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‘Call Me Auntie’: Excavating the Histories of Black Women Pioneers in Western Canada
Cheryl Foggo, writer and film-maker Guest Contributor This is part of the VP Equity series for Women’s History Month 2012. The first time I saw a photograph of her I lingered on her face, unable to turn the page. She looked so confident, like a...
News from the social sciences and humanities
Milena Stanoeva Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences The Guardian’s Higher Education Network featured a guest article by David Phipps of Research Impact. In this first in a series of four article, Phipps explains what knowledge...
LGBT Struggles for Human Dignity and Equal Rights in Uganda
Val Kalende, Episcopal Divinity School Guest Contributor This entry is part of the CFHSS’s VP Equity Issues series on issues related to LGBTQI2-S (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, questioning, intersex and Two-Spirited) peoples. The influence...
Big Thinking: Alex Sévigny on CBC
Photo courtesy Marcio Cabral de Moura On March 8, Alex Sévigny, Program Director in the McMaster-Syracuse Master of Communications Management program at McMaster University, came to Ottawa as part of CFHSS' Big Thinking lecture series on Parliament...
News from the social sciences and humanities
Milena Stanoeva Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences Alex Sévigny, director of McMaster University’s Master of Communications Management Program, presented his Big Thinking lecture, “Who's driving the story? Question period...
Status of Black Women in the Academy on International Women’s Day
Njoki N. Wane, University of Toronto Guest contributor “Despite some notable progress in the past decade towards greater diversity, the Canadian academy remains largely white and male,” according to a recent CAUT Educational Review. Further, the 2006...
Big Thinking Podcast: The sexy edition
Milena Stanoeva Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences Karen Diepeveen and I had the pleasure of interviewing Jennifer V. Evans, an associate professor of history at Carleton University, for the Big Thinking podcast. In the...
News from the social sciences and humanities
Milena Stanoeva Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences Léo Charbonneau blogs this week on the recent boycott of academic publishing company Elsevier, which owns 2,000 academic journals, by researchers. The boycott was over...
Resisting Invisibility: Black faculty in Art and Art History in Canada
Charmaine Nelson, McGill University Guest Contributor This entry is part of the VP Equity Issues series on Black History Month in Canada. As Black History Month draws to a close and Women’s History Month begins, I am reminded of the importance of my...