It has become a common complaint, across the board, that statistics relating to Canadian higher education are sorely lacking or, when they do exist, are misleading–ACCUTE past-president Stephen Slemon has written about this matter on this very blog. Whether it’s in terms of faculty hiring (and of what sorts), […]
Dalhousie is hosting a two-week summer institute, the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (Atlantic), affiliated with the DHSI at the University of Victoria. The courses offered aim to provide training in the digital humanities relevant to research and teaching for graduate students, faculty and others. We are pleased to […]
The Arts of Community The First Gathering of the Indigenous Literary Studies Association Hosted on Six Nations of the Grand River Territory October 1st – 3rd, 2015 We invite scholars, knowledge-keepers, artists, and community members to join us in generating new conversations about Indigenous literary arts and community engagement. […]
Marjorie Perloff’s comment that “one of our most common genres today is the epitaph for the humanities” is borne out by the barrage of disturbing evidence that has become a daily part of our working experience as teachers and researchers within universities. These problems, however, also constitute an […]
“It’s all diamond:” Beautiful Losers at 50 A Canadian Literature Symposium In anticipation of the 50th anniversary of Beautiful Losers in 2016, the University of Ottawa’s Department of English will be hosting a 1-day conference and seminar on Leonard Cohen’s incendiary novel on May 29th, 2015. Papers […]
