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The Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences hosted Elder Aimee Bailey to share teachings at Congress 2022. Elder Bailey is a Knowledge Keeper from the Algonquins of Pikwakanagan First Nation, the Spokesperson for The Circle of Turtle Lodge...

The Canadian Sociological Association welcomed Dr. Terry Wotherspoon of the University of Saskatchewan to Congress 2022, for a presentation entitled Education in Canada: The American Dream or the New Inequality ? Throughout the last two decades...

In 1908, a lake near Mexico City was desiccated to allow a wealthy Spanish immigrant to claim possession of the land below. The destruction of Lake Chalco had disastrous consequences for the livelihoods of 24 Indigenous villages in the area. Today...

“Indigenous languages are filled with beauty, like great works of art…” said Onowa McIvor, Professor of Indigenous Education at the University of Victoria. “It is really a pedagogy of hope.” The first lecture of the Congress 2022 Big Thinking series...

Benjamin Ellis, Conseiller stratégique, Direction générale des services au public, Bibliothèque et Archives Canada La Fédération sciences humaines est l'affichage ce blogue invité à l'appui de Partager la terre, Partager un avenir et en prévision de...

I was honoured to represent the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences at the 2nd annual Building Reconciliation forum held at the University of Alberta on September 28-29, an event focusing on universities’ responses to the Truth and...

Yasmeen Abu-Laban , Professor of Political Science at the University of Alberta, and President of the Canadian Political Science Association June 21, 2016 marks the twentieth anniversary of National Aboriginal Day. Canada’s official proclamation of a...

Zahura Ahmed , Congress student blogger What kind of nation are we? What kind of nation do we want to be in the next 150 years? Cindy Blackstock, Executive Director of the First Nations Child & Family Caring Society of Canada, gave a compelling...

By Zahura Ahmed , Congress 2016 student blogger 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...