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24th UBC Interdisciplinary Legal Studies Graduate Conference

Peter A. Allard School of Law at the University of British Columbia invites graduate students from all disciplines to participate in the 24th annual UBC Interdisciplinary Legal Studies Graduate Conference held on May 5-6, 2020 in Vancouver. The conference provides graduate students and junior scholars with an opportunity to discuss and share ideas, receive feedback, and network with peers.

Submissions are invited from students from any discipline that fits with the theme, Changes in Law Over 25 Years.

Topics: Papers may be on any topic, including (but not limited to): Technology and the law; International law; Environmental law; Indigenous law; Law and race; Feminist law

Deadline: March 15, 2020

Submissions should include the title of the paper, a 250-word abstract in English, the author’s name, email address, and institutional affiliation. We welcome submissions from current graduate students and folks who have recently completed graduate studies (up to one-year post-graduation). Papers from JD or LLB students may also be considered.

Please send your submissions via email to ubclawgradconference@gmail.com by March 15, 2020. Applicants will be notified if they have been offered a place at the conference in March 2020 via email.

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SGPS Scholars to Leaders Speaker Series

You are invited to attend the Scholars to Leaders Speaker Series event:

Going for the big prize!

presented by

Angela Meadows, PhD
Banting Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Psychology
Jonathan A. Michaels, PhD
BrainsCAN Postdoctoral Scholar, Western Interdisciplinary Research
and
Eric D. Wilkey, PhD
Banting Postdoctoral Fellow, Numerical Cognition Lab, Brain and Mind Institute

Wednesday, February 26, 2020, 12:30 p.m.
Atrium, 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.

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Call for Abstracts – EnviroCon (Western)

The Centre for Environment and Sustainability (CES) invites graduate students to submit abstracts for morning oral presentations (12 mins), afternoon speed talks (3 mins), and lunchtime posters on research related to environment and sustainability for this year’s EnviroCon research conference at The University of Western Ontario.

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
submission deadline extended to February 28
papers | posters | speed talks

The conference will take place on March 13, 2020, and there are no fees associated with this event.

Register: Presenters and attendees are required to register at https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/centre-for-environment-and-sustainability-envirocon-2020-tickets-91316968511

Questions can be directed to uwoenvirocon@gmail.com

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Call for Abstracts: ‘Building Bridges’

Upcoming conference at the University of Toronto Mississauga:

BUILDING BRIDGES: NAVIGATING INTERACTIONS BETWEEN GRADUATE STUDENTS AND VULNERABLE OR MARGINALIZED PEOPLES AND COMMUNITIES

April 9, 8:00 am to 7:00 pm

Building Bridges has been designed as a series of workshops encouraging discussion, research, and cross-community engagement between current and future professionals in health care, law, policing, criminology, and forensic science, and the individuals or communities at risk of interactions with such.

Conference sessions are focused on both the consideration of vulnerable persons and/or marginalized communities in research and practice, as well as the consideration of graduate students as individuals in conflicting positions of privilege and precarity. Graduate students will be introduced to managing the stresses of graduate school and prebuilding resiliency, specifically in future positions where there may exist a high-risk of direct or vicarious trauma. In addition, attendees will partake in discussions surrounding current practices and future outlooks regarding interactions with vulnerable persons and/or marginalized communities in the aforementioned fields, and become familiar with the skills beneficial for such. Overall, the aim of this conference is to generate a stronger, more nuanced, and more empathetic understanding of vulnerable and marginalized peoples and communities, and facilitate movement towards positive interaction through further outreach, research, and education.

While the target audience is graduate and professional students in the fields of l aw, health care, policing, criminology, and forensic sciences, early career researchers and working professionals in the aforementioned fields are encouraged to attend.

Submission of abstracts for poster presentations from students whose research involves working with vulnerable and/or marginalized peoples and communities is invited. Deadline – February 28, 2020.

Please visit the website for further information: https://buildingbridgesutm.wixsite.com/buildingbridges

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Interconnections 2020: in/between – Call for proposals

The Queen’s University Department of Sociology invites paper proposals for

SGSA Annual Interconnections Conference: In/Between
Rose Innovation Hub (Mitchell Hall – Queen’s University, Kingston ON)
March 27 2020

The Queen’s University Sociology Graduate Student Association (SGSA) invites researchers to consider the in/between. With this theme, we seek to provide a space for researchers to critically examine classification, categorization, and the experiences of being caught in and between these processes. This theme also brings attention to those who transcend categories, and those at the margins. We especially encourage work that seeks to mobilize research for social empowerment.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
· Media, Information, & Surveillance
· Criminology, Policing, and Law
· Social Justice, Power, and Resistance
· Feminism, Queer Theory, & Intersectionality
· Critical Race and Indigenous Studies

We especially encourage research and papers in progress that focus on indigenous and/or queer studies. We also welcome participants considering alternative presentation formats for scholarly and artistic projects. Teleconferencing options for presenting will also be available upon request.
Participants will be able to receive feedback from faculty and peers – this is an excellent professional development opportunity in a supportive environment.

All graduate students and upper-year undergraduates are invited to submit and/or attend! Whether you have a project that is completed or is a work-in-progress, we encourage you to submit a project title, 250 word abstract, any technology requests, and contact information in a word document.

Please email your submission to sgsa.conference@gmail.com by February 24 2020.

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Western Humanitarian Award

This award recognizes faculty, staff, and students at Western, who are engaged in a range of efforts directed towards improving the quality of life for individuals and communities around the world. Preference will be given to the recognition of activities undertaken by the candidate that have current or potential international impact.

Amount: A maximum of $5,000 may be awarded and must be used in support of humanitarian efforts as chosen by the recipient.

Deadline: Wednesday, March 4, 2020 at 1:00 p.m.

Western Application Process: The Western Humanitarian Award internal adjudication and selection process is managed by Research Development & Services.

A complete application will consist of a completed Western Humanitarian Award Application – online form which includes:

Brief Information about the Nominator and Nominee
Four-page (4-page) document:
- Description of Project
- The rationale for the nomination
- Activities and Impacts
- Financial Requests
Two-page (2-page) CV summary for the last five years.

Western Contact:
Research Development: rwprizes@uwo.ca

Details and guidelines: https://www.uwo.ca/research/excellence/awards/western_humanitarian_award.html

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Women in International Security – Canada

Women in International Security- Canada is looking for women-identifying and non-binary graduate students to present at their 13^th Annual Workshop, themed: Future Security Challenges Facing Canada: Vital Insights from Women in International Security in Toronto from May 7-8.

They welcome graduate students who are doing work on pressing global issues (such as human rights, climate change, political violence, gender and politics, etc.) to leverage their research expertise and insights to the Canadian or foreign policy context.

Deadline for proposal submissions: February 24, 2020.

Submit abstract (100-200 words) to workshop@wiiscanada.org.

Papers should fall within the workshop’s four main themes:

1) New and Emerging Security Threats (e.g. space conflict, cyber and AI, climate change, arctic security, migration and borders, etc.)

2) Complex Conflicts and War (e.g. terrorism, hybrid warfare, civil wars, international interventions, great power conflicts, etc.)

3) Gender and Security (e.g. women, peace, and security agenda, gender issues in the military, GBA+, intersectionality and politics, gender-based violence, etc.)

4) Security, Justice, and Law (e.g. international and national legal questions related to conflict, terrorism, and security, borders, etc.)

Successful applicants will have the opportunity to present in front of and receive feedback from experts from academia as well as practitioners from the military and leading consulting firms, among others. There will also be an opportunity for the top presenters to publish their work as either a paper or policy brief in a special edition of the leading Canadian foreign policy journal, International Journal. Travel stipends will be provided for out of town presenters.

More information...

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Western Libraries – Upcoming Research Skills Workshops

The library is offering several workshops this winter that can help you to better understand the scholarly publishing process, measure your research impact, and teach you how to make the most of data and geographical information in your research.

Upcoming Workshops:

If you have any questions about the workshops please contact:
Courtney Waugh
Assistant Librarian, Research & Scholarly Communication
519.661.2111 x84816, cwaugh5@uwo.ca

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Canadian Japanese Mennonite Scholarship – Human Rights

Every year Mennonite Central Committee Canada, in partnership with the National Association of Japanese Canadians, offers the Canadian Japanese Mennonite scholarship to a student enrolled in a graduate degree program that is engaged in research concerning human rights in Canada.

The scholarship is for $2,000 and applications must be received by April 1^st.

More information, along with the application form, on the website at mcccanada.ca/scholarships.

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Charles Gonthier Research Fellowship

Description: The Charles D. Gonthier Research Fellowship is awarded annually in support of research relating to the topic of the Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice’s (CIAJ) Annual Conference. For 2020 the topic is: “Indigenous Peoples and the Law ”.

Amount: $7,500

Deadline: March 31, 2020

Eligibility: open to faculty and graduate students at Canadian universities

Applications and more information…

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