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There is a distinct paucity of material, scholarly or otherwise, on the experiences of African Black Canadian scholars within the Canadian academy. This #BlackProfessorsMatter blog post — and others in the Equity Matters series — aims to help fill...

Congress brings together scholars from dozens of universities, myriad disciplines, and uncountable research niches. Within this diversity, there is one thing almost all of us have in common: in our profession, we teach. Congress 2019 at UBC will...

I remember my first Congress so clearly: it took place at the University of Calgary in 1994. I was a new PhD student and I was terrified to be presenting my first conference paper. I remember the flight of butterflies I had in my stomach before...

Jessica Clark, Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences On December 12 th, everyone here at the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences was very excited to learn that Dany Laferrière had been named to the Académie française. He is...

In memory of Nelson Mandela, the Government of Canada announced the launch of the African Leaders of Tomorrow Scholarships. Open to candidates across Africa who are early career professionals working in the public sector, the scholarships will...

Eleanor Fast, Director of Policy and Programming, Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences The Federation’s Programming team is delighted to announce that Genome Canada will be coming to Congress 2014 with an exciting interdisciplinary event...

The costs of an Open Access (OA) monograph are an open debate, but a recently published Final Report of the Dutch OAPEN-NL project gives some initial answers. Over the past three years, Open Access Publishing in European Networks (OAPEN) Foundation...

Guest blog by Leadership Council Co-Chairs, Jay Black, Chief Information Officer, Simon Fraser University and Steven Liss, Vice Principal Research, Queen’s University The Leadership Council for Digital Infrastructure is seeking your input. The...