SJRI

12th Annual Human Trafficking & Social Justice Conference

Call for Abstracts

The 12th Annual Human Trafficking and Social Justice Conference is pleased to announce a call for abstracts. We would like to invite you to submit an abstract for consideration. The length of abstracts should be no more than 3,000 characters. The abstract must identify objectives to be achieved in the session. Abstracts that do not contain objectives will not be considered. Please make your abstract clear, interesting, with valuable information because abstracts will be printed in the conference packet for attendees to make decisions on which sessions to attend.

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The 7th Annual ACMHE Conference:

Building Just Communities

October 8 – 11, 2015
Howard University, Washington, DC
Proposals accepted through Friday, May 15, 2015

Call for Proposals

The 7th Annual Association for Contemplative Mind in Higher Education Conference will explore contemplative approaches to creating and sustaining just communities: approaches that foster connection while recognizing and honoring difference, with a commitment to the common flourishing of all. These approaches should examine the profound ways in which our social locations within higher education–based on age, gender, sexual orientation, discipline, ability, religion, race, social/economic class, nationality, contemplative tradition–affect and are affected by differing levels of advantage or disadvantage. As we recognize our interdependence and our responsibilities to one another, we can cultivate more ethical, compassionate, and more socially just communities.

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A Multi- and Inter-disciplinary International Conference on…

‘From the Thirty Years’ Crisis to Multi-polarity: The Evolution of the Geopolitical Economy of the 21st Century World’

University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
25-27 September 2015

The centenary of the outbreak of the First World War was marked in Canada and around the world in 2014. 2014 also marked the centenary of the opening of what noted historian, Arno Mayer, called the ‘Thirty Years’ Crisis’ of 1914-1945, spanning the First World War, the Great Depression and the Second World War. This long crisis birthed a new world. The old world of the nineteenth century expansion of the empires of industrial capitalist countries, often mistakenly termed ‘liberal’, met its end. It gave way to an inter-national one populated by a variety of welfare, Communist and developmental orders in national economies whose states had, moreover, greater legitimacy among newly enfranchised women and men than the imperial and colonial regimes they replaced. The Thirty Years crisis also radically redistributed economic, political, military and cultural power within countries and among them. Critical cultural and intellectual changes – new movements in art, new media, and new paradigms of understanding, particularly in economics, inevitably accompanied these historic shifts.

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