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This blog was prepared for the celebration of Human Rights Day 2015. There is a palpable sense of relief within the human rights community following the federal election results of October 19 th. Notwithstanding some commitments and investments in...

As Media Officer at the Federation, I monitor “back to school” media every September to get a snapshot of what dominates current debates and conversations in the postsecondary education (PSE) sector, and what some of the biggest priorities and...

What had been growing for months as an international debate on countries’ obligations regarding refugees and migrants in the Middle East and Europe exploded as a discussion in our own country last week when news of the tragedy of three-year-old Aylan...

Distractions ou bien outils de communication, les médias sociaux sont rarement considérés comme un outil de travail universitaire. Ces plateformes peuvent cependant être très utiles afin d’assurer la diffusion de la recherche académique. C’est dans...

At Congress 2015, publishers from across Canada joined academics in a Career Corner panel discussion on publishing and marketing your scholarly book. The publishers spoke passionately about books and provided practical tips and advice, especially for...

The all-day hackfest at Congress 2015 was certainly not reserved for computer geniuses only. Researchers of all levels of technology know-how gathered to collaborate on different methods of tackling research data. The event encouraged experimentation...

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...

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...

On June 4, 2015, Trudeau fellow Jean Leclair will give a Big Thinking lecture—“ Imagining Canada in a disenchanted world”—in which he will reflect on one way that federalism might reframe our relationships with Canada’s Indigenous peoples (read more...