January 2008

• Writing! #

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• Just submitted all of my tax information…letting the accountant take care of everything, and its off to the IRS! #
• Waiting to hear back from AAA.net on the borders proposal. #
• What does it really mean to not be so academic in one’s language? Another example of my over and under qualifications? #
• Gotta go home and draft a propsal on borders! #

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• Just submitted all of my tax information…letting the accountant take care of everything, and its off to the IRS! #
• Waiting to hear back from AAA.net on the borders proposal. #
• What does it really mean to not be so academic in one’s language? Another example of my over and under qualifications? #
• Gotta go home and draft a propsal on borders! #

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Join us for a working discussion about race and sexuality. This event will serve to create awareness of issues of people of color who come out as LGBTQ. Everyone is welcome. Refreshments will be served.

Thursday, January 31
4:00-5:30
Lecture Center B2 (Latino Cultural Center)
750 S Halsted St

For more information about this event or to request disability accommodations please contact adubal2@uic.edu or 773-563-4119.

This event is being sponsored by the Office of Women’s Affairs, Asian Human Services, and the Latino Cultural Center, and coordinated by UIC PRIDE, The Office of GLBT Concerns, and Asian American Coalition Committee.

• wondering what’s wrong w/ my blackberry pearl! #
• Just exchanged my pearl for a new one. Perhaps it was a "lemon." I’m back in the [bb] world now! #
• My Mac buddy is pushing his iphone #
• Following tavis smiley’s comments on twitter #
• McCain wants to overturn Roe v. Wade but we need to know just how far he’ll go to do that. If he were to become president, would he nomi … #
• Back home and still waiting for a decision. Whet’s plan B if it doesn’t work out? #

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CALL FOR PAPERS
International & Interdisciplinary Conference HUMAN RIGHTS, INDIVIDUALISM & GLOBALIZATION April 10-12, 2008, Sponsored by the Center for Spirituality, Ethics & Global Awareness And the Bethany College School of Arts & Sciences, Bethany College, West Virginia.

Suggested Topics
* Cultural Narcissism
* Alienable vs. Inalienable Human Rights
* Documenting Human Rights Abuse
* The Law & Practice of Human Rights
* Abolition of Slave Trade
* Refugees & Forced Migration
* Nationalism & Ethnicity
* Diplomacy & Human Rights
* Human Rights & Religious Expression
* Communications of Terror
* Human Rights & Globalization
* Democracy
* Political Rights & Human Rights
* Democracy & Political Activism
* NGOS & Political Rights
* Rights of Women
* Rights of Children
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Please send a 150 word abstract to HumanRightsProposal@ideologiesofwar.com

DEADLINE FOR RECEIPT OF ABSTRACT: FEBRUARY 29, 2008.

For additional information about the conference go to: http://www.bethanywv.edu/internationalconferences

Conference Organizer: Dr. Chandana Chakrabarti, Professor of Philosophy Director, Center for Spirituality, Ethics & Global Awareness: 304-829-7525.
* Human Rights & Diversity in the Workplace
* Human Rights & Labor Exploitation
* Human Rights & the Environment
* War Crimes & Terror
* Transnational Politics & Globalization
* Gandhi’s’ view on Globalization
* Poverty & Globalization
* Globalization as a Sophisticated Form of Colonization
* Outsourcing
* Capitalism & Worker’s Union
* Anti-terrorists Measures & International Human Rights
* Gangs
* Violence Crime & Security
* Racism & the Multicultural Self
* Social Responsibility & Labor Rights
* Objectivist Framework of Individualism
* Privacy Rights & Communication Technology

Selected papers from the conference will be published.

There will also be an undergraduate research paper competition. Please encourage your students to join the competition. There will be an aware for the best undergraduate paper.