Canadian election survey
Canadian researchers of politics and elections may be interested in the opportunity below:
Dear Canadianists,
The Government Canada has fallen! As part of a growing trend, there will be multiple election studies in the field during the 2011 election. The election is likely to occur on May 2 or May 9th. Jason Reifler of Georgia State University is conducting a pre-post internet election survey that will have up to 5,000 respondents. Tom Scotto (Essex) and I have funds from the Foundation for Canadian Studies in the UK to include some of our own questions. In the grant, we also specified that we would hold an externally judged competition that will allow UK based scholars with an interest in Canada to pose questions on the survey.
Internet surveys are shorter in length than most face to face or telephone surveys, so we?re really looking at a window of 2-3 questions on the post-election study. If you are interested in posing a question on this survey, please write up the question along with a justification (no more than 250 words) as to why you want this question on the study. We're going to need proposals no later than the 4th April, and final judgment of the questions will rest with a Canadian based panel of election studies experts.
Assume most election study questions are already on the study. So, there's no need to post questions related to vote choice, party id, retrospective evaluations, etc.
Please feel free to contact Tom Scotto or me with any questions!
Ailsa and Tom
Contact information:
Ailsa Henderson (tel: 01316511618)
Tom Scotto (tel: 01206873809)
From: Ailsa Henderson, PhD
Senior Lecturer, Politics
School of Social and Political Science
15A George Square
University of Edinburgh
Wednesday, 30 March 2011
20th European Seminar for Graduate Students in Canadian Studies - 10-13 November 2011
20th European Seminar for Graduate Students in Canadian Studies - 10-13 November 2011
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Association for Canada Studies in the Netherlands (ACSN), in collaboration with the Canadian Studies Centre at the University of Groningen, Netherlands, organises the 20th European Seminar for Graduate Students in Canadian Studies - 10-13 November 2011, Groningen, Netherlands
European students working on a master's thesis or a doctoral dissertation in Canadian Studies are invited to present their current research findings and to exchange ideas with Canadianists from other countries.
Presentations can be given in English or in French. They should not exceed 20 minutes and will be followed by a discussion (10 minutes each). A selection of the best papers will be published after the seminar. The seminar sessions will be chaired by established European or Canadian scholars in the field of Canadian studies.
How to Apply
Students interested in participating should submit an abstract (1-2 pages), indicating their topic of research and the nature of their findings, plus a short CV. Applications may be submitted by e-mail. Papers will be selected by the scientific committee on the basis of the abstract. Invitations to participate will be sent out as soon as possible after the selection has been completed.
Deadline for Abstracts: 10 September 2011 - to be sent to the address below.
Official Languages: English and French
Maximum number of Students Admitted: 25
Registration Fee: € 50,--
Travel Expenses: Students' responsibility. Please apply for financial assistance to your university or to your national/regional Association for Canadian Studies (UK students please copy your application to the BACS office when submitting).
Boarding: Accommodation (3 nights from Thursday 10th November to Sunday 13th November, 2011) and meals will be covered by a grant from the Government of Canada's Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade to the European Network for Canadian Studies, by the Canadian Studies Centre at the University of Groningen and by the Association for Canada Studies in the Netherlands. The students will be lodged in the guesthouse of the University of Groningen in the centre of town very close to the venue where the sessions will take place. Some students may be asked to share rooms.
Organizing Committee: Cornelius Remie, Conny Steenman Marcusse, Irene Salverda (ACSN) and Jeanette den Toonder (Canadian Studies Centre, Groningen)
Contact address: Bosweg 12, 6523 NM Nijmegen, Netherlands / Pays-Bas T. (int.+)31-24-323-4525 E. mailto:acsn@upcmail.nl
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Association for Canada Studies in the Netherlands (ACSN), in collaboration with the Canadian Studies Centre at the University of Groningen, Netherlands, organises the 20th European Seminar for Graduate Students in Canadian Studies - 10-13 November 2011, Groningen, Netherlands
European students working on a master's thesis or a doctoral dissertation in Canadian Studies are invited to present their current research findings and to exchange ideas with Canadianists from other countries.
Presentations can be given in English or in French. They should not exceed 20 minutes and will be followed by a discussion (10 minutes each). A selection of the best papers will be published after the seminar. The seminar sessions will be chaired by established European or Canadian scholars in the field of Canadian studies.
How to Apply
Students interested in participating should submit an abstract (1-2 pages), indicating their topic of research and the nature of their findings, plus a short CV. Applications may be submitted by e-mail. Papers will be selected by the scientific committee on the basis of the abstract. Invitations to participate will be sent out as soon as possible after the selection has been completed.
Deadline for Abstracts: 10 September 2011 - to be sent to the address below.
Official Languages: English and French
Maximum number of Students Admitted: 25
Registration Fee: € 50,--
Travel Expenses: Students' responsibility. Please apply for financial assistance to your university or to your national/regional Association for Canadian Studies (UK students please copy your application to the BACS office when submitting).
Boarding: Accommodation (3 nights from Thursday 10th November to Sunday 13th November, 2011) and meals will be covered by a grant from the Government of Canada's Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade to the European Network for Canadian Studies, by the Canadian Studies Centre at the University of Groningen and by the Association for Canada Studies in the Netherlands. The students will be lodged in the guesthouse of the University of Groningen in the centre of town very close to the venue where the sessions will take place. Some students may be asked to share rooms.
Organizing Committee: Cornelius Remie, Conny Steenman Marcusse, Irene Salverda (ACSN) and Jeanette den Toonder (Canadian Studies Centre, Groningen)
Contact address: Bosweg 12, 6523 NM Nijmegen, Netherlands / Pays-Bas T. (int.+)31-24-323-4525 E. mailto:acsn@upcmail.nl
Tuesday, 29 March 2011
Jamiacan Reporter - legal cases 1774-1787
The Harvard Law School Library has recently digitized its copy of Notes of cases adjudged in Jamaica, May 1774 to Dec. 1787 (Edinburgh : Printed by Adam Neill and company, 1794). The Harvard Law School Library purchased this folio volume of 18th century law reports in 1903; it is one of only a few known copies.
These reports of high court cases are based on “the very full notes of every case that came before” John Grant, a native of Inverness-shire (Scotland), and chief justice of Jamaica’s Supreme Court from 1783-1790. Colleagues had encouraged Grant to publish his notes for their use at court, and after retiring to Edinburgh, Grant began to revise his notebook with that goal in mind. Grant died on March 29, 1793, leaving three quarters of his notes unprinted. The task was picked up and continued by friends and colleagues who saw the work through the press; the volume was published in 1794. It is rich in bibliographical references and footnotes and in this copy, an early (and unknown) reader has made occasional marginal annotations.
Among cases included are a number concerned with inheritance and wills, and the volume is a useful source of both legal and social history.
More details are available at:
These reports of high court cases are based on “the very full notes of every case that came before” John Grant, a native of Inverness-shire (Scotland), and chief justice of Jamaica’s Supreme Court from 1783-1790. Colleagues had encouraged Grant to publish his notes for their use at court, and after retiring to Edinburgh, Grant began to revise his notebook with that goal in mind. Grant died on March 29, 1793, leaving three quarters of his notes unprinted. The task was picked up and continued by friends and colleagues who saw the work through the press; the volume was published in 1794. It is rich in bibliographical references and footnotes and in this copy, an early (and unknown) reader has made occasional marginal annotations.
Among cases included are a number concerned with inheritance and wills, and the volume is a useful source of both legal and social history.
More details are available at:
And the digital copy is at:
Friday, 25 March 2011
Budget documents
With the recent annoucement of the UK budget it is timely to remind researchers of the strengths of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies collections of non-UK government publications generally, and budget publications specifically.
The Library collects budget and budget related documents across the Commonwealth, and these include budget speeches; financial statements; background documents; supplementary documents; discussion papers; responses to budgets from opposition parties, trade unions and NGOs; analyses of budgets.
Within the Library collections is also a growing literature on gender budgeting - integrating consideration of the impacts on women of national budgetary processes.
The Library collects budget and budget related documents across the Commonwealth, and these include budget speeches; financial statements; background documents; supplementary documents; discussion papers; responses to budgets from opposition parties, trade unions and NGOs; analyses of budgets.
Within the Library collections is also a growing literature on gender budgeting - integrating consideration of the impacts on women of national budgetary processes.
Wednesday, 23 March 2011
35th Annual Conference of the Society for Caribbean Studies - International Slavery Museum, Albert Dock, Liverpool
35th Annual Conference of the Society for Caribbean Studies
International Slavery Museum, Albert Dock, Liverpool
Wednesday 29th June - Friday 1st July 2011
http://www.caribbeanstudies.org.uk/
Registration for this year's conference is now open. Over 70 speakers have submitted abstracts so we are looking forward to an exciting conference. A draft programme is available on the Society's webpage
The Programme includes a presentation by the 2011 Bridget Jones Travel Award winner, Annalee Davis. Annalee has been described as 'one of the region's most important and innovative artists whose work speaks directly to many of the Caribbean's most pressing issues', from the politics of gender, sexuality, and ethnicity, to concepts of development, the economic role of tourism and its consequences for small island states, inter-regional migration, and the politics of nationalism and regionalism. Her presentation to the Society for Caribbean Studies Annual Conference, entitled 'Has the Plantation Complex Fallen?', will engage with issues around undocumented migration, 'development' and the transformation of Caribbean landscapes in the era of globalisation.
The International Slavery Museum is located on Liverpool's Albert Dock, which is a World Heritage Site with the largest group of grade 1 listed buildings in the UK. Tate Britain art gallery, The Beatles Story museum, and the Maritime Museum, which is home to the International Slavery Museum, can all be found around the dockside.
Registration
From the Society's webpage you will be taken to a dedicated registration page, which includes the details that were submitted with your abstract. There will be instructions on how to pay registration fees on this page. Recipients of our post-graduate bursaries will be able to select 'Bursary Recipient' from the dropdown fee menu. You can access the registration page here:
Accommodation and Travel information
The Society has a group discount rate with the Holiday Inn Express, located about ten minutes walk from the conference venue. We have also arranged preferential rates for delegates with the Crowne Plaza and Hilton. Details of how to apply for these rates, as well as other near-by accommodation options, please see the Conference Information on our website. You will also find useful information on the site, travel to Albert Dock, parking, and catering.
Queries concerning booking can be directed to: mailto:societyforcaribbeanstudies@gmail.com
International Slavery Museum, Albert Dock, Liverpool
Wednesday 29th June - Friday 1st July 2011
http://www.caribbeanstudies.org.uk/
Registration for this year's conference is now open. Over 70 speakers have submitted abstracts so we are looking forward to an exciting conference. A draft programme is available on the Society's webpage
The Programme includes a presentation by the 2011 Bridget Jones Travel Award winner, Annalee Davis. Annalee has been described as 'one of the region's most important and innovative artists whose work speaks directly to many of the Caribbean's most pressing issues', from the politics of gender, sexuality, and ethnicity, to concepts of development, the economic role of tourism and its consequences for small island states, inter-regional migration, and the politics of nationalism and regionalism. Her presentation to the Society for Caribbean Studies Annual Conference, entitled 'Has the Plantation Complex Fallen?', will engage with issues around undocumented migration, 'development' and the transformation of Caribbean landscapes in the era of globalisation.
The International Slavery Museum is located on Liverpool's Albert Dock, which is a World Heritage Site with the largest group of grade 1 listed buildings in the UK. Tate Britain art gallery, The Beatles Story museum, and the Maritime Museum, which is home to the International Slavery Museum, can all be found around the dockside.
Registration
From the Society's webpage you will be taken to a dedicated registration page, which includes the details that were submitted with your abstract. There will be instructions on how to pay registration fees on this page. Recipients of our post-graduate bursaries will be able to select 'Bursary Recipient' from the dropdown fee menu. You can access the registration page here:
Accommodation and Travel information
The Society has a group discount rate with the Holiday Inn Express, located about ten minutes walk from the conference venue. We have also arranged preferential rates for delegates with the Crowne Plaza and Hilton. Details of how to apply for these rates, as well as other near-by accommodation options, please see the Conference Information on our website. You will also find useful information on the site, travel to Albert Dock, parking, and catering.
Queries concerning booking can be directed to: mailto:societyforcaribbeanstudies@gmail.com
Friday, 18 March 2011
Development and Empire, 1929-1962
Development and Empire, 1929-1962
Humanities Research Centre, Univerity of York
1 - 2 July 2011
A two-day conference bringing together scholars based in Africa, Asia, Europe and North America to share knowledge and ideas about British aid-assisted colonial development in the mid twentieth century.
Speakers: Paul Greenough, Jordanna Bailkin, Barbara Bush, David Clover, Billy Frank, Joseph Hodge, Gerald Hödl, Leigh Gardner, Michael Jennings, Margaret Jones, Gerold Krozewski, Edward Hamilton, Lucy McCann, Zachary D. Poppel and Uyilawa Usuanlele.
Today the history of British aid-assisted colonial development from the early to mid twentieth century is a vibrant area of research. This conference will bring together scholars from around the world who work in this area to exchange knowledge and ideas.
Over two days a series of panels will focus on emerging themes and topics such as health and development, regional experiences and metropolitian perspectives. Papers presented by established scholars and early career researchers will consider the meanings of aid-assisted development, its many practices, and its multiple short- and long-term effects. Besides academic papers, the conference will include workshops on archival sources in the UK on colonial development and a round-table on the implications of the papers presented for development policy today.
A keynote address will be given by Professor Paul Greenough (University of Ohio), a leading expert on the social and environmental history of the modern India, on Friday 1 July. He will also deliver a Public Lecture on the eve of the conference, 30 June, entitled "Natural Disasters in Social Theory and South Asia Practice" which is open to all conference delegates.
The conference will be held at the Humanities Research Centre (Berrick Saul Building), University of York. This campus-based venue is a 20-minute bus journey from York train station and a 10-minute bus journey from the centre of York.
The conference is supported by the Department of History and is organised by its British Empire research cluster. Additional financial support has been provided by the Economic History Society, the Wellcome Trust, the Centre for Modern Studies, University of York, and the British Society of the History of Science.
For information on registration and a provisional programme, see the conference website
list available online for early West India Committee records
The West India Committee was formed in the 18th century, by London merchants, engaged in the West Indian trade, and absentee owners of West Indian estates. The Committee acted as a pressure group for West Indian interests, principally in the support of the sugar and rum trades and, in the first decades of its existence, in opposition to the abolition of the slave trade and then slavery.
The collection description of the collection is available on the ULRLS Archives Catalogue.
Included in the collection is a microfilm copy of the early records, minutes and papers of the West India Committee, the original material being sold by the West India Committee to the University of the West Indies, St Augustine, and the microfilm copy being made as a condition of export.
M915 West India Committee minutes 1769-1924 [microfilm] contains:
Minutes and papers of the West India Committee and its predecessors, sub-committees and related organisations, including:
•West India Merchants
•West India Planters and Merchants
•Admiralty Committee of the West India Merchants
•Sub-Committee of the West India Planters and Merchants Appointed to Oppose the Abolition of the Slave Trade
•Literary Sub-Committee of the West India Planters and Merchants
•Merchants, Owners and Masters of Ships
•Jamaica Planters and Merchants
•Country Committees and Proprietors’ Groups: eg. Demerara and Berbice (later British Guiana), Jamaica, Trinidad, and Importers of West Indian Cocoa committees
•British and Colonial Anti Bounty Association
•Board of Commissioners of Grenada and St. Vincent
•Meeting of MPs Interested in the West Indian Colonies
We have added a PDF listing for contents of the microfilm to the collection description. We hope this increases access to the collections and assists users in requesting parts of the collection. (If you want to see this colelction please ask for Reels required). If interested in using this collection please email Senate House Library Special Collections.
The collection description of the collection is available on the ULRLS Archives Catalogue.
Included in the collection is a microfilm copy of the early records, minutes and papers of the West India Committee, the original material being sold by the West India Committee to the University of the West Indies, St Augustine, and the microfilm copy being made as a condition of export.
M915 West India Committee minutes 1769-1924 [microfilm] contains:
Minutes and papers of the West India Committee and its predecessors, sub-committees and related organisations, including:
•West India Merchants
•West India Planters and Merchants
•Admiralty Committee of the West India Merchants
•Sub-Committee of the West India Planters and Merchants Appointed to Oppose the Abolition of the Slave Trade
•Literary Sub-Committee of the West India Planters and Merchants
•Merchants, Owners and Masters of Ships
•Jamaica Planters and Merchants
•Country Committees and Proprietors’ Groups: eg. Demerara and Berbice (later British Guiana), Jamaica, Trinidad, and Importers of West Indian Cocoa committees
•British and Colonial Anti Bounty Association
•Board of Commissioners of Grenada and St. Vincent
•Meeting of MPs Interested in the West Indian Colonies
We have added a PDF listing for contents of the microfilm to the collection description. We hope this increases access to the collections and assists users in requesting parts of the collection. (If you want to see this colelction please ask for Reels required). If interested in using this collection please email Senate House Library Special Collections.
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