May | 2012 | Congress 2012 of the Humanities and Social Sciences

Social innovation through collaboration

Mélanie Béchard Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences There is an interesting theme woven throughout a number of sessions at Congress 2012. It began with the opening Big Thinking lecture from the Governor General when he said, “We must be as good in social innovation as we are in technological innovation.” It continued [...]

Today at Congress: Thursday, May 31—Day 6

Alison Hebbs Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences I’m playing catch up as taking in the Chris Hedges breakfast lecture took precedence today. If you missed it in person or online, a video of his outstanding lecture will be on http://www.congress2012.ca asap… perhaps by this evening. All of our BT lecturers who gave [...]

Janine Brodie: Social literacy and social justice in times of crisis

Janine Brodie’s discussion on Social literacy and social justice in times of crisis was a great success! Did you miss it? Watch the video below now!

Work with fans, not against; tv execs

Teghan Barton Congress 2012 Correspondent Continuing the Big Thinking Lecture Series, Tuesday night Don Tapscott spoke about how we are at a crossroads of the end of the industrial state and the future that lies before us to achieve. What this future looks like is unknown, but Tapscott is confident that it lies in the hands of [...]

Panel Discussion: Imagining Canada’s Future

Krista Boniface Congress 2012 Correspondent Is it terrible that I’m addicted to Twitter? Honestly, it’s hard to stay away from this social media platform, since it empowers the exact collaboration spoken of during the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council’s Panel Discussion: Imagining Canada’s Future. From “Tweet-ups” (basically meet-ups of the congress people you’ve been talking to [...]

Audiovisual translation within Translation Studies

Rosanne Abdulla Congress 2012 Correspondent This morning, Jorge Díaz Cintas delivered an enlightening presentation, entitled The scope and potential of audiovisual translation within Translation Studies. This first event for the “Canadian Association for Translation Studies” 25th annual conference raised many innovative and thought-provoking ideas. Their conference deals with the theme of “Translation, Texts, Media,” which [...]

Touring our ‘unofficial’ art galleries

Teghan Barton Congress 2012 Correspondent The Canadian Association of Social Work Education held their opening ceremonies Monday night and in addition to the Cirque du Soleil guest speaker (you can read my response to it here), there were several other elements to the event that were enjoyable. This year CASWE decided to hold a Student [...]

Margaret Atwood: Bedtime Stories

Maria Dubecki Congress 2012 Correspondent The Humanities Theatre was packed to capacity Tuesday afternoon for Margaret Atwood’s Big Thinking lecture, Bedtime Stories, and I have to say it was an incredible honour to be in the audience. I’m going to make the beginning of this post a bit personal because I’m a big Margaret Atwood [...]

Sir John Daniel: Education and Democracy

Maria Dubecki Congress 2012 Correspondent Distance education, institutional leadership, and international development were three topics explored in Sir John Daniel’s Education for Democracy keynote that took place Tuesday morning. By sharing his discoveries and experiences from Open University, the Education for All campaign, and Commonwealth Learning, Sir John Daniel revealed that education and democracy are [...]

Why more companies need to be like Cirque du Soleil

Teghan Barton Congress 2012 Correspondent The Canadian Association for Social Work Education held their opening ceremonies Monday night with a keynote address from Cirque du Soleil’s Emmanuel Bochud. Bochud spoke about Social Circus, an outreach program he has been running for almost a decade that works with at-risk youth around the world, teaching them circus [...]