National Seminar Research Articles

Book Review: A Vital National Seminar: The Supreme Court in American Political Life, Constitutional Counter-Revolution? The Warren Court and the Burger Court: Judicial Policy Making in Modern America

Book Review: A Vital National Seminar: The Supreme Court in American Political Life, Constitutional Counter-Revolution? The Warren Court and the Burger Court: Judicial Policy Making in Modern America

A Vital National Seminar: The Supreme Court in American Political Life

A Vital National Seminar: The Supreme Court in American Political Life

II National Seminar on Prevention and Detection of Gastric and Colonic Cancer

II National Seminar on Prevention and Detection of Gastric and Colonic Cancer

Robert Edwards (ed.): The preservation of Australia's Aboriginal heritage. Report of National Seminar on Aboriginal antiquities in Australia May 1972. Prehistory and Material Culture Series No. II. Australian Aboriginal Studies No. 54. Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1975. 245 pp., 44 pls., I map. Aust. $10.00.

Robert Edwards (ed.): The preservation of Australia's Aboriginal heritage. Report of National Seminar on Aboriginal antiquities in Australia May 1972. Prehistory and Material Culture Series No. II. Australian Aboriginal Studies No. 54. Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1975. 245 pp., 44 pls., I map. Aust. $10.00.

The National Seminar on the Teaching of Latin American Studies

All too frequently, national associations pay scant heed to professional activity below the university level, seeming to forget that schools and colleges are the foundation for their future success. Aware of this, the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) appointed its first committee on teaching Latin American studies on all levels in 1973. The committee, working closely with the steering committee of the Consortium of Latin American Studies Programs, (CLASP), sought some means of building bridges of mutual help and understanding between teachers and professors of Latin American studies. In these efforts, two specific needs and one rather obvious fact became apparent. The needs were for some means of updating and improving the quality of teacher training for those teaching Latin American content and for the development of instructional materials that met the high standards of both Latin American scholars and professional educators. The obvious fact was that the average Latin Americanist had little understanding of the current school classroom and the problems confronting and opportunities available to the classroom teacher. To compound these, it was clear that the study of Latin America as a world culture area was diminishing. Such conditions, once recognized, cried out for action on the part of LASA/CLASP.

Agrarian Reform in Thailand: Problems and Prospects

W As HEN Thailand's military government collapsed in October 1973, the civilian government under Sanya Thammasak established new domestic priorities, high among them being a program to help the farmers. ' The Sanya Government had inherited a deteriorating situation in agriculture. The plight of tenant farmers, especially in the Central Region, was deteriorating, particularly through the exploitative operations of moneylenders. The previous military government had had no comprehensive land policy, but at least General Praphat Charusathian's political rhetoric late in I97i had broached the question of land reform.2 Unfortunately, the ardor with which Sanya's civilian government initially supported land reform legislation has subsequently subsided. Land reform legislation was also one of the major compaign issues during the 1975 general elections. Such reform affected too large an electorate to be opposed and was too popular with the farmers and the students alike to be totally ignored. Nevertheless, during these elections a small but powerful group of vested interests began to exert counterpressures, and the Kukrit government was conspicuous by its lukewarm approach toward land reform. The Land Reform for Agriculture Act (B.E. 25i8) passed recently by the Legislative Assembly has many loopholes, but it also signalled a shift in the future prospects for significant land reform. To illustrate, in the early days of the military regime of Thanom Kittikachorn, land reform was an idea barely tolerated. Even the Seminar officially sponsored by the Government and by U.N. agencies and held in Bangkok in I970, was titled National Seminar on Land Problems and Policies in Thailand, and placed emphasis on land administration, land settlement, and land consolidation programs,3

First national seminar and exhibition on ‘electical insulations’

First national seminar and exhibition on ‘electical insulations’

National seminar on intergovernmental cooperation for urban development A summary report

National seminar on intergovernmental cooperation for urban development A summary report

A Report on National Seminar “Ecology, Environment and Religions: Key Issues and Challenges”

A Report on National Seminar “Ecology, Environment and Religions: Key Issues and Challenges”

Issues in Indian Labour Policy. Papers and Conclusions of the Fourth National Seminar on Industrial Relations in a Developing Economy, by C.K. Johri, Editor 1968. New Delhi : Shri Ram Centre for Industrial Relations, 1969, 344 pp.

Issues in Indian Labour Policy. Papers and Conclusions of the Fourth National Seminar on Industrial Relations in a Developing Economy, by C.K. Johri, Editor 1968. New Delhi : Shri Ram Centre for Industrial Relations, 1969, 344 pp.. Un article de la revue Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations (Volume 25, numéro 2, 1970, p. 169-396) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit.

Australian National Seminar on Educational Planning, 1968

Australian National Seminar on Educational Planning, 1968

On the Chinese Policy

Behind the various, more extreme evaluations and sometimes information taken out of context, the need to investigate and evaluate the basic tendencies that are realized in the dramatic and contradictory development of the situation in CER is beginning to emerge. It can be objected that our news coverage, and even journalism for the most part, provides little evidence of such an approach, stimulating not only for research, but also for practice and propaganda. In the following lines, however, they can inform you about the content of the event, which until recently was not customary to organize in this region. The wider context of the current Chinese development was therefore dealt with by the national seminar of the Central Scientific and Methodical Council for International Relations issues at the Socialist Academy on March 16 and 17, 1967 in Zivohost.

Notes on Russian Family Life Today

In my paper, Decision to Marry While in College, published in Acta Sociologica, Vol. 8, Fasc. 1-2, I reviewed the history of college marriages in the United States. The following notes provide a wider panorama of general family affairs. They stem from a question and answer period during the Eighth Inter? national Family Research Seminar in Oslo, August 1963 in which Professor A. Kharchev of the Academy of Sciences in Leningrad, U.S.S.R. allowed himself to be interviewed by conference participants. Some of the questions and answers undoubtedly suffered during the process of interpretation. If any meaning has been altered, I am sure it was not my intention. Seminar members were highly pleased that they were able to obtain this information from one of the foremost family sociologists in the Soviet Union today.

National Seminar on Population Problems of Thailand: Conclusions of the Seminar

A seminar on the national consideration of population policy in Thai land was held in Bangkok on March 27-29 1963. The seminar agreed that the population growth of Thailand was at present at a high and unprecendented level and that only a decline in the level of fertility could bring about a reduction in the rate of population growth and make the age structure more favorable for economic development. It was stressed that population projections would merely serve as an illustration of possible future trends based upon certain assumptions and were not to be considered as forecasts or predictions. No particular future estimate of the population of Thailand was endorsed or rejected. The seminar recommended that more attention should be paid and more funds be made available in order to provide more comprehensive and better demographic statistics required for economic and social development planning. It was recommended that: 1) training for family planning personnel be promoted; 2) demographic research required for social and economic development planning be conducted and full use be made of existing data; 3) information on attitudes towards family size a nd family planning in urban and rural areas be obtained; 4) a pilot project in one Amphur be carried out to measure the effects of various approaches to family planning; and 5) a National Seminar on Population should be organized at regular intervals preferably about once in every 2 years.

Indian national seminar on educational methods to promote understanding of other cultures Udaipur, Rajasthan, India, December, 1960

Indian national seminar on educational methods to promote understanding of other cultures Udaipur, Rajasthan, India, December, 1960

A National Seminar Program for the Practicing Pharmacist

A National Seminar Program for the Practicing Pharmacist

Organized Religion

For the majority of religious institutions for whom data are available, the year was one of declining income and of increasing relief efforts. Church membership continued to gain slightly. A National Seminar of Catholics, Jews, and Protestants was held. In the realm of ideas and attitudes there is much evidence of ferment and reconstruction particularly among non-Catholic bodies. There were only rumblings of religious strife during the national election campaign, as contrasted with 1928. The economic crisis seems to be breeding a theology of crisis. The report of the Laymen's Foreign Missions Inquiry was published. The President's Research committee on Social Trends, reporting on trends within organized religion between 1910 and 1930, diclosed marked expansion of services and more noticeable gains in financial resources than in membership.