Call for Submissions: New Social Inquiry (NSI), a Public- Academic Journal on Social Issues

New Social Inquiry (NSI), a Public- Academic Journal on Social Issues, welcomes undergraduate, graduate and non-student submissions of academic work, creative writing, photography, visual art, reviews, and ‘shotgun essays’ (read here) for its inaugural issue.

This is a great opportunity for students at any level, in any discipline (and those working outside the university) to have their work published in a peer-reviewed journal. If you’re interested in submitting your work or knowing a bit more about the publication, theme, or submission guidelines, please see attached Call for Papers.

About the Journal:

New Social Inquiry is an open access, peer-reviewed, online publication dedicated to bridging academic social science inquiry with other ways of asking and answering questions about our social worlds. Our aim is to publish and showcase social research, essays and creative works that are accessible to a wide audience, engaging and relevant for non-specialists, yet sophisticated and complex enough to push scholarship forward. NSI sees academics as entrusted with the responsibility- and the privilege- to contribute to public dialogue. The work published in NSI assumes that the potential for engagement with complex issues exists beyond the walls of the university, and that both laypeople and experts are equipped to contribute to social inquiry and criticism in meaningful ways.

The deadline for submissions is JANUARY 19th , 2009. For more on the journal, visit www.newsocialinquiry.org

To submit your work, email it to submissions@newsocialinquiry.org

Got questions? Email us at: info@newsocialinquiry.org

New Social Inquiry was conceived of, and is maintained, edited and published, by students at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario Canada. Feel free to forward this CFP far and wide.

43rd Prairie Universities Biological Symposium (PUBS 2009)

Attention graduate students and senior undergraduate students,

We would like to invite you to the 43rd Prairie Universities Biological Symposium (PUBS 2009), which will be held February 19 - 21, 2009 at the University of Lethbridge, Alberta.

PUBS 2009 is open to students from designated prairie universities including Alberta, Manitoba, North Dakota, and Saskatchewan – both graduate and senior undergraduate students are welcome with conference topics including but not confined to aquatic biology, behavioural ecology, botany, chemistry/biochemistry, genetics, geography, kinesiology, molecular biology, natural history, neuroscience, paleontology, parasitology, and toxicology.

Students from other disciplines are also encouraged to attend/participate, especially since many research topics are interdisciplinary in nature. This symposium is designed to allow students to network with other researchers, labs, and universities; and to meet with other students studying in their field or similar fields. During the symposium, the students will have the opportunity to attend a banquet and keynote talk given by Dr. Bill Cade, president of the University of Lethbridge.

Students will also have the opportunity to meet University of Lethbridge faculty and learn about post-secondary opportunities at our institution during the beer and pizza poster session. We encourage everyone to attend and to help make the upcoming PUBS yet another success. Due to the lack of food venues open on campus during reading week and the lack of restaurants on the West side of Lethbridge, we highly encourage attendees to purchase lunch tickets. Registration is now open through our website (www.pubs2009.com). Registration will remain open until January 9, 2009 with abstracts also due January 9, 2009. Please find attached the official letter of invitation and flyers to be distributed Thank you, The PUBS 2009 Organizing Committee

2009-2010 Ontario Municipal Internship Program

Apply Now For the 2009-2010 Ontario Municipal Internship Program and Fast-Track Your Career in Public Administration!

Now in its’ third year, the Ontario Municipal Internship Program was developed by AMCTO (The Association of Municipal Managers, Clerks and Treasurers of Ontario) in partnership with the Ontario Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing (MAH) Ontario In order to address the critical need to attract and train the next generation of competent well-rounded municipal leaders.

During the program year, the intern will gain hands-on experience in key function areas under the supervision of a Chief Administrative Officer or similar designate. The program will provide 50 per cent funding (up to $20,000 per intern) to participating municipalities to subsidize intern salaries, plus up to $5,000 per intern for ongoing training and other ancillary expenses. The 2009-2010 program will commence in June of 2009.

The submission deadline for applications from interested intern candidates is January 28th, 2009.

The interns gain management level experience in various areas of municipal administration, including: General Governance, Financial Services, Public Works, Community And Social Services, Recreation, Planning And Development, Protection Services, And Human Resources. The interns will also spend one month working at a Municipal Affairs Municipal Services Office to learn about provincial services and the relationship between the province and local governments. The Host Municipality will designate either the Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) or a senior member of the management team to supervise and mentor the intern during the course of the placement.

Upon successful completion of this program, interns will be prepared to enter and positively contribute to the administration and management of local government, and ultimately rise to leadership positions within Ontario municipal corporations.

Please click on the following link for more information about the Ontario Municipal Internship Program and to apply: http://www.amcto.com/Internship/home.asp .

llumine, the Journal of the Centre for Studies in Religion and Society Graduate Student Association

llumine, the Journal of the Centre for Studies in Religion and Society Graduate Student Association, University of Victoria, is inviting submissions for its 2009 issue.

The theme for this year’s issue is “Confluence: Where Worldviews Converge.”

The deadline for submissions is February 27, 2009.

Read the entire Call for Papers here.

The Editors, Illumine Centre for Studies in Religion and Society University of Victoria Sedgewick B102, Vandekerkhove Wing P.O. Box 1700 STN CSC Victoria, B.C. V8W 2Y2, Canada Ph: 250-721-6235

Web: www.csrs.uvic.ca/publications/graduate/illumine/index

Email: illumine@uvic.ca

The Rabin Scholarship Fund For the Advancement of Peace and Tolerance

The Rabin Scholarship Fund For the Advancement of Peace and Tolerance Applications being accepted for 2009-2010

Value of award- US$13,000
Application deadline: March 20, 2009

Requirements:

• Applicants must be enrolled in an accredited doctoral or post doctoral program focusing on areas relating to the pursuit of peace and/or to the enhancement of peaceful forms of social life.
• Must be a Canadian citizen, but not necessarily enrolled at a Canadian university

The study opportunity offers:

• An opportunity to spend one academic year in Jerusalem, Israel at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• Dialogue and interaction with Israeli students – Jewish and Arab -- involved in similar academic pursuits q The opportunity to pursue educational and research goals under the auspices of the Gilo Centerfor Citizenship, Democracy and Civic Education**

Expectations:

• A research essay or project must be completed
• The recipient will be asked to speak in Canada upon his/her return

For further information and to receive an application package please call 1-888-HEBREWU or 416-485-8000 Fax: 416-485-8565 inquiry@cfhu.org

**Situated in the Faculty of Social Sciences, the Gilo Center for Citizenship, Democracy and Civic Education is a research and study centre dedicated to the promotion in Israel of a democratic civic identity based on common democratic values. The Center runs an MA program in Democracy and Citizenship Studies, a Gilo Fellows Colloquium for graduate students of the Center, special seminars for students in Arabic & in Jewish Halacha, international conferences & seminars, and wide-spread educational activity in all sectors of the Israeli educational system-secular, religious and Arab. http://gilocenter.mscc.huji.ac.il

Learn Spanish or Portugese with Latin Culture Immersion

We are one of Brazil's pioneering Portuguese language schools, with locations in 2 cities, Maceio and Sao Paulo. We also have an award-winning Spanish school in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
We offer intensive group and private general language instruction, from beginner to advanced levels, as well as preparation courses for the CELPE-Bras and DELE exams.

We also offer paid internships up to 12 months across Brazil and enriching volunteer programmes with local NGOs. In Argentina we offer unpaid internships, as well as unique programmes that combine Spanish instruction with Tango lessons, History and Culture, Medicine or Business.

All of our programmes are complemented by our excellent accomodation options and a rich variety of cultural activities, including museum visits, neighborhood tours, wine tastings, boat trips, traditional dinners, bars and clubs, soccer matches and much more. We would like to invite your students to study Portuguese in Brazil or Spanish in Argentina in a friendly, welcoming and exciting environment. For more information about any of our programmes, please simply reply to Zoe Perry z.perry@fppmediacorp.com

2009 - 2010 Sheldon Chumir Internship in Ethics in
Leadership

Applications are invited from senior university or college students or graduates in any field relevant to ethics in leadership for an Internship with the Sheldon Chumir Foundation for Ethics in Leadership. A completed or nearly completed Master’s degree will be an asset. Interns work with the Foundation on research, program development and implementation, publications and community outreach.

The Foundation seeks Interns who display a deep understanding of ethics in leadership and public life together with imagination and creativity of thought, demonstrated experience in working with the community, strong organizational skills, superior writing skills and a personal commitment to the Foundation's mission.

The stipend for the nine-month period is $34,100. A professional development allowance of up to $3000 is available for use by the Intern on activities agreed upon by the Intern and the Foundation. In certain circumstances, and by mutual agreement, the Internship period can be extended by up to three months.

Applications must include:
- a brief essay (not more than 1500 words) describing the applicant's interest in and views on
ethics in leadership, how this subject is related to his/her academic program and career plans,
and what ideas, knowledge and skills the applicant would bring to the work of the Foundation;
- a curriculum vitae; and
- names and contact information for three referees who have been asked to send letters of
support directly to the Foundation.

The deadline for receipt of application packages by the Foundation is March 13, 2009.
Applications which are not complete by this date will not be considered.
The successful candidate will be notified by May 15, 2009, with the Internship to commence on or about September 15, 2009. The Foundation reserves the right not to make an award in any given year, or to make more than one award, if appropriate.

Please send applications to:
The Sheldon Chumir Foundation for Ethics in Leadership
Suite 970, 1202 Centre Street S.
Calgary, Alberta, Canada, T2G 5A5
tel: (403) 244-6666 fax: (403) 244-5596
email: info@chumirethicsfoundation.ca
For further information on the Foundation please contact our office at the above address, or
visit our website at www.chumirethicsfoundation.ca

Eleventh Annual Graduate Student Research Conference
Department of Sociology and Equity Studies in Education
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto (OISE/UT)

The Fecundity of Recognition
The Self/Other in Politics, Sociality, Ethics, and Critique

Saturday, April 4th, 2009 – 8:30am to 5:30pm

We find ourselves in an in-between geography, flanked between a transcendental possibility to separate inherited – historically, politically, socially – subjectivities from the power that binds itself to them and the immanent struggle to negotiate within and across that power. We find ourselves, as well, amidst the uncanny geography of lost objects, recaptured desires, and violative engagements with one another, both in our everyday social and political terrains. The impulse to imagine such a metaphorical or allegorical geography or, let us call it another word, landscape, finds itself nestled, unsettlingly, in the realm of what one might be bequeathed to call, invoke, and name as the possibility or impossibility of/for recognition – the violent look, the lascivious gaze, the at-once both recuperative and destructive knowledge of the encounter between self and other, within the ever traducing logic of a power that is both evaded and restored in these encounters. Ultimately, we might charge “recognition” – the moment of the encounter or the instance of power – as that which allows us to think carefully about discursive politics, complicated terrains of sociality, ruptured yet rapturous ethics, and a critique yet-to-happen.

The purpose of this conference is to address, therefore, the productive, generative, and non-productive utterances and tendencies that exist in the moment of the encounter – whether we are to consider it in light of Hegel’s age-old dialectical encounter between the master and the slave or Fanon’s re-working of Hegel’s age-old dialectical encounter by inserting, necessarily so, the question of race and gender into that meeting between self and other, or again, perhaps our consideration might lead us to Levinas’s ethics of the other where we are to learn from the possibilities and impossibilities inscribed in the act of responsibility as we know it that may or may not be arrived at in the encounter between self and other, or yet again, we might be entering into the terrain of Ahmed’s unsettling of Levinas through an addressing of what it means to engage in strange and uncanny encounters where we claim to be responsible and ethical, but fall short on this task, necessarily and inevitably so – an important point to contemplate upon. In all these and several other moments of theoretical incursions, we are called upon to understand how recognition, both in its tacit and its explicit permutations and formulations, allows us to have a better understanding of political subjectivity, social existence, psychic disillusionments, and ethical quandaries.

Another moment for us to pause and take stock of recognition causes us to enter that heady – no irony or pun intended, here – terrain called the “body”. What happens to the body in such encounters? How do we take account of moments such as empathy, anger, or vulnerability in the context of how it affects a body in the moment of being recognized as either “normative” or otherwise? Where do we go from here – politically or otherwise – when we address the world of law, the world of psychic struggles, the harsh ways in which we are forced to separate mind and body, to become or be named as falling either in the category of a “rational” subject or an “irrational” aberration?  In turning our attention toward theories of recognition, what this conference, amongst the several other aspirations it might have, hopes to address is the split between rationality and irrationality, the rupture between mind and body, as though these things exist outside of one another. The rupture needs to be unearthed, addressed, and troubled – both its violence and its purpose. We are attempting here to link embodiment with theories of recognition as has been done in the realm of critical social theory within the place of, to name a few, feminist theory, queer theory, critical race theory, critical disability studies, Marxist theory, psychoanalysis, Foucauldian instigations that examine power and discipline, law, ethics, and political philosophy. When, in the final analysis, perhaps, does the body become accounted for, if ever in the act of recognizing other as “other”, wholly other or absolutely other – either by state-sanctioned violence or in the everydayness of discriminatory practices that prevent subjects from merely being?

It is with these concerns and considerations in mind that the Graduate Student Conference Committee of the Department of Sociology and Equity Studies in Education at the University of Toronto invites you to submit either single paper or panel presentations on the broad topic of recognition, as has been outlined here. The Committee will consider some of the following expansive spaces of inquiry as relevant to the overarching concerns of the conference, but, please also note that the list below is by no means an exhaustive or conclusive one:

?       Recognition in Space, Place, and Time
?       Recognition and Racial Subjectivity
?       Recognition and the Engendering of Gender
?       Recognition in Queer Theory
?       Recognition and Bodily Subjectivity in Critical Disability Studies
?       Recognition of the Labour of the Classed Other in a time of Capital
?       Gaze, Discourse, and the Other – Anthropology and Sociology Revisited
?       Recognition and the Body, both proper and general
?       Writing Recognition and Alterity in Literature and the Literary
?       Recognition and the possibility of/for the Social and the Political
?       Theorizing Recognition
?        On a Violence borne of Recognition
?       Annihilation of the Self
?       Recognition at the borders of the Nation-State
?       Recognition, Performance, and Performativity
?        Psychoanalysis and Theories of Recognition

Abstract of no more than 300 words should be sent to seseconference@oise.utoronto.ca by Friday, January 23rd, 2009. Graduate students from various disciplines, including but not limited to, Comparative Literature, Sociology, Philosophy, Political Science, Cultural Studies, Film Studies, Anthropology, Education, History, and other fields within the realm of the Humanities and the Social Sciences are highly encouraged to apply. Please observe the following procedures to enable blind peer-review:
1)      Attach a short biographical note on a separate page.
2)      Do not include your name on the same page as the abstract.
3)      Type “abstract” in the subject line of your email.
Papers may be given in English or French, with citations in any language.

Organizing Committee
Ricky Varghese, PhD. candidate (Chair, 2005 – Present)
Anna Kim, PhD, candidate
Laura Thrasher, PhD. candidate
Jijian Voronka, PhD. candidate
Ahmed Ilmi, M.A. candidate

References
Arendt, H. (1970). On Violence. New York: Harcourt Brace and Company.
Fanon, F. (1967). Black Skins, White Masks. New York: Grove Press.
Levinas, E. (1999). Alterity and Transcendence. (M. B. Smith, Trans.). New York: Columbia University Press.