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The wounded ones: Conversations about the multiple legacies of colonialism
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...
Brand Command: Canadian Politics and Democracy in the Age of Message Control
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 plans were often dispatched in the rush to deal with...
10 Ways to Use Digital Humanities to Enhance Your Research, Teaching and Dissemination: June 2 and 3 at Congress
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...
Access to Social Justice symposium will explore social justice issues in Calgary
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...
Fresh Air and New Hope for Canada and Human Rights
This blog was prepared for the celebration of Human Rights Day 2015. There is a palpable sense of relief within the human rights community following the federal election results of October 19 th. Notwithstanding some commitments and investments in...
Binging on Netflix or philosophizing?
“There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language,” once said the twentieth-century French philosopher Henri Bergson. In other words, what makes philosophy attractive is that it expresses what we instinctively believe to be...
Federation and DHSI partner on DH skills training
The Digital Humanities Summer Institute is an annual training opportunity hosted at the University of Victoria in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. DHSI is the largest regular digital humanities skills training institute in the world, and has an...
Canadian social sciences and humanities community contributes knowledge and expertise to ongoing refugee debate
What had been growing for months as an international debate on countries’ obligations regarding refugees and migrants in the Middle East and Europe exploded as a discussion in our own country last week when news of the tragedy of three-year-old Aylan...
When big data meets the soul of culture: innovation for the future
The digital age is rapidly changing how scholars produce, share, analyze and preserve ideas. At Monday’s interdisciplinary symposium at Congress 2015, the changing nature of scholarly research with technology was the topic of discussion. One of the...