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1st International Symposium: Hope, Betrayal and Trust

Toronto

Call for papers - Thought

Part of the Research Program on: Lost Virtues, Found Vices

This trans-disciplinary research project is interested in exploring the complex and fluid relationships between hope and trust, and how might betrayal play a productive role in this bond. As concepts, ideas or simple notions, hope and trust seem to have simultaneously lost contemporary currency while being ever more necessary in our every day lives. We seem resigned to a kind of hopelessness, seem unwilling to trust others and are ready and willing to betray whomever we might need to in order to advance our own careers or personal agendas. Yet new technologies require us to place personal information online, to communicate with strangers, and to hold onto the promise of happiness. How are our maintenance of hope, our need to trust and our willingness to betray intertwined? How are these concepts evolving?

Call for papers - Representation

Toronto

Speed, Silence and Solitude

Part of the Research Program on: Space, Time and New Technologies of the Self

International Network for Alternative Academia – invites you to participate to the First International Symposium: Speed, Silence and Solitude. This trans-disciplinary project seeks to explore how new technologies are re-calibrating our notion of time, re-configuring our ideas of space and, as a result, how they are re-envisioning our understanding of the self and its relation to others.

Call for papers - Political studies

Toronto

Reinventing Citizenship

Part of the Research Program on: Protest, Justice and Deliberative Power

The International Network for Alternative Academia invites you to participate to the 7^th International Symposium: Reinventing Citizenship, to be held on Monday 12th to Wednesday 14th of May, 2014 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. This trans-disciplinary project seeks to identify central problems of the experience of being a citizen today and evaluate to what degree is citizenship a good vehicle for democratic agency in contemporary societies and democracies the world over.

Call for papers - Representation

Toronto

Creating Characters, Inventing Lives: The Art of the Self I

IVth Conference of the International Network for Alternative Academia

International Network for Alternative Academia invites you to participate to the First International Symposium: Creating Characters, Inventing Lives: The Art of the Self, to be held on Tuesday 20^th to Thursday 22^nd of May, 2014, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. This trans-disciplinary research project is interested in exploring the lessons we can derive from the creative process and identify how productive it is beyond the boundaries of the work and creation itself.

Scholarship, prize and job offer - Political studies

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2011

Ottawa

Full-Time Faculty Position at the University of Ottawa U.S. Domestic Politics

L’École d’études politiques de l’Université d’Ottawa désire combler un poste régulier de professeur menant à la permanence, rang ouvert, dans le domaine suivant : politique intérieure états-unienne. L’étude des demandes débutera le 9 décembre 2011 et continuera jusqu'à ce que les postes soient comblés avec succès. Les candidats doivent détenir un doctorat en science politique (les candidatures sur le point de compléter leur doctorat pourront être considérées), démontrer de l’excellence en enseignement et en recherche et avoir un dossier de publications et en recherche dans le domaine qui soient de grande qualité.