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Welcome to the Federation's Resource hub! Here you will find humanities and social science articles, blog posts, videos, webinars, Congress resources, and more! Filter by topic, resource type, file type, and/or year.

The Federation blog is a space for Federation members and researchers in the humanities and social sciences to respectfully discuss ideas and issues of importance to the community. Please review the Federation's blog policy for submission information.

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On the Move at Congress 2015

The On the Move Partnership is thrilled to be partnering with CBC Ideas and the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences to present: “ On the Move: Temporary Foreign Worker Policy in Canada.” This public event will take place during 2015...

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Leading Research Universities in a Competitive World

The Awards to Scholarly Publications Program (ASPP) has funded the recent publication of Les grandes universités de recherche : Institutions autonomes dans un environnement concurrentiel, a book by Robert Lacroix and Louis Maheu (published by Presses...

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SSH News: February 26, 2015

Here is our list of the most interesting news articles about the humanities, social sciences and higher education from the past week: Higher Education Adjuncts deem National Walkout Day a success February 26, 2015 | Inside Higher Ed Editorial...

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Open Social Scholarship in Canada

Alyssa Arbuckle, Assistant Director, Research Partnerships & Development, Electronics Textual Cultures Lab (ETCL), University of Victoria Ray Siemens, Canada Research Chair in Humanities Computing and Distinguished Professor of English in the Faculty...

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SSH News: February 19, 2015

Here is our list of the most interesting news articles about the humanities, social sciences and higher education from the past week: Humanities and Social Sciences We don’t need more STEM majors. We need more STEM majors with liberal arts training...

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Once Again, Without Data

It has become a common complaint, across the board, that statistics relating to Canadian higher education are sorely lacking or, when they do exist, are misleading–ACCUTE past-president Stephen Slemon has written about this matter on this very blog...

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Results for the Federation’s Board of Directors elections

The results are in! This election marks a change in the Federation presidency. After completing her two-year term as President, Antonia Maioni will hold the position of Past-President until March 2016 and Stephen Toope ends his term as President...