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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...
Homonationalist Discourse, Queer Organizing and the Media
Fatima Jaffer, 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. Media...
News from the social sciences and humanities
Milena Stanoeva Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences Registration for our March Big Thinking lecture is now open. On March 8, Alex Sevigny of McMaster University will lecture on political communication, particularly around...
Indigenous Peoples, Colonialism and Ballet-Slipper Socks: Telling Stories and Storytelling
Jocelyn Thorpe, Memorial University Guest Contributor This entry is part of the Equity Issues Portfolio’s series on Indigenizing the academy and Indigenous education. Our daughter rarely wore the pink ballet-slipper socks she received when she was...
How (not) to do Queer Studies in the classroom: Teaching to think beyond tolerance
Christopher Smith, University of Toronto 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. In the fall...
News from the social sciences and humanities
Milena Stanoeva Canadian federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences Two of our 2011 Big Thinkers are in the news this week. Our September Big Thinker, Evan Fraser, was featured on The Cord in an article on the effects of climate change. Kwame...
Black History Month and Paradoxes of Narrating the Nation: Black-Mi'kmaq Relations
Paula Madden, University of Sussex Guest Contributor This entry is part of the VP Equity series on Black History Month in Canada. Black History Month is an interesting time of year. All across the country African Canadians celebrate their...
News from the social sciences and humanities
Milena Stanoeva Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences The short list of nominees for the Canada Prize in the Humanities and the Canada Prize in the Social Sciences has been announced. This year’s nominees feature a diverse set of...