October Round-Up

Here is a recap of what went on at UTP in the month of October.

Conferences:

• Mat Buntin and Kris Gies attended the Atlantic Provinces Political Science Association Annual Meeting in Saint John from October 14^th to 16^th.
• Many people from UTP attended the Frankfurt Book Fair in Frankfurt, Germany from October 19^th to 23^rd.
• Len Husband, Daniel Quinlan, and Marilyn McCormack attended the American Society for Legal History Conference here in Toronto from October 27^th to 30^th.

Author Events:

• The Rotman School of Management hosted a launch for Catalytic Governance: Leading Change in the Information Age by Patricia Meredith et al.
• The University of Waterloo’s Conrad Grebel College hosted the launch for Out of Place: Social Exclusion and Mennonite Migrants in Canada by Luann Good Gingrich on October 20^th.
• On October 21^st, Colorado Mesa University hosted a launch for The First World Oil War by Timothy Winegard.
• Donald Smith gave a talk based on his book Mississauga Portraits: Ojibwe Voices from Nineteenth-Century Canada at the University of Toronto on October 26^th.
• The Munk School of Global Affairs hosted a launch for Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-Existence by Paul Robert Magosci and Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern on October 26^th.
• On October 27^th, The Osgoode Law Society hosted a launch for Borderline Crime: Fugitive Criminals and the Challenge of the Border, 1819-1914 by Bradley Miller, A Legal History of Adoption in Ontario, 1921-2015 by Lori Chambers and Law, Debt, and Merchant Power: The Civil Courts of 18th Century Halifax by James Muir.
• Toronto’s A Different Booklist hosted a launch for Caroline Hossein’s book Politicized Microfinance: Money, Power, and Violence in the Black Americas on October 27^th.
• Brian Tennyson gave a talk based on his book Merry Hell: The Story of the 25th Battalion (Nova Scotia Regiment), Canadian Expeditionary Force 1914-1919 at the Colchester Historeum on October 27^th.

Awards:

• Christopher Armstrong won the Heritage Toronto Award of Merit for his book Civic Symbol: Creating Toronto’s New City Hall, 1952-1966.

In the Media:

• The American Retail Value Proposition: Crafting Unique Experiences at Compelling Prices by Kyle B. Murray was named “one of 3 books small business owners should read” by Small Business Forum.
• Editor Russell Field’s collection Playing for Change: The Continuing Struggle for Sport and Recreation was reviewed by idrottsforum.org.
• Christian Century featured Looking Back, Moving Forward: Transformation and Ethical Practice in the Ghanaian Church of Pentecost by Girish Daswani.
• Bridget O’Keefe was interviewed about her book New Soviet Gypsies: Nationality, Performance, and Selfhood in the Early Soviet Union on Sean’s Russia Blog.
• Phil Edwards features The National Mall: No Ordinary Public Space by Lisa Benton-Short in an article about the construction of the Lincoln memorial for Vox.com.
• Ellen Auster was interviewed about Stragility: Excelling at Strategic Changes by Business Book Talk Interviews.
• Trey Conaster described The Slow Professor: Challenging the Culture of Speed in the Academy by Maggie Berg and Barbara K. Seeber as a “treatise to read deliberately” in a review for the University of Kentucky Centre for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching.
• The Thoughtful Leader: A Model of Integrative Leadership by Jim Fisher was reviewed by BobMorrisBiz.com.
• BizIndia reviewed The Marketing Revolution in Politics: What Recent U.S. Presidential Campaigns can teach us about Effective Marketing by Bruce Newman.
• Antipode Journal of Radical Geography reviewed Politicized Microfinance: Money, Power, and Violence in the Black Americas by Caroline Shenaz Hossein.
• Brian Tennyson’s Merry Hell: The Story of the 25th Battalion (Nova Scotia Regiment), Canadian Expeditionary Force 1914-1919 was reviewed in the Truro Daily News
• Atlantic Books Today reviewed The Dictionary of Cape Breton English by William J. Davey and Richard MacKinnon.
• Female Suicide Bombings: A Critical Gender Approach by Tanya Narozhna and Andy Knight was reviewed in The Caribbean Camera.

New Releases:

• Passing Judgment: The Politics and Poetics of Sovereignty in French Tragedy from Hardy to Racine by Hélène E. Bilis
• A History of Science in Society, Volume I: From the Ancient Greeks to the Scientific Revolution, Third Edition edited by Andrew Ede and Lesley B. Cormack
• A History of Science in Society, Volume II: From the Scientific Revolution to the Present, Third Edition by Andrew Ede and Lesley B. Cormack
• A Different Kind of Ethnography: Imaginative Practices and Creative Methodologies edited by Denielle Elliott and Dara Culhane
• A History of Anthropological Theory, Fifth Edition by Paul A. Erickson and Liam D. Murphy
• Readings for A History of Anthropological Theory, Fifth Edition edited by Paul A. Erickson and Liam D. Murphy
• The Correspondence of Erasmus: Letters 2357 To 2471 by Desiderius Erasmus, translated by Charles Fantazzi, annotated by James M. Estes
• Score One for the Dancing Girl, and other Selections from the ‘Kimun Ch’onghwa’: A Story Collection from Nineteenth-Century Korea translated by James Scarth Gale
• Journalism in Crisis: Bridging Theory and Practice for Democratic Media Strategies in Canada edited by Mike Gasher, Colette Brin, Christine Crowther, Gretchen King, Errol Salamon, and Simon Thibault
• Dancing Boys: High School Males in Dance by Zihao Li
• Leading the Modern University: York University’s Presidents on Continuity and Change, 1974-2014 edited by Lorna R. Marsden
• Face to the Village: The Riazan Countryside under Soviet Rule, 1921-1930 by Tracy McDonald (new in paperback)
• Borderline Crime: Fugitive Criminals and the Challenge of the Border, 1819-1914 by Bradley Miller
• Portfolio To Go: 1000+ Reflective Writing Prompts and Provocations for Clinical Learners by Allan D. Peterkin, MD
• Justice Back and Forth: Duties to the Past and Future by Richard Vernon
• The First World Oil War by Timothy C. Winegard