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Canada's AI leadership calls for all expertise at the table

After bringing together humanities and social sciences AI experts for a consultation with the federal government’s AI Strategy Task Force on October 20, the Federation submitted the following on October 31. Written submission to the AI Task Force...

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Bringing communities together

By Dr. Margrit Talpalaru, professor & Academic Convenor for Congress 2025 at George Brown College George Brown College (GBC) is the first college to host the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences in its 94 years: this has emerged as the...

Text reads: Canadian Symposium of Scholarly Journals. Virtual event Thursday November 14, 2024 1 - 3 pm ET. Logo of Coalition Publica and the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences
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Canadian Symposium of Scholarly Journals

About the Symposium | Meet the panelists About the Symposium From the emergence of digital publication to the rise of open access, scholarly communications have undergone deep and far-reaching change in the last 30 years. The Canadian Symposium of...

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Advocacy in action: Bridging research and policy-making

Description | Meet the panelists | Watch the webinar | Transcript Description We all benefit when researchers are empowered to raise their voices and advocate effectively. Today, public policy needs researchers more than ever. In the face of...

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Combating Unconscious Bias and Systemic Racism

Congress 2021 blog edition Although – hopefully – most of us do not consciously or intentionally work to perpetuate inequality in the world, odds are that most of us at least sometimes say or do things that preclude diversity and exclude the ‘other.’...

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Crimes that tell us much about our society

What do “La Corriveau,” “Dr. l’Indienne” and the “brigands of Cap-Rouge” have in common? All were celebrated criminals who captured the popular imagination in 19th- and 20th-century Quebec. La communauté du dehors. Imaginaire social et crimes...

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Les femmes et le terrorisme

Partout dans le monde, on s’efforce d’inventer des solutions juridiques pour mettre fin au terrorisme. Le Canda ne fait pas exception : un projet de loi propose des détentions préventives, un partage d’information entre agences et un mandat au...