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Terry Soleas "Blood can bring out the best of human virtues, our basest urges and some of the worst in humanity.” Lawrence Hill, a celebrated and acclaimed Canadian author was at Congress on Thursday, May 29 to deliver one of his Massey Series of...

Jessica Dixon True to my age, a cynical perspective regarding the effectiveness of Canada’s democratic structure flows through my veins. With this in mind, I attended American Professor, Benjamin Barber’s presentation (and the following panel) about...

Samara Bissonnette In an installment of the Big Thinking series for Congress 2014, Catherine Dauvergne delivered one of her newest big ideas yesterday at Brock University in a presentation titled " The End of Settler Societies and the New Politics of...

Jessica Dixon As a member of the media-obsessed public, I take pride in my expansive knowledge regarding technological developments and other forms of media produced by our digital culture. I have grown up with the re-enforced idea that this mind-set...

Doug Junke For David Plotz, the advent of digital journalism has been the best of times and the worst of times, to borrow from Charles Dickens. Slate editor Plotz addressed Tuesday’s Congress 2014 Big Thinking crowd of 125 at Brock University with...

Doug Junke Lyse Doucet, veteran BBC reporter, presenter and chief international correspondent has seen man at his worst. It wasn’t pretty. She shared a tiny slice of that with the Congress 2014 Big Thinking audience Saturday afternoon. It wasn’t for...

This week, the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences was very pleased to announce the winners of the 2014 Canada Prizes. The Canada Prizes are awarded annually to the best scholarly books in the humanities and social sciences that have...

Ryan Saxby Hill, Media Relations Ever had a tough problem that you wished you could run past an eminent expert in the field? Do you have a big question that might benefit from interdisciplinary collaboration? Sometimes the first problem is locating...

Pierre Normand, Directeur des communications Le 5 novembre dernier, se tenaient à Ottawa deux événements qui ont mis en lumière la vitalité et l’excellence de notre collectivité. Le premier était le lancement de la saison 2009-2010 des causeries Voir...