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CFHSS renewal—have your say!
The Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences is undertaking a renewal, which includes re-examining and updating many aspects of our public image—our website, our narrative and possibly even our name.
Media Advisory – Big Thinking lecture January 31, 2012
Join CFHSS for this lecture on January 31st. Dr. Jeremy de Beer (University of Ottawa) will talk about innovation.
Jan. 27 deadline for Knowledge Synthesis Grant
Submit your application by January 27 2012 in order to be considered for this funding opportunity worth up to $25,000.
Join CFHSS for the fifth Big Thinking lecture of the 2011-2012 season
CFHSS invites you to attend this Big Thinking lecture on January 31. Dr. Jeremy de Beer from the University of Ottawa, will talk about innovation policies.
Communiqué: January 2012
Read CFHSS's January Communiqué for a quick update on our activities and links to useful information.
Registration for Congress 2012 is now open!
Registration is now open for Congress 2012 in Kitchener-Waterloo.
CFHSS President named Interim VP at Concordia
Graham Carr named Interim Vice-President, Research and Graduate Studies at Concordia University
Job posting: Assistant Director, Graduate Awards and Postdoctoral Studies
The Concordia University's School of Graduate Studies is currently looking for an Assistant Director, Graduate Awards and Postdoctoral Studies.
Call for Masters, PhD students and Post-Doctoral Fellows
The NSERC - CREATE funded initiative TerreWEB (Terrestrial Research on Ecosystem & World-wide Education & Broadcast), at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, is calling for submissions for the September 2012 competition.
CFHSS welcomes the announcement of the allocation of ten new Canada Excellence Research Chairs
The Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences welcomed yesterday’s federal government announcement regarding the allocation of ten new Canada Excellence Research Chairs.
    Congress 2012 FEATURE

Congress 2012 is from May 26 – June 2 and will be co-hosted by Wilfrid Laurier University and the University of Waterloo. This year’s theme is Crossroads: scholarship for an uncertain world. To register now and save, visit: www.congress2012.ca.


 

 

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2012 Annual Conference - 2012-03-29
CFHSS is heading to Montreal for our 2012 Annual General Meeting! Join us on March 29, 30 and 31.
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Len Evenden   -   Ajay Heble   -   Lauriat Lane   -   Sally Zerker   -   Hermon Ella   -   Douglas Walker   -   John H. Mundy   -   Faculty of Education, University of Victoria    -   Richard Szostak   -   Daniel Williman   -   Noreen Golfman   -   Kel Morin-Parsons   -   Marc Saner   -   Loren Lerner   -   Bruce R. Elder   -   William C. Reeve   -   Faculty of Arts, University of Regina    -    H. V. Nelles   -   Pierre Popovic   -   Diane Belanger   -   John Cameron Stout   -   John Reid   -   Olivette Genest   -   Faculty of Arts, University of Waterloo    -   Faculty of Education, University of Calgary    -   Pierre Gobin   -   M. G. Wiber   -   Paul Ledwell   -   Faculty of Arts, Brandon University    -   Marguerite Maillet   -   Roseann Runte   -   Drew Griffith   -   Alan D. McMillan   -   Robert A. Imboden   -   James B. Sanders   -   Robert A. Stebbins   -   College of Arts and Science, University of Saskatchewan    -   Jacques Bernier   -   L. Gagnon Arguin   -   Kay Stockholder   -   Faculté des arts, sciences at administration des affaires, Collège universitaire de Saint-Boniface    -   Lewis W. Brandt   -   Angela Cozea   -   Solomon Lipp   -   Stephen Clarkson   -   David Seljak   -   Alastair Small   -   Elmer Thiessen   -   Mair Verthuy   -    Paul-Hubert Poirier   -   W. Keith Thomas   -   Duncan Fishwick   -   Esther Trépanier   -   Harry H. Hiller   -   John Walker   -   Karen R. Grant   -   Yves St-Arnaud   -   Wendy Robbins   -   John Russon   -   Faculty of Education, University of Western Ontario    -   Sandra Beckett   -   Josef Schmidt   -   Pat Armstrong   -   Gaétan Thériault   -   Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia    -   John C. Courtney   -   Deborah Poff   -   J. K. Johnson   -   Susan Gingell   -   Pierre Berthiaume   -   Marian Binkley   -   Trudis E. Goldsmith-Reber   -   Yvonne Y. Hsieh   -    George Englebretsen   -   Edward A. Pulker   -   Roger Beck   -   Gary Evans   -   James S. Frideres   -   Bill Melnyk   -   Edward G. Andrew   -   James Pritchard   -   Catherine Ross   -   Christiane Kègle   -   Jacques Allard   -   Marianne Fizet   -   Barbara Godard   -    Viviana Comensoli   -   Don Beecher   -   Stanley Frost   -    James Struthers   -    Robert I. McLaren   -   Peter W. Halford   -    Gérard Bouchard   -   James Lemon   -   Carole Gerson   -    Sam Migliore   -   Brian Merrilees   -   Theodore de Bruyn   -   Serge Cantin   -    Ian Hacking   -   Alena Heitlinger   -   Ruth Compton-Brouwer   -   M. J. Rekart   -   Faculty of Environmental Sciences, University of Guelph    -   André Lapierre   -   Mary Kinnear   -   Yolande Grisé   -   Richard Feist   -   Maria Predelli   -   Micheline De Sève   -   Harry Weitz   -   D. F. S. Thomson   -   Jean-Louis Major   -    Eleanor Ty   -   Bruce K.B. Laughton   -   Walter Fobes   -   Guy Laflèche   -   E. Ross Stuart   -   Tanya Basok   -   Sandy Antal   -   Margie Mendell   -   Faculty of Education, Queen's University    -   Susan Bennett   -    Richard Giguère   -   Charles Bujold   -   Smaro Kamboureli   -   Raymond Hudon   -    Joy Parr   -    Jennifer Reid   -    James J. Forsyth   -   S. D. Sullivan   -    William C. James   -   Ralph H. Estey   -   Faculty of Arts, University of Alberta    -   François Duchesneau   -   Robert Dion   -   Réjane Blary   -   Faculty of Law (Civil Law Section), University of Ottawa    -    James R. Horne   -   Sandford Borins   -   Len Findlay   -   H. Lloyd Keith   -    C. Dufresne-Tassé   -   Faculty of Education, Simon Fraser University    -   John David Wood   -   Elizabeth Bieman   -   Blema Steinberg   -   Normand Séguin   -   Anita Caron   -   Patricia Hutcheon   -    Ronald Babin   -   Moses W. Steinberg   -   Peter Buitenhuis   -   Elizabeth Rapley   -   Graeme Wynn   -   Maxwell M. Perceval   -   Ralph Sarkonak   -   David Edney   -   Lorne Falkenstein   -   Facultés des sciences sociales, Université Laval    -   Hartwig Mayer   -   William T. Fagan   -   Mark C. Jones   -   Jeffrey Heath   -   Edith Fowke   -   Jonathan Vance   -   Viviana Comensoli   -   Robert O'Kell and Arlene Young   -   Bernard Allaire   -   Frances Fortier   -   Judith Kennedy   -   Ian Lancashire   -   Clara Thomas   -    Caroline Andrew   -   Katherine Quincey   -   Ronald Bond   -   Igor Mel'chuk   -    Jean Leroux   -   J. R. Miller   -   Laurie Ricou   -   Faculty of Arts and Science, University of Lethbridge    -   Ella Hermon   -    Serge Courville   -   Don Bruce   -   Jill L. Levenson   -   Kees Boterbloem   -    Frank E. Jones   -   Martin Singer   -   Barrie M. Ratcliffe   -   Catherine Hart   -   Faculty of Arts, University of McGill    -   Alastair Urquhart   -   Irwin W. Gillespie   -   Donna Lelièvre   -   Franklin G. Sanchez   -   Adolf Ens   -   Jim Freeman   -   Walter Hirtle   -   J. Gulsoy   -   Ann B. Denis   -   Marilyn Silverman   -   James M. Stayer   -   E. Constantinides   -   Clement Wyke   -   Brian Burtch   -   Brian Corman   -   Thomas M. Lennon   -   Frederic Schroeder   -   Louise Jenkins   -   Bruce Mansfield   -   Richard Lebrun   -   Matsuo Soga   -   Liliane Welch   -   Michiel Horn   -   Albert W. Halsall   -   Faculty of Arts, Acadia University    -   Yvan Breton   -   C. Stuart   -   Bernard Arcand   -   Emile Talbot   -   Margaret Amelia Banks   -   Ghyslain Charron   -   Grace Skogstad   -   William Bruneau   -   Thomas Rymes   -   Eric Gagnon   -   Jean Forest   -   Maurice Tardif   -   The Estate of Howard W. Winkler    -   Linda Hutcheon   -   Gisela Brude-Firnau   -   Judith Herz   -   Helmut Kallmann   -   Martha Black   -   Pamela V. Sing   -   David M. Rayside   -   Ronald Rompkey   -    James Snell   -   Louis-Edmond Hamelin   -   Robert Boardman   -   Daniel Woolf   -   Lynn McDonald   -   Alan R. Young   -   Roger Herz-Fischler   -   Keith Wilson   -   Jean-Claude Muller   -   Réjean Pelletier   -   Donald H. Akenson   -    Gabriel Moyal   -   David Morrison   -   J. Douglas Clayton   -   Brian Corman    -   Faculté des sciences sociales, Université d'Ottawa    -   Donald Wetherell   -   Wendy Mitchinson   -   Patricia Clements   -   Jody Ciufo   -   Warren W. Oberg   -   Gordon Shrimpton   -   Hans J. Michelmann   -   Eldon Hay   -    H. Waugh Earle   -   Donald C. Rowat   -   Marcel Lauzière   -   Rosa Sarabia   -   Lucie Robert   -   Geoffrey Adams   -   Mary J. Wright   -   Kevin Corrigan   -   Gilles Martel   -   Steven Davis   -   Dan Fullerton   -   David Haglund   -   Keith Ellis   -   Edwin G. Pulleyblank   -   Canadian Society for Italian Studies / Société canadienne pour les études italiennes    -   Joseph McLelland   -   Conrad Laforte   -   Faculty of Education, University Of Manitoba    -   Raymond A. Maclean   -   Steward Crysdale   -   David Freeman   -   Gordon D. Fulton   -   Henrietta Cedergren   -   Gerhard Ens   -   Leslie A. Pal   -   Eric Tucker   -   John Gandy   -   Toby Morantz   -   Stephen John Harris   -   Bernard Dupriez   -   John H. Taylor   -   John George Chipman   -   John Lennox   -   Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, Carleton University    -   Gurli Woods   -   Mario Valdes   -   Gilles Maloney   -   Alastair McKinnon   -   Thomas Dunk   -   B. A. Roberts   -    Jean MacIntyre   -    Pierre Saint-Arnaud   -   Peter B. Waite   -    Carl Benn   -   David Staines   -   Samuel LaSelva   -   Faculty of Social Science, University of Western Ontario    -   Serge Denis   -   J. I. Gour   -   Martha Westwater S.C.   -   Paul Perron   -   Faculté d'éducation, Université d'Ottawa    -    Iro Tembeck   -   Michael Owen   -   William Brian Stewart   -   Evelyn Sommers   -   César Rouben   -   Jules Duchastel   -   Sandra Djwa   -   Jacques Cardinal   -   Henry D. Janzen   -   Jorge Niosi   -   Barbara J. Havercroft   -   Thomas Tausky   -   C. Douglas Ellis   -   Maryann Ayim   -   Gregory and Linda Kealey   -   Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Carleton University    -   Claire Le Brun-Gouanvic   -   Faculty of Education, University of Alberta    -   Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Dalhousie University    -   David Edward Smith   -   Victor-Laurent Tremblay   -   Elizabeth Ewan   -   A. Trevor Tolley   -   Gerhard Bassler   -   Alison Li   -   D. W. Smith   -   Guy Berthiaume   -   Léopold Migeotte   -   John C. Kennedy   -   Marie-France Labrecque   -   Laurent Croteau   -    Brian Titley   -   David MacKenzie   -   W. J. B. Owen   -   Faculty of Arts, University of British Columbia    -   Mary Allodi   -   Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Western Ontario    -   Virginia Stead    -   Barbara Roberts   -   Martin Rumscheidt   -   Reinhold Kramer   -   Claude Piché   -   Hans Eichner   -   Andrew Eason   -   Marie L. Campbell   -   Terry Pratt   -   Terry G. Sherwood   -   Donald Fisher   -   Catherine Rubincam   -   Thérèse Hamel   -   Robert Nadeau   -   Faculty of Arts, University of Ottawa    -   Martin Friedland   -    André Donneur   -   Geoffrey Payzant   -   Faculty of Information and Media Studies, University of Western Ontario    -   Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, Wilfrid Laurier University    -   Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Manitoba    -   Henry Klassen   -   Renate Amstutz   -   Ian MacLachlan   -    Diane Farmer   -   Gertrud Jaron Lewis   -   Becki Ross   -   Faculté des études superieures, Université de Montréal    -   Livio di Matteo   -   John Kendle   -   Aubrey Rosenberg   -   José Igartua   -   Sylvia Bashevkin   -   Ruth Brouwer   -   Patricia Demers   -   Sherrill Grace   -   C. Stuart Houston   -   Caitlin Kealey   -   Janet Ajzenstat   -   Johanne Collin   -    Roland Galibois   -   David G. John   -   David Damas   -   Richard D'Alquen   -    Alfred H. Siemens   -   Faculty of Humanities, University of Victoria    -   Alice Rathé   -   Jacqueline Wright   -   Faculty of Education, University of Windsor    -   Peter Stenberg   -   Clement Légaré   -   Tina Loo   -   Marilyn J. Rose   -   Peter C. Slater   -   Katherine Quinsey    -   Monique Dumais   -   Peter Carstens   -   Claude Panaccio   -   Chaksin J. Kwong   -   61 Anonymous Donors/Donateurs Anonyms    -   Cecil Houston   -   Burton MacDonald   -   Faculté des letters et sciences humaines, Université de Sherbrooke    -   Marian Binkley   -   Shannon Ryan   -   Roger Fowler   -   Bettina Bradbury   -   David Docherty   -   Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Victoria    -   Bernard Beugnot   -   Rex Barrell   -    Robert Vigneault   -   Ross S. Kilpatrick   -   Ranjini Mendis   -   Ben Z. Shek   -   M. Elisabeth Wallace   -   Irene Kmet   -   Lewis W. Brandt   -   Mervin Daub   -   Patricia Jasen   -   A. H. Jeeves   -   James A. Leith   -   Maurice Carignan   -   Julie Paul   -   David Blewett   -   Penny Bryden   -   David Larry Williams   -   John Clarke   -   Faculty of Humanities, McMaster University    -   Nadia Fahmy-Eid   -   Keith E. Wilson    -   Eung-Do Cook   -   Laura Groening   -   Marlene Goldman   -   Juliet S. McMaster   -   Bernard J. Shapiro   -   Ruth Compton Brouwer    -   F. Garcia-Sanchez   -   Jennifer McRobert   -   Faculty of Arts, University of Manitoba    -   Caroline Bayard   -   Klaus Petersen   -   Jesse Vorst   -   Iris Bruce   -   O.F.G. Sitwell    -   E. W. Dowler   -   Roger Magnuson   -   Hugh MacCallum   -   Doug Owram   -   Alison Scott-Prelorentzos   -   Pauline Greenhill   -   Yves Gingras   -   Claude Lafleur   -   Philip Knee   -   Mark Thornton   -   Edmund P. Fowler   -    Roland Le Huenen   -    Margaret Rodman   -   Marc Epprecht   -   Judith Fingard   -   Richard I. Ruggles   -   Suzanne Crosta   -   Walter Moser   -   Peter Brock   -    David Pugh   -   Geoffrey Johnston   -   Rose May McGee   -   James Arthur Stark   -   Penny Van Toorn   -   Marjorie Stone   -   Andrew Taylor   -   William McCready   -   Leonard Angel   -   K. W. Rankin   -   James Doyle   -   Cyril Welch   -   Michael Gervers   -   Cecilia Danysk   -   Andrew Brook   -   John-Paul Himka   -   Alan C. Cairns   -   Jeffrey McNairn   -   Donald Hair   -   Nicole Dubreuil-Blondin   -    André Lachance   -    Richard Keshen   -   Marian Binkley    -   James B. Hartman   -   Russell Johnston    -   Mohammed Ovey   -   Sheryle Drewe   -   Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Simon Fraser University    -   Kevin D. Hutchings   -   Mary Lynn Stewart   -   William Taylor   -   Rainier Grutman   -   Louis Gill   -   Simon Evans   -   Irene Sullivan   -   Neil Carson   -   Shelagh Grant   -   Yvon Gauthier   -   Louise Forsyth   -   David Graham   -   Judith Weiss   -   Ruth Roach Pierson   -   Lois Marie Jaech   -    Kraft E. von Maltzahn   -   John A. Scott   -   Lars E. Troide   -   Faculties of Humanities, Social Sciences and School of Education, Bishop's University    -   Richard MacLennan   -   Shannen Murphy   -   College of Social and Applied Human Sciences, Guelph University    -   Lesley Cormack   -   Maurice Rainville   -   Beverley Diamond   -   Donald F. Theall   -   Noah Shneidman   -   Faculty of Arts and Science, Queen's University    -   Frank W. Peers    -   Carol Whelan   -   Marcel Martel    -   Frits Pannekoek   -   Faculté d'éducation, Collège universitaire de Saint-Boniface    -   Robert Merrett   -   V. Strong-Boag   -   Thomas E. G. Warner   -   Anthony R. Pugh   -   Pierre Cantin   -   David Beatty   -    J. D. Browning   -   Hoh Cheung Mui   -    Franz J. Schreyer   -   Robert Toupin   -   Jill Vickers   -   Christopher Dunn   -   Serge Bernier   -   Denise Pelletier   -   Nive Voisine   -   Ronald Manzer   -   William Gillies Ross   -   John Williams   -   Faculty of Education, Brock University    -   Van Simpson   -   William G. Godfrey   -   A. G. Rigg   -   Fred Bowers   -   Irene Gammel   -   Mary-Jane Miller   -   Diana Brydon   -   Louis Valcke   -   Robin Fisher   -   Jon Kertzer   -   Stephen Wilson   -   Lucie Bourassa   -   Frederick M. Barnard   -   Konrad Eisenbichler   -   Arnold Ages   -   Brett Zimmerman   -   Denise Angers   -   John Haiman   -    James Darroch   -   Lawrence E. Toombs   -   Gilles Dorion   -   Claude Bergeron   -   Kurt Levy   -   C. J. G. Turner   -   Helen Stacey   -   Carl Berger   -   Ronald Granofsky   -    Alain Goldschlager   -   Joanne Findon   -   George W. Lovell   -   Faculty of Communications and Culture, University of Calgary    -   Lionel Adey   -   Elizabeth A. Popham   -   Andrew Wainwright   -   Stephen R. Brooks   -   Serge Gagnon   -   Faculty of Arts and Science, University of Toronto    -   Maurice Lagueux   -   Jeannelle Savona   -   Louis Dorais   -   René Hardy   -   Terrence Murphy   -   Christoper Leo   -   îtienne Tiffou   -    Laurence D. Steven   -   Girard J. Etzkorn   -   Robert Young   -   Lucia Ferretti   -   John Tucker   -   Margaret Prang   -   Kerry Abel   -   Jay Newman   -    Gary Butler   -    David J. Hawkin   -   Chad Gaffield   -   Alain Thomas   -   Gaelan T. DeWolf   -   Robert A. Campbell   -   Elaine Keillor   -   Douglas G. Anglin   -   Margaret Conrad   -   Faculty of Education, University of New Brunswick    -   Alison Prentice   -   Pierre R.A. Leon   -    Barbara Carvill   -   Theodore Cohn   -   Evelyn Cobley   -   Lynne Phillips   -   Guy Gaudreau   -   Bruce Muirhead   -   Denis Guertin   -   Marie-Thérèse Vinet   -   Virginia Stead   -   Faculty of Social Sciences, McMaster University    -   Carolyn Strange   -   Paolo C. Biondi    -    Glenn Willmott   -   Kraft von Maltzahn   -   James C. Hackler   -   Eldon Hay    -   Paul Besler   -   Jennifer Waelti-Walters   -   April London   -   Michel Biron   -