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Indigenous knowledges and inclusivity: understanding the challenges before science.
Guest blog by Julien Commanda, a member of the Anishinaabe people, currently studying at Carleton University in Communications and Media. When I was invited by the Federation to attend the Canadian Science Policy Conference and write about my...
Beyond a Single Story: Black Lives and Hidden Figures in the Canadian Academy
Guest blog by Dr. Malinda S. Smith, a Professor of Political Science and a 2018 Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Fellow at the University of Alberta, a former Executive member (Equity & Diversity) on the FHSS Board, coauthor of The Equity Myth (...
Indigenous knowledges and inclusivity: understanding the challenges before science.
Guest blog by Julien Commanda, a member of the Anishinaabe people, currently studying at Carleton University in Communications and Media. When I was invited by the Federation to attend the Canadian Science Policy Conference and write about my...
In the Middle. . . Somewhat Dislocated
Guest Blog by Dr. Henry Daniel, Professor of Dance, Performance Studies and New Media Technologies, School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. This blog draws on my performance "In the Middle...Somewhat Dislocated" from...
An Introduction to Defamation Law – A Resource for Canadian Scholars
Championing interdisciplinarity: Polytechnique Montréal joins the Federation!
Lily Polowin , Communications Coordinator, Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences Please join the Federation in welcoming one of our newest institutional members, and Québec's largest engineering university, Polytechnique Montréal...
A call for dialogue: Race, representation and media
Patrick Case, Director, Human Rights and Equity Office, University of Guelph Guest Contributor A recent magazine article on Asian students has stirred a heated debate about balancing freedom of expression with protecting Canadians from discrimination...
Teaching Equity Matters – Race, space and the law, Part II
Angela P. Harris, Berkeley Law School Guest Contributor In Part I of this reflection on teaching race matters I examined a successful story of co-teaching race and the law in Brazil with Denise da Silva. In Part II I draw on an unsuccessful story...
Between militarization and litigiousness: Canada's policy choices in the fight against cybercrime
According to a February 2010 survey sponsored by the antivirus software company Symantec, 79% of respondents in 14 countries believed that cybercriminals will never be brought to justice. As the risks linked to the use of Internet and its...