergraduate and graduate students
worldwide, in particular those emphasizing anthropology's capacity to shape
public issues, social problems, and global realities. These submissions
should contain *original research*.

The two types of submissions accepted include:

*1. Scholarly articles*: under 6,000 words in length, subject to a peer
review process.

*2. Commentary submissions*: opinion or theory pieces that are the
original work of the author. Commentary submissions might include such
mediums as written pieces (approx. 2,000 words in length), photo essays (10
photos + 1,000 words of commentary in length) and videos/YouTube© clips
(10-minute maximum in duration + 1,000 words of commentary in length).



*Student Anthropologist *not only aims to publish excellent student
research but also to provide an avenue for professionalization for students
to become involved in journal processes. Students act as peer reviewers and
editors. Please email *nasaejournal@gmail.com* if you would like to act as
a peer reviewer or get involved with other journal production opportunities.

* *

*Submission Guidelines*

Any student currently enrolled in a BA, MA, or PhD program is welcome to
submit original research to be considered for publication. While this is
an anthropology journal, students do not need to be enrolled in an
anthropology program.

* *

All submissions should include two separate documents:

1. A cover sheet containing the author's name, contact information,
paper title, student status and affiliation, and acknowledgments.

2. The manuscript should not have any identifying information; review
is double-blind. The document should be: double spaced and adhere to AAA
style. Please save the document with your last name as the document name.
Please also include:

1. A 250 word abstract

2. Three Keywords



Send submissions, as well as any questions, to the Editor, Jessica Hardin
and Laura Thompson, Peer Review Editor, at nasaejournal@gmail.com.

Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Nov. 22 Caribbean Studies Events - U of T

Nov. 22 Caribbean Studies Events

Canada and The Caribbean: Empire and Decolonization
Presents: Stephane Martelly

Interviewing and Writing in the Life Stories Project (Haiti): Knowledge of
Violence, Knowledge of Creation:

"Life Stories of Montrealers Displaced by War, Genocide, and other Human
Rights Violations ("Montreal Life Stories") is an oral history project
exploring Montrealers' experiences and memories of mass violence and
displacement. From 2007 to 2012, a team of both university and
community-based researchers recorded life story interviews with more than
500 Montreal residents." http://www.lifestoriesmontreal.ca/

When: Thursday November 22, at 4:00 pm.
Where: Women's Studies Lounge, 2nd Floor, Wilson Hall

Sponsored by: The department of History and the Caribbean and Canadian
Studies Programs, U of T.

For more information Contact Sean Mills (sean.mills@utoronto.ca)


The Caribbean History Reading Group is pleased to host Bethan Fisk (Ph.D.
Candidate in History, U of T), "Disposing of the Holy Host: The Trials and
Execution of Feliz Fernando Martinez". Please join us for Bethan's
interesting paper followed by a discussion.

Thursday, November 22, 2012, 7.00-9.00 pm
Meeting space generously provided by Accents on Eglinton, 1790 Eglinton
Avenue West, M6E 2H6.

Everyone is welcome. For more information contact lauriejacklin@trentu.ca

Nov. 21 CDTS Talk with Dennis Rodgers

UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies

Nov. 21 CDTS Talk with Dennis Rodgers

Dennis Rodgers of the University of Glasgow will join us for a talk titled:
"The Vagrant, the Migrant, and the Delinquent: Life trajectories after the
gang in Nicaragua"

WEDNESDAY, 21 NOVEMBER 2012
3-5 PM
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 318
170 St. George Street
Co-sponsored with Department for the Study of Religion, U of T

cdts@utoronto.ca

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Call for Abstracts: York U Anthropology Graduate Conference March 9, 2013

*York University's Social Anthropology Graduate Association (SAGA) is proud
to present:*

*Risky Business: An Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference on Risk,
Recovery, and Relapse*

When: Friday/Saturday, March 8-9, 2013

Keynote Speaker: Prof. Karen
Ho
<http://anthropology.umn.edu/people/facultyprofile.php?UID=karenho>

(University of Minnesota), author of
*Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street* (2009)

With the current attention given to global crises, including economic,
political, cultural, and environmental, anthropologists are exploring how
different actors and concepts move and engage with various articulations of
risk, recovery, and potential relapse, in an attempt to uncover how the
"severe social dislocations social scientists have usually attributed to
global capitalism at large…[have] been actualized" (Ho 2009:4). Following
the movement of risk and response through multiple spaces, times, and
scales, anthropologists and other scholars explore approaches to
production, resistance, and regeneration. This has led us to ask:

What is risk? Who is at risk and when is this acceptable? How is it known
and negotiated in or across different contexts and moments? How do you
encounter it in your work? How do people recover from the aftereffects of
risk? How does risk perpetuate, trouble or disrupt the everyday? How do the
interstices between risk, recovery and relapse speak to, or present
opportunities, lessons, or (im)possibilities?

The Social Anthropology Graduates' Association (SAGA) cordially invites
fellow graduate students (who are at any stage in their graduate career),
activists, and applied scholars to participate in an interdisciplinary and
interactive forum on Saturday, March 9, 2013 at York University in Toronto,
Canada.

For this conference, we welcome academic papers, panels, and alternative
visual media presentations that explore these questions. Possible topics
include, but are not limited to, investigations of:


- Collective and individualized risks: the ways in which bodies show or
cope with risk and recovery; attitudes toward risk, recovery, relapse;
experiences of embodied risks; cross-cultural readings of risk and
contextualized responses at the levels of the individual, community, and
nation;


- Political and economic processes: social mobilizations, revolution,
citizen responses, and government policies in response to risk and
relapse;
the outcomes of neoliberal interventions in global flows;


- Ecological concerns: reactions to environmental disasters, tourism,
changes in land use and livelihood; food production and security;


- Methodologies: ethical considerations of research, when things "go
wrong" in the field, and disciplines in crisis.


To propose a paper, panel, or non-traditional submission (past examples
include: films, movement workshops, and original role playing games):

Please submit a cover page with your name, institutional affiliation,
contact information (mailing address, phone number and email), and abstract
(maximum of 250 words) or sample (for non-traditional submissions). Panels
should be limited to 3 papers and a discussant's presentation (or 4 papers
without a discussant). Organized panels should submit the panel abstract
(250 words) and individual paper abstracts to the conference in a single
submission. All individual presentations will be limited to 15 minutes.

Please note that a conference fee of $20 will apply to all participants.

Submission deadline for abstracts is December 7, 2012. Please send
submissions and all other inquiries to annualsagaconference@gmail.com.
Successful submissions may be assembled for publication.


--
Social Anthropology Graduate Association (SAGA) Annual Conference
York University
annualsagaconference@gmail.com
http://www.yorku.ca/laps/anth/Gradconference2013.html

Cascadia Seminar Dec 1 2012 CFP Deadline

The Cascadia Seminar: Ethnographic
Adventures in Medical Anthropology
www.sfu.ca/cascadia


April 12-14, 2013
at Simon Fraser
University
Vancouver,
British Columbia, Canada


The Cascadia Seminar is an experiment in creating a new kind
of intellectual space for medical anthropology. The Cascadia
Seminar is a small, intimate, high-interest, low-cost weekend
conference organized collaboratively by medical
anthropologists on faculty at a number of different
universities and colleges in the US Pacific Northwest and
British Columbia
(the Cascadia region). Simon
Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia, will
host the second Cascadia Seminar. The first was in March
2011 at the University
of Washington in Seattle.


Medical anthropologists (from everywhere) are invited to
submit abstracts. Please send your abstract (350 words
maximum) by December 1, 2012 as an electronic attachment to
cascadia@sfu.ca.

Abstracts will be reviewed by a committee
of medical anthropologists on faculty at our various
institutions, all of whom also plan to attend. The committee
will select seven abstracts, seeking papers that promise to be
ethnographically rich and intellectually exciting. Decisions
will be
announced by December 31, 2012.

The Cascadia Seminar will begin the evening
of Friday April 12, 2013 with a keynote address by Margaret
Lock (McGill
University).

Four papers will be presented on Saturday April 13, and three
on Sunday April 14, with no concurrent sessions. Each paper
presenter will have forty minutes to present a substantial,
well worked-out paper, with ample time for lively discussion.
All participants will attend all papers, and optional no-host
meals together will offer additional opportunities for
conversation. Coffee and snacks will be provided.

The conference will be free of charge,
though preregistration will be required in order to keep
numbers manageable. Some people may want to stay with family
or friends in the Vancouver area; a block of rooms will also
be available at a reduced rate at a nearby hotel. For more
information, go to www.sfu.ca/cascadia.

Monday, November 19, 2012

Upcoming Talk: Bruce Curtis, Carleton University

Upcoming Talk:

Colloquium Series
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Carleton University

Thursday, November 29, 2012

Bruce Curtis
"Pastoral Powers with Real Pastors: Fleecing the Flock in Colonial Quebec."

3:00pm, A720 Loeb Building
Carleton University
Ottawa, ON

Bruce Curtis has recently published "Ruling by Schooling Quebec: Conquest
to Liberal Governmentality."

Thursday, November 15, 2012

Students for International Development is recruiting Project Managers and Global Health Interns

Students for International Development is recruiting Project Managers and
Global Health Interns

Students for International Development, a registered not for profit is
seeking passionate and committed individuals (students and young
professionals) who want an intensive field-based introduction to
international development to lead our initiatives in agriculture, commerce,
child welfare and healthcare in Kenya and work with us to conduct research
in Peru during the summer of 2013. SID is a volunteer-run non-profit that
offers the most affordable international volunteer program in Canada,
including a comprehensive training program in overseas community project
management.

We are also recruiting for our inaugural Global Health Internship Program
which offers overseas volunteer internship placements to Medicine, Dentistry
& Optometry students in Western Kenya. Please pass this information along
to anyone who may be interested!

The application deadline for applications is 11:59pm, November 23rd, 2012.

We will be hosting an information session on Thu November 15, 2012 from
6pm-7pm and 7pm-8pm in room 2281, OISE, 252 Bloor Street West.

A comprehensive Information Package and Application Form are available at
www.sidcanada.org. For more information, contact info@sidcanada.org.

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

APLA & NAPA Career Panels

APLA Career Panels @ AAAs

The Association for Political and Legal Anthropology (APLA) has organized
two special panels for graduate students and recent Ph.D.s interested in
learning more about career options and the current state of job markets.
One panel will focus on the academic job market – how to seek, land, and
flourish in an academic position that is right for you. The second panel,
co-sponsored by the National Association for the Practice of Anthropology
(NAPA), will be devoted to careers practicing anthropology in political and
legal fields beyond the academic department.

The panels are designed to be as interactive as possible, with ample time
for Q&A between attendees and our distinguished panelists. Attendance is
free and open, but requires sending an RSVP to aplagradworkshops@gmail.com
by Wednesday, November 14.

APLA Panel for New Ph.D.s: LAUNCHING A CAREER IN ACADEMIA
Day: Friday, November 16, 2012
Time: 12:15 - 1:30 PM
Ref: 4-0495

Panelists
Catherine Besteman, Colby College
Jennifer Goett, Michigan State University
Jeffrey Martin, University of Hong Kong
Ramah McKay, University of Minnesota

APLA & NAPA Panel for New Ph.D.s: PRACTICING ANTHROPOLOGY IN POLITICAL AND
LEGAL CAREERS
Day: Saturday, November 17, 2012
Time: 6:15 - 7:30 PM
Ref: 5-1120

Panelists
Madelaine Adelman, Arizona State University
Amy Paul-Ward, Florida International University
Terry Redding, Beta Research Associates, and Redding Services
Tim Wallace, North Carolina State University, and President, National
Association for the Practice of Anthropology

Travel study courses in Kenya, May 2013

Colleagues,

TWU's Kenya Travel Study Program offers students courses and rich field
experiences. The program themes focus on insight and inspiration through
exposure to different socio-cultural environments, lectures at places such
as the World Bank, to project involvement in a rural community, and of
course - a safari! General topics covered include gender equality, poverty
and empowerment, world views, and more … to specific topics such as
micro–finance, tourism, rites of passage, and more.

The third and fourth-year level courses offered are:

1. ANTH/LING/COMM Cross-Cultural Communication
2. ANTH/COMM Gender in Multi-cultural Perspectives
3. IDIS (an interdisciplinary capstone course) Transformational
Leadership and Development

See the website for the program flyer and further information:
www.twu.ca/kenya

Regards,


Ella Ruth Anaya, D Litt et Phil (cand.)
Professor in Cross-Cultural & Leadership Communication & Development Studies
Assistant Professor | Communications Department | School of the Arts,
Media + Culture
School of Business | Trinity Western University
t: 604.513.2121 ext. 3143 | e: rutha@twu.ca<mailto:rutha@twu.ca> |
twu.ca/kenya

Tuesday, November 13, 2012

CASCA: Job postings/Offres d'emploi

(English follows)

Les offres d'emploi suivantes viennent d'être ajoutées à notre banque.

-Spécialiste en développement organisationnel/Organisational Development
Specialist - Congo Basin

-Assistant Professor of Islam in America - Western Michigan University,
Tenured, tenure track

-Assistant Professor, Transnational Gender and Media Studies -
Tenure-track, assistant professor, Ohio University

-University of Waterloo, Sociology - tenure-track position at the
Assistant Professor level

-Five Assistant / Associate Professors in Sociology - University of Amsterdam

-Three Assistant / Associate Profs in the Soci or Anth of Health and
Long-term Care - U of Amsterdam

-Criminology - 2 Assistant Professor Positions - Simon Fraser University

-Interdisciplinary Programs - Assistant/Associate Professor - First
Nations University of Canada – Regina

-Linguistique - Professeur (Phonologie) Université du Québec à Montréal
(UQAM)

-Multiple Disciplines - Assistant Professors and Instructors University of
Manitoba

-Multiple Disciplines - Faculty Positions - University of Toronto

-Religion and Culture - Assistant Professor (Aboriginal Religion and
Culture), Wilfrid Laurier University

-Religion and Culture - Assistant Professor (Christianity in a Global
Context), Wilfrid Laurier University

-Social and Applied Sciences - Assistant/Associate Professor (Doctor of
Social Science Program), Royal Roads University

-Sociologie et anthropologie - Professeur rang ouvert, Université
d'Ottawa/Sociology and Anthropology - Tenure-Track Position, University of
Ottawa

-Women's Studies - Assistant Professor, Thorneloe University


Consultez-les ou voyez toute la liste en visitant notre site Web:

www.cas-sca.ca

Merci

**********

The following job postings have just been added to our job page.

-Spécialiste en développement organisationnel/Organisational Development
Specialist - Congo Basin

-Assistant Professor of Islam in America - Western Michigan University,
Tenured, tenure track

-Assistant Professor, Transnational Gender and Media Studies -
Tenure-track, assistant professor, Ohio University

-University of Waterloo, Sociology - tenure-track position at the
Assistant Professor level

-Five Assistant / Associate Professors in Sociology - University of Amsterdam

-Three Assistant / Associate Profs in the Soci or Anth of Health and
Long-term Care - U of Amsterdam

-Criminology - 2 Assistant Professor Positions - Simon Fraser University

-Interdisciplinary Programs - Assistant/Associate Professor - First
Nations University of Canada – Regina

-Linguistique - Professeur (Phonologie) Université du Québec à Montréal
(UQAM)

-Multiple Disciplines - Assistant Professors and Instructors University of
Manitoba

-Multiple Disciplines - Faculty Positions - University of Toronto

-Religion and Culture - Assistant Professor (Aboriginal Religion and
Culture), Wilfrid Laurier University

-Religion and Culture - Assistant Professor (Christianity in a Global
Context), Wilfrid Laurier University

-Social and Applied Sciences - Assistant/Associate Professor (Doctor of
Social Science Program), Royal Roads University

-Sociologie et anthropologie - Professeur rang ouvert, Université
d'Ottawa/Sociology and Anthropology - Tenure-Track Position, University of
Ottawa

-Women's Studies - Assistant Professor, Thorneloe University

See them and others on our website:

www.cas-sca.ca

Thank you

Pacific Women in Business Conference

Pacificregional network on gender-based violence marks 20 years

-For more information click:
http://www.pina.com.fj/index.php?p=pacnews&m=read&o=60655647750a16745babda7f680e5d



NADI, Fiji (12 November 2012) – Twentyyears after a handful of women from
around the
Pacific first gathered in Suvato discuss the problem of sexual and
gender-based
violence, the sixthquadrennial regional meeting to discuss the issue was
opened in
Nadi today byAustralia's Global Ambassador for Women and Girls, Penny
Williams.


Organised by the Fiji Women's CrisisCentre, the four-yearly meeting brings
together
members of the Pacific Women'sNetwork Against Violence Against Women
established in
1992 to better coordinatethe efforts to eliminate sexual and gender-based
violence.


This year's regional meeting is aimed atexamining ways of responding to and
preventing violence against women andgirls, as well as how these women and
girls can
access justice.


More than 40 participants from as far asBougainville in Papua New Guinea,
and the
Marshall Islands in the northernPacific are gathered at the Novotel hotel
in Nadi to
discuss the progress madein eliminating sexual and gender-based violence,
the work
being done and whatthe tasks that remain.


Opening the five-day meeting this morning,Ms Williams said: "We're still
here,
talking, because the problem of violenceagainst women is still very much
with us. We
can only hope that one day we haveother, more uplifting reasons to gather.


"But while the problems remain, thesolutions, I believe, are expanding and
gathering
momentum," said Ms Williams,Australia's first Global Ambassador for Women
and Girls.


Ms Williams highlighted Australia's effortsto eliminate violence against
women and
girls in the region, as well a newinitiative that commits up to AU$320
million
(FJ$589m) over 10 years to helpshift entrenched barriers to women's
social, economic
and politicalparticipation across Pacific Island Forum countries.


Called the Pacific Women Shaping PacificDevelopment Initiative, it builds
on the
sustained work of many Pacific womenand organisations to provide much needed
services for women affected byviolence and to advocate for police and service
delivery reform.


Ms Williams said: "The initiativerecognises that issues of political
empowerment,
economic empowerment andviolence are interconnected. Because if we are
serious about
securing humanrights and national security, we must be serious about stopping
violence.


"If we are serious about achieving genderequity and the empowerment of
women and
girls, we must be serious aboutstopping violence."


Fiji Women's Crisis Centre CoordinatorShamima Ali recalled that the first
Pacific
regional meeting on violenceagainst women was organised by FWCC in Suva in
1992
involving women from 15Pacific Islands countries.


"Then there were only two establishedcentres: the FWCC and the Punaga
Tauturu in the
Cook Islands. The network wasestablished then and has endured, and now
there are
nearly 40 programmesaddressing violence against women and girls in the
network," Ms
Ali said.


"When we met in 1992, it was the first timeever Pacific women had met to
discuss
this tragic phenomenon – violence againstwomen, rape, child sexual abuse,
and sexual
harassment. Nearly every woman inthat meeting had experienced one or
another form of
violence, some stillsuffering.


"We realised then, after two weeks of talking,discussing, crying and
sharing, just
how big and prevalent this problem was.What was more tragic was the high
levels of
acceptance in our societies of thistorture of women and girls, and the
lack of
response by the state; the use ofreligion and culture to deny women
justice and
justify the violence."


Much has changed in the two decades sincethe first meeting, but much more
remains to
be done, says Ms Ali.


"While we still have high levels ofgender-based violence in our societies,
a lot of
work is being done toeliminate it. And there are new, unexpected voices
being raised
againstviolence against women and girls."


The four-yearly regional meeting reviewsthe situation over the past years and
identifies challenges as well ascelebrates success.


The five-day meeting will address policingand access to justice, ethical
standards
for shelters and other serviceprovisions, working with men to eliminate
gender-based
violence, as well asinternational campaigns and processes.

For more information click:

http://www.pina.com.fj/index.php?p=pacnews&m=read&o=60655647750a16745babda7f680e5d

Upcoming Talk: Africa=?iso-8859-1?Q?=92s?= Future: Can Sub-Saharan Africa Overcome its SevereChallenges?

The High Commission for the Republic of South Africa in Canada and the
Institute of
African Studies at Carleton University invite you to the "Africa Dialogue
Series"
talk:


Africa's Future: Can Sub-Saharan Africa Overcome its Severe Challenges?


with

Prof. Robert I. Rotberg (Carleton University and Harvard University)


When: Monday, 19 November 2012


Time: 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Where: Humanities Theatre, 303 Paterson Hall,
Carleton
University, Ottawa, ON


("PA" on campus map, http://www2.carleton.ca/campus/)

Refreshments will be served



Prof. Robert I. Rotberg is Fulbright Research Chair in the Norman Paterson
School of
International Affairs (NPSIA) this term and the Founding Director of
Harvard Kennedy
School's Program on Intrastate Conflict. He is the author a number of
books, the
most recent being Transformative Political Leadership: Making a Difference
in the
Developing World (Chicago, 2012) and Mass Atrocity Crimes: Preventing Future
Outrages (Brookings, 2010). His Africa Emerges: Consummate Challenges,
Abundant
Opportunities appears next year. The Africa Dialogue Series at Carleton
University
seeks to promote the better understanding and discussions of current
policy issues
facing the African continent. Through an informed presentation concerning
one of the
complex and substantive policy issues facing policy-makers and societies
at large in
the continent, the series aims to engage students and the wider public in
Ottawa-Gatineau in a dialogue concerning the implications of global issues
for
Africa.



The Africa Dialogue Series is jointly organized by the South African High
Commission
in Canada and Carleton University's Institute of African Studies.

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