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From Peer Review to the Public: Re-imagining Academic Freedom and Advocacy
Thursday, March 5, 2026 12:00-13:00 ET Co-presented by the Samara Centre for Democracy and the Federation, From Peer Review to the Public: Re-imagining Academic Freedom and Advocacy is a timely conversation about how the humanities and social...
Nourishing Black scholarship, nurturing collective joy
← Big Thinking Podcast homepage Introduction | About the guest | Transcript | Follow us Introduction Something remarkable happens when spaces are allowed to feel more human—when they are welcoming, grounded in care, and shaped with intention. When...
As global tensions rise, can Canada maintain its Women, Peace, and Security commitments?
← Big Thinking Podcast homepage Introduction | About the guest | Transcript | Follow us Introduction As global conflicts intensify, the federal government is being forced to make hard choices about security, defense spending, and values. These...
100 volumes on understanding nationality
Guest blog by Shirley Tillotson, Professor Emeritus, Department of History, Dalhousie University, and Inglis Professor, University of King’s College The Canadian Historical Review celebrates its 100th volume this year. It was among several new...
Creating the Spaces Where I Belong: Phenomenology of an African Canadian Professor
Guest blog by Tamari Kitossa , Associate Professor, Sociology, Brock University This essay is a modified contribution to the forthcoming collection The Nuances of Blackness in the Canadian Academy, edited by Awad Ibrahim, Tamari Kitossa, Malinda...
Federation welcomes three new scholarly association members
Lily Polowin, Communications Coordinator, Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences Please join us in giving a warm welcome to three new Association members! Each of them was voted in by existing members at the Federation’s first-ever virtual...
Back to school 2019 - What is the media saying?
Lily Polowin, Communications Coordinator, Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences Since I started working for the Federation on May 31 (the first day of Congress 2019), I’ve been doing all I can to get up to date on the conversations the...
Positioning Blackness, Necessarily, Awkwardly, in the Canadian Academy
Guest blog by Handel Kashope Wright, Professor and Director of Centre for Culture, Identity and Education, The University of British Columbia This blog is based on a paper presented on the panel #Black Professors Matter: Experiences in White Academe...
Anthropologists without borders: Canadian and American associations to meet in Vancouver
Guest blog by Dr. Martha Radice, Associate Professor, Sociology and Social Anthropology, Dalhousie University, Editor-in-Chief, Journal for Undergraduate Ethnography and Program Co-Chair, CASCA-AAA 2019. For the first time, the Canadian Anthropology...