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27 avril 2012

Milena Stanoeva

Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences

Susan R. Fisher

The Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada has signed a new licensing agreement with Access Copyright. University Affairs published an analysis of the agreement.

The Chilliwack Progress published a profile of Canada Prize in the humanities winner Susan R. Fisher. Fisher won the prize for her work Boys and Girls in No Man’s Land: English-Canadian Children and the First World War, published by University of Toronto Press, in which she examines the ways in which the First World War was represented in children’s literature and plays from the period. Watch a video of Susan Fisher discussing her work here.

Janice Keefe capped off a successful season of Big Thinking with her lecture on ageing and caregiving policy, delivered to a full house yesterday morning. If you missed the lecture, keep an eye out for a video of it on the blog and on our Facebook page.