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SSH News: Canada’s adult literacy, Freedom to Read Week, Big Thinking
Quoting Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist, lecturer and poet, “I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.” Unfortunately, this paradigm is not universal. Concerns about Canadian...
Annual report 2014
Showing the human face of the humanities - the Humanities Matter Web Series and Bus Tour
The MakerBus team, Ryan Hunt, Kim Martin, and Beth Compton Things aren’t looking very bright for the arts and humanities at the moment. In our current age of austerity, arts and humanities budgets are easy targets for spending reductions. In both the...
AAAS, Chicago and the humanities
Jean-Marc Mangin, Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) traditionally offers little space for the humanities. There were however several panels which included social...
SSH News: Big Thinking, Canada’s Innovation Challenge, AAAS 2014
This month’s Big Thinking lecture presented by Joseph Heath, Director, Centre for Ethics, and Professor, Department of Philosophy and School of Public Policy and Governance, University of Toronto, is now available to view online. This lecture...
AAAS 2014: Where was Canada?
Jean-Marc Mangin, Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences This last weekend, Chicago hosted this premier inter-disciplinary academic conference by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) which focussed a great deal on...
Forward thinking: Interdisciplinary programs and the adjacent possible
Michael Ullyot, Associate Dean (Teaching and Learning), Faculty of Arts, University of Calgary When I was an undergraduate, the recruiting poster for an interdisciplinary program in the humanities asked, "What do Leonardo da Vinci and Martha Stewart...
Elections are open for the Federation’s Board of Directors
Véronique Mallet, Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences Elections open today, Tuesday, February 18, 2014 for two positions on the Board of Directors of the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences. The open positions and...
SSH News: Big Thinking, Federal Budget 2014, SSHRC Impact Awards
The most recent Big Thinking lecture "Reason versus passion in politics" was presented on Tuesday by Joseph Heath, Director, Centre for Ethics, and Professor, Department of Philosophy and School of Public Policy and Governance, University of Toronto...