Ottawa, May 24, 2009 – The Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences continues to showcase cutting-edge research by some of Canada’s top research talent. On Monday, the following people are just five of the brilliant presenters who will share their research findings.

7:50 to 8:55 a.m. Me Funny
It has often been said that one of the best ways to know a people is discovering what makes them laugh. Humour can show the pulse and character of a culture. In the first of three Breakfasts On Campus organized by the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Drew Hayden Taylor will shed light on the Indigenous funny bone and read from his highly successful book on Native humour, Me Funny.

9:00 to 10:30 a.m. Jail Tourism
Carleton University doctoral students Justin Piché and Kevin Walby invited contributors to Journal of Prisoners on Prison (www.jpp.org) to comment on whether jail tours are a good thing. This publication is an academically-oriented, peer-reviewed and non-profit journal in which most of the articles are written by prisoners.The responses they received were critical of jail tourism as a social scientific methodology and of the findings that can be produced through these field trips.

12:15 to 1:20 p.m. North Meets South
Siila Watt-Cloutier, a world leader on global climate change and human rights, engages in a scintillating dialogue with award-winning essayist and novelist John Ralston Saul. Watt-Cloutier will preview the 9th LaFontaine Baldwin Lecture that she will be deliver in Iqaluit on May 29. This discussion will cut to the heart of what role Northerners will play in the making of their own destiny.

1:30 to 3:00 p.m. Hockey Night in Canada
J. Andrew Ross from the University of Western Ontario will present a paper titled “Making Saturday Night Hockey Night: Radio and the Emergence of a Canadian Cultural Institution.”

4:00 to 5:30 p.m. Dumbo Did It
There was a case of an elephant hung, from a crane, in 1916, in Tennessee. Carleton University Law Professor Neil Sargent will talk about Animals as Perps. He will reference what has been called the first detective story─Edgar Allan Poe’s The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1841) and the guilty party, an Orangutan. Sargent points out that it was not so very long ago that animals were hung for murder or other forms of destruction, on the basis that they had been possessed by the devil.

For more information:
Congress media team
Room 118 Paterson Hall
Carleton University
613-520-3552
ckealey@fedcan.ca
lin_moody@carleton.ca

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