Day: December 18, 2013

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Service Opportunities

Service Opportunity – Student Hosts Needed

Dear Students,

Three HMED search candidates have been shortlisted and they will be coming to UBC for presentations and interviews in late January.  Dates are as follows:

Jan 21 (Tues) 8:15 to 3:30 pm and 22 (Wed) 10:00 am to 3:30 pm     Roula Hawa

Jan 23 (Thu) 1 – 2 hours in the afternoon and 24 (Fri) 8:45 am and 3:30 pm        Jacqui Gingras

Jan 27 (Mon) 1 – 2 hours in the afternoon and 28 (Tue) 8:45 am and 3:30 pm    Kerry Renwick

They will all be staying in West Coast Suites. We look for three volunteer student hosts, one for each candidate.

Please let us know if you can help by sending your message to myself (Basia) with a copy to: samson.nashon@ubc.ca, and anna.ip@ubc.ca.

Student hosts will pick up the assigned candidate from West Coast Suites, walk them to Scarfe Building and take them to the various meeting places, chair the graduate student meeting and assist the candidates throughout the day.  The student hosts will be invited to join lunch.

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Journals

Education for Revolution [Special issue of Works & Days + Cultural Logic]‏

“Education for Revolution,” a special issue collaboration of the journals Works & Days  and Cultural Logic has just been launched. Works & Days, published by the English Department at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, explores problems of cultural studies, pedagogy, and institutional critique, especially as they are impacted by the global economic crisis (http://www.worksanddays.net). Cultural Logic, which has connections to the Radical Caucus of MLA and the Marxist Literary Group, has been online since 1997 and is a non-profit, peer-reviewed, open access, interdisciplinary journal publishing essays, interviews, poetry, and reviews by writers working within the Marxist tradition (http://clogic.eserver.org). This is the second collaboration between the two journals.

Cultural Logic will be publishing an expanded, open access, version of this issue in the coming months. The expanded edition of the issue will include new articles addressing education for revolution in Greece, Turkey, and India.

Read Works & Days editor David B. Downing’s “Foreword to the Revolution” here: https://blogs.ubc.ca/ross/files/2013/12/WD-Front-pages.pdf

Works & Days + Cultural Logic

Education for Revolution

E. Wayne Ross & Rich Gibson (Editors)

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Funding and Awards

MacKenzie King Memorial Scholarships

Mackenzie King Memorial Scholarships

Deadline: Monday, 3 February 2014

Amount: $9,000 – $11,000 (subject to change)

The Open Scholarship is available to graduates of Canadian universities who pursue graduate study in any discipline, in Canada or elsewhere. One Open Scholarship is awarded each year. The value has recently been approximately $9,000 but is subject to change.

The Traveling Scholarship is available to graduates of Canadian universities who pursue graduate study in the United States or the United Kingdom in the areas of international relations or industrial relations (including the international or industrial relations aspects of law, history, politics and economics). Recently four scholarships of $11,000 each have been awarded annually, but the number and the amount is subject to change.

Further information is available on our website at

http://www.grad.ubc.ca/awards/mackenzie-king-memorial-scholarships

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