Two books authored by individuals with connections to 91亚色 are among a group of scholarly works by Canadian academics that are in the running for a prestigious Canada Prize. The winners of the annual awards will be announced prior to the Canada Prizes ceremony on May 7, from 4:30 to 5:30pm, at the Centre […]
If you聽love meeting talented writers,聽like to listen to聽some of CanLit's rising stars read from their books, or just want to be a part of a dynamic and popular discussion of literature,聽be sure to attend聽the 13th edition of Canadian Writers in Person聽Lecture series, which debuts聽Tuesday at聽7pm聽at 206 Accolade West Building on the Keele campus. "The series […]
The e-book is changing the publishing business, but will digital technology actually change the way we tell stories, the way writers write 鈥 for better or for worse? asked The Globe and Mail July 9. Multimedia experiments often use short texts because readers seem unlikely to tolerate long passages of type in a video or […]
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 […]
Called 鈥渞emarkable鈥 and 鈥渟ometimes hilarious鈥, 3 Jamaican Plays: A Postcolonial Anthology (1977-1987), edited by 91亚色 environmental studies Professor Honor Ford-Smith, will launch Monday. Readings of short excerpts of each of the three plays, considered an intertwining memory, violence, creativity, belonging and dispossession during a ten-year period in Jamaica, will take place June 6 at 7pm, […]
Scrawled underneath or to one side of the photographs in a new book by artist Daniel Ehrenworth and 91亚色 English Professor Priscila Uppal聽 鈥 Curse. Sleep. (That鈥檚 the Thing About Trouble) 鈥 are bits of an ongoing conversation. Things like: 鈥淧rotect your heels,鈥 printed in capitals under a photo of a backyard with a swing […]
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 […]
Prize named to honour Professor Emeritus Donald V. Smiley A new book by Osgoode Hall Law School Professor Stepan Wood (LLB '92) and University of Toronto political economist Stephen Clarkson has been nominated for the Canadian Political Science Association's prestigious 2011 Smiley Prize for the best book on Canadian politics. Examining Canadians鈥 complicated roles as […]
91亚色 nursing Professor Christine Jonas-Simpson has always been keenly interested in loss and grief, how people experience it and how they integrate it into their lives in a continuing way. It was while doing research on daughters who had lost their mothers to Alzheimer鈥檚 disease that Jonas-Simpson experienced what she calls 鈥渢he deepest loss of聽my […]
An聽upcoming Canadian Association of African Studies (CAAS) conference at 91亚色 鈥 Africa Here; Africa There 鈥 will look not only at Africa of the past, but discuss recent and ongoing issues, especially those in North Africa, says conference co-organizer 聽and 91亚色 history Professor Jos茅 Curto. The conference will take place Thursday, May 5, from 8am […]
University Professor Emeritus John Tupper (Jack) Saywell, noted Canadian historian and a member of the Founders Society of 91亚色, has died. Prof. Saywell, or "Jack" as most knew him, died on April 20 in Toronto. He was 82. Known as the "kid from Cowichan Lake, British Columbia", Prof. Saywell arrived at the University of […]
From the 鈥榖urbs to birds and from social justice to Olympic poetry, the next installment of the 91亚色 Circle鈥檚聽popular Lecture & Lunch series returns on Saturday, April 30. It promises plenty of new ideas for inquiring minds. As with previous 91亚色 Circle Lecture & Lunch events, organizers have planned a full day of inspiring lectures […]
About five years ago, Haideh Moghissi heard of plans to translate into Indonesian her 1999 book, Feminism and Islamic Fundamentalism: The Limits of Postmodern Analysis. She didn鈥檛 hear anything more until two months ago when, lo and behold, she learned it had not only been translated, it had been published. Slowly, over the past 12 […]
Last week, 91亚色 law Professor Obiora Okafor was elected to the advisory committee of the United Nations Human Rights Council. The Nigerian-born professor brings his expertise in international law, human rights law,聽 and immigration and refugee law, especially as it relates to Africa, to the advisory committee. 鈥淭he committee is the think tank of the […]
In his recent book, Writing Justice: Voicing Issues in the Third Media, 91亚色 public policy & equity studies Professor Lorne Foster provides a retrospective review of the burning issues of the last decade from the perspective of Canada鈥檚 black community. The launch for Writing Justice (Multicultural History Society of Ontario, 2011) will take place on […]
A memorial for 91亚色 Professor David Franklin Noble, who died in Toronto on Dec. 27聽following complications of pneumonia, will be held on Saturday.聽Prof. Noble was 65. The memorial will take place March 26, at 4pm, at the Cecil Street Community Centre, 58 Cecil St., in Toronto. The 91亚色 flag聽will be lowered to half-mast聽Friday聽afternoon […]
Professor Emeritus Richard Storr, a historian who聽was briefly 91亚色's acting president, died earlier this week at the聽Sunnybrook聽Health Sciences Centre in Toronto following a brief illness. Prof. Storr was born and educated in the United States, receiving a PhD from Harvard University in 1949. After teaching at various American colleges, he accepted a position at the […]
Sheila Cavanagh, professor of sociology at 91亚色 [Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies], recently published a book called Queering Bathrooms: Gender, Sexuality, and the Hygienic Imagination, in which transgendered and other queer interviewees discuss the difficulties that divided bathrooms present, wrote the Toronto Star March 4: The evolution of bathroom-stall signage 鈥 from […]
For two weeks in January, two 91亚色 professors bundled into parkas and flew to Arctic villages along the proposed Mackenzie Valley pipeline. They were delivering valuable cargo聽鈥 the results of their International Polar Year (IPY) research. Reporting back to the communities was a condition of receiving IPY research funding in 2007, and after three years […]