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De Marie de l’Incarnation à Nelly Arcan
Lorsque j’ai entrepris les recherches pour ce qui allait devenir De Marie de l’Incarnation à Nelly Arcan: se dire, se faire par l’écriture intime , je me proposais d’écrire une histoire de l’autobiographie féminine au Québec, des origines à nos jours...
Donald Creighton: A Life in History
I first "met" Donald Creighton when, as an undergraduate, I was assigned a couple of chapters from his two-volume biography of Sir John A. Macdonald. Instantly hooked by his ability to transport readers back in time, I knew that I was in the presence...
Félicitations à Patricia Smart, finaliste pour les Prix littéraires du gouverneur général
La Fédération des sciences humaines félicite Patricia Smart pour sa nomination en tant que finaliste pour les Prix littéraires du gouverneur général de 2015 dans la catégorie d’Essais de langue française pour son livre, De Marie de l'Incarnation à...
Who is telling our stories? Canadian millennials in literature and the humanities
On July 14, Go Set a Watchman will be released to the general public, a sequel of sorts to Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird . Few works of literature have had a more profound role in shaping conversations on race in the 20th century than To Kill a...
When big data meets the soul of culture: innovation for the future
The digital age is rapidly changing how scholars produce, share, analyze and preserve ideas. At Monday’s interdisciplinary symposium at Congress 2015, the changing nature of scholarly research with technology was the topic of discussion. One of the...
Technological Unemployment and the Future of Work
What world can we imagine in 20, 30, even 50 years in the future? How rapid will technology advance and how do we develop policy to match the speed of development? How many times will my job description change? What do we do when machine intelligence...
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)...