Explore arts, environmental studies and social sciences based-research at a celebration highlighting Public Engagement for a Just and Sustainable World. The celebration is being co-hosted by four of 91亚色鈥檚 Faculties, in collaboration with the Office of the Vice-President Research & Innovation on Wednesday, April 16.

The event will highlight the research of six 91亚色 scholars, on topics ranging from the past and future of sustainable development to engagement with the historiography of Plains First Nations and Canadian criminal law to the challenges and possibilities of engaging the public to address issues of social justice and equity as it pertains to youth in Toronto鈥檚 inner cities to Canada's history of oil pipeline spills, to Knowledge Mobilization in a Tropical Biological Corridor and more.

鈥淭丑别 Public Engagement for a Just and Sustainable World research celebration highlights the diversity of research programming at 91亚色 that informs and addresses a range of challenges in urban environments, including infrastructure, educational engagement, planning, land use, and more,鈥� said Robert Hach茅, vice-president research & innovation. 听鈥�91亚色 has a broad and diverse community of researchers interested in sustainability.听 It is important for us to continue to support the growth and development of initiatives to enable the recognition of 91亚色 as a Canadian leader in sustainability research. 鈥�

The celebration will take place from 2 to 4pm in the Scott Library Atrium.听The event will feature mini-research byte presentations followed by Q&As from the audience.听 All 91亚色 students, staff and faculty are welcome to attend.

Featured presenters will include: School of Social Work Pofessor and Graduate Program Director Uzo Anucha, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS); Shelley Gavigan, professor, Osgoode Hall Law School; Sean Kheraj, professor, Department of History, LA&PS; Felipe Montoya-Greenheck, professor, Faculty of Environmental Studies (FES); Janine Marchessault, Canada Research Chair in Art, Digital Media and Globalization and professor, Department of Film, Faculty of Fine Arts; and Gerda Wekerle, professor, FES.

Janine Marchessault: Landslide: An Exhibition on Possible Futures

Janine Marchessault

In her talk, Marchessault will engage with the site specific public art exhibition that took place at the Markham historical village in October 2013. The exhibition invited 30 national and international artists to consider the past and future of sustainable development. The most enlightened urban planners and designers have always been interested in public art鈥檚 capacity to communicate across diverse communities, to generate new insights, and to propose generative pathways. The cities of the 21st century need to address the most pressing tensions between ecology and economy; agriculture and development; and diversity and history, says Marchessault. The challenge is to move away from conventional top-down approaches, and instead incorporate participatory and inclusive processes in urban planning.听

Shelley Gavigan: 鈥淟egal History and the Stories We Tell: Reflections on Research into Criminal Law on the Nineteenth Century Aboriginal Plains鈥�

Shelley Gavigan

Gavigan will reflect upon her engagement with the historiography of Plains First Nations and Canadian criminal law and the theoretical and methodological foundations of her recent book, Hunger, Horses and Government Men: Criminal Law in the Aboriginal Plains, 1870-1905 (Vancouver: UBC Press; Toronto: Osgoode Society, 2012).听 She will also discuss unexpected sources that she how she hopes to incorporate into her ongoing research based on lower criminal court records, and the relationship between Canadian criminal law, early Indian Act legislation, and patriarchal relations in the North-West Territories in the nineteenth-century.

Uzo Anucha: How does it feel to be a problem? Youth in Toronto鈥檚 Inner Cities and the Violence of Place-Based Stigma

Uzo Anucha

Youth in Toronto鈥檚 inner cities have been the focus of relentless negative public discourse that brands them as 鈥榩roblems鈥� and their communities as synonymous with youth-on-youth violence, poverty and lack of opportunity. How can community-engaged research with/about/for youth reframe and multiply this single narrative and why does it matter to do so? Drawing from lessons from the ACT for Youth project, Anucha will reflect on the challenges and possibilities of engaging the public to address issues of social justice and equity.

Sean Kheraj:听 An Environmental History of Oil Pipeline Spills in Canada

Sean Kheraj

For more than a half-century,听corporations have transported oil听across Canada via pipelines. And those pipelines have spilled oil. These pipelines听fueled听postwar industrial expansion, but they also leaked, ruptured, and broke, causing millions of litres of oil to spill across land,听waterways, and even a听national park. In his lecture, Kheraj will explore Canada's complicated history of oil pipeline spills.

Felipe Montoya-Greenheck: Knowledge Mobilization in a Tropical Biological Corridor

Felipe Montoya- Greenheck

Montoya-Greenheck will talk about the听Las Nubes Project that is part of the Faculty of Environmental Studies. Las Nubes is a rainforest that forms part of a biological corridor in Costa Rica. 91亚色 has a long-term relationship with local communities and stakeholders, along with a multi-pronged research, education and community engagement program to advance sustainable community livelihoods, well-being and environmental conservation.

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Led by Professor Colin Coates (left), Canada Research Chair听in Canadian Cultural Landscapes and professor of Canadian Studies at Glendon College,听the听project is expected to cast light on the impacts of an earlier period of economic 鈥済lobalization鈥� as a way of better understanding the challenges of current practices.听It is one of eight projects across Canada that has been granted funding in the 2011 Digging into Data Challenge.

Fourteen teams representing Canada, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the United States have been awarded grants to investigate how computational techniques can be applied to 鈥渂ig data鈥� to change the nature of humanities and social sciences research. Each team represents collaborations among scholars, scientists and librarians from leading universities worldwide.

Coates, who is also the director of the Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies at 91亚色, is one of the principal investigators on the project titled Trading Consequences,听which received $125,000 in funding. The project听will examine the economic and environmental consequences of commodity trading during the 19th century and听employs information extraction techniques to study large corpora of digitized documents from the 19th century. This innovative digital resource will allow historians to discover novel patterns and to explore new hypotheses through听structured query and a variety of visualization tools.

"Our team of environmental historians is excited to be partners with the Universities of Edinburgh and St. Andrews in the Trading Consequences project. Canadian economic development has historically been defined by commodity flows, and it is important to understand the environmental impacts of this commerce in the past, just as it is today. The focus on Canadian data will test the techniques created through this collaborative project for mapping the scope and impact of international trade in the 19th century," said Coates.

鈥�91亚色 is proud to receive recognition in the 2011 Digging into Data Challenge,鈥� said Robert Hach茅, 91亚色鈥檚 vice-president research & innovation.听鈥淭丑别se important research projects advance knowledge as researchers work collaboratively and internationally to find new ways to analyze, search for and store data using digital and electronic technologies.鈥�

鈥淭丑别 Digging into Data Challenge is an international initiative that enables Canadian researchers to take advantage of the huge digital resources now available and to develop close partnerships with overseas universities,鈥� said Chad Gaffield, president of the Social Sciences听& Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). 鈥淭丑别se exciting projects cross both disciplines and national borders; they lead to new insights into human thought and behaviour.鈥�

The successful cohort of听projects received a total of nearly $5 million in funding from eight international research funding agencies. SSHRC鈥檚 contribution of听$869,117 will support Canadian researchers from eight of the fourteen teams. 听

For more information, visit the 听website.

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During a special听event held at 91亚色's Keele campus, President & Vice-Chancellor Mamdouh Shoukri announced a $25-million dollar transformative donation from Pierre Lassonde, chairman of the听Franco-Nevada Corporation, for an expanded School of Engineering.

The announcement was made during a ceremony听in which the Computer Science & Engineering Building, where it was held, was听renamed the听Lassonde Building in honour of the School of Engineering's new听benefactor.听The upbeat event featured the student-constructed Mars Rover unveiling a commemorative plaque showing the building's new name, and the cutting of a giant cake fashioned in the likeness of the Lassonde Building. As part of the celebration, Lassonde was given a leather bomber jacket emblazoned with 91亚色 Engineering by fourth-year space engineering student Shailja Sahani.

Right: Pierre Lassonde shows off his new engineering jacket

鈥�91亚色 is extremely thankful to Pierre Lassonde for his very generous gift,鈥� said Shoukri. 鈥淭his transformative donation will allow us to create a truly unique engineering program that will redefine engineering for the 21st century.鈥�

Based on its traditional strength in humanities, social sciences, business and law, the University is committed to ensuring that听engineering students will be broadly educated to support future economic and social development.

鈥淭丑别 most important natural resource of our country is not its oil or minerals or forests, but our young people,鈥� said Lassonde. 鈥淚t鈥檚 imperative that we give them all the education they need so that they can continue to make Canada one of the best places in the world to live. Through the collaboration of the new engineering program at 91亚色 with one of the most successful business schools in the world, the Schulich School of Business, we know we can make a difference.鈥�

听"Pierre's gift and vision will support a whole new way of thinking about engineering education. His transformational donation will lead to the creation of the Lassonde School of Engineering at 91亚色, with an ambition to graduate a new generation of entrepreneurial engineers with a social conscience," said Janusz Kozinski (left), dean听of the听Faculty of Science & Engineering.

The generous donation from Lassonde, combined with funding from the Government of Ontario and the University, provides an investment enabling 91亚色 to become one of the听top global engineering schools based in Canada.

By embodying 91亚色鈥檚 core values of social responsibility, global citizenship and interdisciplinary education, the new school will provide a unique approach to engineering and entrepreneurship, establishing itself as a destination of choice for top engineering students.

Right:听President & Vice-Chancellor Mamdouh Shoukri听

鈥�91亚色 has a rich history of educational innovation, and the broadening of the focus of the engineering school to include business and public policy is a welcome step forward,鈥� said Glen Murray, Ontario鈥檚 minister of training, colleges and universities. 鈥淢r. Lassonde鈥檚 generous gift will accelerate the program and help transform it into a model for next-generation education in engineering.鈥�

More about Pierre Lassonde

Lassonde has a BA from the听University of Montreal (1967), a BSc electrical engineering from Polytechnique, Montreal (1971) and an MBA from the听University of Utah (1973). He received his PEng Ontario designation in 1976 and his CFA, University of Virginia, 1984. He holds honorary听doctorates in engineering from the Universities of Toronto, Montreal and Ryerson, and a doctor of business, University of Utah. 听

In 1982, Lassonde co-founded Franco-Nevada Mining Corporation, the first publicly traded gold royalty company, with his partner and fellow 91亚色 benefactor Seymour Schulich. Over the next 20 years, the company provided shareholders with a 36 per cent annualized rate of return. In February 2002, Franco-Nevada was acquired by Newmont Mining Corp., the world鈥檚 largest gold producer at the time. Lassonde was president of Newmont from 2002 to 2007 and vice-chairman in 2007. He served as chairman of the World Gold Council from 2005 to 2009.

In 2008, he led a group of investors and former executives in bringing back Franco-Nevada to the public market and became its chairman. The $1.2-billion IPO of Franco-Nevada was the largest mining company initial public offering ever done on the Toronto Stock Exchange. The success story continues today as the market capitalization of the company is now over $5 billion.

Left: Celebrating听a sweet moment in 91亚色's history

Lassonde鈥檚 philanthropic activities have had a significant impact on education and the arts. The Lassonde Entrepreneur Centre at the University of Utah was ranked number one in the US in 2010 for its creation of a public company from the University research labs. Other universities that have benefited from Lassonde鈥檚 philanthropy include Polytechnique Montr茅al, and the universities of Toronto, Western Ontario, Ryerson and 91亚色.听

He 听has been chairman of the Quebec National Art Museum since 2005 and has led a $100-million campaign to build a new wing to double the museum exhibition surface. He was made a companion of the Order of Canada in 2002 and an officer of the Order of Quebec in 2008.听听听

Lassonde is also the author of The Gold Book: The Complete Investment Guide to Precious Metals.

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鈥淲e were thrilled to learn that Professor Haideh Moghissi听was a recipient of the Trudeau Fellowship prize,鈥� said 91亚色 President & Vice-Chancellor Mamdouh Shoukri. 鈥淭丑别 Trudeau Fellowship is an incredible honour bestowed upon the finest thinkers who have demonstrated outstanding research achievements, creativity and social commitment in all disciplines of the humanities and social sciences. We are proud that one of our own is a member of this esteemed group.鈥�

Right: Haideh Moghissi (left) with 91亚色 President & Vice-Chancellor Mamdouh Shoukri at the Trudeau Fellowship ceremony

After a prolific career in Iran as an archivist, Moghissi became an internationally acclaimed analyst of women鈥檚 issues in the Muslim world. The Fellowship prize recognizes her work in this area.

鈥淓ven though I have had the good fortune of receiving several large research grants in the last decade or so, the Trudeau Fellowship has special significance as it reflects a recognition of my academic and community-related research in the areas that are also the focus of the Trudeau Foundation, including human rights and dignity, and responsible citizenship,鈥� said Moghissi.

Moghissi, a professor in the Department of Equity Studies and the School of Women's Studies,听Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, was one of announced Monday at a ceremony at 91亚色, including听91亚色 alumnus Ronald Rudin (MA 鈥�73, PhD 鈥�77) of Concordia University.

Left: Haideh Moghissi (left) with Martin Singer, dean of 91亚色's Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies

鈥淢y academic work has always had a specific audience and specific purpose in mind, hoping to contribute, in the most modest way, to change in areas that need change, be it in my country of birth, Iran, or in Canada, the country that I now call home,鈥� she said. 鈥淭丑别 fellowship will help me to continue my work, providing more opportunity to explore the complexities and nuances of such issues as multiculturalism, minority rights and belonging, under the present, rapidly changing political and social circumstance.鈥�

Each prize is worth $225,000. Trudeau Fellowships are awarded to individuals who set themselves apart through research achievements, creativity and commitment to critical social issues of importance to Canada.

鈥淭丑别 fellowship will provide more opportunity for organizing and attending academic gatherings to learn from and exchange ideas with others who work in these and similar areas, to provide support to a few more graduate students as future scholars,鈥� Moghissi said.

Right: Guests watch as each of the Trudeau Fellowship recipients听are honoured at听a ceremony held听in the Shulich private听dining room at 91亚色

A Canadian institution with a national purpose, the is an independent and non-partisan charity. It was established in 2001 as a living memorial to the former prime minister by his family, friends and colleagues. In 2002, the Government of Canada endowed the foundation with a donation of $125 million following a unanimous vote in the House of Commons. In addition, the foundation benefits from private sector donations in support of specific initiatives. Through its scholarship, fellowship, mentorship and public interaction programs, the foundation supports outstanding individuals who make meaningful contributions to critical public issues.听

More about Haideh Moghissi

A professor of sociology and women's studies at 91亚色,听Moghissi听was a founder of the Iranian National Union of Women and member of its first executive and editorial boards, before leaving Iran in 1984.
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At 91亚色 she has served as associate dean external relations in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies; coordinator听of the听Certificate for Anti-Racist Research and Practice; chair of the executive committee of the Centre for Feminist Research; and as a member of the executive committee of the Centre for Refugee Studies.听

Over the course of her career Moghissi听has served as a commentator on Iran and women in the Middle East on CBC, TVO, the BBC World Service, Radio France and Voice of America, and on the editorial and advisory boards of The Journal of Comparative Public Policy, the Rutledge Women and Politics Series, Resources for Feminist Research and Feminist Forum.

Her publications in English includes seven monographs and edited volumes and 35 articles in books听and journals such as Feminist Theory, Signs, Monthly Review, Humanity and Sociology, Third World Quarterly, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, Socialist Register, Global Dialogue, Comparative Family Studies and International Review of Comparative Public Policy.

Her book听Feminism and Islamic Fundamentalism: The Limits of Postmodern Analysis (Oxford University Press, 2000 and Zed Press, 1999), winner of Choice Outstanding Academic Book Award, has been translated into Korean and Indonesian.

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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听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 鈥撎齛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听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听2009听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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Bialystok, a Distinguished Research Professor in 91亚色鈥檚 Department of Psychology in the Faculty of Health, is known internationally for her research on language, bilingualism and cognitive development. The award was announced in April by the Canada Council for the Arts, which administers the .

One of the most important research prizes in the world, the Killam Prize is awarded annually to five eminent Canadian scholars for their distinction in health sciences, engineering, humanities, natural sciences and social sciences. Bialystok is being recognized for her work in the social sciences category.

Right: Ellen Bialystok

The first in her field to research claims of cognitive deficits in bilingual children, Bialystok discovered that bilingual children and adults have distinct advantages over unilingual people when completing both linguistic and non-linguistic tasks. Her research is now revealing that this advantage continues for bilingual people as they age; she is part of a team of Canadian researchers who recently uncovered that bilingualism can delay the onset of Alzheimer鈥檚 by up to five years.

Bialystok has also been recognized by the international linguistics community for her body of work on theories of language processing and on practical issues related to foreign and second-language education.

When the prize was announced, 91亚色 President & Vice-Chancellor Mamdouh Shoukri remarked that the Killam Prize 鈥渞ecognizes Professor Bialystok鈥檚 groundbreaking contributions to psychology and confirms the international excellence of her achievements. Her success contributes to the growing national and international leadership of 91亚色鈥檚 faculty in health-related research as they respond to medical, social and environmental challenges facing Canadians and people around the world.鈥�

Bialystok was awarded a Killam Research Fellowship in 2001 and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. In November 2009, she received the 91亚色 President鈥檚 Research Award of Merit in recognition of her research contributions.

Faculty of Health Dean Harvey Skinner commented that Bialystok鈥檚 work is changing our understanding of language acquisition and literacy, as well as cognition and aging, by using both behaviour and neuroimaging approaches. 鈥淗er research, and the collaborative research of many other faculty researching developmental and cognitive processes, reflects the Faculty鈥檚 goals of innovative research that helps keep more people healthier, longer.鈥�

The Killam Prizes were inaugurated in 1981 with a donation by Dorothy听J.听Killam in memory of her husband, Izaak Walton Killam. The prizes were created to honour eminent Canadian scholars and scientists actively engaged in research, whether in industry, government agencies or universities.

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This series听is an opportunity for graduate students conducting research on Asia and the Asian diaspora to present their research-in-progress to graduate students and a 91亚色 faculty member. It is intended for 91亚色 students in graduate programs in the social sciences, humanities, fine arts, natural sciences and professional schools to get presentation experience and valuable feedback on their research in a friendly and supportive environment.

Guidelines for submissions:

• Deadline for abstract submissions for the 2011 Graduate Student Workshop series is Dec. 20. Send submissions to Miriam Katz at windgeek@york.ca.
• Presentation proposals should include a title and a short abstract of 250 words. Proposals should be related to research concerning Asia or Asian diaspora.
• Students should also provide a short list of two or three potential 91亚色 faculty members that they would like to comment on their research at the seminar and should indicate whether they have already approached the faculty members about this possibility. Note that each workshop presentation will have one faculty member discussant.
• Submissions should also include a selection of dates between January and April 2011, when the student is unavailable to present, to assist with event scheduling.

YCAR was established in 2002 to advance the academic study of Asia (South, East and Southeast) and the Asian diaspora. It promotes excellence in research on historic and contemporary Asia and Asian diaspora communities. The centre cooperates with many partners at 91亚色, across Canada and internationally to promote public understanding of Asia and Asian diasporas and Canada鈥檚 multiple engagements with the region.

For more information, visit the YCAR website.

Questions regarding submissions or this series can be directed to Miriam Katz at windgeek@yorku.ca.

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Left: Annie Bunting

Bringing together historians of slavery and women's human rights scholars, this听workshop will explore the phenomenon of forced marriage and听enslavement from听comparative and historical perspectives.

During听conflicts in Sierra Leone, Liberia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Uganda and Rwanda, women were kidnapped, raped and forced into "marriages" with combatants. recently found such gender violations to constitute a new crime against humanity of forced marriage as opposed to sexual slavery.

Workshop听speakers听will explore the merits of prosecuting those responsible for forced marriage under the heading of Sexual Slavery, Forced Marriage or Enslavement? They will also explore the historical antecedents of servile marriage and enslavement of women.

A keynote presenter at the workshop is听,听chair of the Women's Forum in Sierra Leone,听a听national umbrella organization of women's groups in the region. M'Carthy听has been working with the for the past three years and will speak about the experiences of听female victims in the Sierra Leone war. Other presenters will discuss comparable practices in Uganda, Rwanda and the DRC.

Speaking at the workshop are:

• , president of听Free the Slaves
• Ga毛lle Breton-LeGoff, a lecturer at the University of Quebec听in Montreal
• 91亚色 law & society Professor
• , a senior researcher in children, armed conflict and human rights at the听Feinstein International Center at听Tufts University
• 91亚色 Distinguished Research Professor Paul Lovejoy, director of听The Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on the Global Migrations of African Peoples and
• Rosaline M鈥機arthy, President, Women's Forum of听Sierra Leone
• , Open Society Initiative for Eastern Africa (OSIEA), Harvard Law School
• Osgoode Hall Law School Professor
• University of Hull Professor Joel Quirk,
• , RCUK Fellow in International Slavery at the听University of Liverpool
• , 91亚色 PhD candidate in history, The Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on the Global Migrations of African Peoples
• Jody Sarich, DePaul University, Free the Slaves

This workshop听is the first of two conferences supported by a grant.听In February 2011, Bunting will host a larger international conference in Freetown, Sierra Leone.听Today's听workshop is supported by numerous areas at 91亚色, including the Nathanson Centre on Transnational Human Rights, Crime & Security, the Office of the Provost, the Office of the Vice-President Research听& Innovation, the dean of the Faculty of Liberal Arts听& Professional Studies (LA&PS), and The Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on the Global Migrations of African Peoples.

For more information, visit听The Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on the Global Migrations of African Peoples website or contact听Kathy Mirzaei, interim graduate program assistant, Department of Sociology,听LA&PS.

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The first conference attracted over 70 presenters from Canada, the United States, Europe and Latin America, who presented in 20 themed panels over a two-day period. Expert faculty members helped ensure rich debate and provided timely feedback, and selected papers were published in the CERLAC Working Paper series. CERLAC intends to continue the conversations begun in 2008. It is inviting submissions for its second conference to be held March 11 and 12 at 91亚色.

Recognizing the diversity within the region, creative and critical paper, panel and alternative presentation proposals are welcome on any aspect of study of Latin America and the Caribbean as a whole and/or its constituent parts. This conference represents an outstanding opportunity to recognize and explore emergent innovative research by graduate students in all disciplines. This includes, but is not limited to, the social sciences, humanities, fine arts, environmental studies, law and business. CERLAC is also seeking contributors whose work can open fruitful dialogues and exchanges across traditional disciplinary boundaries.

The individual submission application form is available online. This form includes a request for a list of five carefully chosen keywords and a 250-word (maximum) abstract for papers, panels or alternative presentations.

The application form for panel proposals is also available online. CERLAC encourages applicants to submit themed panel proposals as a way to bring colleagues together to discuss current research and advance a particular field.

The deadline for the submission of abstracts and panel proposals is Nov. 15. Those planning to present in alternative formats, for example, film, dance, visual arts or music, they are encouraged to contact CERLAC earlier.

For more information or to submit completed application forms, contact CERLAC at lacsconf@yorku.ca.

Applicants will receive confirmation of acceptance by mid-January. Presenters will be asked to submit their papers by March 1.

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