Sunday, November 28, 2010

Paper presentation

Alana Westwood will be presenting her paper:
Ecosystem's under threat in Manitoba: determining our obligations to Manitoba's forests.
In room 4CM41 at 5 pm on Wednesday Dec. 1

Another opportunity

Just forwarding it on:

I am writing to you today to remind you about Fulbright Canada's
undergraduate exchange program, the Killam Fellowships Program. The Killam
Fellowships Program offers Canadian undergraduate students the opportunity
to spend either one semester or a full academic year as an exchange student
in the United States. The fellowship carries a value of $5,000 per
semester, and includes health insurance for the duration of the exchange.
The program also includes a three-day seminar in Ottawa and Washington, DC,
and additional funding to travel within the United States. All of the
information is available on our website (www.killamfellowships.com/).
(Please note that the application deadline is January 31, 2011.

Sincerely,
Jennifer Regan

Jennifer Regan
Chief Program Officer / Agente principale de programme
Fulbright Canada
2015-350 rue Albert Street Ottawa, ON, Canada K1R1A4
t. 613.688.5517; f. 613.237.2029;
www.fulbrightcanada.com

Legal Help Centre email

hey all,
just received this email and am forwarding it on for anyone interested:

Hello folks. We are offering an open session on volunteer opportunities with our Legal Help Centre, which is opening in January. The LHC is an entity affiliated with UW, which is helping us with space, but we have our own board and are responsible for our own funding.

The LHC intends to provide services to the working poor who need legal assistance but cannot afford it, nor do they usually qualify for legal aid or other subsidies.

The program has few paid staff and will use student volunteers from U of W and U of M. A number of volunteer lawyers will work with students to help provide sevices.

If you want to know more about the program, please come to the session! Or better yet, please encourage your students who have an interest in this area. Obviously this is of interest to budding law students, but also to anyone with a passion for social justice or who just want to help others.

Please forward to your faculty, student groups or use any other mechanism to advise students of this opportunity.

Thanks.


Dr. Michael Weinrath
Professor & Chair, Criminal Justice Department
University of Winnipeg
515 Portage Avenue, Wpg. MB R3B 2E9
telephone 204/786-9100
fax 204/774-4134

The info session:
Student Information Session
Monday, November 29, 2010
12:30 pm
1L12

Come hear out about upcoming volunteer, placement and work opportunities to be offered at Legal Help Centre’s location on campus.

Check out the Centre’s website: http://legalhelpcentre.weebly.com/

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

call for papers

The University of Victoria's Undergraduate Journal of Philosophy: Sophia XIV
and
Spring 2011 Western Canadian Undergraduate Conference of Philosophy

Papers are now being accepted for Sophia Vol.XIV and the WCUCP on all philosophical topics. Submissions accepted to Sophia will also be sent an invitation to present at the WCUCP. Deadline for ALL SUBMISSIONS is Jan. 31, 2011. For additional information please contact: uvicsophia@gmail.com.

Paper length: 1000-4000 words
Abstract recommended, not required.

Monday, November 22, 2010

Charles Taylor

Charles Taylor cancelled again!

http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Uniter/129195330426257#!/event.php?eid=133250686725599

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Bake Sale

UWPHSA bake sale tomorrow. Come and support us. We will be on the first floor next to the info booth and across from the art gallery. 9am to 3pm

Monday, November 15, 2010

paper presentation

Marc Kruse will be presenting his paper: The Political Use of Language Games on Wednesday Nov. 17 in Room 4Cm41 at 5:15 - 6:15.

Conference call for papers

As the end of the semester is fast approaching, one thing that it is important to remember is the call for papers for the Thompson Rivers University Philosophy, History, and Politics Conference!



The conference runs from January 13th to 15th of 2011, and includes a Keynote address by Historian Dr John Sandlos from Memorial University in Newfoundland. His speech, "Scholarship and Citizenship: History, Memory, and the Environment in the Public Realm" will be followed by a wine and cheese social. Presentations will be conducted on both Friday and Saturday during the day, with presentations being grouped together by theme. The conference concludes with a Superhero themed banquet on Saturday night, with guest speaker Philosopher Dr Jeff McLaughlin presenting his research “Ten Cent Seductions and Other Comic Book ‘Issues’”.



To attend the conference, formal abstracts must be submitted by no later than November 26th. In addition, students who wish to attend the conference but not present a paper must also register. Please send all submissions to the conference website phpconf@mytru.ca.