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This article originally appeared in Convene , magazine of the Professional Convention Management Association. As associations continue to grow their international membership, simultaneous translation at events is moving from a nice-to-have to a must...

Gauri Sreenivasan , Directrice des politiques et des programmes Après les terribles attaques survenues la semaine dernière à St-Jean-sur-Richelieu et à Ottawa, la capitale nationale retrouve, lentement mais sûrement, le cours normal de ses activités...

This blog post was originally published in the September 2014 Bulletin of the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) . Kudos to congress childcare organizers for getting it right this year. As Guttman and Burnett ( Bulletin, May 2013 )...

The 2014 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences was a terrific opportunity for start-up companies, like Waterloo Innovations, to showcase their products. Most academics at Congress were unfamiliar with our product, Confero. For readers who...

Terry Soleas "Blood can bring out the best of human virtues, our basest urges and some of the worst in humanity.” Lawrence Hill, a celebrated and acclaimed Canadian author was at Congress on Thursday, May 29 to deliver one of his Massey Series of...

Jessica Dixon True to my age, a cynical perspective regarding the effectiveness of Canada’s democratic structure flows through my veins. With this in mind, I attended American Professor, Benjamin Barber’s presentation (and the following panel) about...

Samara Bissonnette In an installment of the Big Thinking series for Congress 2014, Catherine Dauvergne delivered one of her newest big ideas yesterday at Brock University in a presentation titled " The End of Settler Societies and the New Politics of...

Doug Junke For David Plotz, the advent of digital journalism has been the best of times and the worst of times, to borrow from Charles Dickens. Slate editor Plotz addressed Tuesday’s Congress 2014 Big Thinking crowd of 125 at Brock University with...

Doug Junke Lyse Doucet, veteran BBC reporter, presenter and chief international correspondent has seen man at his worst. It wasn’t pretty. She shared a tiny slice of that with the Congress 2014 Big Thinking audience Saturday afternoon. It wasn’t for...