Dr. Lauren Corman recently received a grant from the Council for Research in the Social Sciences (CRISS) to collaborate with filmmaker Karol Orzechowski. Together they will be producing a film documenting the intersections between animal advocacy and other social justice issues.
Karol Orzechowski and Dr. Corman are uniquely suited to create a film about the rise of intersectionality within the animal movements.
Dr. Ebru Ustundag, Associate Professor, Department of Geography at Brock University welcomes you to attend a demonstration this Friday, July 25 at 2:30 pm.
The demonstration will be located in front of MP Rick Dykstra’s office at 61 Geneva Street in St. Catharines as a show of solidarity with the Palestinian people during this time of crisis.
You are invited to bring any signs, banners etc., that call for peace and an end to the occupation but are reminded that this will be a family friendly event.
Dr. Ustundag suggests the following resource if you would like more information about the Israeli – Palestinian Apartheid.
Since 2007 Studies in Social Justice has been managed and published by the Centre for Studies in Social Justice at the University of Windsor. Following the Centre’s recent closure, the journal’s operations have been relocated to the Social Justice Research Institute (SJRI) at Brock University.
Diaspora, Sustainability and Development: Meeting at the Nexus
September 20, 2014 from 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
SFU’s Segal Graduate School of Business, 500 Granville Street, Vancouver, BC
Brock’s Council for Research in the Social Sciences (CRISS) advances research and scholarship through the administration of small research grants awarded to faculty members through a peer-reviewed, transparent process.
Congratulations to the most recent CRISS award winners! SJRI affiliates who received research awards this spring include:
Calls are made for CRISS funding proposals three times per year. The next deadline will be 12 Noon on October 1. Brock faculty conducting social science research who are tenured, tenure-stream, or LTA/ILTA are eligible to apply.
For more information visit the CRISS website.
The Atkinson Decent Work Fund aims to promote social and economic justice in Ontario by creating work, wealth and wellbeing for people and communities cut off from the well-traveled routes to prosperity. It’s about removing roadblocks, building bridges and taking detours until we get to an economy that works for the 100% and the planet too.
Major Deadlines Include:
Webinars are scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. and end at 11 a.m. on July 30th, August 13th and 27th, and September 10th, 2014. Contact Phillip Roh to RSVP for an info session.
Letters of Inquiry are due by September 17 at 5:00pm.
Full proposals are due by Wednesday, November 5 at 5:00 pm.
Please visit the Atkinson Decent Work Fund website for more information.
We are specifically seeking proposals with a focus on global justice, social movements, labour studies, childhood and youth, and gender issues but we welcome proposals from all disciplines and scholars. Currently, we are focused on titles intended for use in post-secondary classrooms.
Robert Porter, who is director of Research Development at the University of Tennessee, conducted a workshop at Brock June 11, 2014 focusing on creating winning research proposals.
He began by contrasting academic writing – the “world of ideas” – with grant writing, which places a high emphasis on language that is easily understood by non-experts, talks about future actions, and uses persuasive, personal prose to “sell” ideas and convey excitement.
“The writing style and habits that make you successful as an academic are not quite the same set of writing skills that will make you successful as a grant writer,” he told workshop participants. “We have to break our writing habits and adopt a new set of writing skills.”
The Peoples’ Social Forum (PSF) will open on August 21 with a traditional Algonquin ceremony at sunrise and a celebratory peoples’ march in the afternoon. August 21 and 22 will see hundreds of participant-led workshops happen simultaneously at the University of Ottawa. Saturday, August 23 will be a day of movement assemblies. The last day there will be a final all-movements assembly and closing ceremony. The Peoples’ Social Forum is also a joyous gathering with special exhibitions, work and peoples history tours, film screenings, critical mass rally, a pow-wow, street performances, concerts, games, and building new relationships. The Peoples Social Forum is a means of stimulating debate, discussion and furthering our sense of community and collective action.
The PSF is part of the global movement of social forums that have emerged at different levels since the first World Social Forum (WSF) was held in Porto Alegre (Brazil) in January 2001. The last World Social Forum was held in Tunis in March 2013 and the 2015 one will also be oranized in the same city.
Click here for more information or to register.
Hamiltonian activist, Ken Stone, presents on Canada’s Responsibility to Protect doctrine. He will be responding to questions on the interventions in Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Venezuela, Haiti and Ukraine.
For more information: Ron Walker, rwalker@brocku.ca
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