Wednesday, February 17, 2016

PhD Scholarships @ Kingston University London



PhD SCHOLARSHIPS @ KINGSTON UNIVERSITY LONDON

Kingston University London is advertising ten PhD scholarship across the entire university, these are likely to be highly competitive. The scholarships covers a living allowance and UK/EU fees. Deadline is 18th March 2016
More information of the scholarship and the application can be found here: http://www.kingston.ac.uk/research/research-degrees/funding/phd-studentships-2016/

Kingston University is centre for non-mainstream economics and Political Economy research and has an active Political Economy Research Group (PERG http://fass.kingston.ac.uk/research/perg/). PERG is encouraging applications in all fields of heterodox economics and Political Economy, with particular interest in Post Keynesian and Marxist approaches, and on issues like financialisation, financial instability, stock flow consistent modelling, distribution and growth, development. Interested applicants are welcome to send draft proposal to potential supervisors for comments.

The Economics’ department guidance of PhD applications (that’s general information, not specific to these scholarships) can be found at http://fass.kingston.ac.uk/downloads/research-guidelines-economics.pdf

Political Economy Research Group (PERG)
The Political Economy approach highlights the role of effective demand, institutions and social conflict in economic analysis and thereby builds on Austrian, Institutionalist, Keynesian and Marxist traditions. Economic processes are perceived to be embedded in social relations that must be analysed in the context of historical considerations, power relations and social norms. As a consequence, a broad range of methodological approaches is employed, and cooperation with other disciplines, including history, law, sociology and other social sciences, is necessary. (http://fass.kingston.ac.uk/research/perg and https://www.facebook.com/PERGKingston)


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Monday, February 15, 2016

Space, Identities and Memory



SPACE, IDENTITIES AND MEMORY
Birkbeck Institutes of Social Research and the Humanities Graduate Conference
CALL FOR PAPERS
Space, Identities and Memory
Deadline for Submission of Abstracts: 11/03/2016.
We invite postgraduate researchers, academics, activists, artists, and practitioners from across disciplines to contribute to the Birkbeck Institutes’ (BIH/BISR) annual two day conference held from the 13th to the 14th  May 2016.
This year’s conference theme seeks to examine the interplay between identity, space and memory, exploring the ways in which identities may be created, formed and informed by spatial and temporal contexts. In particular, we seek to examine to what extent identities are performed in response to political, social and cultural pressures, including historical circumstances leading to the construction of acceptable and unacceptable identities.
The conference aims to capture the complex overlaying of identities in time and space, and the agency of individuals and communities as they address their own complex understandings of the temporality of identity. Conversely, we hope the conference will highlight how space and time are influenced and shaped by everyday life, sociabilities, mobilisations and processes of subjectivation. In particular we are seeking papers that engage with topics such as:

  • ·      The built environment: how are housing, architecture, urbanity and concepts of public and private space harnessed in the self-fashioning of individual and communal identity?
  • ·      Gender, sexuality and race, the politics of becoming and the deterritorialisation of the body;
  • ·      ’Home’, domesticity and concepts of solitude and isolation across time and space;
  • ·      Spaces of dissent and resistance: how is memory imbricated in public spaces as sites of encounters, direct action and creative practices?
  • ·      Displacements and borders: constructing or disassembling boundaries from local to global;
  • ·      Explorations in the use of maps, social cartography and critical geography;
  • ·      Exclusion and inclusion in institutional spaces: how have institutionalised spaces cemented or challenged contemporary and past perspectives on identity?
  • ·      Narrating the past: memorialisation, contestation and re-enactment
  • ·      Innovative methods and approaches in the investigation of the intersections between space, identity and memory


Our first confirmed keynote speaker is Andy Merrifield. The conference will conclude with a round table bringing together activists, practitioners and academics.
This is an interdisciplinary conference, designed to foster creative thinking and new research agendas. To this end, we encourage papers from a diversity of disciplinary backgrounds that explore the interconnections of space, identity and memory.
We are particularly interested in receiving contributions from artists and practitioners in education, the heritage sector or related fields to participate in this interdisciplinary conference.
Proposals
We warmly welcome abstracts for 20-minute panel papers. Abstracts should be between 200-300 words in length. Please include a short biography with your submission.  The deadline for submission of abstracts is the 11/03/2016. Authors will be notified regarding the acceptance of their paper after submissions have been reviewed and no later than 31/03/2016.
Contact Details
Please send enquiries and proposals to Beth Hodgett, Calum Wright, Eva Lauenstein & Moniza Rizzini at:

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Sunday, February 14, 2016

Two Talks on Frantz Fanon - by Peter Hudis


Frantz Fanon

TWO TALKS ON FRANTZ FANON – BY PETER HUDIS

Tuesday 16th February 2016
Frantz Fanon on Race, Recognition, and Revolution: A Re-examination
Cambridge
Cambridge University
Mill Lane Lecture Room, 17:00-18:45:
Organised by the Cambridge Defend Education (CDE) and Cambridgeshire Left
Frantz Fanon (1926-61) is widely considered one of the most important anti-colonial theorists of the twentieth century. Today we are witnessing a resurgence of interest in his contributions to philosophy, psychology and revolutionary theory in light of such realities as persistent racial discrimination in the West, the rise of religious fundamentalism, and the social crises enveloping much of the developing world. This talk will re-examine Fanon’s contributions to ongoing debates over race, racism, and recognition in light of the intellectual sources that motivated much of his work—especially Marxist theory and Hegelian philosophy.
Peter Hudis is author of Frantz Fanon: Philosopher of the Barricades (Pluto Press, 2015) and Marx’s Concept of the Alternative to Capitalism (Brill, 2012). He has edited or co-edited numerous works, including The Power of Negativity: Selected Writings on the Dialectic of Hegel and Marx, by Raya Dunayevskaya (Lexington, 1992) and The Rosa Luxemburg Reader (Monthly Review Books, 2006). He is currently general editor of The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg, which will make all of her work available in 14 volumes (3 volumes have appeared so far). He is Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at Oakton Community College in the U.S.

Sunday 13th March 2016
Why Frantz Fanon Matters to Today’s Struggles Against Racism and Imperialism
6:30-8:30 PM
Westside Peace Center
3916 Sepulveda Blvd., near Venice Blvd. (Free parking in rear)
Suite 101-102, press #22 at door to get into building
Culver City (LA area)
To be followed by A PARTY CELEBRATING THE COMING OF NOWRUZ (PERSIAN NEW YEAR)

And also a second edition of the book Marx at the Margins, by Kebin B. Anderson, is now available:


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Education, Time-Poverty and Well-Being



EDUCATION, TIME-POVERTY AND WELL-BEING
Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain
London Branch

Professor John White (UCL Institute of Education) will speak on:
Education, time-poverty and well-being
Wednesday 17 February
Institute of Education, UCL, 20 Bedford Way
Room 903
5:30-7:15

All are welcome.

Paper is attached at: here.
https://gallery.mailchimp.com/884bd4ab8bd9964e2855c7409/files/IOE_seminar_J_White_time_poverty_FNL.pdf

Inquiries: sun.yun.14@ucl.ac.uk

Abstract: This paper will present a critical discussion of 'objective list' well-being goods, related to the current aims of the English National Curriculum and to problems of time-poverty in the population.

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Wednesday, February 3, 2016

Educational Technology and Social Justice



EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
The SoJo Journal: Educational Foundations and Social Justice
Call for Papers
Special Issue on Educational Technology and Social Justice

The SoJo Journal: Educational Foundations and Social Justice Education is soliciting manuscripts for a special issue on educational technology and social justice.  

The relationship between educational technology and social justice is an abundant and important conversation in educational literature, particularly in critical scholarship, where the perpetuation through technology of social reproduction, authoritarianism, the neo-liberal agenda, and environmental atrocities are exposed and interrogated.  For this special issue, we invite contributions that may incorporate but also move beyond such critiques to explore how educational technology is or can be utilized toward social justice goals.  These goals may include liberation, transformation, experiencing voice, and recognizing as well as challenging dominant discourses, hegemonic constructs, and oppressive conditions.

Contributors may consider questions including:
·         What is the meaning of social justice in relation to educational technology?
·         How do these two concepts intersect in current educational research and practice?
·         How is educational technology being utilized by teachers, teacher-educators, students, and researchers to achieve social justice aims?
·         What is required for technology to disrupt social conditions for marginalized individuals and groups?
·         What do educational administrators and policymakers need to do to contribute to these changes?

Manuscripts for publication consideration for this special issue should address the journal’s mission: to prepare and influence bold, socially responsible leaders who will transform the world of schooling.  Submissions for this issue may include research studies as well as conceptual, theoretical, philosophical, and policy-analysis essays that advance educational practices that challenge the existing state of affairs in society, schools, and (in)formal education.

Style Guidelines
All manuscripts must adhere to APA sixth edition format, include an abstract of 100-150 words, and range between 20 - 30 pages in length (including camera ready tables, charts, figures, and references). Two copies of the manuscript should be attached: a master copy including a title page and a blind copy with the title page and all other author-identifying information removed (including citations and references pertaining to any of the contributing authors’ works). Attachments should be in Microsoft Word.

Submissions should be submitted electronically via email by attachment by April 30, 2016 to SoJo Associate Editor, Julie Ficarra: jmficarr@syr.edu.


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The SoJo Journal: Educational Foundations and Social Justice



THE SOJO JOURNAL: EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIONS AND SOCIAL JUSTICE EDUCATION
Call for Papers: The SoJo Journal Issue #3


The SoJo Journal: Educational Foundations and Social Justice Education is soliciting manuscripts for its third issue.  
The journal welcomes manuscripts that examine contemporary educational and social contexts and practices from critical perspectives. The SoJo Journal: Educational Foundations and Social Justice Education is interested in research studies as well as conceptual, theoretical, philosophical, and policy-analysis essays that advance educational practices that challenge the existing state of affairs in society, schools, and (in)formal education.

Style Guidelines
All manuscripts must adhere to APA sixth edition format, include an abstract of 100-150 words, and range between 20 - 30 pages in length (including camera ready tables, charts, figures, and references). Two copies of the manuscript should be attached: a master copy including a title page and a blind copy with the title page and all other author-identifying information removed (including citations and references pertaining to any of the contributing authors’ works). Attachments should be in Microsoft Word.

Submission Guidelines
Manuscripts for publication consideration for the third issue should be submitted electronically via email by attachment by April 30, 2016 to SoJo Associate Editor, Julie Ficarra at jmficarr@syr.edu.

Journal Contact

Bradley J. Porfilio
Editor-In-Chief
The SoJo Journal: Educational Foundations and Social Justice Education
California State University, East Bay
25800 Carlos Bee Blvd, Hayward, CA 94542
Phone: 609-339-5011

Julie M. Ficarra
Associate Editor
Cultural Foundations of Education
Syracuse University

The SoJo Journal website: http://www.infoagepub.com/the-sojo-journal

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