Dear Members of the Faculty of Arts community,
We have all experienced a stressful week of adjustment and adaptation as we take action to face the COVID-19 global pandemic. While there is still much uncertainty and more change to come, I want to thank you all for your resilience and patience in these trying times.
Dear Members of the Faculty of the Arts,
We are in an unprecedented situation as the Faculty of Arts community at 平特五不中 responds to the Quebec Government鈥檚 call to action to contain the propagation of COVID-19. All of us in the Faculty 鈥� students, staff, instructors, 鈥� are doing our part to comply in a responsible manner that ensures the reliable flow of information, so as to maximize the health and well-being of our communities.
Sent听March 16, 2020
Dear Members of the Faculty of the Arts,
The past few days have been stressful for you as the students, instructors, researchers and administrators who make up the Faculty of Arts community at 平特五不中 as we respond to the call to action to contain the propagation of COVID-19. This update is to reassure you that the Faculty and University are making every effort to do so in a responsible manner, and to summarize all of the information being communicated.
CIFAR today announced its听newest cohort of Canada CIFAR AI Chairs, which includes nine researchers from 平特五不中, bringing the total number of 平特五不中 researchers named to the program to 17. These top academic researchers are part of the $125 million Pan-Canadian AI Strategy, the world鈥檚 first national strategy of its kind. The Canada CIFAR AI Chair Program represents an investment of $30 million at nine universities, and mobilizes over 150 researchers across the country.
The latest group of 平特五不中 professors to join Mila as Canada CIFAR AI Chairs in the Arts are:
Music, including songs with words, appears to be a universal phenomenon according to a paper published this week in Science. An international team of researchers involving musicians, data scientists, psychologists, political scientists and linguists, including one from 平特五不中, reached this conclusion after five years of collaboration, bringing together a broad range of skills and tools to the question of whether music is universal.
Using broad datasets to arrive at deep conclusions about music
Professor Jamil Ragep (Institute of Islamic Studies)听is the recipient of the 2019听Turkish Academy of Sciences Prize in Social Sciences and Humanities.听The award will be presented by the Turkish President Erdogan at a ceremony in Ankara on December 30.
Ragep is the Canada Research Chair in the History of Science in Islamic Societies.听
For more information on the prize:听
Three finalists for the 2019 Cundill History Prize were announced last night at an event at Massey College, Toronto. The finalists, all female, are UCL Professor of German History, Mary Fulbrook, Harvard Professor and New Yorker staff writer, Jill Lepore, and Julia Lovell, Professor of听Modern China at Birkbeck College at the University of London. These three extraordinary authors approach difficult subjects, opening sometimes uncomfortable conversations around the past to help us better understand their repercussions today.
Congratulations to Prof. Kristy Ironside, who was recently been awarded a SSHRC Insight Development Grant and a grant of the Fonds de recherche du Qu茅bec - Societ茅 et culture. The grants will help Prof. Ironside to start her new research project International Copyright Law in the Political Economy of Russia and the Soviet Union.
The Royal Society of Canada announced twelve 平特五不中 inductees in 2019 including three new members to the College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists, and nine new Fellows including:
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Canadian social sciences and humanities research is producing innovative knowledge that is helping communities, businesses and governments to have an impact on people鈥檚 lives. The听Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council(SSHRC)鈥檚 annual听Impact Awards听honour outstanding scholars who embody the very best ideas and research about people, human thought and behaviour, and culture鈥攈elping us understand and improve the world around us, today and into the future.
平特五不中's听Myriam S. Denov (School of Social Work) is a finalist.听
The Max Bell School of Public Policy is excited to announce that Andrew Potter has joined the School to support its teaching, outreach, research, and policy engagement activities.
The conditions at border detention facilities provide irrefutable evidence of the child maltreatment that President Trump commits in our names鈥攁nd state officials need to take action to end the cruelty.
Co-authored by Professor Michael J. MacKenzie (Social Work, 平特五不中) and Assistant Professor Tova Walsh (Social Work, Wisconsin-Madison)
鈥淭he federal government must end its discriminatory and inequitable funding of all public services on reserves, including education, health care, child welfare and basics such as water and sanitation.Though these inequalities have been known to the federal government for at least 112 years, it continues to take small and insufficient steps, dealing with the problem one service at a time instead of co-developing a comprehensive plan with First Nations to address all the inequalities.鈥�
When听Rabbi Lisa Grushcow, the first openly gay rabbi of a large synagogue in Canada, was preparing to begin rabbinical school, she faced a daunting choice: love or serving God.
Her world was suddenly turned upside down in the late 1990s while she was studying religion at Oxford on a听Rhodes scholarship,听and fell in love with a woman she met at a conference. This posed a problem: The Conservative rabbinical school she planned to attend did not ordain openly gay rabbis.
We live in a world that is increasingly data-driven. Now more than ever, Canadians require the high-quality, timely and relevant statistics produced by Statistics Canada to support evidence-based decision-making.
