Here’s a round up of some UTP highlights for the month of January.
Natalie Fingerhut and Len Husband attended the American Historical Association meeting in Washington, DC from January 2-5, 2014.
Siobhan McMenemy and Suzanne Rancourt attended the Modern Language Association meeting in Chicago, IL from January 9-12, 2014.
Feisal G. Mohamed and Mary Nyquist were awarded the Irene Samuel Award by the Milton Society of America for their book Milton and Questions of History: Essays by Canadians Past and Present.
To launch their anthology Remembering Mass Violence: Oral History, New Media and Performance, co-editors Steven High, Edward Little and Thi Ry Duong hosted a multimedia event at Concordia University on January 9th.
The Canadian Studies Department at University of Toronto hosted a reception for such authors as George Elliot Clarke, Aaron Moore, Edward Shorter, and countless others who have recently published books with UTP, on Wednesday, January 24th.
On Sunday, January 26th, David Pike gave a short talk based on his book Canadian Cinema Since The 1980s at the TIFF Bell Lightbox, immediately before a screening of Quebec Director Jean-Claude Lauzon’s autobiographical film, Leolo.
Roy McMurtry spoke and signed copies of Memoirs & Reflections at Toronto’s Albany Club on Tuesday, January 28th.
Editors Margaret Conrad, Kadriye Ercikan, Gerald Friesen, Jocelyn Létourneau, Delphin Muise, David Northrup, and Peter Seixas, hosted a launch for the collection Canadians And Their Pasts at Carleton University on Thursday, January 30th.
New Releases for January
Recovering from Genocidal Trauma: An Information and Practice Guide for Working with Holocaust Survivors by Myra Giberovitch
Remembering Mass Violence: Oral History, New Media and Performance edited by Steven High, Edward Little, and Thi Ry Duong
Fair Copies: Reproducing English Lyric from Tottel to Shakespeare by Matthew Zarnowiecki
Canadian Annual Review of Politics and Public Affairs 2007 edited by David Mutimer
Deputy Ministers in Canada: Comparative and Jurisdicational Perspectives edited by Jacques Bourgault and Christopher Dunn
Path of Thorns: Soviet Mennonite Life under Communist and Nazi Rule by Jacob A. Neufeld, edited, with an Introduction and Analysis, by Harvey L. Dyck
Making North America: Trade, Security, and Integration by James Thompson
Killer Weed: Marijuana Grow Ops, Media, and Justice by Susan C. Boyd and Connie Carter
John Paizs’s Crime Wave by Jonathan Ball
Digital Currents: How Technology and the Public are Shaping TV News by Rena Bivens
Lyle Creelman: The Frontiers of Global Nursing by Susan Armstrong-Reid
Politics of Public Money, Second Edition by David A. Good
Seeking Talent for Creative Cities: The Social Dynamics of Innovation edited by Jill L. Grant
Better Britons: Reproduction, Nation, and the Afterlife of Empire by Nadine Attewell
Philanthropy and the Construction of Victorian Women’s Citizenship: Lady Frederick Cavendish and Miss Emma Cons by Andrea Geddes Poole
New in Paperback
The Primacy of Semiosis: An Ontology of Relations by Paul Bains