Call for Papers
Languages: Gateway to Global Communities
2010 ACTFL Annual Convention and World Languages Expo
November 19-21, 2010 (Pre-convention workshops on Thursday, November 18)
Boston, Massachusetts

Submission Deadline: January 10, 2010

The Annual Convention and World Languages Expo of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) will be Friday-Sunday, November 19-21, 2010 in Boston, Massachusetts, with pre-convention workshops scheduled on Thursday, November 18.

The ACTFL Convention features over 500 educational sessions covering the whole spectrum of the foreign language profession. The entire selection of sessions is designed to provide attendees with an exciting array of sessions and events to further their knowledge and help them be better teachers or administrators. We welcome you to submit a proposal for consideration. The convention draws approximately 6,000 attendees and is the only national event bringing together all languages, levels and assignments within the profession.

For more information, visit the ACTFL website.

Conference
Environmental Policy, Social Movements, and Science for the Amazon
November 5-6, 2009
University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

The University of Chicago Center for Latin American Studies and the Program on the Global Environment present "Environmental Policy, Social Movements, and Science for the Amazon", an interdisciplinary conference organized to evaluate twenty years of environmental policy in the Amazon region. Environmental scientists, policy-makers, anthropologists, economists, and leaders of non-governmental organizations will convene to assess what development opportunities are created by science, technology, traditional knowledge, and markets for environmental services, within the framework of preserving the standing forest. Panels will include: "Models of Development: Assessing 20 years of Public Policies for the Amazon Region", "Social Movements and Chico Mendes' Legacy for Sustainable Development of the Amazon", and "Science and Technology: A New Development Model for the Amazon."

This conference is convened by Manuela Carneiro da Cunha, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Chicago, along with colleagues Mauro Barbosa de Almeida and Mary Helena Allegretti. Manuela Carneiro da Cunha's career has focused on Brazilian legislation and policy towards indigenous peoples. She has served as President of the Brazilian Anthropological Association (1986-88), where she played an instrumental role in drafting the 1988 Constitution's provisions relating to indigenous land rights. She founded the Center for Indigenous History and the History of State Policies on Indigenous People at the University of Sao Paulo. She is a member of the International Advisory Group of the PPG7 - Pilot Program to Conserve the Brazilian Rain Forest - and the Brazilian Academy of Sciences. She has served as President of the Comissão Pró-Indio, representative of the scientific community on the Board of the National Research Council in the Ministry of Science, Expert for the United Nations Environment Programme in 1993, and Member of the International Advisory Group for the Joint Steering Committee of the Pilot Program to Conserve the Brazilian Rain Forest. Her work has earned her multiple prestigious international awards.

For more information please contact the University of Chicago Center for Latin American Studies at 773-702-8420 or at  clas@uchicago.edu

To send conference submissions:
E-mail: lasmail@ucsd.edu
Fax: (858) 534-7175