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Status of Black Women in the Academy on International Women’s Day
Njoki N. Wane, University of Toronto Guest contributor “Despite some notable progress in the past decade towards greater diversity, the Canadian academy remains largely white and male,” according to a recent CAUT Educational Review . Further, the...
Big Thinking Podcast: The sexy edition
Milena Stanoeva Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences Karen Diepeveen and I had the pleasure of interviewing Jennifer V. Evans, an associate professor of history at Carleton University, for the Big Thinking podcast. In the...
News from the social sciences and humanities
Milena Stanoeva Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences Léo Charbonneau blogs this week on the recent boycott of academic publishing company Elsevier, which owns 2,000 academic journals, by researchers. The boycott was over...
Resisting Invisibility: Black faculty in Art and Art History in Canada
Charmaine Nelson, McGill University Guest Contributor This entry is part of the VP Equity Issues series on Black History Month in Canada. As Black History Month draws to a close and Women’s History Month begins, I am reminded of the importance of my...
Homonationalist Discourse, Queer Organizing and the Media
Fatima Jaffer, University of British Columbia Guest Contributor This entry is part of the CFHSS’s VP Equity Issues series on issues related to LGBTQI2-S (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, questioning, intersex and Two-Spirited) peoples. Media...
Annual report 2012
News from the social sciences and humanities
Milena Stanoeva Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences Registration for our March Big Thinking lecture is now open . On March 8, Alex Sevigny of McMaster University will lecture on political communication, particularly around...
Indigenous Peoples, Colonialism and Ballet-Slipper Socks: Telling Stories and Storytelling
Jocelyn Thorpe, Memorial University Guest Contributor This entry is part of the Equity Issues Portfolio’s series on Indigenizing the academy and Indigenous education . Our daughter rarely wore the pink ballet-slipper socks she received when she was...
How (not) to do Queer Studies in the classroom: Teaching to think beyond tolerance
Christopher Smith, University of Toronto Guest Contributor This entry is part of the CFHSS’s VP Equity Issues series on issues related to LGBTQI2-S (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, questioning, intersex and Two-Spirited) peoples. In the fall...