The entire planet has a new enemy—swine flu. I just hope this is a mild one because we don’t need more problems right now. We are still in the doldrums with the financial crisis and the recession. Nature is really beginning to get back at us. We must pray harder for all these to pass!
The New York Teen Pregnancy Network upholds the international agreements to protect lives: including the Unborn and the protection of teenage mum and Prevention of Teenage Pregnancy. The most important of which is the 1998 Convention on the Rights to live. The convention recognizes a range of rights related to human protection, and calls upon countries to honor their obligations to uphold these rights.
The Convention is the most widely ratified human rights treaty in the world. To make further progress on these commitments, The New York Teen Pregnancy Network invites, Youth organizations, Socio-Cultural Organizations, Community Based Organizations, Educators, Scholars, Researchers, Health Organizations, Professionals, Business Organizations, Decision makers in the public and private sector, Representatives of Governmental and Non-Governmental organizations (NGO’S), Religious organizations, Human Right Organizations & Women Groups
Date: 30th June – 4th July 2009
Venue: Herencia Hotel Eastrop Way, Basingstoke, Hants, RG21 4QD Hampshire, London, United Kingdom.
Theme:: ” Teenage Mother/Child Welfare Conference “
This conference will bring together an almost 800 representatives of NGO’s/CBO’s and numerous numbers of interested individual participants from all over the world. The conference will be conducted on participatory bases with satellite plenary and simultaneous sessions followed by general and small group discussions.
SPONSORSHIP: The conference receives financial support from Bank HSBC Bank London, the United Nations Health Commission and Ford Foundation USA. This sponsorship covers the following:
1. Return airplane travel ticket for selected delegates from their home country to venue of event in London (United Kingdom) and back to their home country.
(2) Medical insurance cover for delegates throughout the entire conference duration.
The New York Teen Pregnancy Network will not assume responsibility of any other cost, other than those listed above. Participants will bear responsibility for their own accommodation cost
NOMINATION AND SELECTION OF PARTICIPANTS: Intending participants are requested to nominate between two (2) to five (5) active members to participate, age bracket between 21 years and above. In order to foster gender balance, we would appreciate if your delegation includes one or two female participant(s).
REGISTRATION/INQUIRIES:
For purpose of registration to participate in this Conferences, contact: donaldrobert@email.com
The program will include:
In addition to the main program, the meeting will also host book launches, artistic and cultural activities and, as with all NY Teen Pregnancy’s events, plenty of space and opportunity for informal networking and alliance-building.
All sessions will have interpretation into English and French. Meet us in London to assert a new change for a stronger society. Contact me for more details, the deadline for application is as set by the Organizing Committee.
Herencia Hotel Eastrop Way, Basingstoke, Hants, RG21 4QD Hampshire, London, United Kingdom.
0705487541
Email: malcolm.jawal@yahoo.co.uk
Posted in Conference, Culture, Family, Gender, Students
Tagged pregnancy, society, teenage mothers
An international and interdisciplinary conference to be held October 15-17, 2009, University of Tours, France. Crowds, and more specifically urban crowds, have long been a favorite topic for human and social sciences, before fading out from recent research. Is this due to the fact that we have been moving on from an ‘age of the masses’ to an ‘age of the individual’? Indeed, if there is a wealth of studies of crowds at various turning points in history, we lack studies trying to bypass the canonical chronological boundaries and to develop a fruitful interdisciplinary dialogue among the social sciences. Crowds are understood here as encompassing political, cultural and religious gatherings, either in a paroxistical form (riots, collective celebration) or in a more subdued, ordinary, form (social networks), as well as collective practices shared by a score of individuals. These collective practices bring crowds to invest the city as its major theatre; crowd action is an addition of individual gestures, postures, behaviors, slogans, cries, screams…, the modalities and temporalities of which deserve a study in their own right. This conference is aiming at an approach which combines history, sociology, anthropology, social psychology, or literary studies of urban crowds. Possible themes include, but are not limited to: – theoretical approaches of ‘the crowd’ from the angle of various social sciences –anthropology, social psychology, political science… – or literary representations; – when does a crowd become a ‘crowd’, i.e., when does a gathering of people come to be seen – and whom by ? – as a ‘crowd’? Does it change in space and/or time ? – crowds in urban environments, their means of acting, positioning in, and negociating urban space; – the various types of crowds : sports crowd, festive crowd, protesting crowd, consumerist crowd (Christmas shopping, the sales…), etc.; their behaviour, with particular attention to chants, speeches, slogans; – crowd leaders, their means, methods and results; – the influence of ‘populism’ on the masses; – crowd movements relate to social and political passions; – the means of checking and controlling crowds ; – the influence of power institutions on gathering crowds and, in return, the influence of gathered crowds on the powers that created them.
The conference committee will be pleased to welcome 300-word abstracts no later than May 30, 2009. Please include a CV or resume. Selected applicants will be notified by June 30, 2009. Please send abstracts to Dr. Christine Bousquet : christinebousquet@gmail.com, Prof. Philippe Chassaigne : philchassaigne@gmail.com, Prof. Stéphane Corbin : stephmagcorbin@wanadoo.fr.
A selection of papers presented during the Conference will be published in a special issue of Mana. Revue de sociologie et d’anthropologie (University of Caen, France).
Prof. Philippe Chassaigne
Dept. of History
University of Tours
3 rue des Tanneurs
37000 Tours
France
Email: philchassaigne@gmail.com
Posted in Academe, Conference, Culture, Gender, Media, Students
Tagged history, interdisciplinary, social sciences, university of tours, urban crowds
The Harvard Graduate Student Conference in International History (ConIH) announces its 8th annual conference, March 14-15, 2008, taking place in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
This year’s topic is “Gender in International History.” The call for papers and additional information are available on our website: www.fas.harvard.edu/~conih.
Proposals are due November 16, 2007
E-mail: conih@fas.harvard.edu
Posted in Gender
