Gender and Places: a critical look at migration
Frontiers : a journal of women studies is calling for scholarly and creative works that use gender to understand migration. When people move, how are or were they constructing and reconstructing gender and how did gender shape and reshape migration? All materials must be submitted by September 2005. For submission information, see http://unp.unl.edu/journalinfo/17.html.

Canadian Ethnic Studies Association 18th Biennial Conference:
Toward Social Justice: Illusions, Realities, Possibilities (October 13-16, 2005, Ottawa, Canada)
Conference organizers welcome proposals for papers, sessions / panels / presentations that address the topics of ethnicity, immigration, diversity, and multiculturalism in Canada, particularly in relation to social justice.
Organizers welcome submissions from a variety of perspectives, academic disciplines, and areas of study, including the humanities and the arts, as well as the social sciences. Abstracts should be approximately 250 words. The deadline for submission is March 31, 2005.

Topics under discussion will include, but not be limited to the following: Intersections of Diversity, such as ethnicity and “race,” ethnicity and class, ethnicity and gender, ethnicity and sexual orientation, ethnicity and region, ethnicity and immigrant status, and negotiating multiplicity; Sites of Struggle, such as racialized encounters, ethnicity and the rural/urban divide, case studies of unequal relations, diversity and homelessness, competing vision of cultural representation in literature and the arts, immigration, refugees, and frameworks for understanding diversity; and Visions, such as toward inclusive institutions, re-thinking Canada, including aboriginal peoples, multicultural minorities, charter groups and homelessness, policy alternatives to unequal relations, and multiculturalism: state policy or critical discourse.

For more information contact esa@ucalgary.ca or visit www.ucalgary.ca/CESA.

Ruptures, Continuities and Re-Learning:
The Civic and Political Participation of Latin American-Canadians
The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto and the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) have issued a call for contributions for a book and a special issue of Mapalé magazine on the civic and political participation of Latin American-Canadians. Selected works will also be recognized in a public event to be held in Toronto in September, 2005. The call includes eight categories: Essay, Life Story, Short Story, Opinion Column, Journalistic Article, Poetry, Theatre or Radio-Theatre Script and Photography. The deadline for submissions is May 16, 2005.

Contributions can be submitted in either Spanish, English, French or Portuguese. Opinion columns must have between 500 and 1,000 words. Journalistic articles must have between 1500 and 2000 words. Essays, short stories and life stories must have a minimum extension of 2000 words and a maximum extension of 4000 words. Poems should have a maximum extension of 50 lines. Theatre and radio-theatre scripts must have a maximum performance time of one hour. Photographs can be in black and white or color, digital format, and must have a minimum of 300 DPI. Life stories can be autobiographical or not, and can describe
individual or collective histories. Each participant can send only one contribution per category.

Contributions must be signed with a pseudonym and sent by e-mail to lared@oise.utoronto.ca, indicating in the title of the message the pseudonym of the author and the category in which it participates. In a second message, the title of the work, the name of the author or authors, e-mail, telephone and mailing address should be indicated for contact purposes.

International Journal of Citizenship and Teacher Education
This new journal will begin publishing in July 2005. Enquiries should be directed to Ian Davies at id5@york.ac.uk

Reducing Health Disparities and Promoting Equity for Vulnerable Populations-Interdisciplinary Capacity Enhancement Grants
The Canadian Institutes of Health Research- Reducing Health Disparities Initiative- is pleased to launch a December 2004 request for applications for Interdisciplinary Capacity Enhancement Grants to reduce health disparities and promote equity for vulnerable populations. The RFA is intended to provide support for new or existing interdisciplinary research teams to describe, investigate and ultimately help reduce health disparities. It will provide multi-year funding to carry out innovative research and permit teams to expand capacity by encouraging interdisciplinary work across the four pillars of CIHR.
Letters of Intent to apply should reach CIHR by May 2005. For more information, consult the CIHR web site, http://www.cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/25703.html, or contact vbovaird@cihr-irsc.gc.ca.

Religion and Theatre in Canada
A special issue of Theatre Research in Canada is being assembled on the theme of “Religion and Theatre in Canada.” Please send papers before July 31, 2005 to Moira Day (moiraday@duke.usask.ca) or Mary Ann Beavis (maryann.beavis@usask.ca).

Special Issue of IJMS on "Democracy and Power-sharing in Multi-National States"
In the many multi-national democracies around the world today, there is increasing evidence for a potential trade-off between democracy and power-sharing. Empirical research on this tension is needed to understand how and why public participation, whether in the form of popular mobilization, direct democracy, or deliberative democracy, threatens elite power-sharing arrangements in multi-national democracies. Research on new states and post-conflict societies is also needed, as these may well require a different combination of democracy and power-sharing than multi-national states with a more peaceful recent past and established boundaries. Finally, a normative reflection on the possibilities for democratic deepening in ethno-plural societies is needed. This would examine collective claims for recognition, while at the same time allowing for elements of direct democracy and deliberation.

Papers addressing one of these three questions should be communicated to the guest-editor of the upcoming thematic issue. Papers dealing with non-Western regions or countries are particularly welcome. Submissions should be sent to Prof. Matthijs Bogaards at p.j.m.bogaards@iu-bremen.de.

Essays in Philosophy
A special issue on “Liberalism, Feminism and Multiculturalism” will be published in January 2006. The deadline for submissions is 15 October 2005. Additional information can be found at http://www.humboldt.edu/~essays/topics.html

Multicultural Days: An International Perspective

Multicultural Days will take place 23-25 June 2005 at Brock University in St. Catharines, Canada. Multicultural Days will accept papers, posters, symposia, and workshops on issues in multiculturalism. In particular, topic areas include: (1) Multiculturalism and Youth, (2) Education, (3) Immigration & Acculturation, and (4) Health. Bringing together interested scholars from across the world and from diverse disciplines, this conference will foster knowledge exchange and provide opportunities for collaboration. Graduate students and junior researchers are strongly urged to submit. Please review the attached call for papers and circulate this e-mail to others who may be interested in participating in this exciting conference. Full details about the conference are available at www.multiculturaldays.ca

WANTED: Posters on Anti-Racism, multiculturalism and/or human rights
If your organization produces posters on any of these topics, the Multiculturalism Program (Department of Canadian Heritage) is looking to obtain copies. Please contact Manon Lacroix at manon_lacroix@pch.gc.ca