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What don't we understand about the war in Ukraine?
← Big Thinking Podcast homepage Season 2 → Description | About the guest | Transcript | Follow us Description When Vladimir Putin launched a new military offensive last February, Canada condemned Russia’s actions and support Ukraine. As the war...
Resources regarding the war in Ukraine
As the Russian Federation’s war against Ukraine persists, scholars in the humanities and social sciences continue their role in providing context about the background and consequences of the conflict. We would like to highlight various contributions...
Critique and Transformative Alternatives: Re-imagining Futures Within and Beyond the Global Pandemic
The Canada Association for the Study of International Development welcomed keynote speaker Dr. Jayati Ghosh at Congress 2022, presenting “Critique and Transformative Alternatives: Re-imagining Futures Within and Beyond the Global Pandemic.”
Beyond Anthropocentrism in Ukrainian Studies: Proposals from the Environmental Humanities
The Canadian Association of Slavists convened a roundtable to discuss ways to develop environmental humanities in and about Ukraine at Congress 2022.
Hungary after 2008: A New Regime of World-Economic Integration
To understand recent developments in Hungary more fully, we must consider the global economy in which it acts as a middle power, acting as an important bridge between markets.
Civilizing the State: Reclaiming Politics for the Common Good
“If the legitimacy of the state rests on its duty to protect the welfare of its citizens, the betrayal of this responsibility amounts to what I call the ‘treason of the state’,” said Restakis.
ASPP-Funded Books Dominate The Hill Times’ Best of 2014 List
On Monday, The Hill Times published its annual list of “Best 100 Books” from the past year. As usual, books funded by the Federation’s Awards to Scholarly Publications Program (ASPP) were well represented. In fact, 23 of the 100 books – almost a...
Canada and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
This blog post was contributed for Human Rights Day, observed on December 10. December 10, 2014 is the 66 th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). In his Why Canada Cares (McGill-Queen`s University Press, 2012, pp. 4-5)...
Executive Override of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
Pearl Eliadis is a Montreal lawyer. She teaches at the Faculty of Law, McGill University and is a Full Member of the Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism. This blog post was contributed for Human Rights Day, observed on December 10. This text...