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Do you find yourself attending academic lectures on topics in which you are extremely interested, only to leave feeling confused, angry at your time wasted, and wondering how such a gripping topic was presented so poorly? Why are some academic...

As part of the Congress 2016 exciting line-up of events, the University of Calgary will host six Interdisciplinary symposia to exhibit the university’s most compelling and leading-edge thinking and research. This article is part of a six-part series...

Sunday, May 29 from 11 am to 12 pm Congress 2016, Main Expo Event Space Light refreshments provided For countries like Canada, Namibia, Rwanda, and Palestine, the ravages of colonialism represent unresolved trauma that has been passed from generation...

Some years ago, two great research traditions arose in social and behavioral science: talking to people and gathering data and numbers about people. A hybrid tradition, which goes by various names but which we’ll call ‘mixed methods,’ arose in the...

Law and Social Work faculties aim to develop policies and action plans that will make real improvements in access to social justice. Top speakers include Thomas Cromwell, a Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, and more—read on! As part of Congress...

John Packer, Director, Human Rights Research and Education Centre, University of Ottawa Ce billet de blogue a été préparé à l'occasion de la Journée des droits de l'homme 2015. There is a palpable sense of relief within the human rights community...

Gauri Sreenivasan, Directrice des politiques et des programmes, Fédération des sciences humaines Le débat international qui n’a cessé de s’intensifier pendant des mois sur les obligations des différents pays au regard du flux des réfugiés et des...

At Congress 2015, publishers from across Canada joined academics in a Career Corner panel discussion on publishing and marketing your scholarly book. The publishers spoke passionately about books and provided practical tips and advice, especially for...

We all dread the presenter who reads directly from the slides or paper in a monotone voice. Worse still is when that monotone voice uses heavy jargon that no one outside the field will understand. Shari Graydon says “scholars are trained to be...