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Gender Equality 40-Years after the Royal Commission on the Status of Women
Malinda S. Smith, Vice President, Equity Issues Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences This past Saturday’s Globe and Mail included a story by Jane Taber entitled “ Re-paving the way for women on the Hill…yet again.” In the...
Innovation? What innovation? Re-thinking progress and how we measure it
CHFSS kicked off the Winter 2012 Big Thinking series on January 31 with Professor Jeremy de Beer from the University of Ottawa. Held in partnership with the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada (AUCC), the event drew over 150 MPs...
News from the social sciences and humanities
Milena Stanoeva Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences This Tuesday, we held our first Big Thinking lecture of the season. University of Ottawa law professor Jeremy de Beer discussed ways of rethinking intellectual property and...
Canada’s Black Writers: Achieving Excellence and Avoiding Annihilation
Zetta Elliott, Borough of Manhattan Community College Guest Contributor Last summer, after returning from a cross-border trip to Toronto, a friend of mine asked: “What’s wrong with Canada?” It’s a question she and I have considered over the years as...
News from the social sciences and humanities
Milena Stanoeva Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences Matthew Batstone, director of Britain’s New College of the Humanities, wrote an article for The Guardian advising graduates in the humanities on ways to capitalize on their...
LGBT young people, public spaces and policing in Australia
Angela Dwyer, Queensland University of Technology 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. Some...
A look back at Congress 2011
Milena Stanoeva Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences Last year, I had the incredible privilege of attending the 2011 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences as CFHSS’ communications co-op student. In Fredericton, I got to...
Trans Rights in Mexico and Canada: The Geopolitics of Privilege
Oralia Gómez-Ramírez, University of British Columbia 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...
News from the social sciences and humanities
Milena Stanoeva Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences Inside Higher Ed featured an essay on the current debates about the usefulness of the humanities. Authors Paul Jay and Gerald Graff argue that some academics in the humanities...