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Simon Brault: The role of arts in protecting democracy

At Congress 2019, the Big Thinking lecture series considers how the arts function as a platform to engage with scholarship in the humanities and social sciences. Organizers were inspired by three big questions: Who speaks for whom? Whose stories get...

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In conversation with Esi Edugyan

Watch two-time Giller Prize winner Esi Edugyan in conversation with Dr. Minelle Mahtani as they discuss Edugyan’s fiction and issues of history, race, creativity, the nature of freedom, and voice.
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Leadership and sustainable peacebuilding - Alaa Murabit

Big Thinking at Congress 2018 Leadership and sustainable peacebuilding In an era when insecurity is a daily reality for people in many parts of the world, what is the role women have in peacebuilding and in political processes? Alaa Murabit will...

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Getting a Life: The Social Worlds of Geek Culture

When someone asks you where the idea for a research project came from, there’s a right and a wrong answer. The right one is about debates in the field and gaps in the literature, and it presupposes what you eventually discovered. I find the wrong one...

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Effective use of social media for associations

Michel Duquet of the Canadian Historical Association and Nicola Katz of the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences shared lessons from their experiences for effectively developing scholarly associations’ digital presence. In this peer-to...
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Canada needs to confront the causes of a post-truth world

This op-ed was originally published by Canadian Science Policy Centre on October 10, 2017. One day, the U.S. president is taunting North Korea, treating nuclear conflict like it’s WrestleMania. The next, he glibly dismisses racial injustice in...

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Présences intermittentes des Amériques

Ce livre est inspiré de ma thèse de doctorat et répond à une question bien précise : qu’est-ce que le sujet québécois peut apprendre du contact littéraire avec l’écriture chicana? J’ai commencé à m’interroger sur ce sujet alors que je voyageais moi...