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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...

Angela P. Harris, Berkeley Law School Guest Contributor These reflections are based on a workshop I conducted on “ teaching race and the law” at the University of Alberta this past October. I hope these reflections will be useful to those teachers...

Phil Ryan, Carleton University Guest Contributor Politics is in part a battle over the meaning of words. Imagine, for example, a parallel universe where United States fundamentalist Pat Robertson’s definition of feminism had become dominant:...

Malinda S. Smith, Vice President, Equity Her Mohawk name was ‘Aywahande,’ or “the one who speaks first or gets things going with words.” Professor Patricia (‘Trish’) Monture, the brilliant and accomplished Haudenosaunee lawyer, educator, writer and...

Malinda S. Smith, Vice-President, Equity The November 2010 cover story of University Affairs addresses the thorny issue of the exclusion of ‘ visible-minority’ or ‘ racialized’ scholars in the Canadian academy. In the editorial introducing the issue...

Nancy E. Hansen, University of Manitoba Guest Contributor As a human geographer studying disability I am always aware of surroundings, how spaces and places are organized – and as a disabled female academic, even more so. As disabled people we are...

Wendy Craig (Queen’s University), Joanne Cummings (York University), and Debra Pepler (York University) Guest Contributors Recent highly profiled cases in the media of bullying leading to suicide have highlighted a significant public health problem...

Kwame Anthony Appiah, Princeton University Guest Contributor I never much liked ‘multiculturalism.’ The word, I mean, not everything that was ever done in its name. Multiculturalism, in the United States, was offered as a solution to tensions between...