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The contemporary challenges of francophone communities in Canada
As part of the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, the Academy of Social Sciences of the Royal Society of Canada is hosting a Big Thinking presentation by Joseph Yvon Thériault on the topic of contemporary challenges of francophone...
SSHRC Scholarships and Fellowships 101 at Congress
SSHRC Staff We in SSHRC’s Research Training Portfolio know that applying for a SSHRC award can be challenging. You spend all that time developing a great research question, pulling together all of your supporting documents, and getting feedback on...
Canada Prizes 2015: Canada’s political class in the pocket of the oil industry?
It is nearly impossible for a Canadian politician to criticize the oil industry, says Dominique Perron, author of a new book that looks at identities, myths and the discourse surrounding the oil industry in Western Canada. That fact is a major...
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...
What to expect at Career Corner 2015
Come get some advice to kick-start your academic or non-academic career! Here are some sessions that we recommend you attend at this year’s Career Corner at the University of Ottawa. How to tell your research story When: Sunday, May 31, 2015, 13:00 -...
Career Corner presenters bring a wealth of knowledge to grad students
Watch previous Career Corner presenters share tips on how to make the PhD and job-hunting experiences easier. Congress 2014: Why grad students should have an online presence Presenter: Amy Elder, director of Career Services at Brock University...
Federalism as a tool to rethink our relations
In Canada as elsewhere, Indigenous peoples have long been marginalized by the law. Recently, however, judicial decisions recognizing the existence of “aboriginal rights” have given certain Indigenous groups leverage in negotiating territorial...
ASPP-Funded Books Dominate The Hill Times’ Best of 2014 List
On Monday, The Hill Times published its annual list of “Best 100 Books” from the past year. As usual, books funded by the Federation’s Awards to Scholarly Publications Program (ASPP) were well represented. In fact, 23 of the 100 books – almost a...
Canada and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
This blog post was contributed for Human Rights Day, observed on December 10. December 10, 2014 is the 66 th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). In his Why Canada Cares (McGill-Queen`s University Press, 2012, pp. 4-5)...