Category Archives: Opportunities

Call for Applications [Due – April 1]: Guelph MSc in Capacity Development & Extension

Posted on November 28, 2014 by Rachel Hirsch

The MSc in Capacity Development & Extension at the University of Guelph is aimed at students interested in acquiring the theoretical foundation and applied interdisciplinary skills for agricultural knowledge management, rural and environmental communication, adult learning, organizational change and leadership. … Continue reading →

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CFP [Due – Jan 5]: York Symposium on the Scholarship of Engagement

Posted on November 27, 2014 by Rachel Hirsch

The Vice President Research & Innovation, along with the Knowledge Mobilization Unit, will be hosting the second York Symposium on the Scholarship of Engagement in April 2015. The Symposium will both explore the scholarship of engagement and help to further … Continue reading →

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CFP [Due – Feb 1]: Qualitative Sociology

Posted on November 12, 2014 by Rachel Hirsch

Call for Papers | Qualitative Sociology Special Issue on Gender and Globalization In the past decade, pressing social changes have brought issues of gender, sexuality, and globalization to the fore, many of which are just beginning to be studied sociologically. … Continue reading →

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CFP [Due – Dec 1]: International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry

Posted on November 10, 2014 by Rachel Hirsch

Initiative for the Cooperation Across the Social Sciences and Humanities May 20-23, 2015 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign “Constructing a New Critical Qualitative Inquiry” The International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (ICQI) is a large conference of qualitative scholars in the social … Continue reading →

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CFP [Due – Feb 28]: The labour of academia

Posted on November 3, 2014 by Rachel Hirsch

Ephemera special issue | The labour of academia Issue Editors: Nick Butler, Helen Delaney and Martyna Śliwa It is well known that the purpose of the contemporary university is being radically transformed by the encroachment of corporate imperatives into higher education … Continue reading →

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Pursuing Social Justice | Rachel Hirsch and Mary-Beth Raddon

Posted on October 31, 2014 by Rachel Hirsch

SJRI Originals: A Public Forum for Transdisciplinary Social Justice Rachel Hirsch, SJRI Projects Facilitator, Brock University Mary-Beth Raddon, SJES Graduate Program Director, Associate Professor, Sociology, Brock University A new opportunity exists to produce and share original social justice content: “SJRI … Continue reading →

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CFP [Due – Jan 15]: EcoJustice and Activism Conference

Posted on October 31, 2014 by Rachel Hirsch

Fourth Annual EcoJustice and Activism Conference March 19-21, 2015 at Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti, MI EcoJustice Education is an approach that analyzes the deep cultural roots of intersecting social and ecological crises, focusing especially on the globalizing cultural, economic … Continue reading →

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CFP [Due – Dec 15]: Conable African Studies Symposium

Posted on October 31, 2014 by Rachel Hirsch

Conable African Studies Symposium Exile, Deportation, and Forced Labor in Colonial Africa Rochester, New York April 2-4, 2015 “the extreme solitude of his existence …saddened the ancestor’s spirit.” Les derniers rois mages, Maryse Condé In Maryse Condé’s 1997 novel, Les … Continue reading →

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CFP [Dec 31]: Trails of Globalization and Futurity

Posted on October 31, 2014 by Rachel Hirsch

Specters of Ethics – in the Trails of Globalization and Futurity Ethics is a global endeavor bereft of any universal validity. Ethics is subjective, positioned and biased, commuting between subjectivity and collectivity/community. Ever since the birth of this concept, ethics … Continue reading →

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CFP [Due – Dec 15]: Critical Ethnic Studies Gathering

Posted on October 31, 2014 by Rachel Hirsch

SOVEREIGNTIES AND COLONIALISMS: RESISTING RACISM, EXTRACTION AND DISPOSSESSION Call for Contributions for the Critical Ethnic Studies Gathering April 30 to May 3, 2015, York University, Toronto Deadline for proposals: December 15, 2014 Submit a proposal here: https://criticalethnicstudies.org The 2015 conference … Continue reading →

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