CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Journal of Multidisciplinary Research at Trent (JMRT) 2019

If you are interested in publishing your research in the Journal of Multidisciplinary Research at Trent (JMRT), a peer-reviewed, open-access journal for graduate students, we are currently in the process of collecting original articles to be published in our second volume.

Submit your manuscript online until April 30, 2019 to be published on the JMRT online platform at the end of summer 2019 term. For author guidelines and further details, please see our Submissions page. 

JMRT was founded in 2017 with the goal of showcasing the research of graduate students using an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approach, locally and nationally. Our journal is designed to help graduate students learn to write scientific publications and get accustomed to the review and journal production process.

This opportunity is open to all graduate students and supervisors from Canadian universities.

CALL FOR PAPERS: E3 Graduate Student Symposium

Are you a current graduate student studying defence and security issues in Canada?

The Balsillie School of International Affairs, in partnership with the CDA Institute, are hosting the annual E3 (Engage, Exchange, Educate) Graduate Student Symposium (GSS) from May 6-8, 2019 in Waterloo, Ontario.  The E3 is the signature component of the CDA Institute’s Student Engagement Programme, for the cultivation of the next generation of Canadian security and defence scholars and public service leaders. Approximately 80 graduate students working toward their Master’s or Doctoral degrees in the fields of foreign policy, security, and defence are invited to participate.

This is a great opportunity to showcase your work and obtain valuable feedback.

The deadline to apply is March 8, 2019.

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CALL FOR PAPERS: Happily Ever After 13th Annual Legal Studies Graduate Conference

Carleton University’s Department of Law and Legal Studies is pleased to invite you to the 13th Annual Legal Studies Graduate Conference, to be held March 12, 2019.

The conference continues to strive to create a welcoming space for students, faculty, and community members to develop intellectual thought and conversation. All are welcome to attend.  Presenters are encouraged to present or previous papers and ongoing research, such as dissertation/thesis chapters, term papers, or ongoing work.

Submissions: Deadline February 8, 2019

Submissions are welcome for individual papers, panels, poster presentations, art installations and video presentations. All submissions should include your full name, institutional affiliation, the type of presentation proposed and an email address.

Please include a title, an abstract of up to 250 words, and up to five keywords that best describe your proposed presentation. If submitting as part of a panel, please identify the title of your panel and accompanying presentations in the body of your email.

We encourage submissions from wide-ranging disciplinary backgrounds by presenting on the craft that goes into both laws and stories, the fairy-tale and fallacy of just outcomes, and representation. Paper topics may include, but are not limited to:

• Socio-legal analyses of pop-culture, film, fiction, myths, and literature
• Consequential endings, ongoing stories, utopias, and dystopias
• Legal narratives and storytelling
• Cliffhangers, climaxes, and To Be Continued...
• Feminist and queer futures, interpretations, and retellings
• Allegory and symbolism in stories and law
• Indigenous legal narratives and justice
• Affect and the role of emotions in law and governance
• Finding legal tropes and the genres of law
• Afrofuturism, critical race theory and constructing ‘ever after’

Please send your abstract in .doc or .pdf format to taryn.hepburn@carleton.ca with Happily Ever After? in the subject line on or before February 25, 2019.

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS – 2019 Award for Outstanding Graduate Mentorship

CAGS is delighted to announce its call for applications for the 2019 Award for Outstanding Graduate Mentorship. This award recognizes graduate faculty members with a record of outstanding mentorship of graduate students under their supervision.

Outstanding mentors inspire their graduate students to be creative in their thinking, to push their research in new directions, and to make a positive impact on the future. They are essential to graduate student success – in the classroom, the laboratory and beyond.

CAGS is committed to showcasing the hard work and dedication of Canada’s most outstanding mentors. We need your help to find them! We cordially invite applications for the 2019 Award for Outstanding Graduate Mentorship.

For more information regarding the prize, eligibility, and the nomination process, please visit our WEBSITE. 

All nominations for this award must be submitted to the School of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies by February 7, 2019.

Competition closes at 5:00 p.m., February 15, 2019!

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: Western Research Forum 2019

The SOGS Academic Committee is proud to host the annual Western Research Forum (WRF) on March 22, 2019 (half-day event).

As a free, university-wide interdisciplinary conference, we offer all graduate students the opportunity to present their work to researchers from various fields. We are now accepting abstract submissions for the 2019 Western Research Forum. All research projects are welcome, including studies at the proposal stage or in progress.

Graduate students, please submit your abstract using your Scholarship@Western account at https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/wrf/2019/ on or before January 16, 2019.  On the sidebar menu, under “Author Corner”, select “Submit Abstract”. To create a Scholarship@Western account, please click HERE and select "Sign up".

Benefits to presenting at the Western Research Forum include:

• Developing your oral communication skills and building your CV.
• The opportunity to communicate your research to a larger audience and gain valuable feedback.
• Cash prizes available for best presentations!

CALL FOR PAPERS — Justice, Crime and Deviance: Regional Graduate Research and Networking Conference 2019

Wilfrid Laurier University's Brantford campus will be hosting the seventh annual Justice, Crime and Deviance: Regional Graduate Research and Networking Conference on Saturday, March 30, 2019.

This interdisciplinary conference will provide a platform for graduate students to share their completed and ongoing research endeavours related to justice, crime, and deviance, while also providing valuable peer-networking opportunities.

At this time, we invite graduate students to submit paper and poster abstracts by Friday, January 25, 2019.

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SUBMIT YOUR PROPOSAL! The Robert Macmillan Symposium in Education

The Robert Macmillan Symposium in Education (RMSE) is accepting proposal submissions until December 16, 2018!

The symposium will be hosted by Western University’s Faculty of Education on Friday, March 29, 2019. The theme of this year’s event is Diversity in education pedagogy: Mobilizing knowledge for the education of all. We welcome all research relating to education. 

Our goal is to showcase and support education-related projects, conceptual research, and inquiries in progress for graduate students. You will have the opportunity to engage in meaningful dialogues with peers and faculty and get feedback on education-related research through poster presentations, roundtable presentations, paper presentations and other creative forums. 

Check out our WEBSITE where you can peruse programs from previous years, discover the most current details about the Symposium, submit an abstract for paper/poster/roundtable presentations, and register online.

International Student Congress Of (bio)Medical Sciences (ISCOMS) 2019: Call for Abstracts

Are you conducting (bio)medical research and are you interested in presenting your work on an international platform? Or are you simply interested in learning about the latest (bio)medical research?

The International Student Congress Of (bio)Medical Sciences (ISCOMS) is one of the world’s leading student congresses in the field of (bio)medical sciences. Last year, 959 participants from more than 50 countries attended the 25th edition of ISCOMS. This year, the 26th edition will take place from June 3 -7, 2019 in Groningen, the Netherlands.

Students can visit the congress both as a presenting and non-presenting participant. ISCOMS offers a scientific programme with a pre-course on mastering your research, student presentation sessions (plenary, oral, and poster), workshops and a surgical operation. You can also acquire information on working and performing research in Groningen during our networking lunch, which gives you the opportunity to integrate with companies interested in recruiting ambitious biomedical students.

SUBMIT YOUR ABSTRACT

E-mail: iscoms@umcg.nl | Website: www.iscoms.com | Facebook: www.facebook.com/iscoms

ERASMUS CALL FOR PROPOSALS 2019: International Funding Opportunities for Canadian Students

Erasmus + is open to Canadian students, institutions and youth organizations, and offers a range of specific opportunities including:

1. International Credit Mobility (ICM)
   Providing short-term study scholarships (3-12 months) in a participating European University counting towards a degree back home. To participate, students must check if their own university (international office) has an international credit mobility agreement with corresponding universities in the EU.
2. Erasmus Mundus Joint Master or Doctoral Degrees (EMJMD)
   These offer full scholarships to complete a full master or doctoral degree offered by a consortia of European universities.
3. Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellowship Programme
   Funding provision for up to 3,000 PhD scholarships per year in Europe. There are vacancies all year round and Canadian candidates should apply directly to the projects published on the Erasmus+ website.
4. Erasmus+ for Higher Education Institutions - Higher Education Institutions may apply for funding to join consortia of European partners to offer:
   -Joint Master Degrees (as partners)
   -Developing joint degrees of exceptional quality open to students from all over the world.
   -Credit Mobility
5. Jean Monnet Activities (replacing EU Centres of Excellence) provides funding to support the teaching and research of EU studies worldwide.
   Jean Monnet grants continue to support actions and activities in the fields of education, training and youth. Since 2007, there have been 49 successful projects selected for Jean Monnet funding in Canada.

For more information, contact Melanie N. Katsivo, PhD, Cert.APM, International Research Officer & Adjunct Research Professor, PaLM, Western University, at mkatsivo@uwo.ca or 519-661-2111 ext. 82861.

Call for Proposals - Graduate Student Conference - March 14, 2019

The Centre for International Peace and Security Studies (CEPSI-CIPSS) from Université de Montréal and McGill University, in collaboration with the Centre for International Policy Studies (CEPI-CIPS) from University of Ottawa, is happy to announce the next edition of their annual graduate student conference.

This year, the conference will be held at Université de Montréal, on March 14, 2019. This multidisciplinary and bilingual conference will focus on the following theme: “The actors of International Relations: Legitimacy, Solidarity and Contestation”.

We hereby invite graduate students to submit their communication proposals for this event.  The submission procedure can be downloaded HERE.

Please note that the deadline for submitting communication proposals is December 10, 2018 at 23:59.

All the information regarding the conference can be found HERE.