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4th Annual Symposium on Service Learning & Civic Engagement
Advancing the Engagement Agenda through Campus and Community Collaboration

June 12, 2008; Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

The Symposium provides a forum for scholarly discussion of issues, perspectives, and best practices in service learning. It also facilitates the exchange of information and ideas on innovative civic engagement strategies and programs.

You are invited to submit proposals for 50-minute seminar/workshop sessions or poster presentations, which should (a) review research findings, (b) analyze best practices in service learning/civic engagement, or (c) discuss the “how to” of campus-community collaboration.

Proposal submission deadline: March 21, 2008 .

For further information, please visit the Symposium Web site – http://www.wcu.edu/studentd/service_learning/symposium/index.html – or contact Glenn Bowen, gbowen@email.wcu.edu

Knowledge in Motion, 2008 NEW!

October 16-18, 2008, St. Johns, Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada
CALL FOR PAPERS

This international conference will explore how higher education institutions (HEIs) mobilize knowledge to affect regional development. Regional Development is understood here in a holistic sense as contributing to the economic, social and/or cultural well-being of citizens at the local or regional (sub-national) level. They are interested in any ways in which research, teaching and practice create and apply knowledge with a social, economic, cultural, environmental, or health impact.

This conference will not only be about knowledge mobilization, it will itself involve knowledge mobilization. To that end they need your help in building the program. They hope to present a range of content illustrating different processes and practices used to mobilize knowledge for an identified regional development-related goal. They want lessons from faculty, staff, and students in colleges and universities, as well as from individuals, communities and organizations that work with HEIs (or want to!).

They are looking for good stories and good storytellers who can help us all better understand the dynamics of mobilizing knowledge to help develop our communities and regions for the benefit of their residents. They are interested in all presentation  formats. You may have a research paper to present or a multimedia presentation to give. You  could propose to organize a panel of multiple presentations, or a roundtable discussion. Propose an issue and a framework for debate. A site visit or a game; an interview or an interactive theatre piece will all be fine, as long as they illuminate how knowledge is shared by HEIs from the inside-out, how partners develop and share knowledge from the outside-in, or how HEIs and partners build knowledge together.

Submissions received on or before March 31, 2008 will be reviewed by the conference program committee and proponents will be notified by April 30th. For more information, visit http://www.mun.ca/harriscentre/Conferences_Workshops/KM2008/KIM.php

The Fifth Annual Urban Service-Learning Institute and The First Urban Service-Learning Symposium.

June 26-27, 2008, Saint Paul, MN

CALL FOR PAPERS NEW!

The1st Urban Service-Learning Symposium's objective is to establish mechanisms for building institutional capacity in service-learning and civic engagement activities in urban communities.

The symposium will include plenary sessions and a paper and poster session. Plenary Sessions: Lead by experts in the field of urban education and service-learning in urban communities, these sessions will give participants an opportunity to hear current trends, and learn about research and best practices underway in the field of urban service-learning.

Breakout Paper and Poster Session: An opportunity for practitioners and researchers to share work from the field. Invitation to Participate

We invite the following individuals to consider submitting proposals.
• Practitioners currently involved in the development and implementation of service-learning programs in urban communities.
• Individuals interested in designing future programs.
• Participants from community-based organizations, K-12 and higher education institutions, nonprofit organizations, and government agencies. All submissions must be received by March 31, 2008, and requirements are defined below.
(Note: You do not have to submit a proposal to attend.)

Download submission guidelines.  Deadline:  March 31, 2008. Selected authors will be notified by April 31, 2008. If you have any questions regarding the symposium or the submission of abstracts, please contact Nicole Webster at nsw10@psu.edu

COMM-ORG

CALL FOR PAPERS

Are you writing a paper on community organizing, community development, community planning, community-based research or a related area? COMM-ORG is looking for papers to post on the COMM-ORG Papers page. All papers are posted on the COMM-ORG website and announced on its accompanying list-serve, which reaches over 1000 people across more than a dozen nations. They welcome discussion of all papers on the list-serve and encourage our members to also send comments directly to authors.

They are especially interested in papers on the following and other topics:

What works and what doesn't in community organizing,planning, and development?

Real-life stories of community organizing and/or development campaigns. 

The relationships between theories and practices in community organizing. 

The history of community organizing in a changing structural-historical context.

Linkages between community organizing and community development.

Linkages between community organizing and planning. 

The roles of religious institutions in community organizing.

Linkages between community organizing and social movements. 

The roles of gender, race, identity, and ideology incommunity organizing. 

Activist-academic collaborations in community organizing. 

The paper must be submitted electronically to Randy Stoecker at randy@comm-org.wisc.edu using a word processing or html format; absolutely no pdf files will be considered. * Text must be in single column format. You agree that your paper will be formatted in html using theCOMM-ORG style. Authors retain complete control over their work, and COMM-ORG supports authors revising their papers for submission to journals, trade publications, or anywhere. Because COMM-ORG is an on-line "conference,"papers presented on COMM-ORG are regularly published in journals and other publications. COMM-ORG welcomes papers from scholars, organizers, and scholar-organizers. They also welcome previously published hard-to-find writing. 

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