One of the toughest challenges a parent faces when a child dies is to learn how to parent the surviving children, and the task begins immediately, according to 91亚色 psychology Professor Stephen Fleming, wrote the Times of India and other newspapers and websites in the US and South Asia Feb. 16: From the moment […]
A 91亚色 professor鈥檚 new book aims to integrate the Inuit experience of climate change with Western climate research, and includes an Inuktitut companion to the volume, making it accessible across cultures. Climate, Culture, Change: Inuit and Western Dialogues with a Warming North, released this week by University of Ottawa Press, calls for a shift […]
In her ongoing effort to illuminate the experience of Muslims in the West, 91亚色 Professor Haideh Moghissi has recently produced her second book on the subject, Muslim Diaspora in the West: Negotiating Gender, Home and Belonging. Released in December, the volume of essays by scholars from both sides of the Atlantic explores issues of race […]
Few people consider the public washrooms they use as bastions of segregation, but for 91亚色 sexuality studies Professor Sheila Cavanagh, these places are in fact among the last gender segregated public places in western countries. Right: Sheila Cavanagh In her new book Queering Bathrooms: Gender, Sexuality and the Hygienic Imagination, Cavanagh, a queer theorist, […]
For more than 1,400 years, Muslims have held multiple and diverging views about their religious tradition. Yet especially since Sept. 11, 2001, Muslims are commonly portrayed as homogeneous and dogmatic. In his new book, Diversity and Pluralism in Islam: Historical and Contemporary Discourses amongst Muslims, 91亚色 anthropologist Zulfikar Hirji challenges that view. The 253-page volume […]
English Professor Priscila Uppal has found a new way to indulge her passion for the written word. She is now a reviewer for Radio Canada International, talking, of course, about all things bookish and Canadian. On various Wednesdays between 11 and 11:30am, including tomorrow, Uppal will discuss what she has been reading lately as part […]
In her new book Freud and Education, author Deborah Britzman follows the threads of the concept of education 鈥 its dangers and promises and its illusions and revelations 鈥 throughout Sigmund Freud鈥檚 body of work. Britzman, a Distinguished Research Professor in 91亚色's Faculty of Education,聽defines how fundamental Freudian concepts such as the psychical apparatus, the […]
A special double issue of TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies 鈥 also being published as a book 鈥 examines the role that militarization plays in our lives and its effects on civic culture. 鈥淐ultures of Militarization,鈥 edited by Jody Berland (right), professor in 91亚色鈥檚 Department of Humanities, and Blake Fitzpatrick, professor in the School […]
91亚色 history Professor Marc Stein grew up in the suburbs of New 91亚色 City in the 1960s and 1970s with a passionate聽faith in the聽US Constitution and US Supreme Court as strong聽protectors of聽freedom, equality and democracy in the post-war era. That faith was shaken in the 1980s when the Supreme Court justices upheld state sodomy laws, […]
Over 150 years after it was first published, Charlotte Bront毛鈥檚 1847 novel Jane Eyre remains a favourite for film and television adaptations. But what influences and interpretations are at work before it hits the screen? 91亚色 women's studies PhD candidate Kathleen Cummins (BA Spec. Hons. 鈥92, MFA 鈥95) will talk on Thursday about 鈥淭he Perils […]
91亚色 English Professor Priscila Uppal is busily dog-earing one literary journal after another, scratching notes in margins, bending page corners. The smell of ink fills her Toronto home. She is a poet on a quest as the recently announced guest editor of The Best Canadian Poetry in English anthology, sifting through thousands of poems聽published in聽2010 […]
The 31st International Festival of Authors (IFOA) has started and several 91亚色 professors and alumni are on the bill. 91亚色 alumnus Jian Ghomeshi (right) (BA 鈥95) of CBC Radio will host and moderate 鈥淐elebrating 40 Years of the Juno Awards鈥, which will launch the new book Music from Far and Wide: Celebrating 40 Years of […]
The Victorian Studies Network at 91亚色 (VSNY) will delve into New Directions in Victorian Research at its third annual symposium this Friday. Faculty and students from English, history, political science, science & technology, and the Scott Library will discuss their current scholarship during the symposium, which will take place Oct. 22, from 10am to 2:45pm, […]
Sports and poetry aren鈥檛 usually thought of as intertwining, but 91亚色 English Professor Priscila Uppal is almost as much a sports fan as she is a poet. Given that she was the Canadian Athletes Now Fund (CANFund) poet-in-residence聽during the Vancouver 2010 Olympics and Paralympic Games, it鈥檚 not surprising that her poems have made their way […]
A new book by a 91亚色 professor argues that the act of copying, much maligned in our culture, is fundamentally necessary to our evolution. In Praise of Copying, which was officially launched last night in Toronto, explores different aspects of copying and looks at everything from quilting and cooking to gang warfare and martial […]
It's not enough to plant trees in exchange for carbon emissions in the fight to mitigate climate change, say 91亚色 environmental studies Professor Anders Sandberg and 91亚色 environmental studies master鈥檚 student Tor Sandberg in their new co-edited book Climate Change 鈥 Who鈥檚 Carrying the Burden?: The Chilly Climates of the Global Environmental Dilemma. Nor is […]
Considered to be one of the world鈥檚 leading historians of science, University of California, San Diego history and science studies Professor Naomi Oreskes will be at 91亚色 today to deliver a special lecture聽at 12:30pm in 320 Bethune College (The Delaney Gallery) on 91亚色鈥檚 Keele campus. Left: Naomi Oreskes Oreskes, who is聽an adjunct professor of […]
Described as a landmark in the history of medieval, Renaissance and Reformation scholarship, 91亚色 English Professor James Carley鈥檚 new book, John Leland: De uiris illustribus 鈥 On Famous Men, will launch at the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford. Assisted by Caroline Brett, Carley has edited and translated Leland鈥檚 original work De uiris illustribus, […]
What makes us sick? Is it genetics or lifestyle? Is it聽too many burgers, too much alcohol, not enough exercise? Not according to 91亚色 Professor Dennis Raphael, who, like the fourth-century BC philosopher Plato, attributes poor health to living conditions. Things like income level and people鈥檚 access to food, housing, education, and聽health and social services, are […]
Just months after the reissue of 91亚色 Professor Geoffrey Reaume鈥檚 book Remembrance of Patients Past, documenting 19th- and early-20th-century life from the viewpoint of psychiatric patients at the former Toronto Insane Asylum, he will help unveil nine memorial wall plaques at the Centre for Addiction聽& Mental Health (CAMH). The unveiling of the memorial wall plaques […]