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