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2013-12-18
SSHRC Awarded CG 2014: Every summer, the Institute on Culture and Society (ICS) gathers international scholars for an intensive five-day academic conference. Building on this tradition, the 2014 Institute will, for the first time in ICS history, focus its innovative research capacities on a...
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2015-04-13
SSHRC Awarded CG 2015: Exhibiting Sound brings together social sciences and humanities researchers to learn from each other about the ways in which mediated sound can be presented in a social space---real or virtual---for educational or aesthetic experience. Through public engagement with wider...
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2016-02-01
SSHRC Awarded IDG 2016: There is sparse knowledge of the goal orientations of students in professional education programs and practising professionals who are graduates of those programs. Even less is known about the relationships between goal orientations and personal and professional outcomes...
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09/27/2021
SSRHC IG awarded 2022: The PI will test the well-worn trope, "you are what you where," by examining how racial hierarchies in the imperial Atlantic used dress and material systems to enact race. Whiteness shaped aesthetic priorities in empires and colonies, including the raced and gendered...
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2017-10-12
SSHRC Awarded IG 2018: From 1968 to 1985, a small division within the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs (DIAND)--now Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC)--pursued initiatives designed to encourage the development of Inuit literary production in Canada. At times acting without the...
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Individual Life Histories in Long-Term Culture Change: Holocene Hunter-Gatherers in Northern Eurasia
2017-10-31
SSHRC PG awarded 2018: Although 99% of human history has been lived as foragers, little is known about the contributions and experiences of individuals in hunter-gatherer groups and their role in long-term patterns of culture diversity, change, stability and resilience. We will examine these...
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2016-10-30
SSHRC Awarded CG 2017: This SSHRC Connections proposal brings together a diverse musical community--composers, ethnomusicologists, music educators, performers, and scholars--that have been influenced by the philosophies of renowned Hungarian composer, ethnomusicologist, educator, and philosopher,...
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09/25/2020
SSRHC IG awarded 2021: "Kidless Lit" seeks to expand and historicize the existing conversations about childlessness in both popular and scholarly discourses. In order to address both popular and scholarly audiences about this topic of great public interest, the project foregrounds writing as both...
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2016-02-01
SSHRC Awarded IDG 2016: Spending on experiential purchases, such as concerts or travel, has been shown to increase consumers' happiness and well-being, while spending on material items, such as shoes or jewellery, can subject consumers to stigma and loneliness. Overall, existing research suggests...