Welcome to Congress Day 2
A notice about the events calendar
Please be advised, there have been a number of changes to association open events in the past days. We are working to ensure the accuracy of event details; however, we recommend checking the calendar often, and especially before attending an event, for up-to-date listings. We appreciate your patience.
Today at Congress.
National Security & Intelligence: Foreign Interference in Elections
Canadian Political Science Association (CPSA)
Sustainable sounds, energy cultures, and collecting for futurity
Canadian Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres (CAML)
Social Enterprises and Socio-Ecologial Transitions
Canadian Association for Studies in Co-operation (CASC)
Federation for the Humanities & Social Sciences
Landscape as Enslaved Labour in Colonial Dutch Brazil
Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies (CSRS)
Canadians Who Innovate: Meet The Trailblazers That Are Changing the World
Federation for the Humanities & Social Sciences
Dispatches from the Backbenches: Research by the 2023-24 Parliamentary Interns
Federation for the Humanities & Social Sciences
Régénérer nos dialogues by the movement between arts, pratiques et langues
Canadian Comparative Literature Association (CCLA)
Session 5: Collections and DEIA
Canadian Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres (CAML)
Federation for the Humanities & Social Sciences
Tearing Down Silos: Medieval Studies, Transdisciplinarity, and the Future
Canadian Society of Medievalists (CSM)
Studying Literature in the Climate Crisis, or a Tale of Three Pipelines
Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English (ACCUTE)
Opening Event & Keynote Lecture (Prof. Clapperton Mavhunga, MIT)
Canadian Association of African Studies (CAAS)
Federation for the Humanities & Social Sciences
Metaphysical Music: A Concert of Seventeenth-Century Sacred Song
Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies (CSRS)
Environmental Studies Association of Canada (ESAC)
Please note the following events have moved to the Congress virtual platform:
- Social Enterprises and Socio-Ecologial Transitions
- Tearing Down Silos: Medieval Studies, Transdisciplinarity, and the Future
- Studying Literature in the Climate Crisis, or a Tale of Three Pipelines
- Transcending Double Binds - event will be available on-demand only
Please note the following cancellations:
- Keynote: Creating Change in the Academy: From Radical Empathy to Comparative Race Theory, My Journey
- Keynote: Trans Panic and the Broader Threat to Equality Rights
- Psychological Resilience & Climate Resilience
- Settler Colonial Capitalism and Indigenous Dispossession in Canada
- CSSE-SCÉÉ - ARTS-SCÉA - Presidential Symposium - Engaging with the Arts as Resistance
Access online or hybrid events through the Congress Virtual Platform.
Researchers in the news.
As part of our media relations program:
Here's why you shouldn't put too much stock in wellness apps
Owen Chevalier, Western University
Seeing the unhoused and racialized youth as neighbours creates inclusive communities
Erin Dej, Wilfrid Laurier University
Naomi Nichols, Trent University
Jessica Braimoh, York University
New lessons to help kids think differently about people with disabilities
John Freer, St. Clair College and University of Windsor
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