Sustainable Development

The Global Demand for Biofuels: An International Agricultural Workshop for Teachers

Research Clusters: Global Studies Education; Sustainable Development
Dates: Thursday, 19 June 2008 through Saturday, 21 June 2008
See also: /events/biofuels08.html

This workshop addressed bioenergy developments nationally and internationally, international agricultural crop production, second generation bi-products that can be used for biofuels, and the environmental, economic, and societal impacts of bioenergy.

 

A New Green Revolution? Meeting Global Food and Energy Demands

Series: Joint Area Centers Symposium
Research Clusters: Social and Policy Sciences; Sustainable Development
Dates: Wednesday, 4 March 2009 through Friday, 6 March 2009
See also: http://ciber.illinois.edu/aspx/jacs/Default.aspx

2009 JACS logo

Organized by the National Resource Centers for Area Studies in partnership with the College of Agricultural, Consumer, and Environmental Sciences (ACES), the focus of the upcoming annual campus symposium is global food and agricultural issues, including trends in food and energy demands, scientific advances in agricultural technology, plant and animal genomics and their impact on society.

 

Teaching the History and Science of Global Warming

December 5, 2009 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

This workshop for science and social science educators will include an authoritative and accessible review of the history and the science of global climate change and the probable impacts of climate change for U.S. communities. Discussions will include teaching pitfalls, the importance of taking on the challenge of teaching about global climate change and the practical approaches to presenting the subject in middle and high school classrooms.

Envisioning Catastrophic Climate Change

Date: September 24, 2009
Speaker(s): Spencer R. Weart
Organization: Historian and former Director of the Center for History of Physics of the American Institute of Physics
Format: Flash
Running Time: 1 hour 18 minutes

Race/Ethnicity: Multidisciplanary Global

"Intersections of Race and Gender" volume has the submission deadline of February 28, 2010.

This volume will explore the multiple points where race and gender intersect across the globe, the range of consequences that meets those intersections, and the dynamics that occur at those intersections. The journal's focus on race and gender recognizes that there are numerous ways in which racialized and gendered identities intersect and that their intersection is often influenced by a variety of other cultural factors. Contact Leslie Shortlidgeat shortlidge.2@osu.edu

Deadline: 
February 28, 2010
Contact Address: 

For "Intersections of Race and Gender" contact Leslie Shortlidge at shortlidge.2@osu.edu

For submissions to "Reworking Race and Labor", race-editor@osu.edu

Bottom-Up Dynamics in Early Modern Urban Politics

The specialist session S03, "Bottoms-up dynamics in early modern urban politics" at the 10th International Conference on Urban History in Ghent, Belgium is calling for papers focusing on daily practices of influencing the political agenda by broad layers of urban society, such as the administrative tasks carried out by corporations, neighborhoods and parishes; petitioning, local press, pamphlets, direct and daily contact with representatives of the urban government, etc.

For information on the conference go to:
www.eauh2010.ugent.be

Deadline: 
December 1, 2009
URL: 

http:www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=170875

Contact Address: 

Griet Vermeesch, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
griet.vermeesch@vub.ac.be or

Hanna Sonkarjarvi, University of Duisburg-Essen
hanna.sonkajaervi@uni-due.de

Surveillance and Society

XVII International Sociological Association World Congress of Sociology Conference July 11-17, 2010 in Gothenburg, Sweden.

There will be two sessions. Session 1, Surveillance and Popular Culture, will analyze overlaps between popular media representations of surveillance and actual surveillance practices. Session 2, Local Manifestations of Global Surveillance, will explore cultural and regional differences in what might be considered to be global surveillance practices.

See sites for more information:
www.publicsurveillance.com/papers/CFP_ISA_2010.pdf or

Deadline: 
December 1, 2009
Contact Address: 

Session 1: Torin Monahan, Vanderbuilt University, USA
torin.monahan@vanderbilt.edu

Session2: David Lyon, Queens University, Canada
lyond@queensu.ca, and or
Murli M. Sinha, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA,
msinha@rochester.rr.com

The Patriotism of the Expatriates

The Patriotism of the Expatriates. Diasporas and national consciousness between Europe, the Mediterranean and beyond in the long 19th century.

This conference will be held in two parts: A one day workshop to be held in Nicosia (University of Nicosia) on May 30, 2010 and a two day conference to be held in London (Queen Mary College, University of London) on September 10 and 11, 2010.

Deadline: 
November 30, 2009
URL: 

http:www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=170856

Journal of Critical Globalisation Studies

Call for papers in issue 2: The journal is looking for full articles (up to 10,000 words) and polemics (short articles up to 5,000 words) for their next issue. If submitting a full article, abstracts must be submitted and if the abstract is chosen for publishing, the full manuscript must be submitted before December 1, 2009.

The topic of the issue: Globalisation and War. See the website for their description of the topic.

Deadline: 
December 31, 9999
Contact Address: 

New- Peer Review Infinity Journal

Infinity Journal is switching to a peer review process focusing on topics of war and peace and all issues in between; from humanitarianism to terrorism. This new peer review begins after the Volume 1 ends, in February 2010. Those interested in submitting an article in the peer reviewed journal should begin to do so now.There is a $1,000 award for the best article submitted.

Deadline: 
December 31, 9999
Contact Address: 

Adam Stahl
Executive Director
adam@infinityjournal.com

Email: 
adam@inifinityjournal.com
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