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AAAS 2014: Where was Canada?
Jean-Marc Mangin , Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences This last weekend, Chicago hosted this premier inter-disciplinary academic conference by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) which focussed a great deal...
Forward thinking: Interdisciplinary programs and the adjacent possible
Michael Ullyot , Associate Dean (Teaching and Learning), Faculty of Arts, University of Calgary When I was an undergraduate, the recruiting poster for an interdisciplinary program in the humanities asked, "What do Leonardo da Vinci and Martha Stewart...
Elections are open for the Federation’s Board of Directors
Véronique Mallet , Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences Elections open today, Tuesday, February 18, 2014 for two positions on the Board of Directors of the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences. The open positions and...
SSH News: Big Thinking, Federal Budget 2014, SSHRC Impact Awards
The most recent Big Thinking lecture "Reason versus passion in politics" was presented on Tuesday by Joseph Heath, Director, Centre for Ethics, and Professor, Department of Philosophy and School of Public Policy and Governance, University of Toronto...
Highlights from the federal budget
The federal budget was announced earlier today. “The investments announced today —and taken together, they are significant and represent the largest increase in funding through the granting councils in a decade— will lead to crucial research advances...
Canada’s Science, Technology and Innovation Strategy
Eleanor Fast , Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences The world of ideas moves quickly so the Federation was eager to respond when the government asked for input to inform a refresh the 2007 S&T Strategy. Our submission responded to the...
SSH News: Value of an SSH education, Situating Science Summer School 2014, Trudeau Foundation
Yes! The indispensability of the social sciences and humanities has been a trending topic in recent days, both nationally and internationally. Last week, Carolyn Gregoire penned the “ irrefutable evidence of the value of a humanities education ” (...
Join us at the Federation's Annual Conference
Mark your calendars! Registration for the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences 2014 Annual Conference and Annual General Meeting (AGM) is now open! The Federation’s Annual Conference is open to all. It allows you to interact with the...
SSH News: ASPP, Outaouais Salon du Livre, Canada Reads 2014, Annual Engagement Scholarship Consortium Conference
This week, the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences was pleased and honoured to welcome Annalise Acorn as an expert in Law for the Awards to Scholarly Publications Program (ASPP). Annalise Acorn is a professor in the Faculty of Law at...