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Creating safe spaces for language, culture and life
The Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences brings together leading thinkers, academics, researchers, policy-makers and innovators to explore some of the world’s most challenging issues. Congress celebrates the vitality and quality of Canadian...
Ryerson presents… An evening with Cornel West
Celebrating Congress 2017, Ryerson University is pleased to present “An evening with Cornel West.” Known for his passion, humility, grace and humour, Cornel West is one of America’s most outspoken critics on race, poverty and democracy. The Princeton...
Parochialism and protectionism are the enemies of enlightenment: President Deane
This article was published in McMaster Daily News on February 28, 2017. On January 27, 2017, the White House issued its now notorious Executive Order: Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States. As I write this, the...
Se dire arabe au Canada : un siècle d'histoire migratoire
Lorsque je me suis intéressée à la genèse de l’immigration arabe au Canada, j’ai constaté que si les « Arabes » suscitaient l’attention des médias, des sociologues et des experts, leur histoire, leurs identités et leurs actions politiques étaient...
Smart Ideas: Q&A Marie-Odile Junker, an Alsatian who loves Algonquian languages
This series, which is sponsored by the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, features notable researchers in humanities and social sciences with smart ideas for a better tomorrow. This month, we are speaking with Marie-Odile Junker, a...
Knowledge Waiting to be Discovered: Leroy Little Bear speaks on Blackfoot Metaphysics
Questioning our very way of thinking, long-time First Nations education advocate and scholar Leroy Little Bear delivered a mind-blowing Big Thinking lecture to a packed house at Congress 2016 this afternoon with wisdom, wit, and extraordinary...
De l’ordre et de l’aventure. La poésie au Québec de 1934 à 1944
Le Prix d’auteurs pour l’édition savante (PAES) a été créé en 1941. Dans le cadre des célébrations du 75e anniversaire du programme en 2016, les membres du Conseil scientifique du PAES ainsi que d’autres érudits réputés contribueront à la série de...
Philosophy researchers bring their perspectives to partners’ research challenges
Mitacs and the University of Waterloo’s Department of Philosophy have partnered on an initiative that sees graduate and postdoctoral researchers using philosophical approaches in their collaborations with regional partners. The collaboration emerged...
The Decolonizing Poetics of Indigenous Literatures
Can Indigenous literature written in the language of the colonizer truly be considered Indigenous? In her ASPP-funded book The Decolonizing Poetics of Indigenous Literatures Mareike Neuhaus, a specialist in North American Indigenous literatures and...