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Some years are just special!
Randip Bakshi http://www.twitter.com/randipbakshi Some years are just special. 2013, it seems, would be one such year as it marks not one, not two, but three far-reaching milestones. First, the University of Victoria turns fifty this year...
Panel explores successes and further options for BC’s carbon tax
Vanessa Hawk The Environmental Studies Association of Canada hosted a panel exploring “The Benefits of Carbon Taxation”, which was sponsored by the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions (PICS) and held on Tuesday, June 4 in the Bob Wright Centre...
Research in practice: Students share their research at the Internship Showcase
Andrina Fawcett http://twitter.com/thecardigangirl Tuesday afternoon students showcased some of the amazing scholarship they have been producing in relationship with the community at the Congress 2013 Expo Space. Gaming to gain problem solving skills...
Much maligned Monsters: Islam, Immigration, and Islamization
Randip Bakshi http://www.twitter.com/randipbakshi I must confess this was a session I was very skeptical about. I wondered, as Saunders wondered when writing his book, how someone who subscribes to many of these myths could be objective, let alone...
Trials and Trust: Joy Kogawa Offers Lessons on the Art of Writing and of Life
Maryse Bernard www.twitter.com/MaryseVictoria An early start wouldn't keep the Phillip T. Young Recital Hall from filling up for Monday morning’s Big Thinking event. By 7:30 AM, the lobby buzzed with delegates, eager for novelist and poet Joy Kogawa...
A specter of Canada’s literary past: Tweeting the @Wilfred_Watson Archive
Andrina Fawcett http://twitter.com/thecardigangirl Nicholas van Orden, Paul Hjartarson and Harvey Quamen’s aptly named “I Tweet Dead People” was presented in partnership with EMiC as part of a larger panel this morning for the Canadian Society for...
Medieval Medley: Painting and Sculpture at the CSM Meeting
Randip Bakshi http://www.twitter.com/randipbakshi The panelists setting up as the session chair looks on. (Featured: John Osborne, Erica Dodd, and Lesley Jessop) Monday afternoon's session on Painting and Sculpture noted John Osborne, President of...
Short and sweet – finalist Storytellers present SSHRC funded research projects in 3 minutes or less
Andrina Fawcett http://twitter.com/thecardigangirl The Congress 2013 Expo space was buzzing early Monday afternoon as the 25 Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Research for a Better Life: The Storytellers finalists prepared for...
Panel calls for national-level Open Access infrastructure
Vanessa Hawk Left to Right: Janet Halliwell, Gisèle Yasmeen, Jean-Francois Fortin, Brian Owen Open access is increasingly becoming a hot issue for academics, publishers and institutions around the world with the advent of free, online access to...