Welcome to day five!
Today we have the honour of welcoming the Right Honourable Michaëlle Jean, 27th Governor General, Commander-in-Chief of Canada for an exclusive Big Thinking lecture.
Open Access in HSS
What is the state of open access policy and programs in the humanities and social sciences in Canada? A cross-stakeholder discussion with collaborators from Ravenspace, Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE), Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN), the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL), and Érudit.
Board elections results
Following the Federation's Annual Meeting, we are pleased to announce the election of Debra Thompson, Associate Professor of Political Science, McGill University.
EDID Progress update
The Federation shares its third update on recent steps taken to advance equity, diversity, inclusion, and decolonization.
Giving voice to the humanities and social sciences across Canada
The Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences promotes research and teaching for the advancement of an inclusive, democratic, and prosperous society.
With a membership now comprising over 160 universities, colleges, and scholarly associations, the Federation represents a diverse community of 91,000 researchers and graduate students across Canada. The Federation organizes Canada’s largest academic gathering, the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, bringing together more than 8,000 participants each year.
Your membership with us
Federation membership gives you the power to think, speak, and engage from platforms of national and international significance to the humanities and social sciences.
What is the ASPP?
The Awards to Scholarly Publications Program (ASPP), a key Federation activity, funds scholarly books in Canada that make an important contribution to the humanities and social sciences.
Latest resources
(Re)imagining research for public good: understanding knowledge mobilization in academia and beyond
by Kimberly Duong, Criminology Honours Major, 4th year at York University The ability to acquire knowledge, to preserve, and to pass it on to the next individual, is powerful. Knowledge does not always come with power – it is a state of understanding...
Building digital communities in the humanities and social sciences
by Erika Dilling, Global Health and the Environment Honours Major, 3rd year at York University “But what I’m stuck on is the behaviour piece. How do we get people to want to learn?” In the inquisitive spirit conversations on university campuses often...
On the antinomy of the postcolonial and the decolonial: an epistemological and transdisciplinary perspective
If decolonization is the practice of shedding the oppressor’s cloak, then what is postcolonialism? Is it a surrender to colonialism or a place of resistance? And if postcolonialism represents the future, does that mean decolonization is a pining for...