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Welcome to the Federation's Resource hub! Here you will find humanities and social science articles, blog posts, videos, webinars, Congress resources, and more! Filter by topic, resource type, file type, and/or year.

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De Marie de l’Incarnation à Nelly Arcan

Lorsque j’ai entrepris les recherches pour ce qui allait devenir De Marie de l’Incarnation à Nelly Arcan: se dire, se faire par l’écriture intime, je me proposais d’écrire une histoire de l’autobiographie féminine au Québec, des origines à nos jours...

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Binging on Netflix or philosophizing?

“There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language,” once said the twentieth-century French philosopher Henri Bergson. In other words, what makes philosophy attractive is that it expresses what we instinctively believe to be...

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Canada Prizes 2015: Jean-Paul Sartre’s American dream

Jean-Paul Sartre, an influential French writer, philosopher and politically active intellectual in the mid-20th century, was fascinated by the United States. A new book by Yan Hamel, a professor of literature at TÉLUQ, Quebec’s distance-learning...

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Not really a philosopher

Chris Eliasmith, Canada Research Chair in Theoretical Neuroscience, is professor with a joint appointment in Philosophy and Systems Design Engineering and cross-appointment to Computer Science at the University of Waterloo. He is Director of the...

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Ottawa, ma ville bilingue: une idée inachevée

Camille Ferrier qui s’est jointe l’été dernier à l’équipe du Secrétariat de la Fédération a partagé récemment ses réflexions sur le caractère bilingue de l’Université d’Ottawa, du Congrès 2015 et de la ville d’Ottawa elle-même. Il est rafraichissant...

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Ottawa, ma ville bilingue

On parle beaucoup du Congrès des sciences humaines pour ses conférences, son caractère pluridisciplinaire, et son impact sur la communauté locale et la société au sens large. Mais si cette 84 ème édition est unique, c’est aussi parce qu’elle se...

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An Easy, Inexpensive Solution for Simultaneous Translation

This article originally appeared in Convene, magazine of the Professional Convention Management Association. As associations continue to grow their international membership, simultaneous translation at events is moving from a nice-to-have to a must...