Abstract

This article documents the planning and results of a major international conference on the Humanities sponsored by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada in collaboration with the University of Toronto, York University and Ryerson Polytechnic University. The conference took the pulse of the research community; as a diagnostic it indicated the vigorous health of humanities disciplines at the centre of an ever-widening cultural enterprise. Because the processes of consultation, deliberation and recommendation stretch far beyond a single event, the article explores the stages of this exercise for their wider paradigmatic and heuristic value.