Earth Day 2008: Call for Climate

Today, April 22, is Earth Day.  The focus of activities mirrors the different challenges we are facing right now.  Millions of people around the world are rallying behind a Call for Climate, the global warming action theme.  The planet is heating up and with the rising temperature comes the problems associated with global warming (food [...]

HB-2806: Congressman Proceso Alcala

This is something we should be looking at very closely, for it affects all of us, one way or another. Its been 17 years since the passage of Republic Act 6969: Toxic Substances and Hazardous and Nuclear Wastes Control Act of 1990. Its about time to fine tune this law to meet the [...]

An announcement of interest from the Martin Buber Institute and Prescott College

The MA program in the Humanities at Prescott College offers a concentration in Dialogical Ecology. This program is offered through an affiliation with the Martin Buber Institute for Dialogical Ecology. Dialogical ecology refers to the confluence between the communitarian philosophy of Martin Buber and some aspects of communally-engaged Zen. To learn more about this program [...]

CFA: AIIS Fellowship Competition

AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF INDIAN STUDIES FELLOWSHIP COMPETITION
The American Institute of Indian Studies invites applications from scholars from all disciplines who wish to conduct their research in India. Junior fellowships are given to doctoral candidates to conduct research for their dissertations in India for up to eleven months. Senior long-term (six to nine months) and short-term [...]

Transformations: Researching Asia

Call for Papers: TRANSFORMATIONS: RESEARCHING ASIA
York Centre for Asian Research Graduate Student Conference - York University, Toronto, Canada September 26 to 28, 2008
Call for Papers deadline: April 1, 2008
What does it mean to “research Asia”? Asian Studies is a growing field within and, [...]

Morris K. Udall Environmental Ph.D. Fellowship

Morris K. Udall Foundation Environmental Public Policy & Conflict Resolution Ph.D. Fellowship
The Udall Foundation awards two one-year fellowships of up to $24,000 to doctoral candidates whose research concerns U.S. environmental public policy and/or environmental conflict resolution and who are entering their final year of writing the dissertation. Dissertation Fellowships are
intended to cover both academic and [...]

CFP: Still the Asian Century?

CALL FOR PAPERS: Still the Asian Century?
10-12 September 2008
A conference jointly sponsored by the International Political Economy Research Group and the Asia Research Group, Department of Political Science and International Studies, University of Birmingham.
During the 1980s and 1990s it became commonplace to think that Asia was on its way to becoming the world’s most dynamic [...]

CFP: What is Public Culture?

Call for papers: What is Public Culture? A Graduate Student Conference, University of California, San Diego, April 2008
Note: The specific dates of the conference are not given in this notice; interested parties should contact the addresses noted in the text below.
The graduate students of the Visual Arts Department at the University of California, San Diego [...]

CFP: The Institute for Development and Peace

Call for Papers: The Institute for Development and Peace (Institut für Entwicklung und Frieden ­ INEF http://inef.uni-due.de/page/?lang=en), University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, will organize four panels at the 2008 Global Conference of the International Peace Research Organization (IPRA), to be held 15-19 July 2008, in Leuven, Belgium (http://www.ipra2008.org/).
Concurrent with the Conference’s theme “Building Sustainable Development: Enacting [...]

Bolivian Indigenous Cultures

There is a conference on Bolivian Indigenous Cultures coming up on January 10, 2008, at the St. David lecture theater of Otago University in Dunedin, which will put you in contact with the other world: the world of people who live in ecological surroundings because they were born in rainforests, mountains and lowlands and have [...]