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The Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences applauds the creation of the Social Innovation Endowment Fund by the Government of Alberta. With an investment of $500 million in Alberta’s 2014 budget, and another $500 million next year...

Véronique Mallet, Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences The results are in! Four positions on the board of directors of the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences were up for elections in the past two weeks. The winners are as...

Christine Mitchell, Department of English, Concordia University The Concordia University community will take a peek into its past later this week when its Media History Research Centre holds a screening of two half-hour television episodes produced...

Eleanor Fast, Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences Career Corner at Congress, a well-established tradition, is expanding to include more events relevant to scholars at all stages of their careers. Organized in a partnership between the...

Quoting Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist, lecturer and poet, “I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.” Unfortunately, this paradigm is not universal. Concerns about Canadian...

The MakerBus team, Ryan Hunt, Kim Martin, and Beth Compton Things aren’t looking very bright for the arts and humanities at the moment. In our current age of austerity, arts and humanities budgets are easy targets for spending reductions. In both the...

Jean-Marc Mangin, Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) traditionally offers little space for the humanities. There were however several panels which included social...

This month’s Big Thinking lecture presented by Joseph Heath, Director, Centre for Ethics, and Professor, Department of Philosophy and School of Public Policy and Governance, University of Toronto, is now available to view online. This lecture...