Apr
18
Featuring Paul Davidson (President, the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada), Michael Fine (Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada) and Britta Baron (Vice-Provost and Associate Vice-President, International, University of Alberta), together with doctoral students from Canada and abroad, including Vanier Scholars, this panel will discuss how international studies and international mobility contribute to the research and learning environment in the social sciences and humanities.
Moderator: Brent Herbert-Copley, Vice-President Research Capacity, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
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Apr
18
In this open session, panelists Mary Elizabeth Luka, Geoffrey Rockwell, David Schloen and Ray Siemens will discuss our increasingly digitized research landscape and explore the pressing questions facing today’s scholars: What are the implications for scholarship and knowledge mobilization? What tools and methods are best applied to “big data”? How can scholars and decision-makers leverage this wealth of information to the benefit of society? SSHRC President Chad Gaffield will provide opening remarks.
Moderator: Ted Hewitt, Executive Vice-President, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
Follow on Twitter: #DigitalHumanities @SSHRC_CRSH
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Apr
18
The Top 25 Storytellers take the stage! With its Research for a Better Life competition, SSHRC challenged postsecondary students to show how research in the social sciences and humanities is helping us understand and improve the world around us, today and into the future. With submissions from across the country, Canada’s students met the challenge with enthusiasm, creativity and wit. Now we invite you to join the audience as the Top 25 finalists share their work in a spotlight showcase, with five winners earning an invitation to the World Social Science Forum in Montreal.
Follow on Twitter: #SSHRCStorytellers @SSHRC_CRSH
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Apr
18
Join us for a brown bag lunch conversation about emerging perspectives on food security from local and global perspectives.
Session panelists include Jennifer Clapp (University of Waterloo), Stuart Clark (Canada Foodgrains Bank), Hannah Wittman (University of British Columbia), Mustafa Koc (Ryerson University), and Sophia Murphy (Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy).
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Apr
18
In the context of postcolonial reconciliation movements, what does the embodied action (rather than the oft-heard metaphor) of ‘walking together’ encompass? In this keynote address, Helen Gilbert looks at long-distance walking performances by Aboriginal groups in Canada and Australia, and analyses them in relation to the process of public listening and the politics of truth and redress.
With funding support from the Federation.
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Apr
18
A panel of Indigenous people will speak to current issues in the province and actions to address them. Some of the panel topics include threats to wild salmon, engaging youth, causes of the declining Central Coast ooligan fishery, celebrating traditional food skills, and mobilizing for food sovereignty.
Co-hosted by the Community First: Impacts of Community Engagement (CFICE) Community Food Security Hub and the B.C. Food Systems Network.
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Apr
17
Using theories, empirical findings and different research approaches, scholars describe diverse case studies of feminist action research and praxis related to violence against women. Presentations include a study of individual girls (using biomythography), a university’s environment (with a bystander initiative), and macro world systems of violence (using praxis over time).
Co-sponsored by the Canadian Committee on Women’s History (CCWH), the Canadian Association for the Study of Women and Education (CASWE), and the
Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women (CRIAW).
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Apr
17
Feminist scholarship—including diverse women’s realities, social inequalities, women’s movements and social transformation—has been @ the edge with linkages among community, university, research and theory. The potentialities of these approaches are discussed in relation to theorizing women’s lives in Canada, Tanzania and Latin America.
Co-sponsored by the Canadian Committee on Women’s History (CCWH), the Canadian Association for the Study of Women and Education (CASWE), and the
Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women (CRIAW).
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Apr
17
A presentation of the results of empirical studies about Canada, all informed in different ways by feminist intersectionality, including experiences of Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union; discrimination against immigrants; the influence of neo-liberalism and post-feminism on female heterosexual subjectivity; and the representation of youth crime in national newspapers.
Co-sponsored by the Canadian Committee on Women’s History (CCWH), the Canadian Association for the Study of Women and Education (CASWE), and the
Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women (CRIAW).
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Apr
17
Intersectionality has been an important feminist contribution to scholarship in various disciplines. Drawing on policy and practice in immigrant mental health, a comparison of four approaches to quantitative intersectional analysis, and family history (and consumerism) in Montréal, this multi-disciplinary session explores benefits and limitations of a feminist intersectional lens.
Session co-sponsored by the Canadian Committee on Women’s History (CCWH), the Canadian Association for the Study of Women and Education (CASWE), and the Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women (CRIAW).
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