SJRI E-Bulletin 2.1

The SJRI e-bulletin is a regular digest of headlines, announcements, and links that quickly connects you to the source for social justice news, events, and opportunities. Content is posted to the SJRI blog on an ongoing basis and distributed to members by email. To submit content or provide feedback please email SJRI's Projects Facilitator, Dr. Rachel Hirsch.

Updates from SJRI

Community Arts Zone: Hopes, Pitfalls, and Lessons Learned in Community Engagement

Date: Saturday, January 31, 2015
Time: 2:30 to 3:50 pm
Location: Tarot Hall, Room 309

SJRI and the Community Arts Zone team welcome you to a workshop on community engagement as part of the 2015 Niagara Social Justice Forum. The goal of this workshop is to have an honest, informative sharing session on community-researcher relationships in the Niagara region and the co‐research process that takes place when university researchers engage community organizations in their work. (Register here…)

Brock Research Celebration

Date: Tuesday, February 10, 2015
Time: 1:00 to 3:00 pm
Location: Guernsey Market

The third annual Brock Research Celebration highlights the range of research excellence at Brock. The Transdisciplinary Hubs, including SJRI, will feature prominently. The SJRI display may be viewed between 8:30 am and 3:15 pm. SJRI Projects Facilitator, Rachel Hirsch, and Acting Director, David Butz will be on hand from 1:00 to 3:00 pm to speak with celebration attendees. Please drop by the display to join us in representing SJRI, or simply to chat. We would be happy to promote your work, if you are presenting a poster or have a book on display please let us know. (More info…)

Project Facilitation

SJRI Projects Facilitator, Rachel Hirsch, is available to assist all affiliated faculty members interested in advancing their research through SJRI grants or other initiatives. David Butz, SJRI Acting Director, outlined the following opportunities in a recent letter:

• A possible SJRI-sponsored SSHRC Partnership Grant
• SJRI support for social justice related symposia or events
• Seed and Local Engagement Grants available through SJRI's Grants Program
• SJRI's transdisciplinary on-line, open access journal Studies in Social Justice
• Upcoming 'how to' workshops on community engagement, research development, and alternative publication venues

Please contact Rachel Hirsch if you have questions, ideas, or would be like to be involved in any of these opportunities.

Funding Opportunities

• Jan 31 - Parliamentary Internship Programme 2015-16
• Feb 1 - SSHRC Connection Grant
• Feb 1 - SSHRC Insight Development Grant
• Feb 2 - Brock Council for Research in the Social Sciences Award
• Feb 2 - Open Society Fellowship
• Feb 15 - SSHRC Partnership Grant Letter of Intent
• Feb 19 - SSHRC Knowledge Synthesis Grant
• March 1 - Brock Summer Ventures (Student Mentorship Program)
• March 2 - Chancellor's Chair for Research Excellence
• March 2 - Distinguished Research and Creative Activity Award

Other deadlines =>

Calls for Papers, Proposals, and Applications

• Jan 30 - Under Currents: Journal of Critical Environmental Studies
• Jan 31 - Canadian Indigenous/Native Studies Association Conference
• Jan 31 - Sex, Drugs & Rock ‘n Roll | Subversive Sites in the Law
• Jan 31 - Land Fictions Conference
• Jan 31 - Society for Socialist Studies Conference
• Jan 31 - Social Movements and Contentious Politics
• Feb 1 - Qualitative Sociology Special Issue
• Feb 4 - Young Workers and Youth Activist Training Program
• Feb 15 - Visible Evidence
• Feb 15 - Controlling Sexuality and Reproduction

Member News

SJRI Affiliate Explores Green Care | Toronto Star

Now in Paperback: Revolutionizing Retail by Kendra Coulter

Art, Archives and Affinities: Exploring Social Justice across Disciplinary Boundaries

Upcoming Events

• Jan 31 [Brock University] - Niagara Social Justice Forum
• Feb 3 [Wellesley Institute, Toronto] - First Peoples, Second Class Treatment: A Community Conversation
• Feb 4 [Wellesley Institute, Toronto] - Upstream Action: New Approaches for Connecting Politics and Health
• Feb 6-8 [Brock University] - Thinking Through Deleuze: Nomadic Subjects, Global Citizenship and Posthumanism
• Feb 28 [Collegiate Secondary School, St. Catharines] - Niagara Women* and Youth Gathering
• March 6-7 [University of Toronto] - The Public’s Health: A Symposium on Public Health Histories

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