Congrès des sciences humaines

mai 29

'The Container' theatre performance at Congress is innovative and fresh

 

Caleb Snider, Congress 2016 student blogger

Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences 2016 is about more than groundbreaking academic panels and innovative keynote speakers; it’s also about showcasing cultural events organized by the University of Calgary School of Creative and Performing Arts (SCPA). The first of these performances is an excerpt of the play The Container by Clare Bayley, directed and designed by University of Calgary MFA graduate students Azri Ali and Michael Sinnott.

Mr. Sinnott’s stage design features a wood and plexiglass replica of a standard shipping container wherein three female refugees, desperate to reach safety in Britain, must contend with an antagonistic agent working to smuggle them across the border—for a price. Placed on either side of the container, in a format that Mr. Sinnott describes as a “parliamentary stage” (political implication definitely intended), the audience is forced to contend not...

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mai 28

Congress in the news - May 28

 

Congress 2016: Pseudolus

CBC

This weekend you've got a chance to see an ancient Roman play -- first performed way back in 191 B.C -- at a baseball diamond at Foothills Stadium. Clem Martini is the Chair of the U of C's drama department...

University of Calgary to host an inside scoop on Canadian politics

The Globe and Mail

It is often described as the academic Olympics, but the upcoming Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences that runs for the next week at the University of Calgary is...

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mai 26

Le congrès de 2016 de la Fédération des sciences humaines du Canada : à propos de l’idée de l’université en tant que communauté

Guy Laforest, Président élu de la Fédération des Sciences Humaines, Professeur, Département de science politique, Université Laval

Ce blog a été publié sur le site web de Guy Laforest le 25 mai, 2016

L’Université de Calgary, située dans les contreforts des Rocheuses canadiennes, accueillera du 28 mai au 3 juin 2016 le congrès de la Fédération des sciences humaines du Canada. Plus de 8,000 participantes et participants, représentant quelque 70 associations savantes dans la grande famille des humanités et des sciences sociales, tiendront dans la métropole économique de l’Alberta leur grande rencontre scientifique annuelle, tout en se retrouvant autour d’un thème fédérateur : l’énergie des communautés. Dans un pays aussi immense que le Canada, ces...

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mai 26

The 2016 Calgary Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences Federation of Canada: Some thoughts on the university as a community

Guy Laforest, President-Elect of the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Professor, Departement of Political Science, Université Laval

This blog was published on Guy Laforest's website on May 25th, 2016

The University of Calgary, placed at the foothills of the Canadian Rocky Mountains, will be the host, from May 28 to June 3, 2016, of the congress of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences. More than 8,000 participants, representing over 70 scholarly associations in the great family of the humanities and the social sciences will hold their annual meeting in the economic metropolis of Alberta, united around a federating topic: energizing communities. In a country as immense as Canada, these meetings enable...

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