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Ottawa, ma ville bilingue: une idée inachevée
Camille Ferrier qui s’est jointe l’été dernier à l’équipe du Secrétariat de la Fédération a partagé récemment ses réflexions sur le caractère bilingue de l’Université d’Ottawa, du Congrès 2015 et de la ville d’Ottawa elle-même. Il est rafraichissant...
Elections are open for the Federation’s Board of Directors
Elections open today, Monday, February 2, 2015 for two positions on the Board of Directors of the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences. The open positions and candidates are: Director, Associations (2 open positions) Dawn Buzza...
Ouverture de la période de mises en candidatures pour les élections du Conseil d'administration de la Fédération
La Fédération lance la période de mise en candidature en vue des élections du Conseil d’administration. À partir d’aujourd’hui, le 6 janvier 2015, les candidats intéressés sont invités à poser leur candidature pour les postes suivants...
Nominations are open for the Federation’s Board of Directors
Nominations open today, Tuesday, January 6, 2015 for seven positions on the Board of Directors of the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences. The open positions are: Director, Research Policy Director, Research Dissemination Director...
Good Science Policy Will Require Good Communication and Better Support: A Night Out With CAUT
In what turns out to have been the run up to the unveiling of the federal government’s new Science, Technology, and Innovation Strategy (ST&I), the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) launched its “ Get Science Right” campaign. The...
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)...
Executive Override of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
Pearl Eliadis is a Montreal lawyer. She teaches at the Faculty of Law, McGill University and is a Full Member of the Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism. This blog post was contributed for Human Rights Day, observed on December 10. This text...
‘Measuring’ the impact of Social Sciences and Humanities
Ideas can… is the website of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, a non-profit charitable organization with a mandate to (from the website): promote the value of research and learning in the humanities and social sciences...
Welcoming Gauri Sreenivasan, new Director of Policy and Programs
I am very pleased to introduce Gauri Sreenivasan as our new Director of Policy and Programs. Gauri brings nearly 25 years of policy and programming experience, most recently as the Director of Parliamentary Affairs in the Official Opposition Leader's...