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Présences intermittentes des Amériques
Ce livre est inspiré de ma thèse de doctorat et répond à une question bien précise : qu’est-ce que le sujet québécois peut apprendre du contact littéraire avec l’écriture chicana? J’ai commencé à m’interroger sur ce sujet alors que je voyageais moi...
Big Picture at #congressh: Exploring Canada’s diversity
The Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences brings together leading thinkers, academics, researchers, policy-makers and innovators to explore some of the world’s most challenging issues. Congress celebrates the vitality and quality of Canadian...
Ryerson presents… An evening with Cornel West
Celebrating Congress 2017, Ryerson University is pleased to present “An evening with Cornel West.” Known for his passion, humility, grace and humour, Cornel West is one of America’s most outspoken critics on race, poverty and democracy. The Princeton...
Keeping Ontario on the map! Exploring our transforming landscapes online
Map libraries are wonderful places, whose collections support patrons in their research, education, work and private lives. However, given the quantity of maps produced during any given period, libraries often have to make decisions to preserve only...
Parochialism and protectionism are the enemies of enlightenment: President Deane
This article was published in McMaster Daily News on February 28, 2017. On January 27, 2017, the White House issued its now notorious Executive Order: Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States. As I write this, the...
Knowledge Waiting to be Discovered: Leroy Little Bear speaks on Blackfoot Metaphysics
Questioning our very way of thinking, long-time First Nations education advocate and scholar Leroy Little Bear delivered a mind-blowing Big Thinking lecture to a packed house at Congress 2016 this afternoon with wisdom, wit, and extraordinary...
Philosophy researchers bring their perspectives to partners’ research challenges
Mitacs and the University of Waterloo’s Department of Philosophy have partnered on an initiative that sees graduate and postdoctoral researchers using philosophical approaches in their collaborations with regional partners. The collaboration emerged...
Binging on Netflix or philosophizing?
“There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language,” once said the twentieth-century French philosopher Henri Bergson. In other words, what makes philosophy attractive is that it expresses what we instinctively believe to be...
We Are Coming Home: Repatriation and the Restoration of Blackfoot Cultural Confidence
We Are Coming Home: Repatriation and the Restoration of Blackfoot Cultural Confidence (Athabasca University Press) is an unusual book in the museum world – not only because it’s about the unconditional return of sacred objects, but also because five...