The forum, which focuses on industrial relations, workplace discrimination and human rights issues, will be held today and tomorrow at the Beijing Conference Centre.聽YCPPL was awarded a聽major grant of $100,000 from the of (HRSDC) to organize the forum, which will bring together some of Canada's top thinkers in industrial and labour rights with聽key policy-makers and thinkers聽in China.

Right: Lesley Jacobs

"The Canada-China Forum is the first of its kind and reflects a new initiative of the Government of Canada in the realm of recalibrating their relationship with China involving university-led research units," says political science Professor Lesley Jacobs, director of YCPPL.

"Working with government officials in Canada and the Capital University of Economics and Business in Beijing, this event will bring together a 17-person Canadian delegation, including academics, senior government officials, representatives from human rights commissioners, and delegates from business, labour and NGOs, to provide a dynamic platform for an important comparative discussion of industrial relations and workplace rights with a view to relating these issues to international labour standards," says Jacobs.

In addition to Jacobs,聽91亚色 Professor Lorne Foster, director of the聽Master in Public Policy, Administration & Law program,聽will also be a principal investigator on this project. Jacobs and Foster, along with political science Professor Daniel Drache and Patrick Monahan, 91亚色's vice-president academic & provost, are in Beijing for the forum. Monahan will make the welcoming remarks to the delegates gathered in Beijing.

Canada鈥檚 ambassador to China, David Mulroney, along with a representative from the United Nations聽International Labour Organization and various Chinese dignitaries, will also deliver speeches to forum delegates.

"Being asked to lead such an event is a tremendous achievement for YCPPL and 91亚色," says Jacobs. "It offers an opportunity to聽demonstrate the dynamism and excellence of 91亚色 researchers and their research."

YCPPL聽encourages research on the role and impact of law in the formation and expression of public policy. More specifically, the聽centre focuses on constitutional, institutional and legal aspects of the public policy, as well as the international and transnational dimensions of law and public policy.

For more information, visit the website.

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Known as the "kid from Cowichan Lake, British Columbia", Prof. Saywell arrived at the University of Toronto in 1954. Throughout the long聽and distinguished career that followed, Prof. Saywell聽took many roads less travelled. In the process, he deepened Canada鈥檚 knowledge and understanding of itself, from the constitution and federalism to the offices of the lieutenant-governor and the governor-general. He also chronicled Canadian history, economics, politics, culture and society as editor of the Canadian Historical Review from 1957 to 1963, and as editor of the Canadian Annual Review from 1960 to 1979, reviving and revitalizing these two journals.

Right: Professor John "Jack" Saywell in earlier years

Prof. Saywell was the founding dean of 91亚色's Faculty of Arts & Science, serving in this formative role from 1964 to 1973. As well, his thoughts and direction helped found 91亚色's Faculties of Fine Arts and Education. In 1970,聽he was shortlisted as a candidate to succeed founding President Murray Ross, a much-chronicled episode in 91亚色's history (the ultimate choice was David Slater, who later resigned amid聽deep controversy). Prof. Saywell, by all accounts, had strong support among faculty members.

In 1980, 91亚色 conferred on聽Prof. Saywell聽its inaugural University Professorship for both service and scholarly achievement. The citation read: "Your imprint was present in every major undertaking pursued by the University during its crucial, formative years鈥� Few people have ever so shaped any institution". It concluded by saying that "The Faculty of Arts, and to a great extent, 91亚色, remains 鈥榯he house that Jack built.鈥欌�� In 1999, during 91亚色鈥檚 40th anniversary year, he was inducted into the Founders Society for contributions to 91亚色 during its formative years.

Prof. Saywell鈥檚 ground-breaking scholarship was recognized through a number of major awards. His 1957 book, The Office of Lieutenant-Governor: A Study in Canadian Government and Politics, won the Delancey K. Jay Prize at Harvard University. Another, the 1991 "Just Call Me Mitch": The Life of Mitchell F. Hepburn, won the Floyd Chalmers Award for the best book on Ontario history. His 2002 study of the Supreme Court of Canada, titled The Lawmakers: Judicial Power and the Shaping of Canadian Federalism, won the John W. Dafoe Prize for "distinguished writing on Canada and/or Canada鈥檚 place in the world." He also interpreted Canadian, British and European history for thousands of Ontario high-school students through close to a dozen textbooks written between 1959 and 1969 with friend and colleague John Ricker.

As a teacher of undergraduate and graduate history and political science, Prof. Saywell excelled. His lectures and seminars were known across the University for their engagement and rigour. From 1987 to 1998, he was director of the Graduate Program in History. He was especially proud of his role in helping to shape a generation of scholars. 91亚色 PhD graduates from this period now staff history departments in virtually every major Canadian university. In 2009, two of these graduates edited 聽Framing Canadian Federalism: Historical Essays in Honour of John T. Saywell, a Festschrift (see YFile, June 17, 2009).

His work in the media included roles as actor, narrator and consultant in a series of CBC TV historical dramas; as host of the CBC TV newsmagazine "The Way It Is"; as host of "Options" for TVO; and as Tokyo correspondent for CTV National News.

Prof. Saywell consulted for USAID, the World Bank, the United Nations Development Program,聽the Harvard Institute for International Development and the聽governments of Ontario and Canada, among others. From 1974 to 1980, he was director of the 91亚色 Kenya Project in Nairobi. From 1979 to 1981, he was visiting professor at the Universities of Tokyo, Keio and Tskuba in Japan.

In 2008, he published , part history, part memoir of 91亚色鈥檚 early days. In it, Prof. Saywell documented the development of the college system, the creation of 91亚色鈥檚 Faculty of Education, the student revolt of the late 1960s and the controversy over hiring American professors to teach in Canadian universities, an issue he remembers debating in 1969 on CBC TV鈥檚 "The Way It Is". He also聽wrote about his part in the presidential聽struggles of the early 1970s.

Prof. Saywell will be remembered by his many friends and colleagues at 91亚色. He will be missed by the family whose lives he shaped as patriarch. He leaves his wife Suzanne Firth, his dog "Mist"; his four children, 12 grandchildren and his brother William Saywell and his family.

A private family聽service was held on April 23. Friends and colleagues of Prof. Saywell are invited to "The Way It Was: Remembering Jack", a celebration of his life, to be held on聽Sunday, June 19 (Father鈥檚 Day) from 11:30am, at the Japanese-Canadian Cultural Centre, 6 Garamond Court (off Wynford Drive, west of the Don Valley Parkway) in North 91亚色. For more information or directions to the location, call 416-441-2345.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests that a donation in聽Prof. Saywell鈥檚 memory be made to the John T. Saywell Prize for Canadian Legal History, c/o the , to the , or to a charity of choice.

His is available online.

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Left: David Dewitt

Based in Waterloo, Ontario, the聽 is an independent, nonpartisan think tank on international governance. Led by experienced practitioners and distinguished academics, CIGI supports research, forms networks, advances policy debate and generates ideas for multilateral governance improvements.

鈥淚 congratulate David on his new role as vice-president of programs at CIGI,鈥� said Stan Shapson, vice-president research & innovation at 91亚色. 鈥淒avid has served the University so well as associate vice-president research, bringing an important blend of academic excellence, strategic thinking and administrative efficiency to this challenging role. His new role draws on his expertise as a first-rate academic administrator and his widely recognized career as a scholar in international affairs. I invite the 91亚色 community to join with me in wishing him every success in this new adventure.鈥�

Under its , CIGI seeks to identify and address areas of major global governance that will be challenged over the next decade. Its research and work will focus on four program themes: the Global Economy, Energy &聽Environment, Development, and Global Security.

鈥淚n a few short years, CIGI has emerged as a pre-eminent source of innovative thinking about international governance,鈥� Dewitt said. 鈥淚 am excited about the opportunity to work with CIGI鈥檚 staff, fellows and partners in building significant new programs of research and policy development. Our goal is to advance better ideas for promoting global prosperity and security.鈥�

About David Dewitt

Dewitt is a specialist in international affairs with expertise in security and conflict, the Middle East and Asia Pacific, and comparative public diplomacy. He earned a BA at the University of British Columbia and an MA and PhD from Stanford University.

Prior to assuming his current position within the Office of the Vice-President Research & Innovation, he served as director of the 91亚色 Centre for International聽& Security Studies (YCISS) from 1988 to 2006. He is the author or contributing editor of books, chapters and peer reviewed articles as well as commissioned reports on Canadian foreign, security, and defense policy, international and regional security and conflict management in Asia Pacific and the Middle East, arms control and proliferation, and human security.

In the early 1990s, Dewitt co-directed the North Pacific Cooperative Security Dialogue, a Foreign Affairs sponsored multilateral track-two diplomacy initiative, and has been involved in various track-two initiatives on security in Asia Pacific and the Middle East.

Dewitt has been a visiting scholar at Tel Aviv University and an international research fellow of the Korean Institute for Defense Analysis. He served as founding chair of the Canadian Consortium for Asia Pacific Security and as a co-chair of the Canadian Member Committee of the Council for Security Cooperation in Asia Pacific. He also was a co-director of the Canadian Consortium for Human Security, national chair of the Canadian Professors for Peace in the Middle East, and has served as chair of the Partnerships for International Strategies with Asia聽now based at the Sigur Center for Asian Studies, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University.

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It is by far the best method to ensure food security, especially when women are the producers, said Mukherjee-Reed, who was here recently as part of the research project on farming activity by women's groups. The advantage is access to food in the hands of those who need it (are food insecure), she said.

Mukherjee-Reed, whose works include and series, said there is a lesson in here that the world can take to fight food crisis.

About 2.5 lakh women in the state in about 30,000 groups are engaged in collective farming. Together they cultivate over 27,000 hectares, growing paddy, tapioca, pineapple, plantain, vegetables and other items that are used to ensure that the growers get enough to eat and the surplus is sold in the open market.

鈥淢ost of the groups of women, who started with small areas for cultivation, have increased their production by taking up more fallow land, rejuvenating it and cultivating it,鈥� said Mukherjee-Reed.

Her study involved 100 groups spread across the state. Among her major findings, Mukherjee-Reed said that land is the major constraint of the women engaged in collective farming. Women are unsure about retaining the leasing rights of the vacant, fallow land that they rejuvenate and prepare for cultivation.

About 21 per cent of women groups expressed their wish to become landowners. In fact, it is a major aim of some groups, who have managed to buy land.

In spite of the constraints, women are happy, said Prof. Mukherjee. Most of the women who have been able to leave wage labour are very happy. Organic farming is the aim of at least 45 per cent of the 100 groups she has studied. Some groups among them make organic manure for their cultivation. There are women who have had no previous exposure to go out of the house for any activity, now fully engaged in collective farming and also inspiring other women to follow an activity of economic independence, she said.

In Kudumbasree, she found a strong support system that provides a platform for women. The Mission has an elaborate structure and allows functioning as an institute.

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Round table Discussion: The European Union in Crisis? will take place from 2 to 4pm at 305 91亚色 Lanes, Keele campus.

Right: European Union Central Bank in Frankfurt

Containing the recent economic meltdowns of the Greek and Irish economies has provided the EU with one of the greatest tests in its history. With further European economies threatening to come unhinged, the challenges facing Europe seem likely to increase in the weeks and months ahead.

The event, co-presented by the European Union Centre of Excellence at 91亚色, the and the Schulich School of Business鈥� IMBA program, is designed to offer a variety of perspectives on the current EU crisis.

The round table will include adjunct economics Professor of the Schulich School of Business, history Professor Sakis Gekas, Hellenic Heritage Foundation Chair in Modern Greek History in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, and public policy Professor of the Schulich School of Business, whose work on international governance contributes to the study of mechanisms to coordinate policy-making in fragmented, multi-level institutional settings such as the European Union. Eberlein is also coordinator of the CCGES graduate diploma.

The participants will reflect on the following:

• Is the Eurozone/European Project at a crucial turning point?
• Is it sustainable in its present form given the huge income inequalities even within the Eurozone and even more among the European Union countries?
• Is a new 鈥渟ocial contract鈥� within countries and across the Union necessary?
• Has the crisis revealed deficits of democracy and leadership in the Union? If so, how are these best addressed?
• What are the political ramifications of the crisis at the national and European levels?
• Do governments have any room to manoeuvre or are the "financial markets" calling the shots?

All are welcome to this event, but attendees are asked to pre-register at euce@yorku.ca.

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Universities can play a critical role in confronting the democratic deficit pervading politics at every level, 91亚色鈥檚 will聽argue in this year鈥檚 Giambattista Vico Lecture Feb. 15.

What is to be done, Fallis will ask, about declining voter turnout, strident and polarizing debate, public decision-making dominated by business elites and experts 鈥撀燼ll signs of a democratic deficit at local, national and international levels. He will argue that the problem must be confronted not just by political parties and parliaments but by universities. Universities are not just institutions of teaching and books, not just institutions of the economy, but institutions of democracy.

Left: George Fallis

Fallis delivers his lecture, 鈥淒emocratic Deficit: Universities and the Future of Democracy鈥�, in Founders Assembly Hall, 152 Founders College, at 7:30pm.

In his essay 鈥溾�� published two years ago in Academic Matters, Fallis made a similar argument聽that a university鈥檚 responsibility to contribute to democratic life is just as critical as its role in economic development.

Fallis is professor of economics and social science who has published widely on housing, urban policy and constitutional reform. His current research focuses on universities: their roles and responsibilities in the 21st century; the value of undergraduate liberal education; and the role of university-based research in national innovation. His most recent book is .

At 91亚色, the Princeton-educated Fallis has served as chair of economics, dean of the former Faculty of Arts and chair of the Senate Academic Policy & Planning Committee. He has been academic colleague on the Council of Ontario Universities and an auditor of degree programs at Ontario universities.

The annual Giambattista Vico Lecture was named after an 18th-century Italian philosopher of history, culture and myth whose ideas had a profound influence on the humanities and social sciences. 91亚色鈥檚 former Faculty of Arts launched the Vico lecture in 2000 in memory of Fred Zorzi, late partner of the Toronto law firm DelZotto, Zorzi LLP, which helped endow the annual event.

American social researcher Nancy Fraser gave the聽2009聽Vico lecture on 鈥淢arketization, Social Protection, Emancipation: Toward a Neo-Polanyian Conception of Capitalist Crisis".

This year鈥檚 lecture is sponsored by the 91亚色 Foundation, the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies and Founders College.

To attend the lecture, register online.

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Organized by the , the (IRIS) and the United Nations Educational, Scientific & Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Chair聽for Reorienting Teacher Education聽Towards Sustainability, the Leadership for Sustainable Communities Symposium will focus on learning, leadership and climate change.

Leading experts from Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom will gather at 91亚色鈥檚 Keele campus for the symposium. They will share their experiences and expertise in the area of climate change with students enrolled in summer courses that address issues of sustainability. The focus of the symposium will be a shared dialogue to examine the intersections between education, leadership and climate change.

91亚色 Faculty of Education Professor Charles Hopkins (right) will open the conference. As the UNESCO Chair聽for Reorienting Teacher Education聽Towards Sustainability聽, Hopkins has developed and continues to coordinate an international network of institutions from 38 countries working on the reorientation of teacher education towards the issues inherent in sustainable development. Hopkins is also an adviser to both UNESCO and the United Nations University regarding the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development, which began in 2005 and continues until 2014. A major contributor at previous UN summits on sustainability in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1992 and in Johannesburg, South Africa in 2002, he聽authored聽Chapter 36聽of Agenda 21 of the Rio Earth Summit Action Plan on Education, Public Awareness & Training. Previously, Hopkins was a superintendent with the Toronto Board of Education.

Following Hopkins' opening comments, David Greenwood (left), a professor in the Department of Teaching & Learning at Washington State University, will deliver the keynote address, titled 鈥淣ature, Empire, and Paradox in Environmental and Sustainability Education鈥�. Greenwood conducts research on the relationship between environment, culture, and education; environmental, place-based and sustainability education; and alternative education. He has published widely in journals such as: Harvard Educational Review, Educational Researcher, American Educational Research Journal, Curriculum Inquiry, Educational Administration Quarterly, Environmental Education Research, Canadian Journal of Environmental Education and a host of other publications. Greenwood聽is working on his second book, which will聽examine place and education.

After聽Greenwood's address, a panel of scholars from聽IRIS, the Faculty of Environmental Studies and will present their work as it relates to climate change.

Particpating in the panel are:

(left)聽is聽a professor of biology in 91亚色's , an ecologist and聽the director of IRIS.聽Bazely has聽conducted field research in many ecosystems, including arctic tundra, sub-arctic and temperate salt-marshes, deciduous forests, temperate managed grasslands and prairies, and her research findings on white-tailed deer and lesser snow geese have informed wildlife and conservation management in Canada. In 2003, she published a book on the ecology and control of invasive plants with Professor Judy Myers of the University of British Columbia. She is currently leading an interdisciplinary project based in Canada, Norway and Russia on human security in the Arctic, specifically the impact of oil and gas development on people and ecosystems.

Patricia (Ellie)聽Perkins (right)聽is a professor and聽program coordinator for the Faculty of Environmental Studies at 91亚色. An聽economist who is concerned with the relationship between international trade, the environment and local economies, Perkins聽is interested in globalization and how local economies may grow as an antidote to international trade. She also looks at international means of controlling air pollution in the Arctic and at the metals and minerals resource industries.聽Perkins is the primary investigator of a (SSHRC) funded research project聽titled "Collaborative Research for Equitable Public Participation in Watershed Governance:聽Canada, Brazil, Mozambique, South Africa, Kenya". In 2008, she was awarded the 91亚色 Knowledge Mobilization Course Release for Community Engagement Award. Currently, she is editing a book on feminist ecological economics.

Professor (left)聽is director of Osgoode Hall Law School鈥檚 Mooting Program as well as its LLB/MES Program.聽He is actively involved in the work of the Standards Council of Canada and the International Organization for Standardization in the field of environmental management standards. He has published on numerous topics related to environmental and international affairs, including the ISO 14000 environmental management standards, global environmental governance, sustainability, regulatory reform, corporate social responsibility, Canadian forest law, international relations theory and international fisheries regulation. His current research focuses on the role of voluntary standards for environmental management and corporate social responsibility in the governance of corporate conduct.

In the afternoon, 91亚色 film Professor Brenda Longfellow, award-winning filmmaker, writer and theorist, will screen her 2008 feature-length documentary Weather Report to symposium participants.

As the world reels from a series of unprecedented weather events, it is clear that climate change is forcing a fundamental re-evaluation of our most basic assumptions about energy, progress and values. Produced with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and the National Film Board of Canada, looks at the dramatically evolving impacts and social implications of climate change. Travelling through North America, the Canadian Arctic, India and China, the film explores how the battle against climate change is implicated in the larger movement for sustainability and global justice.

Winner of the Sundance Channel's Green Award and the Bronze Remi Award at the 2008 WorldFest-Houston Independent International Film Festival, Longfellow's film has earned high praise from climatologists, educators and others in the field.

"Weather Report is a beautifully filmed documentary that travels the globe and is one of the first films to put a human face on the myriad impacts of climate change. Highly recommended,"聽said Professor Anthony Leiserowitz, director of the聽Yale Project on Climate Change in the聽School of Forestry & Environmental Studies at聽Yale University.

Left: Brenda Longfellow

"Weather Report masterfully accomplishes something scientists have not been very good at 鈥� putting a real, human face on the consequences of global warming and the resulting climate change," said Cindy聽Parker, co-director聽of the Program on Global Sustainability聽& Health in the聽Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Following the screening, there will be an informal聽round-table discussion on climate change and education with a focus on translating knowledge into action. The discussion will feature contributions from:

Professor Tony Shallcross is聽a visiting scholar from Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU). Shallcross聽is teaching聽ecology, ethics and education in the Graduate Program in Education Summer Institute at 91亚色. He has聽more than聽20 years of experience working in schools and is a former deputy head and head of department. Before taking up his post at MMU, he was a lecturer in environmental studies at the University of Edinburgh.

is a professor in聽91亚色's Faculty of Education where he coordinates the 91亚色/Seneca Institute for Mathematics, Science聽& Technology Education聽and the Graduate Diploma in Environmental/Sustainability Education.聽Alsop has taught in primary and secondary schools in inner-city London and coordinated the Centre for Learning & Research in Science Education聽at the Roehampton Institute at the聽University of Surrey. He has published widely in science and technology education and his recent books include and [co-edited with Larry Bencze and Erminia Pedretti]. He holds affiliated scholarly positions at the Universidad Autonoma de Baja California, Mexico; the Roehampton Institute;聽and the Centre for Science, Mathematics &Technology Education at the聽Ontario Institute for Studies in Education,聽University of Toronto. He is associated with a number of activist organizations including The Project for Altruistic Science and Technology Education.

Soni Craik is the acting executive director of EcoSource and has worked for the organization for over four years to extend its educational programming.聽Craik links her academic background聽with her interest in education for sustainability through child rights.聽She has聽worked for the International Institute for Child Rights聽& Development and the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade in South Africa as a facilitator of a participatory programs evaluation, specializing in working with elementary-aged children.聽Craik has also worked as an environmental education consultant for the Packard Foundation in Ethiopia and for the Child Welfare League of Canada in Cuba on a joint study of Havana鈥檚 social systems.

Rebecca Houwer is a doctoral candidate in the Faculty of Education at 91亚色.聽Prior to returning to university, she worked for several years with community-based organizations committed to educating youth.聽Her academic interests include: ethics and critical place-based education in urban contexts; participatory action research as praxis; ethical community-university relations; ecology without nature; and, collaborative place-making and place-recovery with, and by, forced migrants.聽She聽is a research assistant for the $1-million Community-University Research Alliance (CURA) grant by SSHRC led by 91亚色 social work Professor聽 in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies.

The symposium will conclude with a wrap-up and pledge that will be delivered by Hopkins.

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鈥淥ver the last 25 years, the topic of motherhood has emerged as a central and significant topic of scholarly inquiry across a wide range of academic disciplines. A cursory review of motherhood research reveals that hundreds of scholarly articles have been published on almost every motherhood theme imaginable,鈥� says O鈥橰eilly, who coined the term "motherhood studies" to acknowledge and demarcate motherhood scholarship as a聽legitimate and distinctive discipline.

"Indeed, similar to the development of women studies as an academic field in the 1970s, motherhood studies, while explicitly interdisciplinary, has emerged an autonomous and independent scholarly discipline in the last decade," she says. "This intellectual tradition of maternal scholarship both made possible and created the need for an encylopedia on motherhood."

Founder and director of the newly formed (developed from the former Association for Research on Mothering at 91亚色), O'Reilly approached contributors and compiled articles by some 300 women scholars throughout the United States, Canada and beyond for the book.

The , the first scholarly reference devoted to the subject, covers a vast array of topics, including how the study of motherhood is almost completely ignored in archeology, mothers in popular culture, hip mamas, influential maternal theorists, the economics of motherhood, psychoanalysis, fertility, guilt, ecofeminism, refugees and the future of mothering. The encyclopedia touches on mothers, and what it means to be a mother in almost every country. It also looks at mothers in film, books, art and poetry, as well as in the Bible.

鈥淭he publication is for me a significant moment in motherhood scholarships as it confirms that motherhood has indeed arrived as a legitimate and distinct academic discipline and scholarly field." says O'Reilly. "As well, the encyclopedia, in bringing together for the first time over 700聽motherhood topics from A to Z, from aboriginal mothering to zines, and in providing a detailed summary and a bibliography for each topic, is an invaluable resource for anyone 鈥撀爏tudents, journalists, writers, researchers, community agencies 鈥撀爄n need of an overview of a particular motherhood topic and/or interested in doing further research on聽the subject matter.鈥�

Left: Andrea O'Reilly

The book聽delves into the anthropology of mothering, a discussion on advice literature for mothers, a chronology of motherhood and mother activists. It explores the concept of bad mothering, absentee mothers, alcoholism, ethics, HIV/AIDS, race, slavery, lesbian and bisexual mothers, breastfeeding and more. In addition, it examines terms, concepts, themes, debates, theories and texts of motherhood within history, geography and academia.

To O鈥橰eilly (BA Hons.聽'85, MA '87, PhD '96), the publication of the encyclopedia is like the coming of age of mothering research. The scholarship of motherhood has been legitimized and recognized, she says.

She introduces the Encyclopedia of Motherhood with a quote from author Adrienne Rich: 鈥淲e know more about the air we breathe, the seas we travel, than about the nature and meaning of motherhood.鈥� And that is exactly what O鈥橰eilly hopes the encyclopedia will change, that it will provide a glimpse into all things associated with and to mothering.聽The publication of the encyclopedia demarcates motherhood as an academic discipline and points to the future.

O鈥橰eilly is the author of and . She is also the editor of 14 collections.

For more information, visit the Web site.

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To prove his point he created a computer model that duplicated the modern Canadian economy. He then adjusted it so that three crucial elements聽鈥� consumption, productivity, and population 鈥� gradually stopped growing after 2010. He shortened the workweek to four days, imposed higher taxes on the rich, provided more public services for the poor and imposed a carbon tax to provide government revenue. His model showed that within a couple decades things had changed.

The outcomes of Victor鈥檚 model were lower unemployment, a rise in standards of living and lower greenhouse gas emissions. The economy reached a steady state after a couple decades.

The complete article is available on the .

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Speakers will come from Canada, the United States, Mexico, India, South Korea, Britain, Australia and Turkey to lecture at the annual Historical Materialism conference, running until Sunday, May 16, at the Accolade West Building, Keele campus. The conference is associated with the leading English-language journal of critical Marxist research of the same name.

Some of the highlights of the conference include several plenary sessions. Today, from 5 to 7pm, Professor Emerita Johanna Brenner of Portland State University, McGill University Professor Aziz Choudry and Professor David McNally of 91亚色鈥檚 Department of Political Science, organizer of the conference, will discuss 鈥淕lobal Crisis, Working Class Households and Migrant Labour鈥�.

Tomorrow, Professor Terry Eagleton, chair of the Department of English & Creative Writing at Lancaster University and聽a literary critic and novelist, will deliver the evening鈥檚 plenary, from 5:30 to 7pm, posing the question, 鈥淚s Marxism a Theodicy?鈥� Eagleton has recently published a book on religion, arguing that social critics ought not to belittle people鈥檚 religious beliefs but, instead, take them seriously as expressing fundamental concerns about the values that inform their lives. In this lecture, he will discuss whether Marxism too depends upon something akin to religious values.

International studies Professor Vijay Prashad of Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, columnist and author of The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World (New Press, 2007), and Professor Kevin Anderson of the University of California,聽Santa Barbara and author of Marx at the Margins (University of Chicago Press, 2010), will look at 鈥淢arx and the Global South鈥� Saturday, May 15, from 5:30 to 7pm.

鈥淐apitalism, Race and Colonialism鈥� will be the topic discussed by Cherokee intellectual and anti-violence activist Andrea Smith, Professor David Roediger of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and history and American studies Professor Elizabeth Esch of Barnard College on Sunday, May 16, from 2:15 to 3:30pm.

For more information, including a full list of speakers and topics, visit the Historical Materialism 2010 Web site.

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