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Patchen Barss , Creative Director and Managing Editor, Research Matters The first question I really remember being curious about was, “How fast does gravity travel?” I was a teenager. I stood on a bathroom scale and picked up a heavy book. The dial...

Blayne Haggart , Assistant Professor, Political Science, Brock University Copyright laws affect almost every aspect of academics’ professional lives, from limiting how much of a book we can put in a course pack to allowing journals to put our (mostly...

School’s out for summer! Perhaps not Alice Cooper’s famous last words, but as another school year wraps up this month across Canadian campuses, the many challenges facing students today and ways in which these (and future) graduates will need to...

Kristine Collins , Director, Education and Institutional Markets, National Film Board of Canada The National Film Board of Canada is proud to be part of CONGRESS 2014 as we celebrate our 75 th anniversary. Our films, interactive productions and...

La recherche axée sur l’être humain, ça compte! La façon d’en parler aussi! Le Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines (CRSH) a lancé, en novembre dernier, son deuxième concours annuel J’ai une histoire à raconter. Il a mis au défi les étudiants...

Nicola Katz , Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences Canada has lost a gem of an archeologist this month with the passing of Dr. Priscilla Renouf . A pioneer in her field for over thirty years, she conducted research in Labrador, Arctic...

It was with great delight that the Federation congratulated this week two authors who were funded by the Federation’s Awards to Scholarly Publications Program last year, Miranda Campbell and Gregory Taylor, for being shortlisted for the 2014 Donner...

Each year, the Federation helps scholarly books on topics in the humanities and social sciences get published through the Awards to Scholarly Publications Program (ASPP). To date, the ASPP has supported the publication of over 6,000 books that have...

Ronald Rudin , Trudeau Foundation Fellow, Professor of History, Co-Director, Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling, Concordia University Screening of Thomas Widd's Lost Story May 28, 2014 at 10:15 a.m. International Centre 120 Brock...