Recent News

Can blockades and occupations bring positive change in Canada’s Aboriginal communities?

In Blockades or Breakthroughs?, edited by Yale D. Belanger and P. Whitney Lackenbauer, contributors debate the importance and effectiveness of blockades and occupations as political and diplomatic tools for Aboriginal people.

Offering an in-depth survey of occupations, blockades, and their legacies, from 1968 to the present, this … Read More >

Among Europe’s major contemporary poets, Estonia’s Jaan Kaplinski offers a rare vision of human advancement and fulfillment: the less we intervene the more we flourish.

But how then can we remain involved in what evolves of its own accord? How can we move away from a life forged by human design towards a quietly attentive … Read More >

Exciting news! Canadian philosopher, poet, essayist, musician, and author of new release Alkibiades’ Love, Dr Jan Zwicky will deliver the University of King’s College 4th annual Alex Fountain Memorial Lecture.

The lecture is Feb 26 at 7:30 PM in the Alumni Hall. Event info >

Zwicky’s lecture is entitled “What Meaning Is and Why It Matters”. From the Read More >

UBC has announced the 2015 UBC Basil Stuart-Stubbs Book Prize shortlist…

We’re proud to announce that Nancy Turner’s ANCIENT PATHWAYS, ANCESTRAL KNOWLEDGE is a finalist! Congratulations, Nancy!

From the UBC Library website:

The Basil Stuart-Stubbs Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Book on British Columbia was established in memory of Read More >

Come out to Bibliophile this Sunday to meet author Elizabeth Wajnberg for her book signing of Sheymes.

See you there!

Elizabeth Wajnberg, now residing in California, is delighted to return to her hometown in wintery Quebec.

READ: Elizabeth Wajnberg’s guest blog post on the title of her book, Sheymes

About Sheymes:

The daughter of Holocaust survivors, Elizabeth Wajnberg was … Read More >

Monday, February 23
1:30 PM

Frank Mackey, author of Done with Slavery and Black Then, is giving a lecture at the Château Ramezay as part of Black History Month.

From the Château Ramezay website:

Now You See Them, Now You Dont: Looking into the distant past of Blacks in Quebec, we sometimes see them where they never were in the … Read More >

We are delighted to announce that three of our titles were selected for the 2015 AAUP Book, Jacket & Journal Design Show!

Kudos to our Production team and cover designers, David LeBlanc and David Drummond, who continue to dazzle and amaze us with such fine lookin’ books.

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the annual design competition, and selected entries will … Read More >

Toronto Reference Library
(Elizabeth Beeton Auditorium)
February 12th
7:00 – 8:15 PM

As part of Black History Month and the eh List Author Series, MQUP author and Giller Prize jury member Cecil Foster will be speaking with Donna Bailey Nurse about his life and latest books, Genuine Multiculturalism and Independence (Harper Collins).

Read Cecil’s guest post on our blog: Who owns a country? 

About … Read More >

This spring, McGill-Queen’s is releasing TURKEY AND THE ARMENIAN GHOST, the English translation of an award-winning book by journalists Laure Marchand and Guillaume Perrier about the aftermath of the Armenian genocide and the enduring struggle to have it officially recognized.

Taking the reader into remote mountain regions, tiny hamlets, and the homes of traumatized victims of … Read More >

CONGRATULATIONS to Nancy Turner, winner of the 2015 PROSE Award for Archaeology and Anthropology!

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The 2015 PROSE award winners were announced on February 5th. For the full list of awards, click here.

Read a recent BC Studies review

Read a BOOK EXCERPT

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Nancy Turner is Distinguished Professor and Hakai Professor in Ethnoecology in the School … Read More >