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The Federation blog is a space for Federation members and researchers in the humanities and social sciences to respectfully discuss ideas and issues of importance to the community. Please review the Federation's blog policy for submission information.

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De Marie de l’Incarnation à Nelly Arcan

Lorsque j’ai entrepris les recherches pour ce qui allait devenir De Marie de l’Incarnation à Nelly Arcan: se dire, se faire par l’écriture intime , je me proposais d’écrire une histoire de l’autobiographie féminine au Québec, des origines à nos jours...

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Why are we still debating diversity versus merit in 2015?

Canada’s first gender-equal cabinet is being celebrated by equality and diversity advocates but criticized by those who believe that using selection criteria like gender, race, or ethnicity violates merit. Those who trumpet merit believe that...

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Open for Collaboration

Another year, another Open Access Week. Time flies when you’re having fun, right? That’s certainly been the case here at the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, where a lot has happened on our Open Access file over the past year...

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Telling your research story - make it accessible!

We all dread the presenter who reads directly from the slides or paper in a monotone voice. Worse still is when that monotone voice uses heavy jargon that no one outside the field will understand. Shari Graydon says “scholars are trained to be...

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‘Mean’ is not a girl thing

Marnina Gonick is project leader on two projects funded through the Canada Foundation for Innovation’s Leaders Opportunity Fund (now named the John R. Evans Leaders Fund ). She will be attending the 2015 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences...

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The Publisher's Role and its Challenges

Nota bene: The Federation works with many publishers through its Awards to Scholarly Publications Program (ASPP). We admire the work they do, though we also know that it is not well understood. So in honour of World Book and Copyright Day, we have...

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Celebrating Canada’s open access “tipping point”

As Canadians welcome World Book and Copyright Day on April 23 rd , the three federal research granting institutions – the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and the Natural Sciences...

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Les femmes et le terrorisme

Partout dans le monde, on s’efforce d’inventer des solutions juridiques pour mettre fin au terrorisme. Le Canda ne fait pas exception : un projet de loi propose des détentions préventives, un partage d’information entre agences et un mandat au...