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Teaching Equity Matters – Race, space and the law, Part I
Angela P. Harris, Berkeley Law School Guest Contributor These reflections are based on a workshop I conducted on “ teaching race and the law” at the University of Alberta this past October. I hope these reflections will be useful to those teachers...
Multiculturalism, Multicultiphobia and Pluralism
Phil Ryan, Carleton University Guest Contributor Politics is in part a battle over the meaning of words. Imagine, for example, a parallel universe where United States fundamentalist Pat Robertson’s definition of feminism had become dominant:...
Thunder in her soul – Remembering Patricia A. Monture
Malinda S. Smith, Vice President, Equity Patricia Monture Her Mohawk name was ‘Aywahande,’ or “the one who speaks first or gets things going with words.” Professor Patricia (‘Trish’) Monture, the brilliant and accomplished Haudenosaunee lawyer...
Our Time to Lead – Racism and Exclusion in the Academy
Malinda S. Smith, Vice-President, Equity The November 2010 cover story of University Affairs addresses the thorny issue of the exclusion of ‘ visible-minority’ or ‘ racialized’ scholars in the Canadian academy. In the editorial introducing the issue...
Making it Work: Disabled women shaping spaces in education and employment
Nancy E. Hansen, University of Manitoba Guest Contributor As a human geographer studying disability I am always aware of surroundings, how spaces and places are organized – and as a disabled female academic, even more so. As disabled people we are...
Ideas Festival 2010 Live Blog
Welcome to the Live Blog for the 2010 Ideas Festival, out in St. Andrews, New Brunswick. We'll be following all of the action - including everything going on in the Twitterverse with #ideas2010 - over Nov. 25 and 26 right here. Thanks to 21Inc and...
The right to be safe: Bullying is a human rights issue
Wendy Craig (Queen’s University), Joanne Cummings (York University), and Debra Pepler (York University) Guest Contributors Recent highly profiled cases in the media of bullying leading to suicide have highlighted a significant public health problem...
Reflections on culture, identity and human dignity
Kwame Anthony Appiah, Princeton University Guest Contributor I never much liked ‘multiculturalism.’ The word, I mean, not everything that was ever done in its name. Multiculturalism, in the United States, was offered as a solution to tensions between...
Humanities in peril/at work
Jean-Marc Mangin Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences There is a well known discourse that humanities are less relevant and a luxury in a globalized, violent and competitive world to prepare young minds to the dog-eat-dog...