Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies

Dear HumanDHS network friends

Please find below information on the AI-SSRC New York Prize Fellowship in Sustainable Cities and the Social Sciences

Kind regards
Brian Ward

AI-SSRC New York Prize Fellowship in Sustainable Cities and the Social Sciences

Van Alen Institute in Partnership with the Social Science Research
Council

Application deadline: March 7, 2008.

Van Alen Institute and the Social Science Research Council solicit
proposals for a New York-based public program or series of programs
that function to convene social scientists and spatial practitioners
in architecture, design, and related disciplines for debate and
dialogue on the topic of sustainable cities. The Institute invites
applications from early- to mid-career scholars and practitioners from
the arts, humanities and sciences.

The VAI-SSRC fellowship tenure spans the length of the 2008-2009
fellowship academic year, during which time fellows pursue advanced
independent research and work with the Institute and the SSRC in the
planning and production of their proposed public program. At some time
during the year, in the fall, spring or summer term, fellows take a
three-month residency at Van Alen Institute.

The fellowship award includes project support up to $10,000, work and
public programming space at the Institute, publication in Public
Practice, and a range of project production, research and programming
resources. The Institute also provides a stipend to fellows for the
residency period ($1500 to New York City residents; $6500 to
non-residents) and may at its discretion contribute toward travel
costs at the beginning and end of the fellowship term.

Information & application guidelines:
www.vanalen.org/nyprize/application_callforfellows.html.

Contact:

Jessica Blaustein
Van Alen Institute
30 West 22nd Street, 6th Floor
New York, NY 10010
212 924 7000 ext. 5
jblaustein[@]vanalen.org

Dear HumanDHS network friends

Please find below an artcle on the loss of indigenous lanuages.

Kind regards
Brian Ward

An Indigenous Language Dies Once Every Two Weeks
SURVIVAL INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE
20 February 2008

An indigenous language dies on average once every two weeks, reports
Survival on International Mother Language Day (21 February).

Five thousand of the world’s six thousand languages are indigenous,
and the majority of those threatened with extinction are indigenous
languages.

The Akuntsu tribe of northern Brazil, for example, were first
contacted by a Brazilian government team in 1995. They number only six
people, who saw the rest of their tribe massacred in the 1970s and
1980s by ranchers who wanted their land. Nobody else speaks the
Akuntsu language, and it is likely that it will disappear forever
along with the tribe.

There are over a hundred uncontacted tribes worldwide, and their
languages are among the most endangered. Survival believes that many
uncontacted tribes are under serious threat of extinction within the
next twenty years.

Survival’s director Stephen Corry said today, ‘Every time another
tribe becomes extinct and their language dies, another way of life and
another way of understanding the world disappears forever. Even if it
has been painstakingly studied and recorded, a language without a
people to speak it means little. A language can only live if its
people live, and if today’s uncontacted tribes are to have a future,
we must respect their right to choose their own way of life.’

The UN has proclaimed 2008 ‘International Year of Languages’.

To watch Survival’s short film ‘Uncontacted Tribes’, featuring the
> Akuntsu, visit http://www.survival-international.org/uncontactedtribes
>
> For more information contact Miriam Ross on (+44) (0)20 7687 8734 or
> email mr[@]survival-international.org

Dear HumanDHS network friends

Please find below a information on the XXVIII World Congress of Poets.

Kind regards
Brian Ward

XXVIII World Congress of Poets
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008
From: XXVIII CONGRESO MUNDIAL DE POETAS ACAPULCO

xxviiiwcpacapulco@gmail.com

Dear Poet friend, we are very glad to send you the link of the web page of the XXVIII World Congress of Poets: www.uaa.edu.mx/wcpacapulco2008 We hope you can read it carefully so you can have all the information you need to know about this great event. In case of any doubt don’t hesitate to contact us. We want to share our enthusiasm of being together in this blue place of the Pacific Ocean.

With friendship and love,

EUGENIA SOBERANIS-PRESIDENT XXVIII WCP

Dear HumanDHS network friends

Please find below information about the International Journal on Human Rights.

Kind regards
Brian Ward

International Journal on Human Rights

Submitted by Juana Kweitel, Conectas Direitos Humanos, www.conectas.org

The Journal on Human Rights is a biannual journal published in English,
Portuguese and Spanish by Sur Human Rights University Network based in
Brazil. The Journal aims to disseminate a Global Southern perspective
on human rights and to facilitate exchange among professors and
activists from the Global South, without disregarding contributions
from other regions.

The Journal is a special issue on transitional justice produced with the International Center for
Transitional Justice (ICTJ). For more information:
http://www.surjournal.org/

Dear HumanDHS network friends

Please find below information on Fellowships for Threatened Academics from IEE.

Kind regards
Brian Ward

Fellowships for Threatened Academics: Professors, Researchers and
Lecturers

Application Deadline: 5 March 2008

The Institute of International Education’s Scholar Rescue Fund (SRF)
provides fellowships for established scholars whose lives and work are
threatened in their home countries. These fellowships permit
professors, researchers and other senior academics to find temporary
refuge at universities and colleges anywhere in the world, enabling
them to pursue their academic work and to continue to share their
knowledge with students, colleagues and the community at large. When
conditions improve, these scholars will return home to help rebuild
universities and societies ravaged by fear, conflict and repression.

For more information go to:

http://www.iie.org/programs/srf/app.htm

Dear HumanDHS network friends

Please find below a call for papers on Global Citizenship for the Peace Review Journal.

Kind regards
Brian Ward

Call for Essays: Global Citizenship

Application Deadline:15 April 2008

Peace Review, a Routledge/Taylor & Francis quarterly multidisciplinary transnational
journal of research and analysis, calls for original contributions, policy analysis and research for a special issue addressing the contested notions of citizenship. This special issue of Peace Review
will explore political, social and cultural struggles over the boundaries and substance of citizenship, both historically and today. It will also consider how social and political struggles surrounding
identity are interlinked with notions of citizenship and social justice. The issue will include essays by internationally acclaimed scholars, researchers and activists that address the complex
relationships among citizenship, identity and social justice.

For more information:

.

Dear HumanDHS network friends

Please find below a final call for papers for the May 2008 conference.

Kind regards
Brian Ward

Encounters and Intersections: Religion, Diaspora and Ethnicities
Conference – 9th-11th July, 2008,
St Catherine’s College, Oxford

This is a reminder that the final deadline for the submission of abstracts for the Conference below is 28 February. Abstracts of not more than 200 words should be emailed to me: k.a.roche[@]leeds.ac.uk. We will let you know by the end of March whether your abstract has been accepted.

Dear HumanDHS network friends

Please find here a link to the Report from a December 2007 conference on Understanding and Engaging With Diasporas.

Kind regards
Brian Ward

Dear HumanDHS network friends

Please find here a link to the article ‘The End of the Organisation?’

Maybe organisations are evolving into different forms (rather than ending) with equal dignity being the evolutionary driver!

Kind regards
Brian Ward

The End of the Organization?

By Michael C. Gilbert, February 7th, 2008

Introductory paragraph:

The predominant unit of interest in civil society has been and remains the organization, followed at a distance by the geographic community. Studies present their results in terms of the number of organizations that exhibit some pattern or other. Hundreds of millions of dollars have been invested both inside and outside of government to gather and present information about organizations. When people think of working in civil society, they think of working for an organization. When they think of contributing, they frame their choices in terms of which organizations they will volunteer for or donate to.

Dear HumanDHS network friends

Please find below information on a Round Table meeting on March 6th.

Kind regards
Brian Ward

MARCH ROUNDTABLE
The March Roundtable Breakfast will feature an exciting speaker from the international arena! Adair Linn Nagata, PhD, is Professor of Intercultural Communication at the Rikkyo University Graduate School of Intercultural Communication in Tokyo.

THANKS TO KATHY VAUGHAN who spoke in February on her experiences in Kenya. I’m hoping Alan Gross will do a brief summary of Kathy’s presentation when he returns from a trip out of town. But in the meantime, we wanted to let you know about Adair Nagata’s upcoming presentation!

MORE ABOUT MARCH ROUNDTABLE
Adair is currently researching non-verbal cuing in order to develop ways to help those who work with survivors of Domestic Violence to communicate more effectively and compassionately. This work, with two other colleagues Drs. Kiyoko Sueda and Junko Saruhashi, is being funded by a Japanese government grant.

She focuses on the process of attending to all aspects of the bodymind―body, emotions, mind, and spirit―in order to grasp the holistic personal meaning of an internal event and to use that understanding to communicate skillfully with diverse people in the moment.

Adair has lived in Japan since 1970 working in international education, corporate human resources (training and development, communication, and organizational development), and university teaching.

We begin to convene at 8:00 AM and promise to end the formal program at 9:30 AM, although speakers generally are able to stay for informal conversations until about 10:00 AM. The breakfast is in Room 610 at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, 899 Tenth Avenue (59th Street - take any subway to Columbus Circle and walk west).

There is no charge for the breakfast but we do ask you to let us know by return email if you plan to attend, so we have enough food!

Julie Denny
Resolutions
People talk…people listen…things change.
31 Poe Road
Princeton, NJ 08540
TEL 609-921-9021
FAX 609-921-2255
CELL 914-522-5214
www.resolutionsforyou.com