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The following is excerpted from Bearing Witness: Perspectives on War and Peace from the Arts and Humanities edited by Sherrill Grace, Patrick Imbert and Tiffany Johnstone.
Almost every
exhibition devoted to the Hunger Winter features Emmy Andriesse’s photograph Boy with a Pan. It has been reprinted in … Read More >
The following is excerpted from Canadian Literature's review of Refereeing Identity: The Cultural Work of Canadian Hockey Novels by Michael Buma.
Michael Buma’s fine Refereeing Identity is the only one of these three recent hockey books to focus on literature. Buma’s own shorthand rendering of the … Read More >
What you may have missed this week at MQUP
Margaret Watkins exhibition at the National Gallery of Canada
Margaret Watkins photoset
What Do We Want From Popular Science?
Mike Babcock book signing this Saturday
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On Saturday, October 13th, the
McGill Bookstore and McGill Athletics welcome Detroit Red Wings coach and
McGill alum Mike Babcock for a public signing of his new book, Leave No Doubt: A Credo for Chasing Your
Dreams.
Set against the dramatic backdrop of the Canadian … Read More >
The following is excerpted from The Huffington Post's article Mythology and Science; Or, What Do We Want From Popular Science? by Gregory Schrempp.
In my allergist's office, a flashy poster announces "10 myths about allergies." It's a common format. The internet is littered with infomercials shouting, "the five myths of weight loss," "a dozen myths … Read More >
The National Gallery of Canada has unveiled the first retrospective exhibition of the work of Canadian photographer, Margaret Watkins.
Watkins' focus was daily life and her photographs, whether an exploration of the objects in her New York kitchen or the public and industrial spaces of Glasgow, Paris, Cologne, Moscow, and Leningrad in the 1930s, strike … Read More >
What you may have missed this week at MQUP
Omar Khadr back in Canada
On to Civvy Street
Maher Arar offers to talk to Omar Khadr
Mountain View, CA and Washington, DC; October 4, 2012 – The Association of American Publishers (AAP) and Google today announced a settlement agreement that will provide access to publishers’ in-copyright books and journals digitized by Google for its Google Library Project. The dismissal of the lawsuit will end seven years of litigation.
The agreement settles a copyright … Read More >
The Carleton Library Series is the most enduring and significant initiative taken in the history of Canadian publishing where the editing, reprinting, and dissemination of documents important to the history of Canada is concerned. Initiated by Carleton University professor of English, R.L. McDougall, and a number of colleagues in disciplines cognate to English Language … Read More >
The following is excerpted from the CBC article, Maher Arar offers to talk to Omar Khadr:
Maher Arar, whose wrongful deportation and torture in Syria led to a multimillion-dollar settlement with Ottawa, says Canada must decide whether it wants to continue to "demonize" Omar Khadr or to rehabilitate him.
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“I can relate to him, I can … Read More >