January Round-Up

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

Conferences:

• Len Husband and Natalie Fingerhut attended the American Historical Association Annual Meeting in Denver from January 5^th-8^th.
• Suzanne Rancourt and Mark Thompson attended the Modern Language Association Annual Convention in Philadelphia from January 5^th-8^th.
• Jennifer DiDomenico attended the American Economic Association conference at the ASSA Annual Meeting in Chicago from January 6^th-8^th.

Author Events:

• The Rotman School of Business hosted a book launch for Jim Dewald’s Achieving Longevity: How Great Firms Prosper through Entrepreneurial Thinking.
• Mark Celinscak gave a talk based on his book Distance from the Belsen Heap: Allied Forces and the Liberation of a Nazi Concentration Camp at the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre.
• Ben McNally Books hosted a book launch for Southern Mercy: Empire and American Civilization in Juvenile Reform, 1890-1944 by Annette Louise-Bickford.

Awards:

• Michael R. Marrus was a finalist in the National Jewish Book Awards, Holocaust Category awarded by the Jewish Book Council for his book Lessons of the Holocaust.
• Emily Grabham was shortlisted for the Socio-Legal Theory and History Prize awarded by The Socio-Legal Studies Association for her book Brewing Legal Times: Things, Form, and the Enactment of Law.

In the Media:

• Rick Salutin wrote a feature profile of Robert Vipond’s forthcoming book Making a Global City: How one Toronto School Embraced Diversity for The Toronto Star.
• 800CeoRead reviewed The Sustainability Edge: How to Drive Top-Line Growth with Triple-Bottom-Line Thinking by Suhas Apte and Jagdish N. Sheth.
• The Sustainability Edge: How to Drive Top-Line Growth with Triple-Bottom-Line Thinking by Suhas Apte and Jagdish N. Sheth was profiled in the January/February issue of Biz Ed Magazine.
• Barbados’ Nation News profiled Female Suicide Bombings: A Critical Gender Approach by Andy Knight and Tanya Narozhna.
• A.M. Juster’s Saint Aldhelm’s ‘Riddles’ landed on Via Negativa’s Best Poetry Books of 2016 list.
• Lisa Benton-Short, author of The National Mall: No Ordinary Public Space, discussed the Mall’s role as a space for a divided country with The Conversation.
• Canada’s History reviewed Honorary Protestants: The Jewish School Question in Montreal, 1867-1997 by David Fraser.

New Releases:

• Social Myths and Collective Imaginaries by Gérard Bouchard, translated by Howard Scott
• Ontario Legal Directory edited by Lynn Browne
• The Stoic Origins of Erasmus’ Philosophy of Christ by Ross Dealy
• Inhabited Spaces: Anglo-Saxon Constructions of Place by Nicole Guenther Discenza
• Access to Medicines as a Human Right: Implications for Pharmaceutical Industry Responsibility by Lisa Forman and Jillian Clare Kohler (New in Paperback)
• Policy Work in Canada: Professional Practices and Analytical Capacities edited by Michael Howlett, Adam Wellstead, and Jonathan Craft
• The Fragility of Consciousness: Faith, Reason, and the Human Good by Frederick G. Lawrence, edited by Randall S. Rosenberg and Kevin  M. Vander Schel
• Regulating Creation: The Law, Ethics, and Policy of Assisted Human Reproduction edited by Trudo Lemmens, Andrew Flavelle Martin, Cheryl Mine, and Ian B. Lee
• The Trial of Tempel Anneke: Records of a Witchcraft Trial in Brunswick, Germany, 1663, Second Edition by Peter A. Morton, translated by Barbara Dähms
• This Happened in my Presence: Moriscos, Old Christians, and the Spanish Inquisition in the Town of Deza, 1569-1611 edited By Patrick J. O’Banion
• E.J. Pratt: Letters edited by Elizabeth Popham and David G. Pitt
• Experience Research Social Change: Critical Methods, Third Edition by Colleen Reid, Lorraine Greaves, and Sandra Kirby
• The Saints in Old Norse and Early Modern Icelandic Poetry by Kirsten Wolf and Natalie M. Van Deusen
• Literary Celebrity in Canada by Lorraine York (New in Paperback)