Bulletin Archive

Stefan Collini. Verso Books, 2017; 298 pp; ISBN: 978-1-78663-139-8. by Charles Reeve “Imagine the Possibilities,” declared my clothes dryer’s manual. I would have been baffled (what flights of imagination might a dryer inspire?) but for artist Cary Young’s video Product […]

Francesca Holyoke received CAUT’s Academic Librarians’ and Archivists’ Distinguished Service Award in May. Holyoke chaired the CAUT Librarians’ and Archivists’ Committee from 2008– 2012, raising red flags about cuts to Library and Archives Canada and the closure of federal libraries. […]

Francesca Holyoke received CAUT’s Academic Librarians’ and Archivists’ Distinguished Service Award in May. Holyoke chaired the CAUT Librarians’ and Archivists’ Committee from 2008– 2012, raising red flags about cuts to Library and Archives Canada and the closure of federal libraries. […]

Canada has the appearance of being on the right track when it comes to climate change and what to do about it. A cursory examination of recent headlines reveals not just our country’s staunch defense of the veracity of climate […]

Canada has the appearance of being on the right track when it comes to climate change and what to do about it. A cursory examination of recent headlines reveals not just our country’s staunch defense of the veracity of climate […]

I can date when I first started to learn how to think independently. I was an undergraduate student in my second year at Simon Fraser University. It was 1982 — yes, I’m that old — and the professor in the […]

A Quebec Superior Court judge has retracted his earlier ruling that required a Université du Québec à Montréal professor to violate the confidentiality of her research participants. On May 31, in a case where CAUT intervened, Justice Marc St-Pierre ruled […]

In April, following a five-year hiatus, Statistics Canada published initial data from its annual survey of academic staff showing that women represent a growing proportion of the teaching staff in post-secondary institutions across the country. According to the University and […]

By John Gill Theresa May is the new iron lady, Angela Merkel the iron chancellor. Vladimir Putin is a self-styled man of steel, fond of being photographed bare-chested on horseback or practising martial arts. Donald Trump seems more interested in […]

By Tim Ingold We are living through an epochal moment in the history of universities. The ideals of progressive enlightenment that carried them through past centuries have all but collapsed, along with the once hegemonic powers that sustained their academic […]