#congress2013

The 2013 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Victoria was a resounding success, drawing approximately 7,800 delegates, hundreds of volunteers and thousands of community members to campus from June 1 to 8.

UVic hosted the Congress of the Humanities 2013 (@ The Edge) June 1-8, 2013. Here are some selected sights from the community events.

The first time Rita Hansen Sterne came across the sprawling academic get-together known simply as Congress in 1986, she remembers thinking, “These people have got their heads in the clouds.” But she doesn’t think that any more.

It's hard to ignore the disgruntled looks I have seen on people's faces in buses and coffee shops now that the city has been overrun by other people having conversations about Marxism. Over the years, it has gotten so bad, whole books have been written asking, "Whither humanities?"

Indexing all of the articles in the series.

Political scientist, Alex Marland, says it wouldn't hurt to start thinking of Justin Trudeau as a marketable product as he vies for the PM's seat

@kathleenreed: Loving being back where I was hatched intellectually as an undergrad. @lifeontheedge2013 #congress2013 

Researchers often feel that their work is overlooked in the "real" worlds of policy and practice, while policy makers and practitioners may have difficulty accessing timely research that is relevant to their work. In his Big Thinking lecture, Ben Levin draws on examples from the field of education that can be applied across disciplines to demonstrate ways in which the connections between research, policy and practice can be strengthened, and, thus, bring these worlds closer together. Ben Levin is the Canada Research Chair in Education Leadership and Policy at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. He has authored several works on education issues and his research interests include large-scale change, poverty and inequity, and finding better ways to connect research to policy and practice in education. He has worked with private research organizations, school districts, provincial governments, and national and international agencies, and served as Deputy Minister for Education for the Province of Ontario from 2004 to 2009.