What are the specific challenges faced by women in academia? You may be surprised. According to a new book edited by 91亚色 women鈥檚 studies Professor Andrea O鈥橰eilly (BA Hons. 鈥85, MA 鈥87, PhD 鈥96) and Boston University Professor Lynn O鈥橞rien Hallstein, all is not nearly well in the halls of higher learning. Academic Motherhood in […]
Las Nubes: Conservation in the Cloud Forests of Costa Rica, a new book by two 91亚色 graduate students, tells the story of the Las Nubes Biological Reserve through stunning photos and accompanying text, from its 91亚色 beginnings until today. 鈥淟as Nubes is Spanish for 鈥榯he clouds鈥, and Las Nubes Biological Reserve is a place where […]
Shortly before she died last Thursday, Finnish historian聽and Professor Emerita Varpu Lindstr枚m was presented with a Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal as a tribute for her lifetime of scholarship and her pioneering work documenting the history of Finnish Canadians. She was nominated by 91亚色 linguistics Professor Sheila Embleton and given the award by Halifax […]
91亚色 PhD Candidate in English Samantha Bernstein (BA 鈥06, MA 鈥09), daughter of Canadian poet Irving Layton, explores the complex world of families, life, love, politics and trying to live ethically in a corporatizing world in her epistolary memoir, Here We Are Among the Living: A Memoir in Emails. The launch of Here We Are […]
Award-winning author and scholar James Laxer will discuss his latest book, Tecumseh and Brock: The War of 1812, Sunday as part of Luminato at the Library. Laxer, who teaches in 91亚色鈥檚 Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, will 聽talk about the effect of the War of 1812 on the Native struggle for nationhood, as […]
A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down. So sang Mary Poppins, but as Schulich School of Business聽Professor of finance Moshe Milevsky says, his newest book uses the same principle to help people understand their finances. In what Milevsky calls a 鈥渧ery different book than what I usually write,鈥 The 7 Most Important Equations […]
Osgoode Hall Law School Professor Paul Emond wears many hats, but it鈥檚 his publishing business that has grabbed the limelight recently. On May 1, it was announced that Democratizing the Constitution: Reforming Responsible Government by Peter Aucoin, Mark Jarvis and Lori Turnbull, and published by Emond Montgomery Publications, had won the $50,000 Donner Prize for […]
How has feminist thinking shaped what we know? Osgoode Hall Law Professor Mary Jane Mossman and 91亚色 women鈥檚 studies Professor Meg Luxton examine that question in their new co-edited book, Reconsidering Knowledge, launching Friday. The launch will take place March 23, from 2 to 3:30pm, Founders Senior Common Room, 305 Founders College, Keele campus. Reconsidering […]
Performance design professionals, historians and arts audiences alike have reason to celebrate the publication of World Scenography 1975-1990. This thoughtfully curated, lavishly illustrated anthology documents the most influential theatrical designs of the period. World Scenography 1975-1990 documents lighting, set and costume design The book covers set, lighting and costume design for all forms of performance, […]
Where have all the girls gone? That鈥檚 what 91亚色 Professor Sharada Srinivasan examines in her new book, Daughter Deficit: Sex Selection in Tamil Nadu, about the elimination of daughters in India聽through sex selection, female infanticide and neglect. It is neither an aberration nor an idiosyncrasy. It accounts for a large proportion of missing girls in […]
Cultures meet here in Canada, says Agn猫s Whitfield. Literary translation is an essential means of sharing heritages, yet it is a field too often overlooked and undervalued. That situation is about to improve with the launch of the first volume in a new series called Vita Traductiva. A joint initiative of the Research Group on […]
Competition is a powerful force with an unrecognized and dangerous underbelly, says a 91亚色 professor in his new book Agon Culture: Competition, Conflict and the Problem of Domination. Claudio Colaguori, a professor in 91亚色鈥檚 human rights and criminology programs, explores the idea that competition is not a biological drive as evolutionary thinkers believe, but a […]
How do we remember important events in our lives? Is it the conversation, people or things associated with the event, or is it the 鈥減lace鈥 that anchors our memories? We remember best when we have an experience in a place,聽but what happens when we leave that place or it ceases to exist? For 91亚色聽architectural historian, […]
Emotionally raw and deeply human, womanhood and marginalization, these are just a few of the words that describe the聽two newest books of poems and conversations coming from 91亚色 English and creative writing聽Professor Patricia Keeney. There are three launches scheduled for Keeney's new books,聽First Woman (Inanna Publications) and You Bring Me Wings (ANTARES Publishing House of […]
Two events this year have thrust B.W. Powe into the public realm once again: the publication of his novella, These Shadows Remain: A Fable, and the 100th anniversary of the birth of Marshall McLuhan.聽 By far, the most consuming for Powe are McLuhan 100 activities.聽The 91亚色 English professor聽was a student of the communications聽visionary, wrote his […]
91亚色 sociology and geography Professor Jennifer Hyndman knows a little about disasters. She also knows a benign water project run by humanitarian aid agencies can fuel a war if careful attention is not paid to the political and cultural landscape. Hyndman was in Sri Lanka within months of the 2004 tsunami. She saw first-hand not […]
In the wake of disasters such as the BP oil spill, the term 鈥渃orporate social responsibility鈥 (CSR) is prevalent. But what does it mean and why is it important? And how does it relate to businesses, stakeholders and the public? In his new book, Corporate Social Responsibility: An Ethical Approach, Professor Mark Schwartz (right) clarifies […]
Invisimomibility? Mamazon? If these terms aren鈥檛 familiar to you, the concepts should be, according to a new book edited by a 91亚色 professor. The 21st Century Motherhood Movement: Mothers Speak Out on Why We Need to Change the World and How to Do It, released this week, is touted as the first anthology of […]
How is "hip" constructed? Is a culture of dissent ultimately a by-product of prevailing sociopolitical forces?聽Do countercultural events influence mainstream society? Those questions and more聽are at聽the core of聽Making the Scene: 91亚色ville and Hip Toronto in the 1960s, a new book by 91亚色 postdoctoral fellow Stuart Henderson published this聽month by the University of Toronto Press. The […]
Thomas Klassen, a professor in the Department of Political Science and the School of Public Policy聽& Administration in the Faculty of Liberal聽& Professional Studies, has been invited to South Korea to be a visiting researcher. Right: Thomas Klassen The Korea Labor Institute has asked Klassen to conduct research on new policies for Korea鈥檚 labour force […]