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SGPS Scholars to Leaders Guest Speaker – Robert Collins

Transferring Your Skills from Academia to the Workplace: Trends, Tips and Traps

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Robert Collins, Director
Workforce Development
London Economic Development Corporation

Wednesday, November 28, 2018
12:30pm
IGAB Atrium
International and Graduate Affairs Building (IGAB).

Robert Collinsbrings significant experience from senior roles in provincial and municipal governments in South Western Ontario. Robert is active in a number of initiatives designed to address the anticipated labour market shortages and close the gaps between supply and demand – an identified cornerstone of community economic resilience and sustainability. Through this experience, Robert can share some useful insights to help accelerate your career success. Robert has made full use of London’s fine educational opportunities graduating from the University of Western Ontario, Teacher’s College and Fanshawe College after originally coming from London, England. Robert continues to be an active volunteer at Western having been a past President of our Alumni Association and is currently a member of Senate.

Pizza will be available on a ‘first come, first served’ basis for those attending the event. No registration is required.

Visit http://www.grad.uwo.ca/finances/external_funding/index.html for the full roster of speakers this year.

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Call for Proposals: International Law Conference, Toronto

The 12th Annual Toronto Group Conference, hosted by the Osgoode Hall Law School and the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto, will be held at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law on March 28th and 29th, 2019. The conference is aimed at graduate students and early career academics. The 2019 theme is “Resistance to International Law and the Global Legal Order”.

They invite submissions addressing the topic from a broad range of perspectives, looking for example at economic globalization, global/generic constitutionalism, resistance to the establishment of global legal standards and institutions, or contributions dealing with the rise of new transnational actors. Interdisciplinary contributions integrating the insights of, for example, sociology, anthropology, economics or history are encouraged. Papers might address questions such as:

  • Where and when is resistance to international law and the global legal order taking place? Who is resisting? How, why and in what forms does resistance occur?
  • Is there a broader context framing expressions of resistance or is it an isolated phenomenon? In particular, how might the rise of neo-nationalist and populist movements shape broader global discussions about the ongoing role of international law?
  • How do seemingly predominant narratives relate to alternative narratives emerging in particular from the Global South?
  • How do domestic constitutional and sub-constitutional responses to transnational actors and the mutations of the global legal order differ?

Interested applicants are invited to send an abstract of 500 words outlining their main arguments and methodology and a short bio of 100 words by December 14, 2018. Questions and abstracts should be sent to: torontogroupconference@gmail.com.

Applicants will be notified of results by mid-January 2019. Selected applicants are expected to submit completed papers in early March 2019.

For more information or to register, visit the website.

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SSHRC Storytellers Contest

SSHRC has launched its seventh annual Storytellers contest.

Eligibility: The contest is open to all students, graduate and undergraduate, enrolled at Canadian postsecondary institutions.

Your task is to tell the story, in three minutes or 300 words, of a SSHRC-funded research project—your own or a professor’s and show Canadians how social sciences and humanities research affects our lives, our world and our future prosperity.

Amount: Each year, a jury selects 25 finalists to receive a $3,000 cash prize and specialized training in research communications. At the 2019 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, a second jury will select the final five winners, who will receive an expense-paid trip for their presentations to be featured at the prestigious SSHRC Impact Awards.

Deadline: January 31, 2019, at 5 p.m. (Eastern)

For more information on this year’s Storytellers contest, please follow on Twitter, watch the #SSHRCStorytellers and visit the website.

Questions –  please contact  Storytellers@sshrc-crsh.gc.ca.

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Mitacs Elevate (Postdoctoral)

Mitacs Elevate provides two years of postdoc funding valued at $60,000/year plus extensive customized professional development training ($7,500/year non-cash value).

Postdocs:

  • Manage a long-term collaborative research project with a company or not-for-profit
  • Develop business-ready skills in leadership, financial literacy, management and negotiation, project management, problem solving and much more
  • Key deadline: January 23, 2019 – Intent to Apply and Conflict of Interest declaration deadline

For questions or more information, please contact Mitacs at elevate@mitacs.ca.

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Julien Mezey Dissertation Award – Law, Culture and the Humanities

The Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities invites submissions for the Julien Mezey Dissertation Award. This annual prize is awarded to the dissertation that most promises to enrich and advance interdisciplinary scholarship at the intersection of law, culture and the humanities.

The Association seeks the submission of outstanding work from a wide variety of perspectives, including but not limited to law and cultural studies, legal hermeneutics and rhetoric, law and literature, law and psychoanalysis, law and visual studies, legal history, legal theory and jurisprudence. Scholars completing humanities-oriented dissertations in SJD and related programs, as well as those earning PhDs, are encouraged to submit their work. Applicants eligible for the 2019 award must have defended their dissertations successfully between November 1, 2017 and October 31, 2018.

Nominations for the 2019 award must be received on or before
7 December 2018

Each nominee must submit the following:
1) a letter by the nominee detailing the genesis, goal, and contribution of the dissertation;
2) a letter of support from a faculty member familiar with the work;
3) an abstract, outline, and selected chapter of the dissertation;
4) contact information for the nominee.

All materials and any questions should be sent to: Professor Simon Stern at simon.stern@utoronto.ca

Award finalists will be notified as soon as possible. Finalists must then submit an electronic version of the entire dissertation. The winner will be determined by early January and invited to the ASLCH annual meeting. ASLCH will pay travel and lodging costs.

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Parliamentary Internship Program

The Parliamentary Internship Programme (PIP) is a unique training opportunity for young professionals and recent university graduates. It increases knowledge of Parliament, and provides MPs with skilled assistants.

During their ten-month tenure, interns shadow MPs to learn firsthand about the work that goes on in the House. They write speeches, briefing notes, research reports, and questions for question period. They visit their MPs’ ridings, author innovative research papers on Parliament and the work of MPs, and take part in legislative study tours within Canada and abroad. These internships are full-time, paid positions.

Deadline: January 31, 2019

Eligibility: PIP is open to all candidates who, at the start date of the internship (September 5, 2019)hold Canadian citizenship or permanent residence status; hold at least one university or college degree; and are available to work full-time from September 2019 to July 2020.

More information and applications…

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Centre for Teaching and Learning – Workshops

Western’s Centre for Teaching and Learning is offering workshops this November. If you would like to register for the below session (and explore additional sessions), please click on this link.  Log in using your Western ID and password in order to register.

Getting It Done: Strategies for Finding Focus and Overcoming Procrastination in Graduate School
Friday, November 23
University Community Centre (UCC) 147
9:00 am – 10:30 am
Come to this workshop to discuss strategies for finding focus and making progress on your degree at times when you feel that you are stuck.

Teaching Workshops are also available at this link…

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CBC’s Call for PhD Research

CBC would like to turn your PhD research into a 54-minute Ideas episode as part of their regular feature on the program called “Ideas from the Trenches.”

If you are interested in participating, in a page or less, tell them a bit about yourself and what inspired your interest in your area of study. Describe the focus of your PhD and why it would appeal to a national audience, and outline a few of the key theorists, authors and concepts your PhD explores and challenges. Email your submission to nicola.luksic@cbc.ca.

Deadline: November 16, 2018.

Successful candidates will be expected to participate in a background interview to explain more about your thesis, and then participate in three recording sessions for the documentary itself. Please note that you can be at any stage of the PhD process.

Sample of episodes that have been done so far: Ideas from the Trenches archive.

More info: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/ideas-from-the-trenches-call-out-to-phd-students-1.4879862

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Western’s Scholars to Leaders Series from SGPS

You are invited to attend the October SGPS Scholars to Leaders Guest Speaker Series event.

Professor Mary Crossan is a Distinguished University Professor of General Management at the Ivey School of Business and one of the most highly cited faculty members at Ivey, earning the Academy of Management Review Paper of the Decade Award (1998-2008). Come and listen to her talk about “What I Know Now That I wish I Knew Then”: Activating and Developing Character for Sustained Excellence.

The event takes place this Wednesday, October 31, 2018 at 12:30pm in the IGAB Atrium of the International and Graduate Affairs Building (IGAB).

Pizza will be available on a ‘first come, first served’ basis for those attending the event. No registration is required.

Visit http://www.grad.uwo.ca/finances/external_funding/index.html for the full roster of speakers this year.

Graduate Student Conference – International Peace, Security, International Policy

The Centre for International Peace and Security Studies (CEPSI-CIPSS) from Université de Montréal and McGill University, in collaboration with the Centre for International Policy Studies (CEPI-CIPS) from University of Ottawa, announces the next edition of their annual graduate student conference.

This year, the conference will be held at Université de Montréal, on 14th March 2019. This multidisciplinary and bilingual conference will focus on the following theme: “The actors of International Relations: Legitimacy, Solidarity and Contestation”.

Graduate students are invited to submit their communication proposals for this event by November 30, 2018.

All of the details of the conference, including the submission procedure, can be found in the attached document. Please note that the deadline for submitting communication proposals is 30th November, at 23:59. All the information regarding the conference can be found here.

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