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Dominike Thomas, University of Ottawa Press Every year in elementary school, my classmates and I would hop on a yellow school bus and travel what seemed so far—all the way across the river!—to attend the Salon du livre de l’Outaouais. It was special...

Lara Mainville, Les Presses de l’Université d’Ottawa Les PUO au SLO… Loin d’être un amalgame d’acronymes indigestes, ce slogan informel témoigne d’une volonté d’abattre les tours d’ivoire, de s’aventurer au-delà du campus universitaire pour aller à...

The Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, along with our sponsors, are proud to host eight top-flight speakers and thinkers as part of Congress 2014’s Big Thinking lecture series. Our Big Thinking speakers will present forward-thinking...

Ryerson University has been selected to host the 2017 edition of Canada's largest academic gathering, the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences. The Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, which organizes Congress every year, and...

The Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences applauds the creation of the Social Innovation Endowment Fund by the Government of Alberta. With an investment of $500 million in Alberta’s 2014 budget, and another $500 million next year...

Véronique Mallet, Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences The results are in! Four positions on the board of directors of the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences were up for elections in the past two weeks. The winners are as...

Christine Mitchell, Department of English, Concordia University The Concordia University community will take a peek into its past later this week when its Media History Research Centre holds a screening of two half-hour television episodes produced...

Eleanor Fast, Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences Career Corner at Congress, a well-established tradition, is expanding to include more events relevant to scholars at all stages of their careers. Organized in a partnership between the...

Quoting Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist, lecturer and poet, “I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.” Unfortunately, this paradigm is not universal. Concerns about Canadian...