<div dir="ltr">I thought this upcoming, Waterloo-based conference (<a href="http://www.peacejusticestudies.org/conference/" target="_blank">http://www.peacejusticestudies.org/conference/</a>) might interest many colleagues in the Faculty of Arts. The deadline for submitting proposals is April 15.<br>
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<h1>PJSA Annual Conference</h1>
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<h3>PJSA 2013 Conference</h3>
<p><b>October 17-19, 2013</b></p><p><b>"Peace Studies between Tradition and Innovation"</b></p><p>CO-HOSTED
BY: WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF GLOBAL STUDIES, AND CONRAD
GREBEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE / UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO PEACE AND CONFLICT
STUDIES PROGRAM</p><p><b>WATERLOO, ONTARIO, CANADA</b></p><p><b>Call for Papers/Proposals: Deadline April 15, 2013</b></p><p>The
enduring tension between tradition and innovation, and between
continuity and change, will be the overarching theme of the 2013
meetings of the Peace and Justice Studies Association, to be jointly
hosted by the University of Waterloo’s Conrad Grebel University College
and Wilfrid Laurier University’s Department of Global Studies along with
several other Faculties and Departments. A concurrent undergraduate
student conference (including grades 11 and 12) is also being planned. </p><p>Inspired
by the broader Kitchener-Waterloo region -- where a long and
distinguished history of Mennonite peacemaking exists alongside a
growing reputation as one of Canada’s most dynamic high-technology hubs
-- the 2013 PJSA conference theme honours the tradition, history and
accomplishments of the peace and justice studies movement while
simultaneously seeking to expand the movement’s frontiers in search of
new and innovative ways to promote both the practice and the culture of
peace in a divided world. Accordingly, the conference will welcome
proposals from across a wide range of disciplines, professions and
perspectives on issues such as the innovative use of social or
communications technology in the promotion of peace, the use of
unconventional or unorthodox peace promotion strategies by
long-established actors in the field, or on the comparative
accomplishments of ‘new’ vs. ‘old’ actors in the field of peace and
justice studies.</p><p>We invite maximum 150-word proposals for papers,
workshops, poster sessions or film presentations by April 15, 2013,
through the PJSA website:<b> <a href="http://www.peacejusticestudies.org/conference/submitprop.php" target="_blank">http://www.peacejusticestudies.org/conference/submitprop.php</a>. <br></b></p><p>In
your proposal, please indicate which of the following specialty
sessions or panel tracks, if any, for which you wish to be considered:</p><p><u>Special Pre-Conference and Concurrent Conference Focused Sessions</u> </p><p>•
K-12 Teacher Professional Development Days (Friday / Saturday):
Innovative Classroom Resources for Peace, Social Justice and / or
Conflict Resolution coordinated by the WLU Faculty of Education and
local School Boards </p><p>• Pre-Conference (Thursday morning /
afternoon) Post-Conflict Peacebuilding Workshops, open for PJSA
registrant attendance. Theme to fit into vertically integrated
peacebuilding. <br>
(Note: concurrent panels on peacebuilding also within the conference – see below). </p><p>• Pre-Conference (Thursday morning / afternoon) Mediation / Restorative Justice Workshops <br>
(2 or 3 hour time slots available; please indicate). </p><p><u>Main Conference Special Tracks and Panels</u></p><p>(not exhaustive; additional proposals welcome; those listed below will have special session coordinators): </p>
<p>o Aboriginal Residential Schools and the resulting Truth and Reconciliation Commission<br>
o Our Aboriginal Heritage and the Quest for Peace and Justice<br>
o Business Innovations for Peace and Justice (e.g. CSR) <br>
o Science, Technology, Complexity and Innovation for Peace <br>
o Competing Innovations: Do new forms of Warfare require new forms of Peacemaking? <br>
o Religion and War and Peace<br>
o Peacebuilding: Where Tradition and Innovation meet<br>
o Music and Protest<br>
o WWI Centenary (and the 1914 Christmas Truce): After a century, what can we still learn?<br>
o War of 1812: Did we remember well or badly? <br>
o Other themes as proposed, including Graduate Student-focused panels with respondents / discussants. </p><br clear="all"><div>-- <br></div></div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Nathan Funk<br><br>Acting Director of Peace and Conflict Studies<br>
Associate Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies<br>Conrad Grebel University College, University of Waterloo<br>140 Westmount Road North<br>Waterloo, ON N2L 3G6<br>Email: <a href="mailto:nfunk@uwaterloo.ca" target="_blank">nfunk@uwaterloo.ca</a><br>
Phone: 519-885-0220, ext. 24295<br></div>Undergraduate Peace and Conflict Studies Program: <a href="https://uwaterloo.ca/peace-conflict-studies/" target="_blank">https://uwaterloo.ca/peace-conflict-studies/</a><br></div>
Graduate Peace and Conflict Studies Program (MPACS): <a href="https://uwaterloo.ca/master-peace-conflict-studies/" target="_blank">https://uwaterloo.ca/master-peace-conflict-studies/</a><br><br><i><span style="font-size:8.0pt;line-height:115%">This E-mail contains
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