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SSH News: Congress 2017, Canadian Innovation, Imagining Canada’s Future, Big Thinking
Ryerson University has been selected to host the 2017 edition of Canada's largest academic gathering, the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences. The Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences , which organizes Congress every year, and...
Alberta shows leadership with billion dollar investment in social innovation
The Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences applauds the creation of the Social Innovation Endowment Fund by the Government of Alberta. With an investment of $500 million in Alberta’s 2014 budget, and another $500 million next year...
Results for the Federation’s board of directors elections
Véronique Mallet , Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences The results are in! Four positions on the board of directors of the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences were up for elections in the past two weeks. The winners are as...
Concordia Looks Back 53 Years with University TV
Christine Mitchell , Department of English, Concordia University The Concordia University community will take a peek into its past later this week when its Media History Research Centre holds a screening of two half-hour television episodes produced...
Career Corner at Congress - Not just for graduate students anymore
Eleanor Fast , Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences Career Corner at Congress , a well-established tradition, is expanding to include more events relevant to scholars at all stages of their careers. Organized in a partnership between the...
SSH News: Canada’s adult literacy, Freedom to Read Week, Big Thinking
Quoting Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist, lecturer and poet, “I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.” Unfortunately, this paradigm is not universal. Concerns about Canadian...
Showing the human face of the humanities - the Humanities Matter Web Series and Bus Tour
The MakerBus team , Ryan Hunt, Kim Martin, and Beth Compton Things aren’t looking very bright for the arts and humanities at the moment. In our current age of austerity, arts and humanities budgets are easy targets for spending reductions. In both...
AAAS, Chicago and the humanities
Jean-Marc Mangin , Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) traditionally offers little space for the humanities. There were however several panels which included social...
SSH News: Big Thinking, Canada’s Innovation Challenge, AAAS 2014
This month’s Big Thinking lecture presented by Joseph Heath, Director, Centre for Ethics, and Professor, Department of Philosophy and School of Public Policy and Governance, University of Toronto, is now available to view online . This lecture...