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OTTAWA, April 9, 2010  —  Below is a summary of activities taking place at the University of Ottawa this week. For more information, please visit www.media.uOttawa.ca.

April 13

2010 Telfer-ICOBC India Forum: India – Managing the Infrastructure and Security Issues
8 a.m. to 2 p.m., Desmarais Building (55 Laurier Ave. East)
The Telfer School of Management, in partnership with the Indo Canada Ottawa Business Chamber, presents the 2010 Telfer-ICOBC India Forum. This half-day event involving senior business and government leaders from Canada and India is designed to help Canadian companies better understand the key issues and risks in the market related to infrastructure and security. Topics of the conference include: the state of Indian infrastructure in the face of the evolving demands, the priorities for Indian infrastructure development in the next five years, opportunities for Canadian companies to play a heightened role in infrastructure development projects in India, the underlying causes for the current security issues in India, the challenges and risks related to security issues and the strategies and tactics that international companies are employing. For more information, please contact the Telfer School of Management at 613-562-5800 extension 2396 or alumni@telfer.uOttawa.ca.

Europe, the Financial Crisis, and “Staying on Top” in the 21st Century
10:30 a.m., Desmarais Building, Room 3120 (55 Laurier Ave. East)
The Centre for International Policy Studies (CIPS) welcomes Mr. Mark Blyth from Brown University to present a lecture titled This Time it Really is Different: Europe, the Financial Crisis, and “Staying on Top” in the 21st Century. Mr. Blyth is a professor of international political economy in the Department of Political Science at Brown’s University, and a faculty fellow at the Watson Institute for International Studies. His areas of interest include comparative and international political economy, with a particular focus on questions of uncertainty and randomness in complex systems. For more information, please contact CIPS at 613-562-5800 extension 2664 or cepi-cips@uOttawa.ca.

Freedom, Modernity, and Idealism
4:30 p.m., Desmarais Building, Room 3120 (55 Laurier Ave. East)
The Faculty of Social Sciences’ Vice-Dean of Research will host a lecture titled Freedom, Modernity, and Idealism by Professor Douglas Moggach, School of Political Studies and University Research Chair in Political Thought. For more information, please contact Sophie LeTouzé at 613-562-5800 extension 2578 or sletouze@uOttawa.ca.

April 14

Book Launch for the Editors of Cultural Political Economy
4 p.m., Café Nostalgica (603 Cumberland St.)
The Centre for International Policy Studies and the Centre on Governance present the launch of Professor Jacqueline Best and Professor Matthew Paterson’s new co-edited volume Cultural Political Economy (Routledge, 2010). The book examines the concept of culture and how it can be used to develop analyses of the dynamics and problems of the global political economy. For more information, please contact Philippe Descheneau at philippe.descheneau@gmail.com.

Beyond the Credit Crunch: Local Authorities’ Response to the Recession in the UK
12 p.m., Desmarais Building, Room 3120 (55 Laurier Ave. East)
The School of Political Studies and the Center on Governance present a conference titled Beyond the Credit Crunch: Local Authorities’ Response to Recession in the UK by Caroline Chapain of the Centre for Urban and Regional Studies of the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom. During the past 18 months, the UK has been deeply affected by the recession with its economy contracting and unemployment rates rising from 5.2% in January-March 2008 to 7.8% in October-December 2009., It is often local authorities who are at the forefront of dealing with the impacts of the recession on people and places. For more information, please contact Eric Champagne at 613-562-5800 extension 1652 or echampagne@uOttawa.ca.

April 13 and 14

Green Shoots in Criminology
9 a.m., Desmarais Building (55 Laurier Ave. East)
The 4th Annual for Justice Studies and Research Laboratory (JSRL) Symposium is a two-day event centering on the ways in which young researchers are navigating within tensions of contemporary criminology. Over two days, students, either alone or with their supervisors, will have the opportunity to present and discuss their work as it relates to the known tensions and debates regarding the future of the field of inquiry in both abstractly theoretical and practical applied terms. For more information, please contact Professor Françoise Vanhamme at 613-562-5800 extension 1794 or fvanhamm@uOttawa.ca.

April 16

CGA Accounting Research Centre at the University of Ottawa
8:30 a.m. to 12 p.m., National Arts Centre, Panorama Room (53 Elgin St.)
The CGA Accounting Research Centre at the University of Ottawa along with the generous support of the Certified General Accountants Association of Ontario presents the17th Annual Conference themed Business and financial crises: Some urgent priorities for accounting and accountants. According to the late John Kenneth Galbraith, the famous Canadian economist, economic crises are a basic component of the expanding and contracting cycles that characterize a market economy. However, economic crises seem to be occurring with alarming frequency and great depth. In addition, these crises seem to be more disruptive and have more harmful consequences that impact corporations, their stakeholders and society in general. This conference will provide accountants and business professionals with an opportunity for explore urgent priorities for the profession to ensure its ongoing relevance in a turbulent and challenging environment. For more information, please contact Ludmila Pauk at 613-562-5800 extension 4771 or pauk@telfer.uOttawa.ca.

For more information about the Gee-Gees and upcoming sporting events, contact Jacinthe Néron at 613-562-5800 extension 2113 or visit www.geegees.uOttawa.ca.