Tuesday
October 21 |
Raoul Blindenbacher (IEG
World Bank Advisor)
"How Do Governments Learn? A Method to Organize Governmental
Learning Events"
3:00 p.m., Room 4161 SSC |
PERG |
Friday
October 24 |
Eric Chaney (Harvard
University)
"Ethnic
Cleansing and the Long-Term Persistence of Extractive
Institutions:
Evidence from the Expulsion of the Moriscos"
1:30 p.m., Room 4317 SSC (Department of History) |
Business &
Economic History |
Panel on Financial Crisis
The Department of Economics and the Economics Students’
Association (ESA) are organizing a panel on the current financial
and economic crisis, to be held on Thursday, October 30th. The panel
will feature Nathan Sussman, David Laidler and Jim MacGee. More
details coming soon.
China Data Online / Direction of Trade Statistics
The Social Science Centre Network & Data Services have added two
valuable databases to their roster of online resources.
China Data Online gives researchers access to a vast amount of
previously hard-to-obtain information on China’s economic
development. It provides statistics at national, provincial and
local levels, industrial and census data, themed atlases and maps,
and much more.
The IMF’s
Direction of Trade Statistics (DOTS) contains time series of
annual, quarterly, and monthly trade data for most IMF member
countries. They include the value of merchandise exports and imports
for each country and all its trading partners, as well as area and
world aggregates showing trade flows between major regions of the
world.
Subscriptions for China Data Online and the Direction of
Trade Statistics were paid for with funds granted by the Social
Science Student Donation Fund.
Take Our Kids to Work Day
Western is taking part in national
Take Our Kids to Work Day on Wednesday, November
5, 2008. There
are a variety of interesting presentations available for parents of
grade 9 students.
2009 3M Teaching Fellowships - Call for Nominations
The Teaching Support Centre has received the
Call for Nominations for the
2009 3M Teaching Fellowships.
The Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE)
and 3M Canada have joined together to reward exceptional contributions to
teaching and learning at Canadian universities. Nominating a
deserving Faculty/Department member is strongly encouraged. A letter of support from the Provost
must accompany nomination documentation. Deadlines:
- Receipt of nominations to Provost's office:
Friday, October 31, 2008
- Receipt of nominations to STLHE:
Friday, November 14, 2008
12th IZA European Summer School in Labor Economics
The Institute for the Study of Labor
(IZA) will hold its 12th Summer School in Labor Economics
on April 27 - May 3, 2009 at the conference center of Deutsche Post at the Ammersee
Lake (near Munich) in Bavaria, Germany. The objective of the Summer
School is to bring together a large number of PhD students and
senior lecturers to study new areas in labor economics and to
discuss their own research ideas. Applications to participate should
be submitted by January 30, 2009.
**All funding applications or proposals by UWO researchers must be
accompanied by a completed Research Data and Approval Form (RDAF).
Forms can be obtained and submitted using
Research
On-Line Approvals
(ROLA).
