The Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences is the largest multidisciplinary academic gathering in Canada, bringing together over 8500 researchers and graduate students from across Canada and around the world. Congress 2011 is organized by the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences and is being co-hosted by the University of New Brunswick and St. Thomas University in Fredericton.

If you are looking for information on how to register as media for Congress 2011, please fill out our online form or email [email protected] with your request.

For information on the Big Thinkers at Congress, see the news release online here or the full listing of speakers online here.

We have developed a one page document to give you a small taste of the topics being presented at this year’s Congress. This is only a small fraction of the final list of topics. Full program information and paper titles will be available in mid May. [DOWNLOAD HERE]

The team at the University of New Brunswick and St. Thomas University have created some materials to help local media cover Congress:

• A fact sheet on what Congress means to Fredericton
• Top interview spots on campus
• Congress by the numbers
• An exclusive op-ed from UNB and STU Presidents

Congress Research - UNB and STU research excellence on display:

• Josephine Savarese from St. Thomas University says the justice system needs to do a better job of handling the cases of marginalized populations, including indigenous people. See a full profile of her work online here. A photo to accompany this story is available here.
• Dr. Nancy Nason‐Clark, a UNB sociology professor, works to connect religious leaders, domestic violence victims globally though her cutting-edge research. See the full profile of her work online here. Photos to accompany this story are available here and here.