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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...
Transforming our relationship with members: Launching Strategic Plan 2016-2020
Read Strategic Plan 2016-2020. Many in the academic community view strategic planning with some degree of skepticism. Either full of motherhood statements and/or written in bureaucratese, many critics do not observe significantly altered...
Plan stratégique 2016-2020
À la lumière des consultations amorcées en 2014, le présent plan stratégique établit la mission, la vision et les orientations stratégiques de la Fédération des sciences humaines pour les cinq années à venir. Dans le cadre de ce processus, la...
Strategic Plan 2016-2020
Informed by consultations that began in 2014, this Strategic Plan sets out the mission, vision and strategic directions of the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences for the next five years. As part of this planning process, the Federation...
SSH News: January 7, 2016
Weekly digest of the most recent news from the humanities, social sciences and higher education. Un bulletin hebdomadaire des actualités les plus récentes des sciences humaines et sociales et de l’enseignement supérieur. Humanities and Social...
Good Science Policy Will Require Good Communication and Better Support: A Night Out With CAUT
In what turns out to have been the run up to the unveiling of the federal government’s new Science, Technology, and Innovation Strategy (ST&I), the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) launched its “ Get Science Right” campaign. The...
ASPP-Funded Books Dominate The Hill Times’ Best of 2014 List
On Monday, The Hill Times published its annual list of “Best 100 Books” from the past year. As usual, books funded by the Federation’s Awards to Scholarly Publications Program (ASPP) were well represented. In fact, 23 of the 100 books – almost a...
Canada and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
This blog post was contributed for Human Rights Day, observed on December 10. December 10, 2014 is the 66 th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). In his Why Canada Cares (McGill-Queen`s University Press, 2012, pp. 4-5)...