The symposium will examine music’s capacity to act as an agent for positive social change in a variety of musical, social, and cultural contexts.

When: February 24 and 25, 2012
Where: Carleton University
Submission Deadline: December 9, 2011
Hosted by: The Music and Social Justice Collective

Some topics for consideration include, but are not limited to:

• “Protest songs” then and now
• The sounding(s) of social justice
• Music and human rights
• Music and the “Occupy Wall Street” (and related) movements
• Music and the law: intellectual property, copyright, censorship
• Music and community
• Hip-hop as social protest
• The politics of benefit concerts
• Revolutionary songs in Latin America
• The “El Sistema” movement
• Music and disability
• Critical pedagogy and music education

For the full Call for Papers or more information, please see our website:
musicandsocialjustice.org

When: March 1-2, 2012
Submission Deadline: January 11, 2012

Keynote Address:

“Some Naturalists’ Views of the First Anglo- Afghan War (1839-42)”

Delivered by:
Dr. Antoinette Burton, Professor, Department of History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Luncheon Speaker:
Dr. Danielle Kinsey, Assistant Professor of History, Carleton University

Papers on any history-related topic are welcome.
We invite submissions from all academic fields and disciplines.

Check our website:
www.carleton.ca/underhill/

Queer(ing) Crisis is an interdisciplinary graduate student conference inviting discussions around questions of global, economic, political, legal and other forms of 'crisis' through a queer lens. The conference will be a forum to bring together different disciplines and to provide a space for exploring the multiple perspectives concerning queer crises. The conference also seeks to build solidarity, establish alliances, and to cultivate an intellectual community amongst those working in critical sexuality studies.

We encourage contributions that provide queer interventions on the intersections of crisis, possibilities and;

• Finance, debt/value and marketization
• Labour, consumption and globalization
• Intersectionality, race, class, (dis)abilities, genders and sexualities
• Academy, Education and queer methodologies/pedagogies
• Queer mobilizations and community engagement
• Conflict, security and militarization
• Space, place, temporalities and scales
• Governance, regulation and law
• Identities, subjectivities and bodies

GLOBAL GAZE: Looking Outside The Frame

The intent of the 2012 Global Gaze Graduate Student Symposium is to allow graduate students to share their film-related research interests with their peers.  In doing so, the symposium provides an open and interactive forum for discussion of current conceptual problems and pedagogical issues in world cinema. We also welcome graduate student from departments such as English, Art History, Music, Canadian Studies and Cultural mediations to submit an abstract and/or attend the symposium.

Submission deadline:  January 15^th, 2012.

Please submit an abstract of no more than 250 words (no more than 1 page).  Be sure to include your name, degree/department, e-mail address and a title of your presentation.

All abstracts and any questions may be directed to globalgaze@gmail.com

Contesting Power, Envisioning Alternatives, Creating Futures

The (missed) connection between research and social change.

When: March 16th, 2012
Where: Carleton University, 303 Paterson Hall
Submission Deadline: January 16th, 2012

We invite papers that explore the relationship between research and action.

Suggested themes could include, but are not limited to:

• Critical Methodologies, Community Based Research, and Participatory Action Research
• Activism as Research and Critical Praxis
• Social Movements and Solidarity
• Multi-scalar Restructuring and Re-thinking Power and the State
• Spaces of Resistance and Mobilizations
• Governance, Regulation, and the Law
• Varieties of Neoliberalism and Capitalism
• Critical Race Theory, Feminist Approaches, and Intersectionality
• Class Analysis and the Labour Movement

Presenters are welcome to base their papers on academic research and/or activist experience.

For full call for papers click here.

When: Saturday, March 24 th , 2012
Where: Bronson Centre
Call for Papers Deadline: December 20th, 2011

The Symposium will be organized into 4 broad categories:

• What message is the heritage movement trying to convey?
• What other ‘heritage voices’ exist? Where/whom are they coming from?
• How are these voices being shared and disseminated?
• Opportunities & Challenges

When: March 26, 27, and 28 2012
Where: 55, Avenue Laurier East (University of Ottawa campus), Desmarais Building, Room DMS 12102
Deadline for submissions: Monday, January 30, 2012

Objectives
The 15th Interdisciplinary Conference of the GSAÉD offers the opportunity for graduate students to present their research to the university community. The Conference will foster critical dialogue across the many fields of academic research, including the social sciences, the natural sciences, applied sciences and the professions. The goal of this conference is to interrogate the broad themes stemming from our fast approaching and diverse future(s) from the specific and multifaceted perspectives of graduate student researchers.

Theme
The Interdisciplinary Conference "Near Futures" invites a reflection on global contemporary issues and possible developments/innovations stemming from current events.

ATEG welcomes abstracts outlining workshops or papers based in Anishinaabemowin Zhaaganaashiimowin (English) or a mixture of both related to this theme. We hope this will result in the wide range of papers and workshops regarding different aspects of Anishinaabe life.

Deadline for Submissions: extended to December 15, 2011

More Information here.