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Dear Friends of SJS,
Please join us and our partners for some of these great upcoming events:
Victoria Book Launch
A Propaganda System by Yves EnglerWednesday, Nov. 16 at 7:00 p.m.Hickman Building, Room HHB105University of Victoria
A Propaganda System: How Canada's government, corporations, media, and academia sell war and exploitation.
co-sponsored by Social Justice Studies (see attached poster)
Victoria Friends of Cuba committee will be showing the film "The True Cost" at their Social Justice Film Night
Thursday, Nov. 17 at 7 p.m.2994 Douglas Street(see attached poster)
This is a story about clothing. It's about the clothes we wear, the people who make them, and the impact the industry is having on our world. The price of clothing has been decreasing for decades, while the human and environmental costs have grown dramatically. The True Cost is a groundbreaking documentary film that... pulls back the curtain on the untold story and asks us to consider, who really pays the price for our clothing? Filmed in countries all over the world, from the brightest runways to the darkest slums, and featuring interviews with the world's leading influencers including Stella McCartney, Livia Firth and Vandana Shiva, The True Cost is an unprecedented project that shows how our desire to consume affects humans and ecosystems on our planet.Social Justice Film Night is on the 3rd Thursday of every month.
A Propaganda System: How Canada’s Government, Corporations, Media and Academia Sell War and Exploitation reveals why most Canadians believe their country is a force for good in the world, despite a long history of supporting empire, racism and exploitation. The book details the vast sums Global Affairs Canada, Veterans Affairs and the Department of National Defence spend articulating a one-sided version of Canada’s foreign policy. With the largest PR machine in the country, the Canadian Forces promotes its worldview through a history department, university, journals, war commemorations, think tanks, academic programs and hundreds of public relations officers.
A Propaganda System traces the long history of government information control during war, including formal censorship, as well as extreme media bias on topics ranging from Haiti to Palestine, investment agreements to the mining industry. The book also details the corporate elite’s funding for university programs and think tanks.
Written for ordinary Canadians interested in the structures impeding understanding of this country’s role in the world, the book should be of interest to journalists curious about the institutions seeking to “spin” them, development workers dependent on government funds and academics interested in the foreign-policy establishment’s influence on campus.
You are cordially invited to a joint event of the Global South Colloquium, and City Talks, a public lecture and seminar by Prof. Smriti Srinivas, UC-Davis, Anthropology on Nov. 17 and 18, 2016.
Public Lecture
“The Garden and the City: Urban Designs, Theosophy and South Asia”
Thursday Nov. 17, 7:30 pm, Legacy Art Gallery
Seminar
“Cities of the Past, Cities of the Present, and the City as Utopia”
Friday Nov. 18, 10:30 am, Sedgwick C168
The Global South Colloquium, a new initiative at the University of Victoria, provides a forum for intellectual exploration among members of the Uvic community on the history and politics of globalization. The colloquium focuses its attention on the “Global South,” traditionally referring to parts of the world whose states emerged from the embers of European empires in South Asia, Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East. More than a geographical orientation to the “non-West,” the colloquium poses the “Global South” to think not only about the post-colonial world’s histories, cultures, and political directions, but also as a provocation to orient discussions about the world-system, its contours, inequities, and sources of power, thereby including a focus not divided by geography and nation-states, but defined by placement within global histories and practices.
Each academic year the colloquium will host four to six scholars of international reputation, speaking to aspects of the year’s thematic focus. Each visitor will present a public evening lecture, to be followed the next day by a seminar further exploring the topics discussed in the lecture. Readings for each seminar will be posted at globalsouthcolloquium.org, and hard copies can be found at the Centre for Global Studies, Sedgewick C173.
The theme for 2016-17 is religion and globalization, including visits by Dr. Nile Green, Dr. Smriti Srinivas, Dr. Sam Moyn, Dr. Mayanthi Fernando, and Dr. Susannah Heschel. Within this broad rubric, discussions around the migration and transmission of Islam across regions in the modern world, the relationship between the politics of Islam and secularism in contemporary France, the intersection of urban history, religion, and globalization, contemporary links between human rights and religion, and the role of Orientalism in global histories of religion will ensue within the framework of understanding globalization in history.
For more information about the Global South Colloquium please refer too the attached posters and visit globalsouthcolloquium.org.
Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives Internships and Scholarships
CAPI would like to take this opportunity to provide some information about our 2017 internship and scholarship opportunities.
INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITIES (For current upper level undergraduate students as well as graduate students at UVIC). :
CAPI will be offering 8 funded ($8,000/placement) internship placements from May to November 2017(six months).
- Dhaka, Bangladesh (2-3 placements)
- Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (2-3 placements)
- New Delhi, India (2 placements)
- Thailand (1 placement)
RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES (For UVIC graduate students):
We will also be awarding 5-6 research scholarships ($6,000/ scholarship) for Uvic graduate level students to spend 3-6 months doing research/field work in a Commonwealth country (preference given to students going to the Asia-Pacific region).
For more information about our 2017 opportunities including our new Crossing Borders program please visit our recently updated website.
Attached you will find 2 flyers/posters. Please distribute, post, circulate and pass this information on to your students, colleagues and friends. These are great opportunities to gain valuable international work experience in the field of migration, human rights and participatory action research. The deadline for application is February 17, 2017.
Do not hesitate to send any interested students my way.
Thank you!
Robyn
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Robyn Fila, MA
Program Manager,
International Internship Program
Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives
Sedgewick C137, University of Victoria
Tel: +1 250.721.7022
Mobile/ WhatsApp: +1 250.885.7455
Skype: capimothership
Pacific Peoples Partnership is hiring:
Communications and Information Technology Intern
Posted on October 31, 2016Pacific Peoples' Partnership (PPP) is seeking an enthusiastic and self-motivated intern for the paid short term position of Communications & Information Technology Intern. The successful candidate will be responsible for assisting with communications in a cross cultural context. This includes content development, website development, newsletter marketing, information management and technology suite maintenance. The successful candidate may also be asked to provide support with research, event planning and membership development strategies.
This position will be posted until filled.
To view the full posting, please click here: oct-2016postingcitintern
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