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Canada Prizes 2015: Jean-Paul Sartre’s American dream
Jean-Paul Sartre, an influential French writer, philosopher and politically active intellectual in the mid-20th century, was fascinated by the United States. A new book by Yan Hamel, a professor of literature at TÉLUQ, Quebec’s distance-learning...
Canada Prizes 2015: Treaties with native peoples ‘our Magna Carta,’ says professor
Michael Asch says the real defining moment in Canadian history was not Confederation, but the day the first treaty was signed between European settlers and the country’s Indigenous peoples. And he is inviting Canadians to rethink the way we look at...
Canada Prizes 2015: The art of re-complicating history
Native Art of the Northwest Coast: A History of Changing Ideas is, at over 1,000 pages, a very thick book. Charlotte Townsend-Gault, one of the book’s three editors, says she doesn’t expect people to sit down and read it cover to cover. But in some...
Not really a philosopher
Chris Eliasmith, Canada Research Chair in Theoretical Neuroscience, is professor with a joint appointment in Philosophy and Systems Design Engineering and cross-appointment to Computer Science at the University of Waterloo. He is Director of the...
Remembering the 1885 Resistance 130 Years Later
The Awards to Scholarly Publications Program (ASPP) funded the recent publication of Michel Hogue’s book Metis and the Medicine Line: Creating a Border and Dividing a People (University of Regina Press). The Federation for the Humanities and Social...
L’avenir de la recherche au Canada
Vous avez peut-être entendu parler de l’initiative récente de l’Association canadienne des études supérieures (ACES) et du Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines (CRSH) qui inviteront 20 étudiants de divers établissements universitaires pour...
Canada can learn from the UK’s “The Business of People” report
Released by the UK’s Campaign for Social Science on February 24, 2015, “ The Business of People ” report underscores the critical role that social science research should play in the that country’s science and innovation strategy. The report’s...
Dr. Ruth Panofsky: The story behind The Collected Poems of Miriam Waddington
Dr. Ruth Panofsky is Professor of English and also teaches in the Joint Graduate Program in Communication and Culture at Ryerson University. Her Collected Poems of Miriam Waddington , supported by the Awards to Scholarly Publications Program (ASPP)...
Leading Research Universities in a Competitive World
The Awards to Scholarly Publications Program (ASPP) has funded the recent publication of Les grandes universités de recherche : Institutions autonomes dans un environnement concurrentiel , a book by Robert Lacroix and Louis Maheu (published by...