Jean-Marc Mangin, Directeur général, Fédération des sciences humaines

Lisez le Plan stratégique 2016-2020.

Nombreux sont ceux qui, au sein de la communauté universitaire, considèrent la planification stratégique avec un certain scepticisme. Soit parce qu’à leurs yeux le propos est une enfilade de vœux pieux ou qu’il est rédigé en langue de bois, beaucoup de critiques n’observent aucune modification significative du comportement ou du rendement organisationnel par l’adoption d’une telle démarche. La Fédération vient tout juste d’achever l’exécution de son plan stratégique 2011-2015. Qu’est-ce qui a changé? Quel bilan pouvons-nous dresser au regard des objectifs que nous nous...

Peter Severinson, Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences

For me, the most exciting, challenging and inspiring moment at the Federation’s Annual Conference last week came from a young woman who spoke from the floor. We had just heard a moving and thought-provoking talk from Wab Kinew, the acclaimed writer, journalist and musician who is now serving as Associate Vice-President of Indigenous Affairs at the University of Winnipeg. He spoke about the challenges our colleges and universities face in helping to advance reconciliation with Aboriginal peoples. We then enjoyed a panel discussion on the same subject, featuring leaders from different backgrounds in the higher-education sector, and we had begun to take...

Robert Blades and Thomas Berton, Carleton University

How on earth does one distill hundreds of archival boxes containing letters, meeting minutes, conference notes, photographs, surveys, legal documents, and even the occasional poem into a succinct historical timeline of the Federation from 1940 to the present day? This is exactly the question we explored during this past summer of 2015. First, who are we? We are two Masters of Public History students from Carleton University in Ottawa. Thomas is doing research on board games and Rob studies relationships between sound and memory. In May we began to pour over hundreds of archival boxes from the Federation’s genesis as two separate research councils —one for the humanities and another for the social sciences —...

Véronique Mallet, Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences

Elections open today, Monday, February 2, 2015 for two positions on the Board of Directors of the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences. The open positions and candidates are:

Director, Associations (2 open positions)

• Dawn Buzza (nominated by Donna Kotsopoulos, Wilfrid Laurier University)
• ...