The annual Canadian Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, which Dr. Noreen Golfman once referred to as "summer camp for intellectuals", is currently getting underway at Carleton University in Ottawa. The Congress runs until May 31 and brings together academics from over 70 scholarly associations.
I try to attend this event every second year. This year I am presenting papers at the annual conferences of the Canadian Society for the Study of Education (with my colleague Dr. Morgan Gardner) and the Canadian Society for the Study of Higher Education (with my colleague Dr. Vernon Curran). I am also chairing a panel on academic blogging for the Congress Career Corner which will include Dr. Michael Barbour, Carolyn Steele, and my colleague Prof. Mary Cameron.
A couple of other notable events on the Congress agenda:
- University of Illinois education professor William Ayers was scheduled to give a lecture on Monday, but he has been denied entry to Canada (for no apparent reason) for the second time this year. He may deliver his lecture, titled Bridges and Borders: Democratic Education in a Time of Crisis, by video conference.
- On Wednesday, the Society for Socialist Studies and the Canadian Association of Studies in International Development are hosting a panel discussion titled Palestine Solidarity on Campus: The Question of Boycott.
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