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SSH News: “The Heart of the Matter”, Canadian Studies, & Impressions of Congress 2013
Christine McKenna, Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences The American Academy of Arts & Sciences released a report this week entitled “The Heart of the Matter”, which examines the value of social sciences and humanities (SSH) in the...
One last look back at Congress 2013: My top 7 highlights
Maryse Bernard www.twitter.com/MaryseVictoria I arrived at Congress 2013 feeling intimidated. With a title like “Canada’s largest academic gathering,” it was difficult not to be. Its history of bringing together some of our country’s most innovative...
Reconciliation through reason
Elizabeth White Five days into Congress’s Big Thinking series we are met by the P-word - philosophy. It would be expected for its connotations – a dwelling in abstraction and removal from apparent worldly application – that the lecture would invite...
Impact of Harper’s reshaping of Canadian history and identity discussed in micro-lecture session
Vanessa Hawk Political scientists and historians alike filled seats and pulled chairs from neighbouring rooms across to see the “History under Harper: Federal identity initiatives in Conservative Canada” panel discussion; such a popular event that...
"The first five kilobytes are the hardest": George Dyson humanizes early computing
Andrina Fawcett http://twitter.com/thecardigangirl George Dyson, this year's final Big Thinking speaker, marked the transition from Congress 2013 to the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) here at UVic. As Dr. Raymond Siemens, director of the...
Working together for change: Challenges and hope for community-campus collaborations in Aboriginal communities
Maryse Bernard www.twitter.com/MaryseVictoria One year ago, at Congress 2012 in Waterloo, the Governor General of Canada made a call-to-action to democratize knowledge. His Excellency the Right Honourable David Johnston announced during his keynote...
What does a 21st century learning experience look like?
Andrina Fawcett http://twitter.com/thecardigangirl Personalized learning with dashboard Brad King of Simon Fraser University discussed how he changed typical collaboration practices used to build technology in his presentation “Designing a 21 st...
Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond raises her voice so that others can be heard
Maryse Bernard www.twitter.com/MaryseVictoria The introduction to Monday afternoon’s Big Thinking lecture recalled Congress 2013’s theme of “@ the edge.” Not only does this reflect the University of Victoria’s location on the West Coast, but also a...