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Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences @federationhss.ca · 11/06/2026

« Mon anthologie montre les divisions dans le peuple canadien français. C'est un peuple assez divisé quand il s'agit de donner la définition de ce qu'il est et doit faire. » - Dominique Garand

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Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences @federationhss.ca · 11/06/2026

« Au Québec, comme partout ailleurs, on est assez chicanier, et sur tous les sujets possibles. On peut l'expliquer de différentes façons. J'ai laissé de côté les rapports conflictuels entre le peuple québécois francophone et le peuple anglophone. »

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Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences @federationhss.ca · 11/06/2026

« Pour moi, assez rapidement, c'est apparu comme une évidence que la littérature et les femmes en particulier adoptent le rôle contemporain de création de connaissances par le biais de la littérature qui devient un espace de théorisation des connaissances. » - Marie-Ève Bradette

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Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences @federationhss.ca · 11/06/2026

"At its core, it teaches that coexistence means travelling together in parallel with mutual respect, autonomy, and accountability." - Bonnie Freeman (@blickersfreeman)

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Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences @federationhss.ca · 11/06/2026

"What I hope readers take away is that the Two Row Wampum is a living ethical framework for how Indigenous and non-Indigenous people move alongside one another today."

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Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences @federationhss.ca · 11/06/2026

« C'est une communauté de charmeurs de cobras, mais ça a été interdit, donc ils ont remplacé les cobras par des femmes. Ces danses sont devenues populaires, ce qui est important dans un pays patriarcal. » - Marianne-Sarah Saulnier

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Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences @federationhss.ca · 11/06/2026

« Je m'intéressais beaucoup à tous les aspects ethnomusicologiques derrière les communautés et les castes en Inde. Les Kalbeliya ne sont pas très connus, mais leur danse l'est. »

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Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences @federationhss.ca · 11/06/2026

[3/3] "I think we can start giving people roadmaps so that projects that are ethical within the university can move toward long-term ethics outside of it." - Geoffrey Rockwell

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Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences @federationhss.ca · 11/06/2026

[2/3] "We have a fairly evolved research ethics culture in the university, but there are a lot of research and computer projects that need to transfer from there to an NGO, or another setting."

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Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences @federationhss.ca · 11/06/2026

[1/3] "I wonder too where we can be turning instead to community engagement. There is a real appetite out there for it, and we should recognize this as a research function."

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Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences @federationhss.ca · 11/06/2026

[2/2] "We have an opportunity in the humanities, those of us who wrote the stories of “brave new worlds," to retell and rewrite these. Right now these tech bros are using those stories to build false worlds." - Kem-Laurin Lubin

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Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences @federationhss.ca · 11/06/2026

[1/2] "For those of us in English, language, and philosophy, we need to be cognizant that words create worlds. How many of us are questioning things like the name “the cloud”? [...] They are borrowing all these words."

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Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences @federationhss.ca · 11/06/2026

[3/3] "I think of the idea of being raised by a village, of Indigenous ways of knowing. Consider if AI were raised by a community? We need to approach the conversation with the understanding that AI does not bear our marks. It only bears the marks of a certain type of person." - Kem-Laurin Lubin

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Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences @federationhss.ca · 11/06/2026

[2/3] "There have been conversations about women being part of AI spaces in order to “fix the problem,” but this puts the onus on women to correct things. What if AI were mothered and not just fathered?"

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Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences @federationhss.ca · 11/06/2026

[1/3] "The problem with the conversation around trust is that we’re using small-t trust. I recently asked the question: What if AI had been mothered?"

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Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences @federationhss.ca · 11/06/2026

[3/3] "[...] How many of us have used ChatGPT, Claude, or other tools to research Treaty rights? And yet so much of the information we get back is false. That feels especially poignant at a time when our land is being taken to build data centres." - Bobbie Racette

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Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences @federationhss.ca · 11/06/2026

[2/3] "[...] AI is not going anywhere. We need to meet it head-on. We need to say, this is what it can’t be allowed to do. When I think about trust, it means moving away from a profit-driven model and toward a reclamation model, more of a relationship model."

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Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences @federationhss.ca · 11/06/2026

[1/3] "One of the things I often ask myself, as an Indigenous person trying to maintain our own control of Indigenous data, is: if we think about ethical AI, how can we decolonize it and make it more ethical?"

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Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences @federationhss.ca · 11/06/2026

📯 La Fédération est ravie d’annoncer les lauréat.e.s des Prix du Canada 2026. Sélectionnés par le Conseil scientifique, les lauréat.e.s de cette année permettent de faire connaître au grand public des travaux de recherche rigoureux en SH. Félicitez les lauréat.e.s de cette année 👉️ buff.ly/s4P0gSA

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Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences @federationhss.ca · 11/06/2026

📯 The Federation is thrilled to announce the winners of the 2026 Canada Prizes. Selected by the Academic Council, this year’s titles bring rigorous HSS research to wider public understanding. Join us in congratulating this year’s Canada Prizes winners 👉️ buff.ly/5j06feq

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Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences @federationhss.ca · 11/06/2026

[2/2] "There are risks in the unknown, but we have to stay there and pursue it, [...] it's where research comes, where we are researching, trying to find the innovation, the new that is good and better." Daniel Fadelle (OEDD) @innovation.ca

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Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences @federationhss.ca · 11/06/2026

[1/2] "The unknown is where innovation is found; it's where most of us live as academics, researchers, and entrepreneurs."

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Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences @federationhss.ca · 11/06/2026

[2/2] "With Dylott, we needed to interrupt the reality that was happening for Black young people." Candies Kotchapaw (OEDD) @innovation.ca

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Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences @federationhss.ca · 11/06/2026

[1/2] "Education doesn't translate to high income, job security, wealth creation or generating wealth. What it translates to is a circle of poverty because you're the last to get hired and first to get let go."

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Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences @federationhss.ca · 10/06/2026

"As youth were creating, there was a need to move forward and understand what some of these problems were asking us to do on a more global scale." - Vibya Natana (OEDD) @innovation.ca

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Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences @federationhss.ca · 10/06/2026

"During the pandemic, a lot of youth innovation was taking place, especially in the Black community. And I got to meet with some of the youth doing work across the country with limited resources."

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Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences @federationhss.ca · 10/06/2026

[2/2]"For my mission to pursue misinformation and disinformation, it’s serendipitous that AI came into the public conversation during my PhD." - Julia Jeonghyun Parke, Statistics Canada

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Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences @federationhss.ca · 10/06/2026

[1/2] "There was a fear and precarity going into the PhD. When I got the @sshrc-crsh.canada.ca funding, I felt seen and trusted with a great opportunity."

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Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences @federationhss.ca · 10/06/2026

"The social sciences have a beautiful way of taking people seriously, understanding them in light of their backgrounds, and taking into account their needs and complexity." - Emanuel Guay, Table de quartier de Parc-Extension @sshrc-crsh.canada.ca

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Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences @federationhss.ca · 10/06/2026

"PhDs bring a broad skillset to employers, and it’s important for them to look beyond the content of our thesis. There is a broader capacity to identify issues and clarify solutions that can be taken into account. The social sciences are good at training us to develop a better sense of empathy."

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Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences @federationhss.ca · 10/06/2026

"When I see what students are immersed in now, and what high schools are teaching, kids’ attitudes on all kinds of issues are fundamentally different from what they were two decades ago. There are dark chapters in our history, but also arcs of progress." - Michael Wernick (CIFAR)

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Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences @federationhss.ca · 10/06/2026

"One of the bigger challenges is this ferocious competition for attention span, the paradox of social media. It’s this terrible paradox: there is more of a supply of ideas than ever, and it is harder and harder to take dialogue and turn it into decisions. There’s an optimistic note, though."

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Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences @federationhss.ca · 10/06/2026

"There are so many corridors and channels of influence. Work on the opposition, the critics. There are broad networks of potential allies and partners, and scholars need to continue building those bridges." - Michael Wernick (CIFAR)

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Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences @federationhss.ca · 10/06/2026

"You have to go after the city councillor who may later become a minister, the people directly in the process, and your local MP. Mail your book to MPs. Invite them to your events. Participate in briefs."

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Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences @federationhss.ca · 10/06/2026

"I see lobbyists fall into a trap, which is top-down thinking: if only the minister knew, the minister would fix it for me. My recipe is everything everywhere all at once, to quote the movie title."

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Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences @federationhss.ca · 10/06/2026

[3/3] "We want human beings to be different, to have plurality, not just in our phenotype or whence we came, but in all of the forces that shape us." - Dr. Wendell Nii Laryea Adjetey, @mcgill.ca

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Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences @federationhss.ca · 10/06/2026

[2/3] "The humanities and social sciences help us understand and appreciate the fact that a free society is a thinking society. People must be able to think freely and contribute freely, where differences are celebrated."

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Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences @federationhss.ca · 10/06/2026

[1/3] "The humanities and social sciences, over the course of the 20th century and until now, have been providing the thought processes and ideas, and the empirically grounded research, that help us identify and keep at bay the forces of imperialism, despotism, racism, and megalomania."

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Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences @federationhss.ca · 10/06/2026

[2/2] "Not “class” in the bourgeois sense, but in the sense that, as HSS thinkers and practitioners, you are genuinely a firewall of sorts: a mechanism to prevent the worst from arising in society. So that we as a society are not complacent." - Dr. Wendell Nii Laryea Adjetey, @mcgill.ca

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Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences @federationhss.ca · 10/06/2026

[1/2] "In a room full of humanities and social sciences scholars and community stakeholders, I cannot underscore the significance of you as a class of intellectuals and thinkers enough."

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University of Alberta Press @ualbertapress.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

The Federation for the Social Sciences and Humanities is holding its Big Thinking Summit in Edmonton and Canadian publishers are showing off their books! bit.ly/4uXdyP1 #ACUP-APUC #HigherEd @sshrc-crsh.canada.ca @cdnpublishers.bsky.social @abbookpub.bsky.social @aupresses.bsky.social

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Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences @federationhss.ca · 10/06/2026

"The initial part of the agreement with the government that first came over, within the Treaty Six story, [...] we utilized those teachings that we had [...], we assumed that we were making the same type of treaty, only to find out later that it wasn't quite like that." - Jerry Saddleback

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Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences @federationhss.ca · 10/06/2026

"The whole society was based [...] on the protection of women and children. We come from matriarchal societies. It was women who governed, who decided what process to use to make decisions in government. We come from a culture of consensus, we nurtured a culture of debate." JoAnne Saddleback

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Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences @federationhss.ca · 10/06/2026

[2/2] There has to be media literacy that is created. Our kids need to know from an early age what is real and not real. The truth in storytelling, and for us to have safeguards to protect the stories that are told." - Tanya Talaga #BigThinkingSummit

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Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences @federationhss.ca · 10/06/2026

[1/2] "It is a challenge to all of you, to educators. How do you combat misinformation? What is truth? This age of misinformation is getting worse and worse. The line of defence has to be universities, high schools."

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Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences @federationhss.ca · 10/06/2026

[3/3] "We have a right to tell how we are portrayed. So this body of literature was created about us, but not by us. We need faculties of humanities and social sciences, and schools of journalism to make sure the truth is told, the true stories of this land." - Tanya Talaga #BigThinkingSummit

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Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences @federationhss.ca · 10/06/2026

[2/3] "The first literature was written by explorers, colonists, and anthropologists.[...] Indigenous people have the right to tell our own story, even in established genres such as anthropology, history, politics, and journalism."

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Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences @federationhss.ca · 10/06/2026

[1/3] "If you are an Indigenous person in Canada, you have lived under a dominant narrative that is not your own. [...] Who gets to tell the story? The victors of a country get to tell the story, shape the narrative to suit them."

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Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences @federationhss.ca · 10/06/2026

[4/4] "The power of story, who gets to tell the story, and how powerful that is. I thought about it a lot, especially as I was writing The Knowing, a book I decided to write to rewrite Canadian history through my lens." - Tanya Talaga #BigThinkingSummit

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Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences @federationhss.ca · 10/06/2026

[3/4] "I began to realize the Canadian history books I was reading were telling a story that really wasn’t cutting it. I needed to reach beneath the myth of Canadian history and tell the story of a lived experience through an Indigenous lens."

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