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Combating racism, embracing discomfort: International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
Darren Lund, University of Calgary Guest Contributor “Overcoming racism compels us to address public policies and private attitudes that perpetuate it. On this International Day, I call on Member States, international and non-governmental...
Budget 2011 - Coming soon to Parliament Hill
Karen Diepeveen Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences Federal budget day 2011 is just around the corner – on March 22 at 4pm, we’ll know the proposed fiscal plan for Canada this coming year. In our pre-budget submission, the...
Multiculturalism, interculturalism and their skeptics
Avigail I. Eisenberg, University of Victoria Guest Contributor This blog entry is part of the Equity Issues Portfolio’s series on ‘ interculturalism, multiculturalism and pluralism’. Two challenges are invoked by critics of multiculturalism today and...
Don’t Tell Us Who We Are (Not): Reflections on Métis identity
Joyce Green, University of Regina Guest Contributor This blog post is part of the Federation Equity Issues Portfolio’s ‘Transforming the Academy: Indigenous Education’ series, which will be the focus of the Portfolio’s programming at Congress 2011...
Big Thinking Podcast launches!
We're very pleased to announce the launch of our Big Thinking podcast series, featuring interviews with some of Canada's big thinkers in the humanities and social sciences. This podcast brings these researchers right to your computer, your iPod or...
Multiculturalism and Citizenship are complements, not opposites
Irene Bloemraad, Berkeley Guest Contributor Attacking multiculturalism has become a political cliché. Last October, when German Chancellor Angela Merkel proclaimed that a multicultural approach had “ utterly failed” in Germany, she echoed a commonly...
Beyond ‘beads and feathers’: Indigenous knowledge and pedagogies
María del Carmen Rodriguez de France, University of Victoria Guest Contributor This blog post is part of the Federation Equity Issues Portfolio’s ‘Transforming the Academy: Indigenous Education’ series, which will be the focus of the Portfolio’s...
People-centred innovation: An expanded vision of research and development
What is the role of social scientists and humanists within the broader context of research, development and innovation? The Federation outlined the centrality of these disciplines in the recent submission to the Expert Panel for the Review of Federal...
Change demanded, celebrated on International Women's Day 2011
Jane Arscott, Athabasca University Guest Contributor This blog post is part of the Federation Equity Portfolio’s series marking the 100 th anniversary of International Women’s Day. March 8, 2011 marks the 100 th anniversary of International Women’s...