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Nominations are open for the Federation’s board of directors
Véronique Mallet, Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences Nominations open today, Monday, January 13, 2014 for four positions on the board of directors of the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences. The open positions are...
SSH News: CFI national funding announcement, SSHRC Storytellers competition deadline, Grand Challenges Canada funding opportunities, and Interrogating Access conference
Research infrastructure received a $63-million boost from the Government of Canada this week. Greg Rickford, Minister of State for Science and Technology, announced the investment in support of cutting-edge research equipment, laboratories and tools...
New international research opportunities from Mitacs Globalink
Guest blog by Mitacs International collaborations are proving increasingly valuable to research, and universities across Canada are looking to establish worldwide linkages through the two-way mobility of talented students. Mitacs has promoted student...
Congress 2014 hashtag
The 2013 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences was a huge success in terms of online engagement between attendees, the Federation, and our hosts at the University of Victoria. One of our key social media platforms was Twitter, and the...
Copyright and the modern academic: a series of debates at Congress 2014
Copyright law is a contentious issue for Canadian academics in their roles as teachers, researchers and creators. This will be explored at Congress 2014 in a series of three debates involving some of Canada’s leading copyright experts and...
Past Big Thinking speaker now "Immortal"
Jessica Clark, Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences On December 12 th, everyone here at the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences was very excited to learn that Dany Laferrière had been named to the Académie française. He is...
SSH News: Mandela scholarships, two Tri-Agency consultations, digital infrastructure, Big Thinking
In memory of Nelson Mandela, the Government of Canada announced the launch of the African Leaders of Tomorrow Scholarships. Open to candidates across Africa who are early career professionals working in the public sector, the scholarships will...
Ideas can… build relationships
Eleanor Fast, Director of Policy and Programming, Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences The Federation’s Programming team is delighted to announce that Genome Canada will be coming to Congress 2014 with an exciting interdisciplinary event...
SSH News: Open Access publishing, SSHRC opportunity, ISSC report
The costs of an Open Access (OA) monograph are an open debate, but a recently published Final Report of the Dutch OAPEN-NL project gives some initial answers. Over the past three years, Open Access Publishing in European Networks (OAPEN) Foundation...