Community Northern Summit on the Social Economy, November 2-4, 2010 Whitehorse, Yukon (details coming soon) 13th annual Scotiabank AIDS Walk for Life - taking place at Lepage Park
(at Wood Street and Third Avenue) in Whitehorse on Wednesday, September
15, 2010. Registration starts at 11AM, walk starts at noon. Help us reach our goal of $15,000! Money raised supports Yukoners in
your community who need socks, warm meals, counseling, housing,
naturopathy and prevention support.
National
10th Annual Co-op
Conference and Awards Gala - hosted by the Ontario Co-operative
Association. October 10th, 2010. For more information:
http://www.ontario.coop/pages/index.php?main_id=114
Co-op Week, Oct.17-23, 2010 - A celebration of the advantages of co-operatives and how they are different from other business models. The theme this year is "Experiencing the Co-operative Difference". For more information and promotional material, go to http://www.coopscanada.coop/en/orphan/Co-opWeek2010 .
National Forum on Homelessness Oct. 29 & 30th, 2010 - A national Forum regarding intervention
issues with homeless persons will be held, in Montréal, at UQÀM. This Forum will invite community based
organization, public institutions, and elected representatives from all
over Canada to exchange on different important themes.http://www.er.uqam.ca/nobel/cri/spip/colloques_avances.php?id_article=180 ;
CU EXPO 2011 Community-University Partnerships: Bringing Global Perspectives to Local Action May 10-14, 2011, Waterloo Region, Ontario. http://www.cuexpo2011.ca/
ANSER 2011 at the Congress of Humanities and Social Sciences 2011 will be in Fredericton, NB June 1-3, 2011 (dates to be confirmed) at the University of New Brunswick and St. Thomas University. http://www.anser-ares.ca/conference.html
Dignity for All: The campaign for a poverty-free Canada - Urgent pressure needed for passage of affordable housing bill. For more information: http://dignityforall.ca/?utm_source=newsletter
Exhibit Announcement - Building Community: Creating Social and Economic Well-Being Opening May 19 to October, 2010 at the Diefenbaker Canada Centre, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. "This exhibition of research results focusing on co-operatives and the social economy encourages visitors to imagine what is possible in their communities."
International 2010 Arctic Science Conference "Water: Integrating Health, Habitat and Economy". The AAAS Arctic Division annual meeting is being held September 13-15th in Anchorage, Alaska http://arcticaaas.org/meetings/2010/index.html
The Seventh Congress of the International Arctic Social Sciences (ICASS VII)
will be held in Akureyri, Iceland June 22-26, 2011 More details at http://www.iassa.org/ ; The 1st International Conference on Cooperative Social, Economic and Cultural Capabilities
will be held in Kish Island, Iran from April 16 to 17, 2011. The
primary goal of this conference is to offer participants a unique
opportunity to exchange ideas and experiences on advanced methodological
approaches, successful models and latest research findings in order to
boost cooperation at international level. http://www.icci2011.ir/english/index.asp
Students Social Economy Student Network (SESN) Student Conference on the Social Economy Exploring the role of the Social Economy in a changing world. This is scheduled for June 1st 2010 in Association with The Canadian Association for Studies in Co-operation (CASC), the Association for Non-Profit and Social Economy Research (ANSER) and The Congress of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences 2010 at Concordia University, Montreal. Details on the call for papers at http://socialeconomy.info/en/content/call-papers-student-conference-social-economy-june-1st-2010-concordia-university |
