The question of reconstructing the conceptual frameworks for research in Asia and Asian Diaspora has been actively debated in the last few decades. These discussions pay critical attention to the modern politics of constructing Asian spaces and identities, and of disseminating knowledge of the area throughout the world.

Taking up this challenge, this conference will explore how our own work can better contribute to this understanding, and point out the misunderstandings of the categories, spaces and frameworks constructed as part of Asian Studies within and beyond the territorial limits of 鈥淎sia.鈥�

The conference keynote speaker will be Professor Vinay Gidwani of the Department of Geography and Institute of Global Studies, University of Minnesota.

The organizing committee welcomes graduate research with interdisciplinary approaches. For a complete list of topics, visit the conference website.

Interested participants should submit a paper title, abstract with keywords (250 words maximum), along with brief biographical information (name, affiliation, stage of graduate study) by Dec. 1 to YCARreconstructions2013@gmail.com.

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, taking place at Brock University May 10 to 11, offers a forum for scholars, students, educators, historians and members of the public to explore the important role played by African Canadians the last war fought on Canadian soil. It will also showcase a new web-based project to help children 鈥渧irtually鈥� experience the history surrounding the Underground Railroad, the first phase of which will be unveiled by Jean Augustine, fairness commissioner for Ontario.

The conference鈥檚 opening reception on Thursday will feature James Bradley, Ontario environment minister; Brian McMullan, mayor of St. Catharines; Paul Dyster, mayor of Niagara Falls, New 91亚色; Brian Merrett, chief executive officer of the War of 1812 Legacy Council for Niagara; and Bonnie Rose, executive vice-president of Niagara University.

Guest speaker Gareth Newfield of the Canadian War Museum will present "Free Men of Colour: The Coloured Corps during the War of 1812鈥�, followed by a musical performance by Diana Braithwaite and Chris Whitely. The launch of Conestogo Bound: Black Pioneers of Wellington County, an original film by Queen's Bush pioneer descendant Diana Braithwaite, will conclude the evening.

Friday, workshop topics include the "coloured corps" stationed at Fort George in Niagara-on-the-Lake; the wartime experience of black women and children; African Canadian service in the battle for the Great Lakes and on the high seas; and the post-war migration to Canada Maritimes of the so-called "black refugees鈥�, some 2,000 African Americans who fought on the British side in the War of 1812.

An important component of the workshop will be outlining directions for future research and providing suggestions for the development of educational materials for the new project of the Harriet Tubman Institute and Department of Fine Arts, 91亚色: We Stand On Guard for Thee: Teaching and Learning the African Canadian Experience in the War of 1812.

Also on Friday, Augustine will launch . The web-based project includes 24 original biographies of people who came to Canada in search of freedom before the American Civil War. Narratives, detailed essays, primary documents and historic images support a series of original lesson plans designed for Grades 3-12, enhanced by augmented reality segments created by聽91亚色 film Professor Caitlin Fisher, Canadian Research Chair in Digital Culture at 91亚色, and her team in the Faculty of Fine Arts .

Augmented reality allows students and teachers to engage with personal stories and photos of refugees from American slavery and free African American immigrants before the Civil War. Some of the materials were contributed by descendants of those profiled and have never before been shown in public. The segment is set in motion when an image card is held in view of a webcam; the program conjures three-dimensional digital images, video and audio in a number of vignettes. The person holding the card up to the webcam becomes part of the picture and thus part of the action.

Breaking the Chains was created by 91亚色's and the Augmented Reality Lab in the Faculty of Fine Arts at 91亚色 with community partners from across Ontario. The聽project, carried out under the supervision of Karolyn Smardz Frost,听senior research fellow at the Tubman Institute,was tested in a number of Ontario schools over the past few months. It聽will be聽rolled out after its May 11 launch and offered free online through the Tubman Institute website as a resource for teachers to encourage students to interact with Canadian history.

Several 91亚色 scholars will be involved in the We Stand on Guard for Thee workshop. History Professor Michele Johnson is conference chair. She is also moderator of the panel, Teaching and Learning the African Canadian Experience in the War of 1812, on which historian Hilary Dawson and education director Natasha Henry, both of the聽Tubman Institute, will speak. Welcoming workshop participants will be Paul Lovejoy, Tubman Institute director and Canadian Research Chair in African Diaspora History, and workshop organizer Smardz Frost,听author of聽聽,听winner of the 2007 Governor General's Award for non-fiction. Smardz Frost聽will also discuss the connection between the War of 1812 and the Underground Railroad.

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The will be held聽Thursday, April 26 to Friday, April 27 in the Executive Learning Centre, Seymour Schulich Building, Keele campus. Co-hosted by the and 91亚色, the conference will also be available remotely via interactive webcast.

As it becomes increasingly possible to use advanced technologies to capture and share medical images, for example, there is increased potential to improve productivity in our health-care system. Conference speakers, however,听will address not only the technical possibilities, but the practical realities of tapping into their potential.

聽(left), Canadian astronaut, physician and president and CEO of Southlake Regional Health Centre and assistant professor of surgery at the University of Toronto, will look at 鈥淭ransforming the Future of Health Care with Informatics鈥�, Thursday at 8:30am.

Five keynote presentations by international experts in integrated diagnostics and integrated care delivery will follow Williams' talk.

聽(right), professor emeritus at the University of Michigan Medical School and president of the Pathology Education Consortium, who is credited with naming the field of pathology informatics, will speak about digital pathology and the future with integrated diagnostics on Thursday at 9:15am.

(left), associate professor and director of clinical informatics, University of Michigan Health System, will discuss digital pathology technology and the rush to develop algorithms that allow for direct interrogation of digital imagery for diagnostic information. Balis will look closely at the technical and operational aspects of emerging technologies that enable image-based decision support solutions on Thursday at 1pm.

聽(right), medical director, Toronto Medical Laboratories, and pathologist-in-chief, University Health Network, will talk about the use of digital pathology to provide on-site intra-operative consultations on Friday at 9am. Applying this technology in a public health-care system is a way to rationalize diagnostic medicine but provide the highest level of care, whatever the patient鈥檚 location.

聽(left), executive consultant, IBM Global Healthcare Centre of Competence, and 聽(right), senior managing consultant, IBM Global Business Services, will look at how large health-care databases and the tools of Business Intelligence can assist in the analysis and management of health care on Friday at 1pm.

In addition, the workshop聽, will explore the potential of eHealth to significantly increase the productivity of the health system at a time when funding has become highly restrained.

Other speakers include: Dr. R. Brian Haynes of McMaster University, on the evidence about what is working in health care; William Falk of the University of Toronto, discussing what is happening in eHealth in Canada; and William J. Pascal, of the Canadian Medical Association, on the policy shifts that must occur to enable the potential of eHealth systems during a time of government spending restraint.

For more information, visit the website. For program information, .

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On Thursday, Ewa Modlinska, an MES student in environmental studies, and Alex Todd, an MA candidate in geography, will share their observations on the panel, in 120E Stedman Lecture Hall from 3 to 5pm.聽

Right: 91亚色 delegates, from left, MES student Ewa Modlinska, Curtis Kuunuaq Konek and Jordan Konek from the Arviat Youth Project, and MA student Alex Todd

The COP 17 Debrief panel is hosted by 91亚色鈥檚 , which, as a non-government organization, successfully applied for delegate status to the conference, and sponsored Modlinska and Todd.聽

Modlinska will speak about the importance of listening at international climate change conferences. It is the topic of her fourth and final posted about the conference.聽

is short for the 17th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Established in 1992, it meets annually to set intergovernmental frameworks for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and mitigating climate change. COP 17 took place from Nov. 28 to Dec. 9.

Modlinska went back and forth between the official conference inside聽and meetings organized by聽NGOs and other interest groups outside. She heard 鈥渁 plurality of voices bringing different perspectives to the issue of climate change.鈥� Official delegates focused on equity and development rights, while the protesters stressed climate justice, she said. 鈥淭he biggest problem,鈥� she told YFile, 鈥渨as that there was not enough interaction between inside and outside.鈥� Inside, they were proposing market-based mechanisms to mitigate climate change, profit-based solutions opposed by those outside.

Todd spent most of his time with protesters, so will have a different perspective on the conference, says Modlinska.

On the panel with her and Todd will be three others. Youth delegate April Dutheil attended the conference to set up a booth about how climate change is affecting Arviat, her home on the shores of Hudson Bay. From the Faculty of Environmental Studies, Professor Ellie Perkins specializes in globalization and the environment, and postdoctoral fellow Rachel Hirsch, in climate change and food insecurity in the North.

If you cannot attend the panel discussion, join the conversation聽.

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Notable Canadian environmental poets , and are the keynote speakers for the public forum, which will take place Friday, Oct. 21, from 6 to 8pm, at the Gladstone Hotel, North Ballroom, 1415 Queen St. W., Toronto. The event is free and open to the public, but space is limited.

Right: Brian Bartlett

Each of the authors will read from their work and discuss the socio-political responsibility of writers in modern, ecologically precarious times during the public forum. Bartlett is the author of five collections of poetry, including聽The Watchmaker鈥檚 Table,听as well as聽Wanting the Day: Selected Poems, which won the 2004聽Atlantic Poetry Prize. Ruffo, whose work is influenced by his Ojibwe heritage,听is the author of At Geronimo鈥檚 Grave and Grey Owl: The Mystery of Archie Belaney. He聽has also penned plays, works of nonfiction and聽was the writer and director for the film, A Windigo Tale,听which won best picture at the American Indian Film Festival last year in San Francisco.

Wong's work聽looks at the relations聽among contemporary poetics, social justice, ecology and decolonization. She is the author of poetry collections Forage and Monkeypuzzle and聽co-author of Sybil Unrest.

The academic conference聽will be held the next day on Saturday, Oct. 22 at the Gladstone Hotel, from 9am to 7:30pm. Paid registration for the conference is required before Oct. 14. Although admission for 91亚色 students聽is free, they still must register in advance.

Left: Rita Wong

The conference will feature scholarly discussions and include diverse panels of academics, graduate students and writers presenting their own work on topics, such as ecopoetics, environmental literatures, indigenous politics, writing and more. Molly Wallace of Queen鈥檚 University will offer the closing keynote address, 鈥淎verting Environmental Catastrophe in Time: Speculations on Temporality, Risk and Representation鈥�.

Some of the questions the event will probe include: How do literary works 鈥� poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction 鈥� make a unique contribution to Canadians鈥� understanding of, and responses to, environmental issues? How does the history of Canadian literature suggest a history of environmental activism, and vice versa? Why does poetry matter for nature? And, how does fiction incite and influence actions in the more-than-human world?

Environmental literatures engage the world differently than do environmental policies and ecopoetry embodies and inspires different modes of action, says FES Professor Catriona Sandilands, Canada Research Chair in Sustainability & Culture and聽the event鈥檚 co-organizer with Ella Soper, FES postdoctoral Fellow.

Right: Armand Garnet Ruffo

The question then becomes, says Sandilands, what does this reflection and action add to environmental politics in Canada? How, for example, do indigenous peoples鈥� struggles over the materiality and meaning of land suggest different kinds of environmental stories to underpin an ecological public culture? How can a regional or national ecopolitics benefit from closer attention to diasporic literatures? How are ecological literatures and politics jointly embedded in globalizing relations of race, gender, class, colonialism, sexuality and ability?

Writing workshops will take place Sunday, Oct. 23 at the Gladstone Hotel, from 9:30 to 11:30am. It will be a day of hands-on writing activities led by Bartlett, Ruffo and Wong, as well as FES doctoral candidate Amanda Di Battista. At the workshops, participants will be encouraged to create their own pieces of poetry or prose that might contribute to a politics of voice locally, nationally and/or globally. Participation is included in advance conference registration or contact Green Worlds for alternate arrangements.

The event is sponsored by 91亚色鈥檚 Sustainable Writing Laboratory and the Faculty of Environmental Studies with the support of the Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada.

For more information, for a full schedule of events, or to register, e-mail grnwrlds@yorku.ca.

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Enslavement, slaveholders, international law, wartime abuses and forced marriage are just some of the areas speakers from Canada, the聽US and the UK will discuss at an upcoming conference on modern slavery.

Modern Slavery, Human Rights and Development will take place from June 26 to 28 at 91亚色鈥檚 Keele campus. The conference is organized by 91亚色聽Professor Annie Bunting of聽the Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on the Global Migrations of African Peoples at 91亚色 and the Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery & Emancipation at the University of Hull in the United Kingdom, with the support of the Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada.

Over the last decade, the problem of modern slavery has moved from being a marginal concern to a mainstream issue, with trafficking in persons for the purposes of forced prostitution as the primary focal point. Other related problem areas include bonded labour, which includes child labour, 鈥渃lassical鈥� slavery and descent-based discrimination, forced labour for the state, wartime enslavement and servile marriage, as well as the severe exploitation of migrants and domestic workers.

The conference hopes to connect emerging literature concerned with modern slavery and human trafficking with more established scholarship in the related fields of human rights and human development. It also aims to offer a constructive critique of key policies and programs that have recently been introduced by both governments and non-governmental organizations to combat modern slavery.

In the first session, Joel Quirk (left), deputy director of the Wilberforce Institute for the Study of聽Slavery & Emancipation at the聽University of Hull, will look at 鈥淐ompeting Visions: Human Trafficking versus Forced Labour?鈥� Quirk is a Research Councils UK Fellow in law, culture & human rights and the author of The Anti-Slavery Project: From the Slave Trade to Human Trafficking (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011). He is also the United Kingdom representative on the International Scientific Committee of the UNESCO Slave Route Project. Jean Allain (right), a Leverhulme Research Fellow聽at the School of Law at Queen鈥檚 University of Belfast, will tackle 鈥淢odern Slavery: From Human Rights to International Criminal Law鈥�. He is the author of several books, including The Slavery Conventions: The Travaux Pr茅paratoires of the 1926 League of Nations Convention and the 1956 United Nations Convention (2008).

Speaker Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick (left), assistant director of the Center for the Study of Social Movements聽& Social Change at the University of Notre Dame, will discuss 鈥淭wo to Tango: Slaveholders, Mobilization and Social Change鈥� in the second session. He was formerly the national outreach coordinator for Free the Slaves, an international human rights group working to end contemporary slavery.聽Rhoda Howard-Hassmann of Wilfred Laurier University will look at 鈥淪lave Labour in North Korea" in the same session.

In the third session, 91亚色 Professor Annie Bunting聽(right)聽(LLB '88)聽of the Law & Society Program in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies and The Harriet Tubman Institute will talk about 鈥淓nslavement, Forced Marriage and Modern Slavery鈥�. Bunting is currently directing an international research collaboration on forced marriage in conflict situations with historians of slavery and women鈥檚 human rights scholars.

During this same session, Benjamin N. Lawrance (left), the Barber B. Conable Jr. Endowed Chair in International Studies at the Rochester Institute of Technology, will discuss 鈥淔orced Marriages, Marital Simulacra and their Perpetrators: Conceptualizing Protagonists and Process in West African Asylum Claims鈥�.

鈥淢odern Slavery and Global Inequality: Lessons from Global Justice and Human Rights Debates鈥� is what Christien van den Anker (right)聽of the University of West of England will speak about in session four. She is currently lead editor of the Journal of Global Ethics and director of the Migrant Rights Centre in聽Bristol. Her most recent work is a forthcoming聽co-edited collection on human rights and migration. Andrew Crane, the George R. Gardiner Professor of Business Ethics at 91亚色鈥檚 Schulich School of Business, will then discuss 鈥淢odern Slavery as a Management Practice: Exploring the Conditions and Capabilities for Human Exploitation鈥�.

The fifth session 鈥� Research Methods and Case Studies 鈥� will feature Karlee Sapoznik (left), a PhD candidate at 91亚色, talking about 鈥淐ocoa Trafficking and Hereditary Slavery in Mali: Investigating Omissions, Contextualizing Reports and Challenging Popular Narratives鈥�. Sapoznik is president and co-founder of the , a non-profit organization in Toronto. Darshan Vigneswaran of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious聽& Ethnic Diversity will look at 鈥淢ethods and Modern Slavery: A South African Case Study鈥� and Jonathan Blagbrough of the Children Unite in the United Kingdom will discuss 鈥淭he Politics of Child Domestic Labour鈥�.

In the final session, Fuyuki Kurasawa of 91亚色鈥檚 Department of Sociology will tackle 鈥淰isual Representations of Modern Slavery,鈥� while Roy L. Brooks of the University of San Diego School of Law will look at 鈥淩edress, Human Rights and Human Development.鈥�

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91亚色 community members are invited to apply to be an audience participant for a limited number of available seats. Applications are due Friday, Oct. 22 and can be found online at the website.

TED is a nonprofit organization devoted to the concept of "ideas worth spreading". Started as a four-day conference in California 25 years ago to bring together the worlds of Technology, Entertainment and Design, TED has grown to support those world-changing ideas with multiple initiatives. The annual TED Conference invites leading thinkers and doers to speak for 18 minutes. Their talks are then made available, free, at . Past TED speakers have included Bill Gates, Al Gore, Jane Goodall, Richard Branson,听Isabel Allende and Gordon Brown, among many other luminaries.

In the spirit of "ideas worth spreading", TED has created TEDx. TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At TEDx91亚色U, TEDTalks video and live speakers will combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events, including at 91亚色, are self-organized.

TEDx91亚色U will explore the theme of "Ctrl-Alt-Delete", the ubiquitous computer command also called the 鈥渢hree-finger salute鈥�.聽 Speakers and participants will be asked to 鈥漴eboot鈥澛爐heir way of thinking as the event aims to explore how starting over is often the best way to discover something new. Dynamic presentations will be made by academic, business, political and community leaders, all connected to 91亚色, who have each hit Ctrl-Alt-Delete in their own way to create change and make the world a better place. TEDx91亚色U is supported by 91亚色 Alumni, Student Community & Leadership Development, the Division of the Vice-President Research & Innovation and Glendon College.

TEDx91亚色U speakers announced so far include:

(left) is a business success story as former president of HMV Music and, later, BMG Music. In 1999, he became president of Strategic Business Units of MP3.com and helped lead the company through one of the largest initial public offerings聽in Internet history.聽After leaving MP3.com, had a 鈥渓ife-altering experience鈥� while taking care of his mother, who passed away from breast cancer in 2002, and he became a key leader in the Canadian nonprofit sector. He is currently the president and CEO of , and recently served as the Board Chair of Covenant House. As a 91亚色 alumnus, Alofs聽won the 2007 Redefine the Possible Bryden Award.

91亚色 alumnus (right) is a music programmer, pop culture critic, author, broadcaster and journalist. He is also Canada鈥檚 foremost expert on hip hop culture. His latest book is聽, published by Groundwood Books/House of Anansi. As a print journalist, Higgins is a Canadian National Magazine Award recipient, and his articles have appeared in print and online mediums in the United States (Vibe, the聽Source,听Urb, amazon.com) and Canada (Saturday Night, Now Magazine,听Toronto Star,听Quill & Quire and many others). Higgins has hosted his own TV show, and has appeared on numerous Canadian television programs. His fourth book聽Fatherhood 4.0: iDad Applications Across Cultures spots trends across a newer generation of media-savvy, hip hoppy, multi-culti, Digital Dads influenced by everything from George Lopez and Bill Cosby to the Osbournes and Barack Obama.

(right) is an artist, designer and researcher specializing in augmented reality (AR). Hailed as being among the top 10 forces currently shaping the AR industry, has been working with AR since 2005, exploring the creative possibilities and theoretical implications for this exciting emerging technology. Recently, Papagiannis鈥� interactive artworks were . She is presently completing her聽doctorate in communication and culture at 91亚色 and is a senior research associate at the in 91亚色's Department of Film in the聽Faculty of Fine Arts. Prior to her graduate studies,听Papagiannis was a member of the聽Bruce Mau Design studio, where she was project lead on Massive Change: The Future of Global Design.

(left) is one of Canada鈥檚 most respected scholars and commentators on issues of corporate law, securities law, corporate governance, and corporate and white-collar crime. Appointed to 91亚色鈥檚 Osgoode Hall Law School in 1997 at the age of 25, and a 2005 recipient of Canada鈥檚 Top 40 under 40 award, Puri is a prolific scholar who was appointed as one of two research directors of the Canadian Ministry of Finance鈥檚 Expert Panel on Securities Regulation, which is seeking input on the best way to develop and implement a model Common Securities Act for Canada. Most recently, .

With more speakers to be announced, buzz about the Nov. 6 event is growing on campus. Student volunteer groups are also promoting the event through 鈥渟alon鈥� events that discuss innovative ideas and view TEDTalks videos. Applications to be an audience participant and more information can be found online at . Follow TEDx91亚色U聽at and on Facebook at .

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The conference, 鈥淓ducation in Tough Times: Tough Times in Education,鈥� from Oct. 21 to 24 at the Novotel Hotel (North 91亚色), features critical historical explorations, innovative research, vivid photographic exhibitions and stimulating discussions of some of the most pressing issues for students, parents and policy-makers in education today.

鈥淐urrent debates in education locally, nationally and internationally are best understood by examining the rich history of education,鈥� says Professor , former dean of 91亚色鈥檚 Faculty of Education, who organized the conference. 鈥淭his gathering is a unique opportunity to engage experts and various sectors of the education community. From the vantage point of an informed analysis of the past, we can look toward a wider array of options in policy and practice for the present and a more vibrant and enlightened future.鈥�

Papers and presentations cover a broad spectrum of issues such as religion in schools, lifelong learning, student health, disability, learning difficulties, diversity, gender, assimilation, resistance and accommodation. These topics are reflected in such titles as:

• The Sixties Revolution and the Meaning of Higher Education
• Commies at the Chalkboard: National Security, Teachers and the Long Red Scare
• Montreal鈥檚 Little Strikers: Antisemitism, Poverty and Resistance at the Aberdeen School, 1913
• Kids Learn to Smoke: The case of Tobacco Manufacturers鈥� Pseudo-Anti Smoking Messages and the Pathetic Real Deal 鈭� School Curricula
• No Light Without Shadow: Education and Experience at Rochdale College
• Schoolyard Archaeology: Digging for Toronto鈥檚 African Canadian Heritage;Canada鈥檚 History Crisis of the 1990s: The Public Debate and Its Legacy
• Sex and Social Segregation in English Canadian High Schools: The Interwar Years

The conference features a special exhibition of photographs and short essays titled 鈥淎 Picture in a Thousand Words鈥�, showcasing education historians using visual sources. It also includes a tour of rare artifacts of the history of Ontario education, which have been preserved at the , on the Keele Campus of 91亚色.

鈥�91亚色 is proud to be the home of the Archives of Ontario and to serve, in this way, as the gateway to the history of education in Ontario,鈥� says Axelrod, whose most recent work analyzes the abolition of corporal punishment in Ontario鈥檚 schools. 鈥淭his repository is an indispensable resource for all serious students of the history of education in this province.鈥�

The Faculty of Education at 91亚色, one of Ontario鈥檚 largest institutions for higher learning in education, has earned an international reputation for its interdisciplinary approach to research and teacher training in both undergraduate and graduate studies. Its focus on community engagement combined with a rich diversity of conceptual and applied research distinguishes the faculty as a leader in knowledge mobilization in the field of education.

For event details visit the or the Faculty of Education.

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The conference will take place Friday, Oct. 15 and Saturday, Oct. 16, from 8:30am to 5:30pm in the 91亚色 Research Tower, Keele campus. It is presented by 91亚色鈥檚 Work & Labour Studies Program, the 91亚色 Centre for Research on Work & Society, Ryerson University and the Labour College of Canada.

This interdisciplinary, two-day conference will include research on contemporary issues, papers that place these subjects in historical perspective, and thematic panels and workshops on teaching and researching in the field of labour studies.

This is the fourth year for the conference 鈥� the first聽in Toronto 鈥� where junior scholars in the field present their work and meet other emerging voices in labour studies, as well as interact with more senior scholars who serve as commentators on the panels.

鈥淭his conference showcases the labour studies community鈥檚 continuing vibrancy and impressive national reach,鈥� says Professor Stephanie Ross, coordinator of 91亚色鈥檚 Work & Labour Studies Program. 鈥淎cross Canada, labour studies attract researchers who combine rigorous cutting edge scholarship with a capacity to speak to the real and pressing challenges we face in our working lives. Anyone with an interest in how to make work and the economy more socially just will take a lot from this conference.鈥�

The conference is sponsored at 91亚色 by the Office of the Dean in the聽Faculty of聽Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, the Graduate Program in Social & Political Thought, and the Department of Geography, and at Ryerson by the Department of History, the Dean鈥檚 Office in the Faculty of Arts, the Office of the Vice-President of Research & Innovation, and the Centre for Labour-Management Relations. In addition, the Canadian Labour Congress鈥檚 Labour College of Canada has also provided much-appreciated support.

For more information, visit the Centre for Research on Work & Society or contact Stephanie聽Ross at stephr@yorku.ca.

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This year鈥檚 conference will take place on the University鈥檚 Keele campus. The 2010 conference theme is 鈥淒ialoguing Across Differences鈥�. Keynote speakers and sessions will explore how to dialogue across relevant human rights areas in relation to this theme. Conference participants will engage in interactive sessions focused on communicating difficult topics.

Conference organizers are seeking proposals for sessions on race and racialization, gender expression and expectations, (dis)abilities or sexual orientation.

Presenters are invited to submit proposals on the conference theme for a 60-minute session in the format of a round-table discussion, individual or panel presentation, interactive workshop or dialogue process. Proposals should be provided to the Centre for Human Rights no later than Aug. 31.

For more information, e-mail conference organizers Kristina Osborne or Nythalah Baker or visit the Centre for Human Rights Web site.

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