No. 115, April 22nd, 2008

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Content
Department Meetings and Seminars
Meetings:

Monday, April 28th, 3-4:30pm, B32 Warren, Professors Meeting (note change from Dept. Meeting)
Monday, May 5th, 3-4:30pm, 117 Warren, Polson Steering Committee Meeting
Monday, May 12th, 3-4:30pm, B32 Warren, Professors Meeting

Seminars:  This schedule is subject to frequent updates.  Please remember to keep Friday afternoons free for these seminars.  Several will be held jointly with CRP and DSOC.

Promotions, Awards and Honors
Shelley Feldman
Publications
CaRDI Publications: Rural New York Minute and Research & Policy
Feldman Quote
Alicia Swords and Ron Mize
David Brown and Nina Glasgow
Presentations and Recent Travels
Naoko Mizuno
Shelley Feldman
Max J. Pfeffer
Workshops and Conferences
Workshop with Saurabh Dube
Professional Grant Writing Workshop
Planning Students for Diversity
Job Opportunities
CALS Career Development Newsletter
USAID Careers
NASULGC Careers
Academic Careers Online

Student Activities
Graduate Student TA Applications
CUSLAR and LASP Films and Discussion
Fellowships, Internships and Other Funding Opportunities
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies - Funding
Summer Internship - Webmaster BoP Learning Lab
Non-Dept. Seminars
Einaudi Center
Environmental Justice Film and Speaker Series
Crop and Soil Science
PAM
Plant Pathology & Plant-Microbe Biology
ISS Contentious Knowledge Seminar Series

Call for Papers, Abstracts and Panels

Miscellaneous News

Power Shutdown Tomorrow Morning!
Last DSOC Pizza and Movie Night!

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Department Meetings and Seminars
To View the entire schedule of Department meetings and seminars, please click here. This schedule is frequently updated.

Meetings:
Monday, April 28th, 3-4:30pm, B32 Warren, Professors Meeting (note change from Dept. Meeting)
Monday, May 5th, 3-4:30pm, 117 Warren, Polson Steering Committee Meeting
Monday, May 12th, 3-4:30pm, B32 Warren, Professors Meeting

Seminars:  This schedule is subject to frequent updates.  Please remember to keep Friday afternoons free for these seminars.  Several will be held jointly with CRP and DSOC.

Promotions, Awards and Honors

Shelley Feldman was elected President of the American Institute of Bangladesh Studies at their Annual Meeting of the Board of Trustees on April 3th.

Publications

CaRDI Publications:

Rural New York Minute

Research & Policy Brief Series

Feldman Quote - www.enn.com/agriculture/article/35029
. . . Global society must undertake a "paradigm shift" in agriculture, the authors said at a press briefing. And without more sustainable practices, the problems will only worsen. "These are long-term trends that we really need to take into account," said Shelley Feldman, a Cornell University sociology professor and report co-author. "We're going to continue to work with less labor; less water; less arable land; increasing land policy conflicts; the loss of biodiversity, genetic species, and ecosystems; increasing levels of pollution; and as we all know, climate change."

Alicia Swords and Ronald L. Mize. Beyond Tourist Gazes and Performances: U.S. Consumption of Land and Labor in Puerto Rican and Mexican Destinations, Latin American Perspectives 2008 35: 53-69. Abstract: Theoretical debates about the relationship between tourism and Latin American development are often based upon the distinction between tourism's performative and visual aspects. Though gazes and performances are important, they occur in the context of a usurpation of land and labor that lead to the displacement and exploitation of the residents of tourist destinations. Examination of U.S. consumption of tourist destinations and hospitality labor in Puerto Rico and Mexico reveals that tourism exacerbates inequalities between tourists and service providers, calling into question its long-term sustainability. 

David L. Brown and Nina Glasgow. 2008. Rural Retirement Migration. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer Publishing Company. This book examines the migration of older persons to rural retirement destinations in the United States. While the majority of older persons are residentially stable, those who migrate are disproportionately likely to move to a rural community. Moreover, with the aging of the baby boom generation, particular rural communities can expect to continue attracting older in-migrants in the future. The book examines rural retirement migration from the older in-migrants’ perspective and from the vantage point of the destination communities to which they move. This integrated micro-macro approach permits the authors to view older in-migrants as embedded in particular types of environments that facilitate and/or constrain their opportunities for productive living during older age. It also permits the examination of positive and negative effects of older in-migration for destination communities. The authors use a multiple methods approach featuring a panel survey of older in-migrants and longer-term older residents, in-depth community case studies and county-level census data analysis to produce a grounded study of population aging in the context of rural society. The analysis examines the challenges and opportunities presented by migration at older ages both for successful aging and for community development. The book pays particular attention to the process through which older in-migrants become socially integrated in their new communities, and it contains rich detail on the social relationships they form, the nature of their civic engagement, and the positive and negative reactions they elicit from longer-term residents. The volume concludes with a thoughtful discussion of policy lessons learned from the research, and with an examination of high priority research needs on retirement migration.

Presentations and Recent Travels

Naoko Mizuno had her poster presentation at the Population Association of America (PAA) 2008 Annual Meeting, which took place during April 17-19 in New Orleans. The title of her poster is: Rural Livelihoods and Food Insecurity of Elderly-Headed Households Fostering School-Age Orphans in the Context of HIV and AIDS in Western Kenya.

Shelley Feldman attended the CAORC Board of Directors Meeting, as Acting President of the AIBS on 7-8 March 2008 in Washington D.C.. 

She also served as a discussant on the panel entitled, Organizing across Divides: Women Workers and Working Class Politics in India, at the Association of Asian Studies Annual Meeting, April 4 2007.

As a writer of both the Summary for Decision Makers and the Synthesis Report, and Review Editor of the East and South and Southeast Asia subgroup report, Shelley Feldman attended the International Assessment of Agricultural Science and Technology for Development's final meeting to present our findings to Delegates from over 60 countries in Johannesburg, South Africa, 7-12 April 2008.

Shelley Feldman represented the IAASTD along with Hans Herren, President Millennium Institute and Co-Chair of the IAASTD, and Mary Hendrickson, University of Missouri, at the National Press Club, Washington D.C. on 15 April where she entertained questions from new reporters, and members of government and civil society organizations.

Book talk by Max J. Pfeffer
Saving Forests, Protecting People?: Environmental Conservation in Central America
Tuesday, April 22,
4pm
Mann Library, Room 102 
For decades now, calls to conserve rapidly disappearing forest lands around the world have been urgent, but official programs for forest conservation have been unevenly successful. Coinciding with this year’s international Earth Day a book talk by professor of development sociology Max Pfeffer will look at key factors behind these mixed results. In his recent book, co-authored with forest scientist John Schelhas, Dr. Pfeffer describes a comparative study of forest conservation areas in Costa Rica and Honduras to analyze what happens when globally driven conservation programs encounter local communities using resources to earn livelihoods. Central to the research is a focus on the dynamic values that local communities hold in relation to their forest environments, how these values change with socio-economic development, how they engage with international campaigns to conserve forest biodiversity, and how they in turn shape farmers’ stewardship of their forest lands. While local livelihood patterns and international conservation programs often conflict, it is also true that farming communities can and do foster forest-conserving values that hold considerable potential for sustaining bio-diverse environments over the long term. 

Workshops and Conferences

Workshop with Saurabh Dube - AN INVITATION TO: "The Enchantments of Modernity." A Graduate Student Workshop with Saurabh Dube Prof. of History, El Colegio de Mexico. Monday April 28th.  2:30-3:45 Room 153 Uris Hall. In conjunction with Prof. Saurabh Dube's talk at the South Asia Program (April 28th 12:15-1:30), this workshop will offer the opportunity for graduate students and others to engage in informal conversation with Prof. Dube on issues discussed in his forthcoming edited volume The Enchantments of Modernity.  An excerpt is pasted below.  Brief introductory comments will be made by Prof. Dube and two discussants in order to facilitate an open-ended discussion of issues relevant to the research interests of the participants.  All are welcome to introduce questions, comments, and topics for discussion. If interested please contact Townsend Middleton (ctm22@cornell.edu) or Jaideep Chatterjee (jc354@cornell.edu).

Professional Grant Development Workshop

Proposal Writing I – April 30 - May 2, 2008

Levin Institute

New York, New York

Sponsored by:

The Grant Training Center 

(Online at: http://www.granttrainingcenter.com

This intensive three-day grant proposal workshop is geared for: 1) those who wish to strengthen their grant writing skills and 2) beginners who wish to acquire and master the techniques of preparing, writing and winning proposals from various funding agencies.  The center of attention will be on how to effectively tell the story that leads to funding, be it for the researcher in the sciences and social sciences, educator and non-profit professional.

Participants Will Learn How To: 

*           Comprehend the diversity of the grant funding community
*           Research and identify potential funding sources
*           Create the right fit with the funding agency
*           Address the guidelines of proposals
*           Identify and effectively write the key elements of a proposal
*           Integrate each component of the grant into the final product
*           Develop focused and realistic budgets
*           Package professional grants submissions

Registration
Space is limited, and since this class fills-up quickly, it is on a first-come-first serve basis. 

Workshop fee: $595.00, including tuition, materials, certificate of completion, and continental breakfast. Rebate of $50.00 per person is given for two or more registrants from the same organization.

To register, Visit:  http:/www.granttrainingcenter.com or Call 866-704-7268.

Planning Students for Diversity is sponsoring a presentation/workshop by Jonnell Allen, Syracuse Community Geographer.  Allen works with the Syracuse University Department of Geography and the City of Syracuse in an innovative position that connects community-based planning, participatory mapping, and data analysis in partnership with Central New York community organizations.  She will be presenting her work with the Syracuse comprehensive planning process, participatory mapping methodologies, and strategies for connecting GIS mapping with equitable community development.  We will also discuss student research within the context of participatory planning praxis and collaborative data analysis- feel free to bring questions or ideas about your own research. Where:  101 West Sibley HallWhen:  5 pm, Thursday, April 24Light refreshments will be available

Job Opportunities
CALS Career Development Newsletter, "CALS Jobs, Internships, and Events", is now available on line at: http://www.cals.cornell.edu/cals/current/career/newsletter/

USAID Careers link (http://www.usaid.gov/careers/applicant.html)

NASULGC  Careers - NASULGC is the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges.

Academic Careers Online, since 1998, is an academic job site where universities and colleges in the US, Canada, and around the globe, advertise faculty, adjunct, post doc, library, endowed chairs, administrative and senior management jobs. There is no charge for our applicant services. You can: (1) Search current job openings (and remember, new ones are added daily), (2) Post your resume for employers to review, and/or (3) Receive e-mail alerts when matching jobs are posted. To search jobs and/or open an applicant account at Academic Careers Online then select "Applicants Enter Here." Your resume will be visible within seconds to employers. If you are part of a search committee you can also post your job opening. 

Student Activities

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies - Funding Opportunities for Faculty: Visit their website (www.einaudi.cornell.edu/funding/displaysearch.asp) to search all international research funding opportunities for faculty. (The Population and Development Library (Room 12, Warren Hall) has copies of the Einaudi Center's recent publication, "Post-Doctoral Opportunities in International Studies." Library Hours are Monday 2:00-5:00, Tuesday 12:30-4:30, Thursday 8:30-5:00.)

Summer Internship – Webmaster BoP Learning Lab - The Base of the Pyramid Learning Laboratory, based at the Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise at the Johnson Graduate School of Management, seeks an individual to maintain its website and online journal (e-journal). We are looking for a person with a background in web publishing, open source software and website administration. The site is designed to be the information hub for this worldwide group of private, public, and academic organizations working cooperatively on sustainable enterprise research projects. This is part-time summer position (up to 10 hours/week) with a flexible start date and the possibility to continue in the next academic calendar.  This is a great opportunity for someone taking summer classes. Detailed RequirementsTechnical
·         Background in Website development
·         Familiarity with PHP based open source content management systems (CMS)
·         Specific familiarity with the Drupal CMS is a plus
·         PHP, ColdFusion, and javascript programming skills
·         Familiarity with RDBMS/databases, and mySQL operations
·         HTML skills
·         Image/graphic editing skills
·         Operational understanding of internet (IP) technology, and security issues
·         A computer/software degree is a plus, but not absolutely necessary Non-technical
·         Work with minimal supervision
·         Be willing to make updates/enhancements off of open-source code releases
·         Work with website editor and website members to address technical issues quickly
·         Participate in public domain online support forums (CMS sites) to get help from experts on
          show-stopping issues
·         A keen public affairs/business/development interest is a plus
·         Web-based research
Hourly rate: $8.80. Please send cover letter and resume by email to:  
Monica Touesnard
Managing Director
Base of the Pyramid Learning Lab
Johnson Graduate School of Management
mat59@cornell.edu
Application Deadline:  April 25, 2008  

Non-Dept. Seminars

Einaudi Center - Foreign Policy Distinguished Speaker Series FRANCIS FUKUYAMA (’74) - Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of International Political Economy at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of John Hopkins University and director of SAIS' International Development program “AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY AFTER THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION” Wednesday, April 23, 2008, at 4:30pm G10 Biotechnology Building Admission is free and open to the public Organized by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies For more information visit http://www.einaudi.cornell.edu/news/headlines.asp?id=1731

Environmental Justice Film and Speaker Series at Cornell presents:   Donald Grinde: "Native and Non-Native Environmental Perspectives"    THIS THURSDAY!   April 24th, 5PM  Kaufman Auditorium in Goldwin Smith    Donald Grinde is a Professor in and the Chair of American Studies at the University of Buffalo.  He is the co-author of Ecocide of Native America: Environmental Destruction of Indian Lands and Peoples and Exemplar of Liberty: Native America and the Evolution of Democracy.    His research and teaching focus on Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) history, U.S. Indian policy since 1871, Native American thought, and environmental history and policy.

CROP AND SOIL SCIENCES SEMINAR SERIES Spring 2008 “Arsenic Contamination in Ground Water and Soils:  Spatial Variability and its Effect on Arsenic Uptake, Speciation, Crop Growth and Grain Yield in Rice (Oryza sativa)”   presented by Zia Ahmed PhD Candidate, Crop and Soil Sciences, Cornell University   Thursday, April 24, 2008 12:20 – 1:10 pm 135 Emerson Hall.

Dr. Frederick Magdoff "The World Food Crisis: Causes and Solutions"  Monday, April 28, 3:30pm 233 Plant Science Building

PAM - Mark Stabile, University of Toronto, April 22, 3:30 pm Rushmore Conference Room, 114 MVR Hall  “ Does Family Income Affect the Wellbeing of Children? Evidence from Canadian Child Benefit Expansions.“

Plant Pathology & Plant-Microbe Biology Spring 2008 Seminar Series Wednesday, April 23, 12:20 PM   Xiaohong Wang Dept. of PP&PMB Cornell University   “Alternative splicing and peptide mimicry: novel mechanisms of plant parasitism  by the Potato cyst nematode Globodera rostochiensis”   H. H. Whetzel Seminar Room 404 Plant Science Bldg.

ISS Contentious Knowledge Team presents:  Tuesday, April 22 The Union of Concerned Scientists:  Four Decades at the Intersection of Science and Politics   Kurt Gottfried, Professor of Physics Emeritus, Cornell  12-1:30 p.m., ISS Conference room (146 Myron Taylor Hall)

Call for Papers, Abstracts and Panels

Miscellaneous News

Power Shut Down Tomorrow Morning! - There is a scheduled power shutdown in Warren scheduled from 4am Wednesday 4/23 till 7am Wednesday 4/23. All fileservers, printers and the main Warren web server will be unavailable from 10pm tonight, Tuesday 4/22 until 8:15am Wednesday 4/23.   Also please remember to shutdown all computers, monitors and printers before you leave today.

Last DSOC pizza and movie night of the semester. Thursday April 24th at 7 PM in the Development Sociology Lounge. We'll be screening the classic "Soylent Green" (1974) starring Charlton Heston (for more information go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soylent_Green). The film runs 97 minutes. Please let me know by 10AM Thursday morning if you will attend so we know how much food to order. Friends and family are most welcome! Hope to see you next Thursday,