UTP Highlights from Congress 2012

One of our favourite events of year here at UTP is the annual Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences: we get to spend quality face-to-face time with our authors, hear about innovative research at a variety of panels and sessions, and present a whole year’s worth of new publications at the Book Expo.

New for this year, we loaded up our iPad with hundreds of UTP e-books and our latest catalogues so that people who stopped by our booth could try out the e-reading experience. (Want to know more about our e-books? Click here.)

Our booth at Congress, held from May 26th to June 2nd at Wilfrid Laurier University and the University of Waterloo

Although the week was alternately muggy and rainy, we didn’t let the weather dampen our spirits – after all, we had plenty of good news to celebrate. To begin with, many UTP authors were announced as the winners of prestigious awards:

Canadian Sociological Association John Porter Prize
Winner: Elke Winter, Us, Them, and Others: Pluralism and National Identity in Diverse Societies

Canadian Communication Association Gertrude J. Robinson Award
Winners: Neil Gerlach, Sheryl N. Hamilton, Rebecca Sullivan, and Priscilla L. Walton, Becoming Biosubjects: Bodies. Systems. Technology.

American Historical Association/Canadian Historical Association Albert B. Corey Prize
Winner: Karen A. Balcom, The Traffic in Babies: Cross-Border Adoption and Baby-Selling between the United States and Canada, 1930-1972
Runner-up: Lisa Rose Mar, Brokering Belonging: Chinese in Canada’s Exclusion Era, 1885-1945

Canadian Historical Association Clio Prize (Atlantic)
Winner: Philip Girard, Lawyers and Legal Culture in British North America: Beamish Murdoch of Halifax

Canadian Historical Association Clio Prize (Ontario)
Winner: Stuart Henderson, Making the Scene: Yorkville and Hip Toronto in the 1960s

Canadian Historical Association Aboriginal History Prize (Best Article)
Winner: Keith Thor Carlson, “Orality about Literacy: The ‘Black and White’ of Salish History,” from Orality and Literacy: Reflections across Disciplines

Canadian Women’s Studies Association Outstanding Scholarship Prize
Honourable Mention: Sheila L. Cavanagh, Queering Bathrooms: Gender, Sexuality, and the Hygienic Imagination

We also had a great time fêting the launch of several exciting new titles:

•    Debating Sharia: Islam, Gender Politics, and Family Law Arbitration, edited by Anna C. Korteweg and Jennifer A. Selby
•    Multiculturalism within a Bilingual Framework: Language, Race, and Belonging in Canada by Eve Haque (which was this year’s best-seller, apart from perennial favourite The Thesis and the Book)
•   Prizing Literature: The Celebration and Circulation of National Culture by Gillian Roberts
•   Bruce McDonald’s Hard Core Logo by Paul McEwan
•   Stages of Reality: Theatricality in Cinema edited by André Loiselle and Jeremy Maron

With all this excitement, we’re already looking forward to next year’s Congress, which will be held on beautiful Vancouver Island at the University of Victoria. Hope to see you there!

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