Cicero: Art

“Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature,” (Cicero, The Quotations Page).

 

Education

“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn,” (Alvin Toffler: wisdomquotes.com).

 

William Arthur Ward: Overcoming Obstacles

“If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it,” (William Arthur Ward: The Quotations for Inspiration).

 

William Jennings Bryan: Destiny

“Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice.  It is not a thing to be waited for.  It is a thing to be achieved,” (William Jennings Bryan: QuoteWorld).

 

First Chess Interactions Conference

University of SASKATCHEWAN – CANADA
August 17-21, 2009

https://ocs.usask.ca/chess

The first Computer Science, Humanities, Engineering/education/economics, ScienceS (chess) interactions conference is a truly interdisciplinary conference which brings together experts from computer science, the humanities, engineering, education, economics and the social and natural sciences. the main objective of the conference consists in exploring common themes and methodologies among the diverse disciplines.

This is a three university collaborative effort as colleagues from the Universits of Saskatchewan(Canada), Leicester (UK), and Vaxjo(Sweden) are putting it together with speakers from three continents.
We invite contributions from participants, which will be peer-reviewed by the scientific committee and oral presentations will be selected. The proceedings will be published. The deadline for submission of abstracts is February 27, 2009.

Dr. Chary Rangacharyulu
Professor and Head,
Department of Physics and Engineering Physics
University of Saskatchewan
Saskatoon, SK, Canada S7N5E2
+1-306-966-6412
Email: chary.r@usask.ca
Visit the website at http://https://ocs.usask.ca/chess

 

European/Asian/ Middle Eastern History

Come, reach the stars and partake in an enlightening conference in the Mile High City, Denver CO., April 8-11, 2009. Faculty, students, independent scholars, and public historians are invited to submit their proposals in European/Asian/ Middle Eastern History section of the SWSSA Conference. The SWSSA is the oldest social science association in the U.S. and is composed of academics and practicing professionals for seven disciplines. The European/Asian section organizes a plethora of both faculty and graduate panels each year. We host academicians from colleges and universities around the nation and even the world: E.G., last year we had scholars coming in from Cairo Egypt, England and more!

Please visit our website at www.sssaonline.org for further information. Moreover, please forward this message on to your colleagues and graduate students who might be interested in coming to the meeting and submitting a paper for presentation. The deadline for panel and paper submissions is November 14, 2008.

Judith Fai-Podlipnik, Ph.D.
SLU 10895
Department of History
Southeastern Louisiana University
Hammond LA., 70402
Email: jfai-podlipnik@selu.edu
Visit the website at http://sssaonline.org

 

CFP: “Popular Movements in World History” (Graduate Workshop in World History, University of Oxford, 3 Dec 2008)

The Graduate Workshop in World History invites papers from postgraduate students on the theme of “Popular Movements in World History” for our termly workshop to be held on 3 December 2008.

2009 will see the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution. The workshop will take that anniversary as a starting point to look more broadly at popular movements throughout world history. These can range from the social, cultural, ideological and religious aspects of political mobilisation, to broader themes examining concepts such as democracy, liberty, or justice and their role in revolutions. We are particularly interested in papers which focus on trans-national and cross-border movements.

There is no limit on the time period or scope of the paper. Paper presentations should last no longer than 20 minutes. The Graduate Workshop in World History is a postgraduate seminar held at the Modern History Faculty, University of Oxford, UK, and aims to be a forum for the free exchange of ideas between postgraduate students. We strongly encourage submissions from postgraduate students at any stage of their studies. We regret travel grants are not available.

Please submit a short abstract of no more than 300 words to M. Ali Raza at muhammad.raza@sant.ox.ac.uk by November 15, 2008. Please include your name, institutional affiliation, e-mail address and other contact information.

M. Ali Raza
St. Antony’s College, Oxford
Email: muhammad.raza@sant.ox.ac.uk

 

Teaching: W. McKeachie

“Professors known as outstanding lecturers do two things; they use a simple plan and many examples,” (W. McKeachie: Quotations on Teaching, Learning and Education).

 

W.H. Auden: Prayer

“To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than yourself.  Whenever a man so concentrates on his attention — on a landscape, a poem, a geometrical problem, an idol, or the True God — that he completely forgets his own ego and desires, he is praying (W.H. Auden: Quoteland).

 

Albert Einstein: Books

“Reading after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits.  Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking,” (Albert Einstein, 1879-1955: The Quotations Page).