News

• In 2009-2010, APUO (Association of Professors of the University of Ottawa) will fund between 50-60 awards of $1000 each. Application forms are available on line: www.apuo.ca/Info/studentaward/bourses.htm, at the APUO office (room 348, University Centre) and at the Financial Aid and Awards Service (1st floor, University Centre). The application forms are to be returned to the APUO office or the Financial Aid and Awards Service. Download the requirements for eligibility
• On September 2, 3 and 4, the University of Antilles-Guyane (UAG), which is established in Guadeloupe, Martinique, and French Guiana, three French overseas departments, hosted a multidisciplinary delegation from the University of Ottawa.
• The Centre Training and Awards Program (CTAP) is the focal point of training within IDRC and combines policy, management, and service functions for IDRC-funded training awards. By supporting academic study and offering opportunities for hands-on experience, IDRC: helps countries of the South gain a critical mass of trained and experienced researchers to promote sustainable and equitable development in their regions; gives a new generation of Canadians an opportunity to participate actively in international development issues and to consider careers in this field.
• In the hopes of joining the fight for women's rights and the fight for their well-being, Stephanie Lapensee, a student at the School of International Development and Global Studies at the University of Ottawa, has created a non-profit Initiative which organizes benefit concerts and events all around the world. This Initiative will hold it's first benefit concert in Los Angeles on June 26th in the hopes of contributing to the work of the International Initiative on Maternal Mortality and Human Rights.
• The Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute published an article on the public lecture given by Najat M. Nag, Managing General Director, Asian Development Bank, on April 23.
• The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) has recently announced grant recipients for 2009. The Council supports research projects that address important issues of intellectual, social, economic and cultural significance. Congratulations to our colleagues:

  Paul Haslam, professor at the SIDGS, who received a regular research grant of $82,000 for his project “Norms of Engagement: The Micro-Politics of Corporate Citizenship in Latin America.”

  Alberto Flórez-Malagón, professor jointly affiliated with the SIDGS and the Department of History, who received a regular research grant of $52,000 for his project "Many 'Norths', Many 'Souths,' Representations of the Foreign and Social Differentiation in Colombia, 1900-1970."
  

Upcoming events

• November 23: Public Lecture entitled "Women’s empowerment and aid effectiveness in Afghanistan" given by Jennifer Rowell, CARE’s Advocacy Coordinator.

Key Dates

Please consult the International webpage of the Faculty of Social Sciences to find out about the key dates for the international internships programs.

Publications

• October 9 2009: Professor Gordon Betcherman published an article entitled "Don't Expect Jobs To Come Back Any Time Soon" in the Ottawa Citizen.
• October 4 2009: Professor Nipa Banerjee published an article titled "The UN Has Abandoned Democracy" in the Ottawa Citizen.
• August 21 2009: Professor Nipa Banerjee gave an interview on the Afghanistan election on the CBC show As It Happens.
• August 20 2009: Professor Nipa Banerjee published an article titled "Fear and Apathy" in the Ottawa Citizen.
• August 15 2009: Professor Nipa Banerjee writes about the death of three aid workers in Afghanistan in "Too Soon Forgotten," Ottawa Citizen.
• July 22 and 8 2009: John Sinclair, Senior Fellow at the SIDGS, has published two articles on the G8 and G20, one entitled "Will Canada Seize G8 Leadership?" and the other " Is the G8 Tomorrow's Dinosaur?" in the Embassy - Canada's Foreign Policy Newspaper.
• July 11 2009: Professor Nipa Banerjee writes about the situation in Kabul on the eve of the presidential election in " The Shine is off democracy in Afghanistan" published in the Ottawa Citizen.
• July 2009: Professor Susan Spronk published an article entitled "We Want Partners, Not Bosses: Returning Oil, Gas to State Control" in the journal FOCAL Point.
• June 2009: Spronk, Susan (professor of the SIDGS.) “Water Sector: Latin America,” Research Report, Municipal Services Project, University of Greenwich, London, UK, June 15-17,
• May 27 2009: Nasser Ary Tanimoune, from the School of International Development and Globalisation, gave an interview to Les carnets internationaux de la 401 on Radio-Canada Région Ontario, about the rental of millions of hectares of arable land in Africa to foreign businesses. (interview in French)
• May 16 2009: Professor Nipa Banerjee's article entitled "Role of NGOs in Post-Taliban Afghanistan: Missed Opportunities But Way Forward" has been published in the Asia Briefs Journal of the Maxwell School of International Affairs of Syracuse University.
• April 15 2009: John Sinclair, Senior Fellow at the SIDGS, published a new article on the G20 summit in the journal Embassy.
• April 1 2009: John Sinclair, Senior Fellow, published an article entitled "Can the New Club Get It Right in London?" in the April 1st edition of the Embassy Newspaper.
• April 2009: Paul Alexander Haslam and Edison Rodrigues Barreto, Jr., “Worlds Apart: Canadian and Brazilian Multilateralism in Comparative Perspective” Canadian Foreign Policy , Vol. 15, No. 1: 1-20, Spring 2009.
• March 2009: Haiti-Brazil Colloquium; the report entitled "De la stabilisation et la reconstruction au développement. Enjeux pour Haïti, le Brésil et le Canada." is online.
• January 15 2009: Paul Alexander Haslam, “Is There a Post-Neoliberal Policy towards Foreign Direct Investment in Argentina and Chile?” (Chapter 7) in Laura MacDonald and Arne Ruckert, eds., Post-neoliberalism in the Americas (Houndsmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), pp 120-134.
• 2009: Spronk, Susan (professor of the SIDGS.) "Making the Poor Work for their Services: Neoliberalism and ‘Pro-Poor’ Privatisation in El Alto, Bolivia" Canadian Journal of Development Studies 28 (3-4): 397-413
• December 2008: El poder de la carne: Historias de ganaderías en la primera mitad del siglo XX en Colombia (The Power of Meat. Livestock Histories in Colombia during the First Part of The Twentieth Century), Alberto G. Flórez-Malagón, editor (professor of the SIDGS) published by Editorial Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Columbia, 2008.