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Congress 2013 @the edge at UVic is here |
The 2013 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences opens in just over two weeks, and sixty-eight scholarly associations will be meeting at Congress 2013 to share findings, refine ideas, and build partnerships that will help shape the Canada of today and tomorrow. See the online Calendar of Events for a full listing of Congress programming, both academic and cultural. See the full lineup of Big Thinking speakers and Career Corner sessions. And don't forget to book your travel and accommodations if you haven't already done so. |
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Congress Expo: A hub of activity |
This year's Expo will feature over 50 different scholarly publishers and exhibitors involved in research dissemination, as well as book launches, book signings, career presentations, and wine and cheese receptions. Held in the McKinnon Building from June 1-7, Expo is open to the public and free of charge. See the Congress website for more information. |
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Federation President Antonia Maioni on committing sociology |
Federation President Antonia Maioni has recently been featured in two important news outlets extolling the importance of studies and research in the humanities and social sciences. She contributed an insightful article to the Globe & Mail in response to the issue of "committing sociology", and in it described her personal experience of choosing a liberal arts education. In April, Dr. Maioni delivered the Dr. Barbara Powell Memorial Lecture at the University of Regina's Humanities Summit, Balance and Change in the 21st Century. An article also appeared in the Regina Leader-Post featuring Antonia's comments about the place of the SSH fields in Canada's future. The Globe & Mail article was published on May 3rd and can be found here, and the Leader-Post article, published on April 18th, can be found here. |
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Big Thinking: Rethinking development and job creation |
The Federation hosted its last Big Thinking event on Parliament Hill for the 2012-2013 season on April 25 with Gordon Betcherman of the University of Ottawa. Dr. Betcherman challenged traditional assumptions that job creation will simply occur as the natural outcome of economic activity. Building on his work on the World Bank's World Development Report 2013, which called countries to move jobs to centre stage, Dr. Betcherman explores policies and examples revealing that all countries - from the most developed to the lowest-income - need to make employment an explicit objective of development. The full lecture can be viewed online.
The Big Thinking series will resume in September 2013. Details will be posted on our website as they become available.
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CIFAR's Global Call |
The Canadian Institute for Advanced Research has launched its first-ever open call for new research programs. The Global Call competition seeks to address important issues for Canada and the world, and invites the best minds to submit research ideas that have the potential to lead to fundamental change in our collective understanding. The Institute's President and CEO Alan Bernstein suggests "there are many questions that could benefit from the CIFAR model," which promotes a global, multidisciplinary approach to developing solutions. CIFAR is calling for proposals from all areas, their key requirement being that the ideas are "bold, ambitious and complex" enough to merit collaboration from researchers with different disciplinary backgrounds and complementary perspectives and methodologies.
The competition is a two-stage process: first, a three-page Letter of Intent must be submitted by June 7; and second, a group of finalists will be supported through a workshop process to develop full proposals, due January 2014. Each stage will be reviewed by senior international research leaders, and the competition results will be announced in June 2014.
For full details on CIFAR's Global Call for Ideas and how to submit a letter of intent, go to www.cifar.ca/globalcall. |
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About the Federation
Representing more than 85,000 researchers in 81 scholarly associations, 80 universities and colleges, and 6 affiliates, the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences is the national voice for the university research and learning community in these disciplines.
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Off the Shelf
In this section we feature papers, podcasts and videos that-while part of our archives-are still relevant to current events.
Gearing up for Congress 2013? Have a look at some of our Big Thinking speakers from Congress 2012. |
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