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Much ado about mentoring
Malinda Smith, VP Equity Let’s be audacious and say it: Some of the most innovative – socially innovative – developments in human history have occurred in the social sciences and humanities. I think mentoring is one of them: Mentoring is a social...
SSHRC Program Architecture Renewal – Share your thoughts
Noreen Golfman, President The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council recently released the latest draft of their proposed Program Architecture Renewal. You can find a primer on the Program Architecture Renewal on the Federation’s website, or...
Congratulations to Holberg Prize Winner
Canadian humanities researchers have yet again proven their ability to compete internationally, with the Holberg International Memorial Prize being awarded to a Canadian for the second year in a row. Natalie Zemon Davis from the University of Toronto...
Building a More Prosperous and Just Canada
by Jean-Marc Mangin, Executive Director Photo courtesy of Ian Muttoo on Flickr Who are we? Where are we going? How should we get there? How will we transform along the way? These are the existential questions that continue to preoccupy much of the...
Fedcan on Budget 2010
Ryan Saxby Hill, Media Relations Photo Courtest of slightly-less-random on Flickr The federal budget was released last week to much (but seemingly unsustainable) attention from the national press. Generally, the Federation was pleased that SSHRC was...
Canadian scholars in solidarity with Chile
Malinda S. Smith, vice-president (Equity) CFHSS Perhaps the epic poem, La Araucana, said it best: “Chile, province fertile and marked / in the famed region of Antarctica / by remote nations respected / for its strength, nobility, and power.” Chile is...
Après la fièvre olympique, au tour du budget fédéral
Pierre Normand, CFHSS Director of Communications Photo courtesy RobMan170 on Flickr. Alors que les Canadiens continuent d’être captivés par le drame personnel de la patineuse Joannie Rochette et regagnent espoir de décrocher une première médaille d...
e-Dialogue on the future of the social sciences
Ryan Saxby Hill, CFHSS Media Relations Noreen Golfman, president of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, joined a rock star lineup of speakers for an e-dialogue hosted by Royal Roads University this month. The discussion is...
Social networking through your citations
Ryan Saxby Hill, Media Relations If there is one thing I love, it's a good citation. If there is another thing that I love, it's probably the Internet. I've noticed that these two things are slowly coming together in the form of online or social...