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The Canada Council for the Arts is pleased to invite you to submit nominations to the 2010 Killam Prizes.

The five Killam Prizes are worth $100,000 each. Annually, one prize is awarded in each field: Social Sciences; Humanities; Natural Sciences; Health Sciences; and, Engineering.

The updated information sheet and nomination form for the Killam Prizes are available on the Council’s website at: http://www.canadacouncil.ca/prizes/killam/nf127281699611562500.htm

Nominations and all related documentation must be submitted directly to the Canada Council for the Arts by the deadline of June 15, 2009.

We solicit your collaboration in publicizing the call for nominations throughout your institution and look forward to receiving your nominations to this year’s competition.

July 2009

The Asian Division Friends Society announces the Florence Tan Moeson Research Fellowship Program for 2010. This Fellowship Program is made possible by a generous donation of Florence Tan Moeson, for 43 years a Chinese Team cataloger in the Regional and Cooperative Cataloging Division at the Library of Congress before she retired in 2001. Mrs. Moeson passed away on November 15, 2008.

The Richard Charles Lee Canada Hong Kong Library has about 500 titles in its media collection. You can now borrow and view the DVD and VCD titles at the media centre of the Library. If you are interested in video materials about Hong Kong, please go to the media collection page of the Library's website for more details:

http://content.library.utoronto.ca/hongkong/collections/media/index_html

You can find the following in the webpage:

1. The DVD and VCD title list
2. A brochure highlighting some items in the collection
3. Borrowing and viewing procedure

The East Asian Library has just arranged a month's free trial of the Shenbao database. I know this is a crucial resource for some EA courses. Would you please let the EAS faculty and students know that we currently have the database available in the East Asian Library website at:

http://link.library.utoronto.ca/eal/flash/menu.cfm?level=3&item0=Resourc...

route: www.library.utoronto.ca/east >> Resources Tab >> China Studies Resources >> Trial Databases

SAINT-PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY
FACULTY OF PHILOSOPHY AND POLITICAL STUDIES
DEPARTMENT OF EASTERN PHILOSOPHY AND CULTURE
PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF SAINT-PETERSBURG

6th International Scientific Conference of Philosophy, Religion and Culture of Asian Countries (Torchinov readings)
IDEALS - NORMS - VALUES

CALL FOR PAPERS

SGS Research Travel Grant 2009-2010

SGS is pleased to announce the SGS Research Travel Grant for 2009-2010. The SGS Travel Grant is available to a limited number of PhD students in the Humanities or Social Science for research in or outside Canada. Please note that not all projects can be funded, nor is the funding sufficient to cover all the expenses of the successful applicants. Last year, of the 156 applications SGS received, 129 were funded. We anticipate funding a similar number of projects this year. Preference will be given to those who are applying for the first time. Travels to conferences or courses/seminars are not covered under this program.

The workshop will focus on the global economic crisis and its impacts on Asia and Asian diaspora, with an emphasis on livelihoods, social policy, and labour markets. Presenters will reflect on the unfolding crisis in terms of our understanding of longer-term processes of social, economic, and political change in the region and its global linkages. Attention will be given to vulnerabilities and adaptation within market integration processes as well as to comparisons with the 1997 Asian financial crisis and other periods of significant economic instability.

Wednesday, 8 April
9am to 12:15 pm
280 York Lanes
York University

All are welcome

Panel One | (9 to 10:45am)

Integration into Unstable Global Markets: The Agrarian Sector in Thailand

To the House of Commons in Parliament Assembled

We, the undersigned residents of Canada, wish to bring to your attention the following:

For more than thirty years, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) has been promoting and supporting university-based research and training in the humanities and social sciences. SSHRC funding has been used to complete ground breaking research in countless areas in Canada and around the world.

The Federal Budget presented on January 27th contains a sentence that has the potential to halt this kind of research: "Scholarships granted by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council will be focused on business-related degrees".