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Interactivity Foundation – Course Development Institute for Courses Using Student-Centered Discussion
Application deadline:  October 24, 2008; The Interactivity Foundation is accepting applications from college faculty interested in exploring its approach to student-centered discussion and civically engaged education.  The Foundation is a non-partisan non-profit devoted to greater citizen discussion and participation in the exploration and development of contrasting possibilities for future public policy.  We are seeking 10-12 faculty to attend our 2009 Summer Institute to be held August 1-9, 2009, on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  Participants will learn, practice, and help to refine the discussion process we are developing for use in college classrooms and in broader public discussions.  Faculty will receive a $5,000 honorarium for their participation, and the Foundation will cover the costs of travel, meals, and lodging. Following the Summer Institute, faculty will be invited to submit proposals for courses to be taught in the spring of 2010 at the participants’ home institutions.  Courses selected for funding will employ a student-centered discussion process to explore a range of perspectives on the course subject matter and its connection to civic life and public policy.  When the courses begin, faculty will receive an additional $5,000 honoraria.

Call for Papers: International Journal of Organizational Analysis: Special Issue of the Shaping Our Unscripted Future with Service-Learning; The goal of this special issue is to provide IJOA readers, as well as service-learning authors and practitioners, with an overview of the application and outcomes of service-learning as a teaching tool in today's rapidly changing environment. Deadline for submissions is September 26, 2008 

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FOR YOUR STUDENTS

Conference for Students of Political Science March 20, 2009, at Illinois State University, Normal IL; Undergraduate and graduate students are invited to submit papers for the 17th Conference for Students of Political Science. We welcome papers on any topic related to government and/or politics.  Panelists at the previous conferences included 750 students attending 100 colleges and universities.  Proposal deadline is February 8, 2009.

Graduate Student Conference on "Democracy and Democratization" 
The Political Science Department at the University of Connecticut invites you to participate in the first annual Graduate Student Conference on Democracy and Democratization to be held on February 27-28, 2009. The conference aims at bringing together graduate students from all sub-fields in Political Science, and other related fields. Participants will have the chance to present their research projects, exchange ideas and create a network of emerging democracy scholars. A cash award will be attributed to the best paper.  Proposal deadline is November 15, 2008.

Canadian Studies Conference: Graduate students and junior faculty members with a research interest in any aspect of Canadian politics are invited to present their academic papers at the 2008 Middle Atlantic & New England Council for Canadian Studies and Southern Association for Canadian Studies  Joint Conference, October 2–5, 2008, in Washington, DC. To help offset conference participants’ travel costs, MANECCS has established the Young Scholars Grant Program.

Call: Critique: a worldwide student journal of politics, is seeking submissions year round from both undergraduate and graduate students on ideas of democracy and justice.

Global Perspectives is an undergraduate international affairs journal edited and compiled by students from the Occidental College department of Diplomacy and World Affairs. We are now accepting submissions from all over the world. Check us out at http://tinyurl.com/2uhflw.   If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us at Perspectives@oxy.edu.