Join Peter Block as he explores ways of thinking about our places (workplaces, neighbourhoods, towns) that create an opening for authentic communities to exist. Learn how to discover the gifts of our neighbours, to welcome strangers and to build associations that will shift the focus from need and deficiencies to engagement and possibility, leading to the creation of a new future.

Learning Objectives:

Participants will learn to:

Apps4Russia is a competition for application developers to create projects, based on open government data, for public use. Most importantly, the contest stipulates that projects must be beneficial to Russian society, as well as encourage transparency and government accountability.

The Apps4Russia competition is non-commercial, non-governmental, and non-political. The contest will run from June 30, 2011, to October 1, 2011.

http://www.apps4russia.ru/

http://www.epsiplus.net/news/news/apps4russia_announced

ESSU, DTSU, WGSSU, CARSSU, TYPSA, R3 Artists Collective, Moyo Wa Africa, Seven Directions and Night at the Indies are proud to present the second annual Decolonizing Ours Minds conference: Reclaiming Toronto. This edition of DOM will feature five panels featuring speakers from the University of Toronto and community at large, with each focusing on distinct facets of Toronto. The panels will critically engage instances of inequity and oppression present in our city and discuss how these are or are not being redressed. Decolonizing Our Minds: Reclaiming Toronto will also provide individuals with an opportunity to liaise with numerous community groups and experience performances from some of Toronto's most gifted local artists.

The Scientific Commons is an English/German language project that is attempting to create the largest publicly accessible database of scientific publications in the world. Unlike other online journal databases which provide only abstracts for free viewing, articles indexed by the Commons have full-text searchability without a paid subscription.

Publications are extensively cross-referenced, and the social and professional relationships between authors are displayed. The project uses an opensource protocol for indexing data, and can be easily personalized using RSS feeds.

The Scientific Commons is a project of the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland

Doing Disability Studies research and teaching in the Department of Sociology and Equity Studies in Education, Tanya works from her perspective as dyslexic and with an interpretive sociological approach. She takes interest in examining how feminist, queer and other critical theory exclude and include disability within their studies of politically charged contexts of daily life and desires. Tanya is also author of Reading and Writing Disability Differently: The Textured Life of Embodiment (2007) and Disability, Self and Society (2003). Her talk will draw on feminist and queer theory as they address bodies situated in classrooms and other ordinary spaces of university life.