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1998 – Transformation of Congress
Known as the ‘Learneds” since it was first held in 1931 this national academic conference is renamed the “Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences” in 1998, as part of a concerted effort to become more inclusive and less elitist. Originally on a cycle whereby it slowly moved from host universities in Western to host universities in Eastern Canada over a seven-year cycle, in 2011 the event moves to a national competition, with a bidding process beginning approximately four years out. University of Ottawa is the first host university to successfully win the national bid in 2012, for Congress 2015.
Now that we call it Congress…
- 1998
- Université d’Ottawa | University of Ottawa
- 1999
- Université de Sherbrooke | Bishop’s University
- 2000
- University of Alberta
- 2001
- Université Laval
- 2002
- University of Toronto | Ryerson Polytechnic University
- 2003
- Dalhousie University | University of King’s College
- 2004
- University of Manitoba
- 2005
- University of Western Ontario
- 2006
- York University
- 2007
- University of Saskatchewan
- 2008
- University of British Columbia
- 2009
- Carleton University
- 2010
- Concordia University
- 2011
- University of New Brunswick | St. Thomas University
- 2012
- Wilfrid Laurier University | University of Waterloo
- 2013
- University of Victoria
- 2014
- Brock University
- 2015
- Université d’Ottawa | University of Ottawa
- 2016
- University of Calgary
- 2017
- Ryerson University
- 2018
- University of Regina