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Imagine having no agency over your reproductive decisions. Imagine that those around you believe that you are not capable of making decisions for yourself and your future. Now, imagine a society in which your body is policed to the point where...

Referencing the famous statue “Spirit of Haida Gwaii” by Indigenous artist Bill Reid, the Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin (Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada) addressed the issue of accommodation in her Big Thinking lecture The Rule of...

The Arctic is front page news in Canada and around the world. Mixed messages from journalists, academics, and government representatives predict both conflict and cooperation in the region. On the one hand, there is talk of “a new Cold War” brewing...

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...

Guy Laforest, Professeur, Département de science politique, Université Laval Ce blog a été publié sur le site web de Guy Laforest's le 15 mai, 2016 « La conférence de Québec de 1864 150 ans plus tard : comprendre l’émergence de la fédération...

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...

Robyn Dugas , Coordonnatrice des communications, Mitacs Dès sa première année d’études à l’IIT Madras en Inde, Yashasvini Rajeswar savait qu’elle voulait effectuer un stage de recherche au Canada. « J’étais déjà venue au Canada. J’ai adoré ce pays et...

Alex Marland, Memorial University of Newfoundland Before entering academia, I worked in communications consulting and in government. In the private sector, we had lots of time to ruminate about marketing strategy. But in government, the best laid...

The DHSI@Congress returns for a third year with eight hands-on workshops and two plenary talks that introduce Digital Humanities (DH) techniques, tools and methods. Developed for faculty, students, and staff who are curious about DH, but would like a...