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Subject: Germany Item type: Research Material

  • Risk Management

    2016-10-14

    Cadenillas, Abel

    SSHRC Awarded IG 2017: The 2007-2009 financial crises, government debt crises in USA and EU have motivated investigation into the following six topics: 1) optimal investment, liability ratio and dividend policies when the external risk is negatively correlated with returns in the financial...

  • Sleep is the New Sex

    2016-10-11

    Heyes, Cressida

    SSHRC Awarded IG 2017: This project aims to change the way we think about sleep as well as the way we practice it. It communicates to diverse audiences that sleep is not a mysterious non-experience (essential but a wasteful interruption of life) but rather a central part of existence that tells...

  • Technologies of Popfeminist Activism

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    2012-10-11

    Smith-Prei, Carrie

    SSHRC Awarded IG 2013: Our project examines the reconfiguration of feminist activism in and for the 21st century through digital technologies. We do so in a case study of German "popfeminist" protest and performance art culture. The objective is to interrogate how the "Do it Yourself" (DIY)...

  • The Biomedical Body and Everyday Life in Quebec

    2016-09-27

    Laforest, Daniel

    SSHRC Awarded IG 2017: This project focuses on the representations of health and the biomedical body in post-1960s Anglo-Canada and Franco-Québec literatures. It is interested in the representation of urban middle-classes and the ways in which the notion of responsibility towards health informs...

  • The Essence of Anti-Essentialism

    2017-10-14

    Koslicki, Kathrin

    SSHRC Awarded IG 2018: Essences have traditionally been assigned important but controversial explanatory roles in philosophical, scientific and social theorizing. For example, why is it possible for one and the same organism to be first a caterpillar and then a butterfly? Why is it impossible for...

  • The Evolution of Modern Humans in Southern Tanzania: A Landscape Archaeological Approach

    2016-10-11

    Willoughby, Pamela

    SSHRC Awarded IG 2017: A landscape archaeological approach to studying early human occupation of the Iringa Region, Tanzania. Previous research in Iringa has revealed occupations from the critical period for the evolution of our species. This project's goal is to explain the data from the site...

  • The Influence of Incentives and Social Media on Charitable Fundraising

    2015-10-11

    Popkowski Leszczyc, Peter

    SSHRC Awarded IG 2016: The objective of this project is to study and improve fundraising strategies. We will focus on what influences giving, in particular, the impact of involvement with the charity, fundraiser events, and the influence of social media. The proposed research will bridge the gap...

  • The Readers' Reformation: Women's Literacy, Private Devotion, and Richard Whitford's Spiritual Instruction

    09/17/2021

    Alakas, Brandon C

    SSHRC IG awarded 2022: Richard Whitford was the most important English monastic author of the late Middle Ages as he distinguished himself by writing and translating a series of devotional texts aimed at both women religious and a lay public. The project will illustrate the importance of eight of...

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