Fall-Winter 2010 Catalogues Have Arrived!
University of Toronto Press is very pleased to announce that our Fall-Winter 2010 catalogues have arrived.
May 12, 2010
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Earl H. Fry’s Lament for America
Lament for America pinpoints three critical headwinds facing the United States: (1) the rise of competitor nations or groups of nations such as China and the European Union; (2) the potent combination of globalization, rapid technology change, and creative destruction; and (3) 15 major “fault lines” within the U.S. itself.
April 28, 2010
This is Not a Reading Series with Geoffrey Reaume
This past Wednesday, the Gladstone Hotel and TINARS hosted the “Words On The Wall” event with Geoffrey Reaume, author of Remembrance of Patients Past: Life at the Toronto Hospital for the Insane, 1870-1940.
April 26, 2010
Trends in Canadian Internet Use: 2009 – 2010
For this entry in my UTP blog I decided to talk about online video use within a video – using the medium to discuss the medium. The result is hosted on YouTube and can be viewed below. Herewith follows a brief reflection on the process of video blogging.
April 19, 2010
Amateurs: The New Common Culture
Time, the magazine that declared YouTube as the Person of the Year in 2006, recently released a list of YouTube’s top fifty videos. How this list was determined we do not know, but it is a marker of current tastes that merits attention.
April 9, 2010
Welcome to UTPress 2.0
The University of Toronto Press is pleased to announce that our new website is now up and running live!
April 4, 2010
Watching YouTube with Dr. Strangelove
Four years ago when I started to contemplate writing a book about YouTube I was aware that Internet companies can grow and fade faster than crocuses in the Spring. Would there be any ‘Tube to watch by the time the lengthy process of research, writing, and publishing a scholarly book ran its course? Google snapped up the young Internet start-up and made history with what was to become one of the fastest growing Web properties. While the future remains unwritten, it is clear that YouTube will be around for a while, and more importantly, amateur online videography is now a permanent part of media culture.
April 1, 2010
Celebrating UTP’s Books Seven Days a Week
This past week University of Toronto Press has had five book events and two conferences. A very busy week for Scholarly Publishing!
March 22, 2010
2010 Classics, Medieval, & Renaissance Catalogue
University of Toronto Press is pleased to present its 2010 Classics, Medieval & Renaissance catalogue, now available online for your convenience.
March 10, 2010
Dispatches from ISA 2010
The annual meeting of the International Studies Association took place February 17—20 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Representing a broad array of scholars from across the globe and reflecting a variety of disciplinary interests, ISA gave us the opportunity to connect with new scholars, spread the word about UTP, and, of course, to encounter friends and colleagues we too seldom see.
February 26, 2010