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Medieval Medley: Painting and Sculpture at the CSM Meeting
Randip Bakshi http://www.twitter.com/randipbakshi The panelists setting up as the session chair looks on. (Featured: John Osborne, Erica Dodd, and Lesley Jessop) Monday afternoon's session on Painting and Sculpture noted John Osborne, President of...
Short and sweet – finalist Storytellers present SSHRC funded research projects in 3 minutes or less
Andrina Fawcett http://twitter.com/thecardigangirl The Congress 2013 Expo space was buzzing early Monday afternoon as the 25 Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Research for a Better Life: The Storytellers finalists prepared for...
Panel calls for national-level Open Access infrastructure
Vanessa Hawk Left to Right: Janet Halliwell, Gisèle Yasmeen, Jean-Francois Fortin, Brian Owen Open access is increasingly becoming a hot issue for academics, publishers and institutions around the world with the advent of free, online access to...
Wishful Thinking Indeed
Randip Bakshi http://www.twitter.com/randipbakshi Robyn Wiegman's aptly titled lecture "Wishful Thinking: On a Queer Feminist Criticism and the Reparative Turn" was in layman's terms sold out! The room was buzzing with activity an hour before the...
La littérature des mondes magiques et des mémoires : Dany Laferrière voit grand et en profondeur
Maryse Bernard www.twitter.com/MaryseVictoria À première vue, les écrivains Jorge Luis Borges et Dany Laferrière se ressemblent peu. Le premier, un érudit argentin décédé en 1986, composait des paysages fantastiques dans sa prose et sa poésie. Le...
Getting it right from the start - Big Thinker Margaret McCain speaks at Congress 2013
Andrina Fawcett http://twitter.com/thecardigangirl Honorable Margaret McCain, chair of the Margaret & Wallace McCain Family Foundation, spoke this morning at Congress 2013 on the importance of Early Childhood Education (ECE) and childhood development...
Retro Rerun: The Evolution of Canadian Nursing Uniforms
Randip Bakshi http://www.twitter.com/randipbakshi Nursing Costume Parade There is an often repeated (bad) joke about a male nurse being asked whether he wears skirts just like his female counterparts. If only the jokers knew that the skirt is a...
Louise Arbour on International Conflict Earns Standing Ovation at First Big Thinking Lecture
Vanessa Hawk Image: Mélanie Béchard In the first lecture of the Big Thinking speaker series, Farquhar Auditorium filled to hear Louise Arbour speak about global conflicts and international security. Arbour was met with a standing ovation at the end...