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Elections are open for the Federation’s Board of Directors
Elections open today, Monday, February 2, 2015 for two positions on the Board of Directors of the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences. The open positions and candidates are: Director, Associations (2 open positions) Dawn Buzza...
Ouverture de la période de mises en candidatures pour les élections du Conseil d'administration de la Fédération
La Fédération lance la période de mise en candidature en vue des élections du Conseil d’administration. À partir d’aujourd’hui, le 6 janvier 2015, les candidats intéressés sont invités à poser leur candidature pour les postes suivants...
Nominations are open for the Federation’s Board of Directors
Nominations open today, Tuesday, January 6, 2015 for seven positions on the Board of Directors of the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences. The open positions are: Director, Research Policy Director, Research Dissemination Director...
‘Measuring’ the impact of Social Sciences and Humanities
Ideas can… is the website of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, a non-profit charitable organization with a mandate to (from the website): promote the value of research and learning in the humanities and social sciences...
Welcoming Gauri Sreenivasan, new Director of Policy and Programs
I am very pleased to introduce Gauri Sreenivasan as our new Director of Policy and Programs. Gauri brings nearly 25 years of policy and programming experience, most recently as the Director of Parliamentary Affairs in the Official Opposition Leader's...
Out of the ivory tower to the public square: an interview with Shauna Sylvester
Every year, university campuses across the country fill with the hum and excitement of students looking for personally and intellectually transformative experiences. These students represent an unrivalled wealth of social and intellectual capital...
ASPP Spotlight: Ancient Pathways, Ancestral Knowledge, by Nancy J. Turner
The two-volume book, Ancient Pathways, Ancestral Knowledge: Ethnobotany and Ecological Wisdom of Indigenous Peoples of Northwestern North America, published by McGill-Queens University Press, represents, for me, a culmination of many years of...
The workplace and labour studies face a challenging future
Doug Junke Despite hard-fought gains over the years, the Canadian labour movement knows that it is not a time to stand still and be complacent. That was evident at the Canadian Association for Work and Labour Studies (CAWLS) plenary session at...
The towers in the world, the worlds in the towers
Samara Bissonnette HIGHRISE. An incredibly modern, collaborative, inspiring digital project connecting voices from high rise buildings all over the world. These big concrete mammoths of architecture are "containers of human experience", and this...