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Seeing the whole: innovation in learning
Innovation in learning was the topic of His Excellency the Right Honourable David Johnston, Governor General of Canada’s Big Thinking lecture at Congress 2015. Focusing on improving the way we learn by drawing on all areas of research, His Excellency...
Plaidoyer pour les sciences sociales et les humanités
Les enjeux du 21 e siècle sont nombreux et complexes. Mondialisation, changements climatiques et terrorisme ne sont que quelques exemples des défis que devront affronter les sociétés au courant des prochaines décennies. C’est pour cette raison que...
Les héritiers de l'Amérique française
C’est en terrain connu que le sociologue Joseph-Yvon Thériault présenta sa conférence «Qu'est devenue l’Amérique française » dans le cadre des causeries Voir grand du Congrès des sciences humaines. Titulaire de la Chaire de recherche du Canada en...
Telling your research story - make it accessible!
We all dread the presenter who reads directly from the slides or paper in a monotone voice. Worse still is when that monotone voice uses heavy jargon that no one outside the field will understand. Shari Graydon says “scholars are trained to be...
Identity and dignity: Bolivia’s Minister of Decolonization talks education
As the Honorable Félix Cárdenas Aguilar stepped up to the podium, I placed over my ears a fragile pair of grey plastic headphones. As he began a lively address to the packed auditorium, a gentle female voice echoed in my ears, translating his words...
Academia responds to the call for action towards truth and reconciliation in Canada
It is perhaps telling of new stirrings in the academy that the inaugural Big Thinking lecture at this year’s Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences was presented by Justice Murray Sinclair, Chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. No...
Introducing the Trans-Atlantic Platform
In October 2013, a consortium of major funders of social sciences and humanities research joined forces to launch the Trans-Atlantic Platform for the Social Sciences and Humanities (T-AP). The funders came from three continents—North America, South...
Crossing Borders, Crossing Boundaries
As President of Universities Canada, I always look forward to participating in Congress, and I congratulate the organizers on their formidable work in assembling one of the largest multidisciplinary academic conferences in the world. At Congress, I...
Gobbledegook, or how to avoid it by entering the SSHRC Storytellers contest
gobbledegook British Dictionary definition for gobbledegook /ˈɡɒbəldɪˌɡuːk/ noun 1. pretentious or unintelligible jargon, such as that used by officials Has this happened to you? You are out socializing when a friend asks you about your research, and...