The Pragmatics of Empirical AdequacyThanks are due to the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and to the University of Melbourne for support of this research. This paper has benefited from discussion with members of the Philosophy and History and Philosophy of Science departments at the University of Melbourne and the Philosophy department at La Trobe University, as well as from the comments and suggestions of three anonymous referees.

2004 ◽  
Vol 82 (2) ◽  
pp. 242-264 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bryson Brown
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Philosophy Of Science ◽  
Research Council ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
Philosophy Department ◽  
The Social ◽  
The University ◽  
Science Departments

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

2008 ◽  
Vol 32 ◽  
pp. xi-xi
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Financial Support ◽  
Research Council ◽  
Legal Counsel ◽  
Doctoral Research ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
Original Proposal ◽  
The Social ◽  
National Archives ◽  
Canada Grant

This volume has been many years in the making. I first discovered examples of wives and husbands suing each other in Requests in 1989 while pursuing doctoral research. Pat Stretton and Jane Martindale independently suggested that the cases were worthy of publication, and Jane helped to bring this idea to the attention of the literary editors of the Royal Historical Society. I thank them both. Since then the editors of the Camden Series, Andrew Pettegree and Ian Archer, have provided support and shown unstinting patience for a project that has seasonally burst the banks of its projected deadlines. I am grateful to them, to the anonymous reviewer of the original proposal for pointing out the need to determine the frequency with which cases of this type came into Requests, and to the National Archives for permitting the cases to be reproduced. For financial support I wish to acknowledge the generosity of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, grant-giving bodies within Waikato University, Dalhousie University, and Saint Mary's University, and Lyndan Warner. A number of scholars, archivists, and friends have provided advice as well as technical help in identifying legal counsel, deciphering handwriting, and translating Latin abbreviations. I would like to thank Christopher Brooks, Sara Butler, Sabina Flannagan, Elizabeth Foyster, Lamar Hill, Martin Holt, Wilfrid Prest, and the helpful staff at the National Archives, especially Amanda Bevan, Sean Cunningham, Alistair Hanson, and Malcolm Mercer. All of them are absolved of responsibility for any of the errors that remain. For the generosity of their hospitality during the compiling and editing of this volume, I would like to offer my gratitude to Gareth Edwards, Frances Wedgwood, Nick Manglaras, Francesca Amirato, and the Tewsons. Final thanks go to Lyndan Warner, for her support, her comments on the introduction, and her willingness to look after our children while I made annual visits to London and Kew.

scholarly journals Transformations through “Community-First” Engagement

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. i-x
Author(s):  
Peter Andrée ◽  
Isobel Findlay ◽  
David Peacock
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Community Engagement ◽  
Research Council ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
The Social ◽  
Partnership Research ◽  
Short Video

The content in this special issue was created in the context of the Community First: Impacts of Community Engagement (CFICE, pronounced “suffice”) partnership research project, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada beginning in 2012. As you will see in this short video, our project seeks to develop strong community-campus partnerships “by putting community first”.

Taylor White's ‘paper museum’

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victoria Dickenson ◽  
Jennifer Garland
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Research Group ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Research Council ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
University Library ◽  
The Social ◽  
Mcgill University ◽  
Complete Catalogue

For almost 40 years, the British jurist and Fellow of the Royal Society Taylor White (1701–1772) actively engaged in commissioning artists to paint plants and animals for his ‘paper museum’. White amassed a collection of almost 1000 drawings of birds, mammals, fish, amphibians and reptiles, acquired by McGill University in 1927. His first recorded purchase was a watercolour by George Edwards (1694–1773). He also acquired works from Eleazar Albin ( fl.  1690– ca  1742) and Jacob van Huysum ( ca  1687–1740), but the majority of the watercolours were painted by two artists, Charles Collins ( ca  1680–1744) and Peter Paillou ( ca  1712–1782). In 2018 a research group at McGill University Library received funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada for the project ‘Undescrib'd: Taylor White's paper museum’. The project produced a complete catalogue of the White collection, including attribution of all unsigned works, and digitized all paintings and notes. This paper documents the process surrounding the original creation of the collection, reviewing the careers of the artists and White's relationship with them, the value of the commissions and the challenges of painting natural history subjects. It also describes the mechanics of painting, including pigments, papers used and artists' techniques.

Inter- and Extra-textual Hauntings: Unravelling the Semantic Web of Václav Havel’s Leaving

2015 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 241-251
Author(s):  
Katie Fry
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Comparative Literature ◽  
Research Council ◽  
Real Life ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
The Social ◽  
Semantic Complexity ◽  
Twentieth Century Europe

Leaving (2007), the first play written by Václav Havel since the start of his political career in 1989, is a theatrical tour de force that categorically defies generic classification. In this article Katie Fry draws on methodologies of theatre semiotics and intertextuality to elucidate the semantic complexity of Havel’s highly unconventional play. Leaving is analyzed in terms of its engagement with intertexts, its incorporation of ‘real-life’ material from Havel’s political and artistic careers, and its subversion of theatrical conventions. Katie Fry is a PhD Candidate at the Centre for Comparative Literature, University of Toronto. She has worked as a translator and dramaturg for independent theatre projects in Madrid and Toronto. Her dissertation project examines the attribution of religious import to theatre, opera, and literature in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Europe. She holds a doctoral fellowship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

scholarly journals The Rhetoric and Reality of “Knowledge Mobilization”: Perspectives from the Research Front

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nadine C. Wathen ◽  
Shannon Sibbald ◽  
Siobhan Stevenson ◽  
Pamela McKenzie
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Research Council ◽  
Critical Discussion ◽  
Research Front ◽  
Knowledge Mobilization ◽  
The Public ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
The Social ◽  
Potential Benefits ◽  
Sciences Humaines

The Panel will discuss the emerging issue of “knowledge mobilization”, problematizing it as articulated by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and engaging the audience in critical discussion of the potential benefits and harms of mandated knowledge mobilization requirements linked to unspecified notions of the “public good”.Ce panel discutera du thème émergent de la « mobilisation de la connaissance », problématisé tel qu’articulé par le Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines du Canada. Les participants seront incités à se joindre à une discussion critique des avantages et des désavantages potentiels des exigences mandatées de la mobilisation des connaissances liée à la notion non précise de « bien public ».

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