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Milena Stanoeva Canadian federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences Two of our 2011 Big Thinkers are in the news this week. Our September Big Thinker, Evan Fraser , was featured on The Cord in an article on the effects of climate change. Kwame...
Black History Month and Paradoxes of Narrating the Nation: Black-Mi'kmaq Relations
Paula Madden, University of Sussex Guest Contributor This entry is part of the VP Equity series on Black History Month in Canada. Black History Month is an interesting time of year. All across the country African Canadians celebrate their...
News from the social sciences and humanities
Milena Stanoeva Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences The short list of nominees for the Canada Prize in the Humanities and the Canada Prize in the Social Sciences has been announced. This year’s nominees feature a diverse set of...
Teaching With Conflict and Controversial Issues in Diverse and Multicultural Classrooms
Christina Parker, OISE/University of Toronto Guest Contributor This entry is part of the collaborative series on education and equity between the CFHSS’s Equity Issues Portfolio and the Canadian Society for the Study of Education . At its core...
Gender Equality 40-Years after the Royal Commission on the Status of Women
Malinda S. Smith, Vice President, Equity Issues Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences This past Saturday’s Globe and Mail included a story by Jane Taber entitled “ Re-paving the way for women on the Hill…yet again .” In the...
Innovation? What innovation? Re-thinking progress and how we measure it
CHFSS kicked off the Winter 2012 Big Thinking series on January 31 with Professor Jeremy de Beer from the University of Ottawa. Held in partnership with the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada (AUCC), the event drew over 150 MPs...
News from the social sciences and humanities
Milena Stanoeva Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences This Tuesday, we held our first Big Thinking lecture of the season. University of Ottawa law professor Jeremy de Beer discussed ways of rethinking intellectual property and...
Canada’s Black Writers: Achieving Excellence and Avoiding Annihilation
Zetta Elliott, Borough of Manhattan Community College Guest Contributor Last summer, after returning from a cross-border trip to Toronto, a friend of mine asked: “What’s wrong with Canada?” It’s a question she and I have considered over the years as...
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Milena Stanoeva Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences Matthew Batstone, director of Britain’s New College of the Humanities, wrote an article for The Guardian advising graduates in the humanities on ways to capitalize on their...