This Week @ FPA – February 25, 2013
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| Spotlight on … Fiona Robinson | |||
FPA in the news |
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Catherine Solyom: Rally against Bill 14 a blast from the past; Organizers hope francophones will attend |
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| Bruce Hicks, a political scientist at Carleton University in Ottawa, said to the Montreal Gazette that there are French leaders in Quebec who are equally dissatisfied with the priming of language and culture, and the renewal of the PQ and talk of sovereignty. | |||
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Kathryn Blaze Carlson: Province must address soaring public sector wages to slay deficit, new study says |
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| Stanley Winer, the Canada Research Chair and Professor in Public Policy at Carleton University, said to the National Post “it’s not a silly idea” in principle but cautioned there are myriad difficulties with taking such “radical action” in reality. | |||
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Jim Bronskill: RCMP spied on Liberal finance minister Gordon |
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| The file substitutes ill-informed innuendo for a thoughtful reading of Gordon’s beliefs and political approach, said Stephen Azzi, a Carleton University professor of political management who has written a biography of Gordon. “Gordon himself was a pillar of the Canadian establishment,” said Azzi to the Ottawa Citizen. | |||
FPA in focus |
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Obama’s State of the Union: A Canadian primer iPolitics Insight |
| What’s a SOTU, you ask? Distinguished senior fellow at NPSIA, Colin Robertson, lays out what it is, how it happens, and what President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address might mean for Canada. More… | |
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Religious freedom? This office is about ethnic votes |
| David Carment, a Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute fellow and editor of the Canadian Foreign Policy Journal at Carleton University, says “The appointment of Andrew Bennett, an obscure bureaucrat turned academic from a small religious school in Ottawa, to lead the Office of Religious Freedom in the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) is part of the Conservative government’s one-two punch to capture the ethnic-minority vote. More… |
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Women, power and media |
| According to Dwayne Winseck, Professor at the School of Journalism and Communication at Carleton University, 58 per cent of all currently enrolled undergraduate students are women, whereas women are on average only represent 22 percent of media Boards of Directors or executive management. More… |
Spotlight on . . . |
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Carleton Politics Professor Hosts Research SymposiumFiona Robinson, Professor with the Department of Political Science and recipient of the 2012 FPA Research Excellence Award hosts the 2013 Research Award Symposium: Women’s Health, Global Health: Ethics, Power and Politics. She will lecture on “The Ethics and Politics of Women’s Health in Global Health Governance” and that will be followed by three panel discussions throughout the day. This is a far-reaching research symposium that will inform all aspects of the laws and societal pressures that govern the state of women’s rights around the world today and the direction forward. Register today HERE |
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CSDSTrials and Tribulations: Lessons and Legacies of 20 Years of the UN International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) The Deconstruction of Mass Atrocity Prevention: A Roundtable Discussion CESResearch seminar ~ Arthur Benz ~ European Integration and the Changing System of Parliaments ODFPABagels & Banter – Terrorism, Security & Society, with Professor Littlewood Author Meets Readers featuring Alternative Media in Canada 2013 Research Award Symposium – Women’s Health, Global Health: Ethics, Power and Politics EconomicsBrown Bag Seminar – Fibonacci, Pacioli, and the slow diffusion of knowledge Law & Legal StudiesJurisTalk: Where did Criminology come from? SPPAI&D Talk: Mining and First Nations in Canada: Risks and Opportunities Env Policy & Econ speaker series |
FPA Announcements |
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Got Books?FPA is always on the lookout for books for our display case. If you have written a book or chapter of a book, or edited a book or chapter of a book, that has been published in 2012, send a copy to the Dean’s office so we can include these accomplishments in future editions of This Week@FPA.
Three Minute Thesis (3MT) goes on March 26-27, 2013!There will be an Information Session for all interested participants on Feb. 11 from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. in 2017 Dunton Tower. Go HERE for more information
TW@FPA is now weeklyThere will be no TW@FPA during reading week – the next issue will be delivered Feb 25, 2013. |
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