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Trent's Humanities and Social Sciences Award Ceremony Recognizes Academic Excellence

Inaugural event brings together distinguished figures, donors, and outstanding students and faculty

September 22, 2023

Dr. Stephanie Ehret on a Zoom call with Jonathan Lai and MacKenzie Salt

What are the Experiences of Autistic People with the Justice System in Canada?

Sociology professor to lead new study funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council to inform national strategy

June 12, 2023

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The Classroom as Research Laboratory for Cultural Inquiry

Years of classroom teaching led to Dr. Jonathan Bordo’s approach for investigating the meaning of place

February 27, 2023

Graphic of Dr. Sally Chivers's podcast: Wrinkle Radio. The graphic is on a cardboard background, with a white painted box reading "wrinkle radio", underneath is white text reading "with Sally Chivers". There is two black crows at the bottoms left with a text box above them reading "Don't Panic! It's Just aging". There are two sets of crow foot prints on the side of the box.

In with the Old: New Podcast by Trent Professor Embraces Aging

Dr. Sally Chivers explores audio format to put humanities research in the context of human stories

February 13, 2023

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High School Students Earn Trent Arts Credit Through New Dual Credit Program

Humanities and Social Science Dual Credit Program piloted with Grade 12 students at Holy Trinity in Ottawa

February 8, 2023

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Dr. Kathryn Norlock is Advancing Gender Justice in the Field of Philosophy

Trent Philosophy professor receives international recognition, named Society for Women in Philosophy’s 2022 Distinguished Philosopher

February 3, 2023

Older adults participating in the Sharing Dance program

Shall We Dance? Arts-based Aging Research Shares Joyful Collaboration

Creative collaboration concludes with new opportunities for students, older adults and community partnerships waiting in the wings

February 1, 2023

professor michael eamon smiling wearing a blue shirt, standing behind three students. all three students are smiling. the left student is wearing a green shirt with long curly brown hair and glasses, the middle student is wearing a black shirt and has long blonde hair, and the right student is wearing a black and white vest and has curly blonde hair and glasses

Matter of Course: Preparing History for a Digital World

Students in HIST-3073H learn how to present history to the public in new medium

January 27, 2023

$230,000 in Insight Development Grants Awarded to Trent-Supported Research

Funding from Canada’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council to advance studies of Sierra Leone cultural history, employment of racialized immigrants in B.C., historical ecology of walleye and sauger, and Spanish colonization practices in the Maya

December 20, 2022

Trent University Welcomes Inaugural Jarislowsky Chair in Trust and Political Leadership

Dr. Cristine de Clercy, one of Canada’s foremost experts on the study of political leadership, joins Trent’s esteemed faculty as part of a first-of-its-kind collaboration across five Canadian universities

November 24, 2022