Harold White Fellowships close 30 April

National Library of Australia Harold White Fellowships 2009

Applications for 2010 Harold White Fellowships at the National Library of Australia are now open, and close on 30 April 2009.

Each year several Harold White Fellowships are awarded to enable established scholars and writers to undertake research at the National Library for periods of between three and six months. The Fellowships provide a return economy fare to Canberra, a living allowance, a fully equipped office and special access to Library collections and services.

Honorary Fellowships are also awarded to scholars and writers who do not require financial assistance but would benefit from other privileges associated with the Fellowship.

Research projects supported by Harold White Fellowships can be in any discipline or area in which the Library has strong collections. Past Harold White Fellows have undertaken research in fields including Asian studies, history of science, biography, media history, Australian history, musicology, religious history, anthropology, children’s literature, art history, politics, Indigenous history, Australian literature, Pacific studies, eighteenth century studies, geography, international relations and folklore. Past Fellows have included leading Australian creative writers including Frank Moorhouse, Sara Dowse and David Foster. Fellowships have been awarded to researchers working across Australia, in the USA, Canada, the UK, New Zealand, Hong Kong, China, Germany and South Africa.

More information, a link to the online application form, and contact details are available at www.nla.gov.au/grants/haroldwhite

Margy Burn, National Library of Australia

mburn@nla.gov.au

Teenage Mother/Child Welfare Conference

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:

• • Gain insights from top experts from around the country;
• Discover successful strategies, interventions, and initiatives
• Learn the latest facts and statistics, and about helpful resources.
• Capacity and skills-building sessions
• Exchange ideas with professionals who share your goals.
• Presentations by our sponsors and donors

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

Urban Crowds in History (and Beyond)

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

Got my diploma, at last!

After 30 years, I finally got a copy of my diploma! I went to the university belt this morning to get it.

I was adventurous today (besides I didn’t want to drive to save on gas), I took the LRT 2 or Purple Line. For me, this is the best managed, maintained, and operated mass rail transit system here. The passengers are also better disciplined than the ones on lines 1 (Baclaran-Rizal-Monumento) and 3 (Baclaran-North Edsa). No need to segregate the boys from the girls, which is something I don’t like, really, as done on lines 1 and 3. Maybe its because the passengers of line 3 are mostly students? Maybe?

I alighted from the Legarda station and took a leisurely walk to FEU. I’ve noticed that there really is a proliferation of Internet cafes. When I was studying back in the mid-70s, there were lots of beauty parlors in every street and corner. But now, they’re almost all gone and replaced by the cyber cafes.

I hope the students who patronize them are also researching and not just playing computer games.

The campus is better looking now than when I was still studying. It is cleaner and much more presentable. As for the service rendered by the employees, I didn’t want to spoil my day, so I kept an open mind. The system in the registrar’s office still s—s when it comes to serving the student-clients. I guess those who gave us a hard time in the past are still there, after 30 years?

Well I’m glad I got my credentials today. Hopefully, I won’t see the people in the registrar’s office any longer. And I’ll just go to FEU to reminisce the good, old days, 30 years ago today. O.whattalife!

Warning: For the general commuting public

For the general commuting public, maging driver ka man o hindi….

Three days ago my driver had an encounter in this area. After dropping me off at work, the driver was on the south bound lane of South Super Highway near the home along the riles housing (near Sunday Machine Works and Designer Depot). As he came to a full stop at the San Andres intersection stoplight, a man approached the car’s rear passenger side, grabbed the car’s antenna and broke it. The man remained beside the car, apparently waiting for the driver to get down and confront him. Fortunately, the driver remembered my dad’s warnings regarding these types of M.O.s and remained in the car. As the driver sped away, he noticed a group of men on the center island. It pays to be praning,
Sara
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Yes, I have witnessed a similar incident, maybe about a month ago, and reported it immediately to Police 117. A young man tried to open the passenger door of the taxi in front of me. About three or four girls were inside the taxi at that time. Fortunately, the door was locked. I pass this route coming from Malacanang every night. Fortunately for me too, my car is heavily tinted so I am not easy prey. I shall call 117 again. I suggest you do the same. Although I don’t know if that would really help.
Atty. Dara C. Acusar Assistant Secretary
Office of the Chief Presidential Legal Counsel
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A similar incident happened to me along Quirino Avenue somewhere between the Flying V gas station and Iglesia ni Kristo. 3 men approached my car IN BROAD DAYLIGHT! and SLOW TRAFFIC! and tried to open the back doors. Bumusina ako ng tuloy tuloy to BR ward them off. It’s scary ‘coz that area has no patrolling policemen. When they failed to open my car, they tried the other cars naman. I don’t know kung may nabuksan sila. Then yesterday, while the PMAP rally was going on along Buendia cor. Ayala, as I was about to cross that intersection, two of the rallyists tried to open my car doors again. Again in BROAD DAYLIGHT! WITH A POLICEMAN AROUND! Hay, what the world has come to. I suggest you lock up and make a lot of noise to at least rattle those thieves.
Judy
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mga tsong this really happend last wednesday, September sept. 10…. and i hope u would take time in reading this…….. I came from makati and was driving along south super highway (osmena hiway) going towards manila area, nung dumating ako sa maliit na bridge before the DESIGNER DEPOT, ung maliit na bazaar of clothes (corner quirino ave and osmena hiway) , if ur coming from makati and u took bu endia or pablo ocampo, mauuna ung bridge before DESIGNER DEPOT ung nasa harap ko is a gold honda civic, all of a sudden may mga lumabas na around 6 or 7 guys who obviously look like squatters who reside along the riles and biglang tinambangan ung civic, pinagsisipa, pinagyug-yug, pinagkukutkot ung susian and they were successful in opening the doors, tapos nagulat na lang ako isa isa nilang nilabas ung mga gamit na nasa loob nung civic cds, bags, etc. im not sure kung ung driver is a girl or a boy , pero ung driver tinutukan ng kutsilyo… in short parang kinuyob ung civic, btw, ako and ung civic during that time(mga 830 – 9 pm) ay nasa right most ng lane… meaning right side lang namin ung lakaran ng tao….. after robbing… they immediately jump off the bridge and went away….. dami nakakita nun pero isang taxi driver lang ang tumigil to check ung condition ng driver…. nga pala, may oner na nasa harap ng katabi ng civic, sakay ay mga pulis, 2 lang ata yun,,, naka purple na uniform (manila police)….. . i dont know kung nakita nila yung incident na yun….pero sa tingin ko naman makikita nila yun… natakot lang dahil 2 lang sila eh and their rusty pistols…. just a friendly warning mga tsong….. kung mag-isa kayo and mejo kita kayo sa loob ng kotse nyo (kahit ano pa yang kotse nyo, luma or bago) try to avoid muna if possible ung osmena hiway at night or better yet try to have another route kasi mejo nagpaparamdam na naman ung mga modus operandi na tulad nun dahil pasko na ulet. if any of u guys have contact sa manila police, paki inform naman sila or just spread this news…. its for all us naman eh… peace! ************ ********* ****
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Ingat kayo when passing through south super highway cor quirino ave. On our way home from Makati , we took buendia then turn right to south superhighway, it was only 8pm and it was drizzling. we were cruising fine but it was a slow moving traffic. right after san andres st, there are these buildings which are modern version of home along the riles (near the designers depot), my wife screamed because somebody was trying to open the car from her side. sensing that it was locked he moved to the back door and tried to open it likewise, we were stocked in traffic and i was stunned that i could not think of anything to do but just look at him. so when finally the traffic moved he also moved away casually tucking the gun in his belly and staring at me as if saying you are lucky you locked your door. thank GOD my wife is so makulit in reminding me to lock the door evertime we go. kaya to all you people beware of that place. Actually you should be alert & be cautious when passing through south superhighway all the way to nagtahan.
Karla Vanessa M. Redor
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Always better safe than sorry… forewarned is forearmed… mga bro ingat kayo run, malapit lang ako nakatira dun kaya talagang totoo yung mga sinasabi rito, karamihan ng mga tarantado diyan nde mismo taga ilalim ng tulay (tapat ng sunday machine works) ginagawa lang nila taguan yun at takasan, mostly ng tulisan diyan mga taga-riles from Fabie, taga-Texas, taga-Muñoz, taga-Mataas na Lupa at mismo taga-riles (batangas line). uso rin ang agaw cellphone jan tsaka holdapan sa jeep lalo na sa riles ingat din kayo sa parking lot ng Designer’s Depot kse yung iba doon naghahanap ng biktima (kase talagang madilim dun!) yan din ang isa sa mga reason kung bakit walang nakatira dun sa mga housing project na malapit dun dun sa tawiran sa kabila ng designers depot (yung maraming bata at totoy na nakatambay at yung iba nagbebenta ng sampaguita) wag din kayo tatawid dun dahil puro rugby boys and girls ang nakaupo run! ang masakit, walang ginagawa yung police detachment diyan! sana makatulong ng konti.

It’s that time of the semester

It’s that time of the semester when students cram (lessons and requirements) and teachers check (papers and projects)! I’m talking about the end of the first semester for academic year 2007-2008. These are trying times (for the students) and difficult ones (for the teachers), well at least for me specifically.

I have a soft heart and it really pains me to give a low grade, much more fail a student. As a parent, I know the sacrifices made to enable one to go to school. It is quite a waste to see students squandering time, effort and money for them to have a good education.

Overall, I’ve had a pretty good first semester. Although, I might fail a few or at least give them a fighting chance via an incomplete mark. And oh, by the way, I made a student cry today. O.whattalife!