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Jessica Clark Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences I spent Friday and Saturday last week at the Salon du livre de Montréal. If you’ve never been to Montreal’s Salon, it’s an absolutely incredible event – the largest in Québec. Other...

Eleanor Fast, Director of Policy and Programming Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences The Federation took part in the Canadian Science Policy Conference (CSPC) held in Toronto last week. Founded in 2008 by a group of professionals from...

Mitacs launched a new blog this week that is set to feature posts about research, innovation and funding opportunities, as well as news and other issues related to the connection of academics and industry. Their first post looks into the future of...

Jean-Marc Mangin, Executive Director Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences The Federation of the Humanities and Social Sciences announced last Friday at the Royal Society of Canada (RSC) annual meeting in Banff that the University of...

Christine McKenna Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences Did you know today is World Philosophy Day? Introduced in 2002 by UNESCO, World Philosophy Day is marked each year on the third Thursday of November by a range of activities...

Eleanor Fast, Director of Policy and Programming Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences The Federation attended the Killam Prize Symposium at Rideau Hall yesterday. The event brought together the five 2013 Killam Prize winners for a...

Register now for next week’s Big Thinking lecture on Parliament Hill – there are only a few spots left! The event will see Ron Deibert, director of the Munk School of Global Affairs' Citizen Lab, discuss how recent revelations in cyber surveillance...

Jessica Clark Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences The Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences is happy to congratulate Sandra Djwa, winner of this year’s Governor General’s Literary Award in the English Non-Fiction category...

Jessica Clark Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences As autumn turns into winter, with the days getting shorter and the nights longer, I find myself spending more time curled up with a cup of tea and a good book. That’s precisely what the...