Timor-Leste / East Timor

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".

On the (ir)reconcilability of Marxism and Post-Structural Thought

Intense contestation has been embedded in the historical trajectory for a politics of social change both inside and outside of the academy. Marxist thought asserts that ideas of social change can be conceived most effectively at the site of production and circulation within capitalist economies. How these processes intricately construct, reproduce and affect the subjectivities involved remains under-theorized.

Conversely, the post-structural focus on the construction and reproduction of these subjectivities deems the political-economic context a minor aspect in terms of understanding the reproduction of violence and oppression.

Eat, Sleep and Breathe Religion

Graduate Student Symposium - Centre for the Study of Religion University of Toronto Friday, 27 March, 2009

*Call for Papers *

This year’s Graduate Symposium extends a cordial call for papers investigating the interaction between religion and the so-called necessities of life. This year’s theme has been selected to encourage interdisciplinary participation.

The Faculty of Arts and Science Student Awards Committee is now accepting applications for a number of undergraduate and graduate in- course scholarships. The application deadline is March 13.

A list of awards and a brief description is found below. Full details of criteria, value, and application instructions are available on the Arts and Science scholarships web site:

http://www.artsci.utoronto.ca/current/undergraduate/undergraduate-schola...
Select "Scholarships with a March 13 Deadline."

We would appreciate it if you would encourage your students to apply.

The Mackenzie King Open Scholarship and the Mackenzie King Travelling Scholarship

Complete details are available at http://www.mkingscholarships.ca/index-e.html.

The Mackenzie King Open Scholarship

Eligibility
This award is open to graduates of any Canadian university who engage in (commence or continue) postgraduate study in any field, in Canada or elsewhere.

Value
Its value has lately been $10,000 but is subject to change.

The Mackenzie King Travelling Scholarship

Eligibility

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A celebration of the diverse culture and achievements of Asian communities that play a vital role in the unique and multicultural mosaic of Canada. The focus is for Canadians to learn about the Asian Canadians in our society. and the role they play in this wonderful country of ours.

Link:

www.asianheritagemonth.org

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Avec sa programmation variée, allant du cinéma d’auteur au cinéma de pur divertissement avec emphase sur le cinéma de l’imaginaire provenant des quatre coins de la planète, le festival Fantasia peut dire encore une fois « mission accomplie » avec plus de 77 000 spectateurs comblés lors de son édition 2006. Cette dixième édition a été notamment marquée par la participation d’un nombre record d’invités prestigieux provenant des quatre coins du globe (dont la Russie, le Japon, l’Angleterre, le Danemark, les États-Unis et le Canada). Plus de 200 réalisateurs, producteurs, acteurs, représentants de divers studios, distributeurs, programmateurs de festivals internationaux, journalistes étrangers ont participé à ces 19 jours de célébration cinématographique encore unique au Canada.