PJSA Calendar of Events

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April 15-16, 2010
International (Dis)order and Violence in the Twenty-first Century
Third Global Nonviolence Student Conference
Hosted by: Mahatma Gandhi Center for Global Nonviolence
James Madison University
www.jmu.edu/gandhicenter/
Conference: The JMU Gandhi Center invites graduate students from all around the world to submit papers for its Third Biennial Nonviolence Student Conference. Within the broad conference theme, papers are invited in every discipline in the humanities and social sciences, especially those areas of research that have cross-disciplinary relevance to the emerging field of Gandhi Studies.


April 30, 2010--May 2, 2010
War & Peace
7th Global Conference
Prague, Czech Republic
R.Brecher@bton.ac.uk
Conference: What Counts as War; What Counts as Peace? The 2010 conference is part of a continuing and explicitly multi- and inter-disciplinary conversation that aims to bring together people from a wide range of disciplines to focus on this centrally significant aspect of our social lives in order better to understand the nature and place of war and peace.


May 30, 2010--June 4, 2010
NAFSA 2010 Conference
Kansas City, MO
www.nafsa.org/annualconference/default.aspx
Conference: NAFSA\'s 2010 Annual Conference & Expo is the single best place to explore the changing landscape of global higher education today. Thousands of international educators from around the country and the world will come together in Kansas City to share their views on the globalization of higher education and establish good practices for mainstreaming international education on campuses worldwide.


June 2-5, 2010
Reducing Social Harms
: Seeking 'Just Living' in Our Communities & Our Selves
Hosted by: University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN
www.justicestudies.org
Conference: The 12th conference of the Justice Studies Association focuses on just living, and encourages participants to incorporate elements of “reflexivity” into their observations of social justice. Presenters should situate themselves in their work, teaching, research, writing, or activism -- wherever it takes place. Proposal are due by March 5.


June 13-18, 2010
Teaching Peace in the 21st Century
Hosted by: University of Notre Dame
kroc.nd.edu/newsevents/events/2010/06/13/614
Conference: The Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies invites teams of college and university faculty from any field to apply to its 2nd Annual Summer Institute for Faculty in Peace Studies Program Development. This intensive week-long ‘summer camp’ will bring together small teams of academics who want to launch or strengthen a peace studies program. Applications are due by March 1.


July 6-10, 2010
IPRA-2010
\"Communicating Peace\"
Hosted by: University of Sydney
Australia
www.iprasydney2010.org/About_conference.html
Conference: The International Peace Research Association meets at their conference to: assess conflict and peacebuilding; discuss state of the art peace research; and influence the practice of violence prevention. Invited speakers include Professor Johan Galtung, founder of the TRANSCEND network; and Professor Muhammad Yunus, Nobel and Sydney Peace Prize Laureate.


July 15-17, 2010
“Toward a More Socially Responsible Psychology”
Hosted by: Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis
Boston, MA
www.psysr.org/conference2010
Conference: Join Psychologists for Social Responsibility to explore the mixed influences of psychology in both advancing and restraining the promotion of peace, social justice, human rights, and sustainability. Topics include: psychology and nonviolent action; building an effective anti-war movement; peacebuilding principles; and psychology’s role in addressing climate change. Proposals are due March 1.


August 1-7, 2010
Peacebuilding Peacelearning Intensive
Hosted by: Wilmington College; National Peace Academy
Wilmington, Ohio
www.nationalpeaceacademy.us
Other: This week-long Intensive is designed for individuals and organizations who hope to launch new peacebuilding and change initiatives or enhance existing efforts. Participants will be coached in the design and development of a strategic peacebuilding plan that they will take back to and implement in their community or initiate in an organization they already work with.


October 0, 2010
Gandhi-King Conference
Hosted by: Christian Brothers University
Memphis, TN
www.gandhikingconference.org/
Conference: The Gandhi-King Conference on Peacemaking is a three-day conference bringing together modern visionaries on nonviolence and social change with community leaders, activists, academics and organizers to train, learn, plan and organize to create a culture of liberation and justice for all.


October 1-2, 2010
Building Bridges, Crossing Borders: Gender, Identity, and Security in the Search for Peace
PJSA 8th Annual Conference
Hosted by: Menno Simons College and the Global College
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
http://www.peacejusticestudies.org
Conference: This year’s conference will be held on the campuses of both Canadian Mennonite University and the University of Winnipeg in downtown Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada on October 1-2, 2010, which marks the 10th anniversary of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace, and Security and the 150th birth anniversary of Jane Addams.