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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...
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)...