Xinjiang / East Turkestan

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.

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.