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Impossible Pictures - Stan Douglas

Esi Edugyan: Making space for convergences of disparate ideas or unlikely connections
At Congress 2019, the Big Thinking lecture series considers how the arts function as a platform to engage with scholarship in the humanities and social sciences. Organizers were inspired by three big questions: Who speaks for whom? Whose stories get...

In conversation with Esi Edugyan

Looking back on three centuries of shared life in North America
In revisiting the mechanisms that led to the decimation and expropriation of the peoples of North America, authors Denys Delâge, a specialist on Indigenous peoples, and Jean-Philippe Warren, a specialist on French Canadian society, paint a portrait...

Indigenous resilience as seen through lacrosse
At this time of year, the Cayuga nation is generally getting ready for a special occasion: its annual lacrosse game. This event may seem insignificant to some, but as we learn in The Creator’s Game, it is of great significance indeed for many First...

Making social media part of the conservation conversation: Biologist spreads awareness of endangered Garry Oak habitats
Congress 2019 guest blog from Mitacs As a child bringing home wounded birds and other critters, Alina Fisher developed a passion for helping wildlife – a love that eventually drove her to become a biologist. But during her studies, Alina realized...

#BlackProfessorsMatter: Intellectual survival and public love
There is a distinct paucity of material, scholarly or otherwise, on the experiences of African Black Canadian scholars within the Canadian academy. This #BlackProfessorsMatter blog post — and others in the Equity Matters series — aims to help fill...

Welcome to Congress 2019 at UBC!
I remember my first Congress so clearly: it took place at the University of Calgary in 1994. I was a new PhD student and I was terrified to be presenting my first conference paper. I remember the flight of butterflies I had in my stomach before...

Panser le Canada : une histoire intellectuelle de la commission Laurendeau-Dunton, 1963-1971
« Mariage de raison », « deux solitudes », « mal canadien », « marécage », « duel constitutionnel », les métaphores de combat et d’éloignement sont nombreuses dans la littérature pour évoquer les relations conflictuelles entre le Québec et le Canada...