The 2013 Summer Institute is an intensive, two-week, interdisciplinary workshop that invites undergraduate, graduate, postdoctoral fellows or doctoral recipients with an interest in youth-related research to work collaboratively with major researchers and public intellectuals to generate new scholarship and innovative modes of public communication related to the research theme: “The War on Youth.” Please click here for more information and program details. Applications are due April 30, 2013.
Upcoming Events
October 16, 2014 – October 18, 2014
Conference on Canadian Women as Public Intellectuals 2014
*Proposals due September 1, 2013
Discourse & Dynamics: Canadian Women as Public Intellectuals
CONFERENCE 16-18 October 2014
Mount Allison University Sackville, New Brunswick
Canadian women have contributed enormously to public discourse, in important but often under-valued ways. Across different generations and cultural communities, women in English Canada and Quebec address key questions that animate intellectual discussion, from concerns about the environment and the economy to issues of social justice, racism, poverty, health and violence. But are their voices valued and heard, or are they subsumed in the general noise of public debate? Why are they not accorded the attention and approbation they merit?
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