This year’s Summer School on India at the University of Montreal is drawing in some of the world’s leading experts on India today. A dozen speakers are set to give their in-depth views on the emergence and importance of the new Indian giant. The seminar will run from Monday, July 5th to Saturday, July 10th, 2010, and will offer simultaneous lectures in both English and French.
Dr, Sunayana Singh, President of the Shastri Indo Canadian Institute (SICI), is pleased to announce the appointment of Rick Butler as its new Executive Director.
“Designed with working professionals and new graduates in mind, the MACD-I will build and develop your capacity to become a successful leader in forging social and economic change, working within, or in partnership with, development organizations.”
The University of Victoria has forged a unique partnership with the Society for Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA) to create and deliver this program. The MACD-I is founded on the assumption that effective collaboration is required to foster transformative leadership, and that theoretical foundations of community development must be complemented by practical insights from experts in the field. For more information please click here.
Dr. Subhash Chandra, Shastri Fellowship alumnus, recently guest edited the prestigious international refereed academic On-line journal Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific
The Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada is offering up to three Post-Graduate Research Fellowships valued at $35,000 for Masters graduates and at $38,000 for PhD graduates for a one-year non-renewable term. In their time at the Foundation, Post-Graduate Research Fellows undertake a guided research project, with a view to producing a policy paper of 5,000-8,000 words on a mutually-agreed upon topic related to Asia, including policy implications for Canada, or Canada-Asia relations. For more details please click here.
A group of researchers from the University of Manitoba Faculty of Medicine hopes to support the Government of Karnataka in India, in partnership with the Karnataka Health Promotion Trust, to improve maternal, neonatal and child health outcomes after the University received funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. See:
uManitoba News
Winnipeg Free Press
The University of Waterloo and the Canada India Foundation (CIF) announced recently a first-of-its-kind joint initiative for the advancement of Canada’s research capacity in studying the politics, economy and social conditions of contemporary India and bi-lateral relationship of both countries through a planned establishment of a $10-million endowment. For more information, see Waterloo Press Release
“No group has been displaced more than our youth, whose jobless rate has spiked to a near 11-year high of 15.6 per cent. And as more young people move home, default on their debts and scuttle their career plans, the aftershocks will linger for years, economists warn. Nowhere has the youth jobless toll risen more, percentage-wise, than in British Columbia, where it rocketed 56.2 per cent to 60,000 this October from the same month last year.” Read more from the Globe and Mail
The McGill Institute for the Study of Canada (MISC) is pleased to announce that it is now accepting applications for the Eakin Visiting Fellowship in Canadian Studies for the 2010-2011 academic year. The Fellowship will be awarded to high-level scholars focusing on studies related to Canada. It will be awarded for periods of one or two academic semesters to a scholar with a Ph.D., normally on sabbatical from their own academic institution. All applications may be sent by email at , by December 18th, 2009. For more information, visit Website http://www.mcgill.ca/misc/eakin/ or send an email to the above mentioned email address.
The economic downturn’s effect on universities’ international education activities will be a hot topic this week as a conference that brings together those involved in academic exchanges, international student recruitment and study-abroad programmes gets under way.