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A new imagination - Catherine Dauvergne and the new politics of immigration
Samara Bissonnette In an installment of the Big Thinking series for Congress 2014, Catherine Dauvergne delivered one of her newest big ideas yesterday at Brock University in a presentation titled " The End of Settler Societies and the New Politics of...
Being the best research assistant you can be
Terry Soleas Dr. Michelle McGinn in an extension of her role as the Associate Dean of Research and International Initiatives led a workshop on helping research assistants deepen their engagement with the research process, improve their skillset as...
David Plotz – Digital journalism: From scourge to trend-setter
Doug Junke For David Plotz, the advent of digital journalism has been the best of times and the worst of times, to borrow from Charles Dickens. Slate editor Plotz addressed Tuesday’s Congress 2014 Big Thinking crowd of 125 at Brock University with...
Lyse Doucet - Working in a savage reality
Doug Junke Lyse Doucet, veteran BBC reporter, presenter and chief international correspondent has seen man at his worst. It wasn’t pretty. She shared a tiny slice of that with the Congress 2014 Big Thinking audience Saturday afternoon. It wasn’t for...
SSH News: Winners for Canada Prizes announced, Bacon & Big Thinking, Wage gaps
This week, the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences was very pleased to announce the winners of the 2014 Canada Prizes. The Canada Prizes are awarded annually to the best scholarly books in the humanities and social sciences that have...
It's the digital economy, stupid!
Ryan Saxby Hill Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences We at the Federation are getting pretty excited about this week's Big Thinking lecture with Catherine Middleton. Catherine is a super-smart Canada Research Chair at Ryerson...
"Our Greatest Possible Resource"
“A degree will help you get ahead” – so many young Canadians have been told. But with crippling debt and high tuition costs, the cost of getting post-secondary education can become higher than the benefits. And, as Roseann O’Reilly Runte points out...
Fedcan's Big Thinking lecture is the place to be!
The team here at the Federation was gushing a bit with pride this week when the Ottawa Citizen listed our Big Thinking lecture series as one of the top five places for MP-spotting in the capital. We're in pretty good company with Hy's Steakhouse, D...
Teaching Equity Matters: How far will you go?
Carol Schick, University of Regina Guest Contributor How do you teach anti-oppressive education? In this blog I want to share my experiences teaching in the justice-oriented Summer Institute. I want to elaborate on the processes and rationale of the...