csds bulletin
Newsletter of the Centre for Security and Defence Studies
9 March 2012


In this issue

Centre news and events
General announcements and events
Opportunities

 

 
Centre news and events

Löwenheim on the Frontier of Jerusalem

CSDS Speaker Series

"The Politics of the Trail: Biking along the Frontier of Jerusalem"

Oded Löwenheim
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

In this talk, Oded Löwenheim presents an autoethnographic story of his daily mountain bicycle rides along the frontier of Jerusalem. Each day, when he commutes from his home at Mevasseret Zion, a suburb of Jerusalem, to Mt. Scopus campus of the Hebrew University, in Jerusalem, he passes along various symbols, evidence and debris of past, present, and future violence and conflict: the separation fence between Israel and the Palestinians; two depopulated Palestinian villages from the 1948 war; a house in which seven Jews were brutally massacred by their Palestinian neighbours in the 1929 Riots; a railroad worksite which confiscates Palestinian agricultural land; the largest 9/11 memorial site outside the US; and a nuclear-proof bunker which is being built in order to provide shelter and "continuity of government" for the Israeli cabinet in case of an all-out war. Through relating the stories of these places and the people he meets along his 11 kilometer-long road, he ponders the culture of conflict in Israel and reflects on the moral, ethical and historical questions that this landscape presents.

Oded Löwenheim is Senior Lecturer in the Department of International Relations at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. A specialist in international relations theory, his research focuses on questions of authority in international relations, emotions and politics, international governmentality, and the micro-foundations of international politics. The latter is explored in his 2010 article in the Review of International Studies, "The 'I' in IR: An Autoethnographic Account."

Wednesday, 14 March 2012
4:00 to 5:30 pm
D382 Loeb Building
Carleton University

Light refreshments will be provided.

Registration is requested by Monday, 12 March 2012.

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General Announcements and Events

Please note that funding may be available to NPSIA graduate students who wish to attend any of the conferences listed below. For more information, contact Prof. David Mendeloff or visit: www.carleton.ca/csds/funding.html.

Dr. Kim Nossal on the Future of Canadian-Chinese Relations

From: Mahmud Naqi <mahmud.naqi@gmail.com>

Subject: Event: The Future of Canadian-Chinese Relations

The Future of Canadian-Chinese Relations
A talk by Kim Richard Nossal, Director of the Centre for International Relations at Queen’s University.

Date: March 13th
Time: 7 -8pm
Location: Senate Room (Room 608), Robertson Hall, Carleton University
http://www1.carleton.ca/campus/

There is no cost to attend.

Please join the National Capital Branch of the Canadian International Council for a discussion on Canada Chinese relations with one of Canada's premier international relations experts. Dr Kim Nossal is a Professor of International Relations at Queen's University and Director of their Centre for International and Defence Policy and has written extensively of Canadian foreign and defence policy.

We look forward to seeing you at what will surely be a lively event.

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Mr. Hikmet Çetin on the Future of Afghanistan

From: Karen Howard <karen_howard@carleton.ca>

Subject: Flier - Hikmet Çetin

On the occasion of the March 18 Turkish Remembrance Day, The Turkish Embassy in Ottawa in collaboration with the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs and Peace and Social Justice Foundation in Memory of Atilla Altikat Cordially invites you to a seminar on

The Future of Afghanistan by
Mr. Hikmet Çetin

NATO Secretary General's Former Senior Civilian Representative in the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
Former Speaker of the Turkish Grand National Assembly
Former Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey
Former Minister of Turkey.

Friday, March 16, 2012 at 15.00 – 17.00 hrs.

Reception to follow.

Venue: The Norman Paterson School of International Affairs,
Carleton University, 2228 River Building, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, K1S 5B6

For more information please reach: 613-244-2479.

Please confirm your attendance with aysegul.ozcan@nsamfa.gov.tr.

Following H.E. Çetin’s talk, Ms. Sema Donna Kenan, President of “Peace and Social Justice Foundation in Memory of Atilla Altikat,” founded by the Turkish Canadians, would like to present a cheque of CAD 10,000.00 for the education of the children of the Canadian soldiers, who lost their lives while serving in Afghanistan.

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Opportunities

Please note that funding may be available to NPSIA graduate students who wish to attend any of the conferences listed below. For more information, contact Prof. David Mendeloff or visit: www.carleton.ca/csds/funding.html.

2012 ISA Canada Graduate Student Paper Prize

From: Andrew Grant <andrew.grant@queensu.ca>
Subject: Call for Papers for 2012 ISA Canada Graduate Student Paper Prize

ISA Canada is pleased to announce the call for papers for the 2012 ISA Canada Student Paper Prize.

Value: $300.00

According to the terms of reference adopted by the membership of ISA Canada in March 2011, the ISA Canada Student Paper Prize is:

  •     Open to all PhD students who are members of ISA and ISA-Canada
  •     Open to PhD students in any of the disciplines that fall under the aegis of International Studies
  •     To be awarded for a previously unpublished, single authored paper delivered at the ISA meeting in that   given year.
  •     PhD dissertation chapters will be accepted if they are previously unpublished.
  •     To be awarded to a paper written in either French or English.
  •     To be awarded at the reception held by ISA-Canada at the Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association.
  •     Papers must be received by the prize jury three weeks in advance of the ISA meeting.

In addition to the criteria above:

  •     Submissions are to be no longer than 8000 words
  •     Submissions will be evaluated for: originality, strength, clarity of argument, and contribution to the appropriate literature.
  •     Submissions are due Monday, March 12, 2012.
  •     Submissions will be made to members of the jury. Jury members will be announced by January 15, 2012.

Dr. J. Andrew Grant, Queen's University
Secretary/Sécrétaire, ISA-Canada
andrew.grant@queensu.ca

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Call for papers - Understanding and Improving Intelligence Analysis

From: Stephen Marrin <Stephen.Marrin@brunel.ac.uk>
Subject: CFP: Understanding and Improving Intelligence Analysis: Learning from Other Disciplines

This is a call for papers and presentations (CFP) for two events we are hosting this summer related to ?Understanding and Improving Intelligence Analysis: Learning from Other Disciplines.? The events will be held 8 June and 13 July 2012 at Brunel University in London.

The purpose of these two events is to engage in a cross-disciplinary discussion about the value of learning from other fields to improve both the understanding and the practice of intelligence analysis. It will also create the network and infrastructure for an international consortium for the study of intelligence analysis.

The event on 8 June 2012 will be devoted to what we can learn from the comparison between intelligence analysis and journalism since both fields involve the acquisition, evaluation, and dissemination of information.

The event on 13 July 2012 will be devoted to explaining how practitioners in a wider set of non-intelligence fields overcome challenges in their respective domains, to include medicine, the social and behavioural sciences, history and historiography, anthropology and other disciplines engaged in ethnographic research, econometric forecasting, and legal reasoning.

We welcome paper and presentation proposals evaluating best practices for overcoming challenges in any non-intelligence field that are analogous to those that exist in the intelligence field, or compares/contrasts challenges in intelligence analysis to those faced by professionals in other disciplines.

To submit a proposal, send an email to Stephen Marrin (stephen.marrin@brunel.ac.uk) by 18 March 2012 with: (1) Name of author/presenter, affiliation/institution and contact information (email and phone); and (2) Paper Title and Abstract (a brief 200-500 word overview of the paper/presentation).

Notifications of acceptances will be made on or before 1 April 2012.

Please let me know if you have any questions?

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Dr. Stephen Marrin
Centre for Intelligence and Security Studies
Department of Politics and History
Brunel University
Uxbridge (West London), England
stephen.marrin@brunel.ac.uk
http://www.brunel.ac.uk/sss/research/research-centres/bciss

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The CSDS Bulletin is a weekly newsletter of news, upcoming events, and items of interest to CSDS Associates and students in the NPSIA conflict and intelligence clusters. This is an internal newsletter and is not intended for general circulation.