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Félicitations à Patricia Smart, finaliste pour les Prix littéraires du gouverneur général
La Fédération des sciences humaines félicite Patricia Smart pour sa nomination en tant que finaliste pour les Prix littéraires du gouverneur général de 2015 dans la catégorie d’Essais de langue française pour son livre, De Marie de l'Incarnation à...
Measuring research impact at CIMVHR
The Canadian Institute for Military and Veteran Health Research (CIMVHR) has two main priorities: Knowledge translation (KT) of research needs and results related to military and Veterans’ health Partnerships that will advance the development and...
Who is telling our stories? Canadian millennials in literature and the humanities
On July 14, Go Set a Watchman will be released to the general public, a sequel of sorts to Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. Few works of literature have had a more profound role in shaping conversations on race in the 20th century than To Kill a...
Food and health on the western reserves: The deep roots of indigenous insecurity
A passionate and heartfelt presentation from Jim Daschuk, Associate Professor at University of Regina at Congress 2015 highlighted the history of food culture among Canadian indigenous people since the 17 th century. His recent book “ Clearing the...
Dr. Ruth Panofsky: The story behind The Collected Poems of Miriam Waddington
Dr. Ruth Panofsky is Professor of English and also teaches in the Joint Graduate Program in Communication and Culture at Ryerson University. Her Collected Poems of Miriam Waddington, supported by the Awards to Scholarly Publications Program (ASPP)...
ASPP-Funded Books Dominate The Hill Times’ Best of 2014 List
On Monday, The Hill Times published its annual list of “Best 100 Books” from the past year. As usual, books funded by the Federation’s Awards to Scholarly Publications Program (ASPP) were well represented. In fact, 23 of the 100 books – almost a...
RSC report makes compelling case for why libraries and archives are essential, but vulnerable
Last week, the Royal Society of Canada released its report on the status and future of Canada’s libraries and archives, entitled “The Future Now: Canada’s Libraries, Archives, and Public Memory.” The RSC’s defense of libraries and archives and its...
ASPP Spotlight: Hockey, PQ: Canada's Game in Quebec's Popular Culture
Hockey is arguably the most identifiably Canadian cultural marker. We can take its national significance as a given considering that even the Prime Minister has found time in his busy schedule to write a book about the sport! My goal in Hockey, PQ...
The Robin Hood of academics - open access publishing debate series
Samara Bissonnette In " Open Access and the future of academic publishing", the second installment of a three part debate series on copyright and the modern academic, Glen Rollan and Michale Geist attacked the highly controversial academic subject of...