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What you may have missed this week at MQUP
Stage Turns receives an honorable mention
Calgary flooding in the early 1900’s
What else?
Barnes and Noble to stop making Nook tablets in-house
Hobson-Jobson, Definitively
AAUP: Bridging Worlds
Upcoming Events
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July 24th, 6:00 pm – Read More >
Matthew Evenden, co-author of The River Returns, is today’s guest blogger
Floods upend the world we know, our habits and our homes. Things are taken away, foundations shift and the power goes out. Lives are lost. Many southern Albertans know about this in a visceral way that I do not. As the water begins to recede … Read More >
The Canadian Association for Theatre Research has cited Kirsty Johnston’s Stage Turns for an honorable mention for best book-length publication in English.
From the Ann Saddlemyer Awards Committee:
“Johnston’s Stage Turns: Canadian Disability Theatre marks a substantial intervention into Canadian theatre studies from the dynamic perspectives of disability arts and disability-led performance. The core of … Read More >
What you may have missed this week at MQUP
Transplanted into our gardens
Gardening for ladies
The “lazy hipster” archetype
Gregory Baum at 90
What else?
Apple price-fixing trial
25 lessons from closing a bookstore
Watchwords: What’s in a name? Dinner, perhaps
Upcoming Events
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June 20th, … Read More >
The following is excerpted from Garden Plots: Canadian Women Writers and Their Literary Gardens by Shelley Boyd.
In the spring of 1839, Susanna Moodie, a middle-class British emigrant, found herself living alone in the backwoods of Upper Canada, her husband John employed by the militia to pay the family’s financial debts. Writing a wedding … Read More >
This is the second instalment of a two-part series in which Miranda Campbell discusses privilege, poverty, and youth creative work. Find the first part here.
All across Canada, young people are working to create small-scale creative careers for themselves. Figuring out how to earn a living from these projects is often a difficult process of navigating … Read More >
It is Gregory Baum’s 90th birthday this week. Gregory Baum is the author of Karl Polanyi on Ethics and Economics and Nationalism, Religion, and Ethics.
Gregory Baum at 90
Forced from his home
He never seemed to weep of loss
But always found
A workable belonging,
Expecting ever to be heard and liked
Because originary love –
God’s in a mother’s … Read More >
The following is excerpted from Anne around the World: L.M. Montgomery and Her Classic edited by Jane Ledwell and Jean Mitchell.
Teaching and Reading Anne of Green Gables in Iran, the Land of Omar Khayyam
By Gholamreza Samigorganroodi
When I was teaching Anne of Green Gables in Iran, I never imagined I would one day visit … Read More >
Journey with No Maps: A Life of P.K. Page by Sandra Djwa is a finalist for the 2012 Gabrielle Roy Prize presented by the Association for Canadian and Quebec Literatures.
From the jury:
“Sandra Djwa’s biography of P.K. Page builds on her already considerable reputation as one of the best literary biographers in Canada. Having had exclusive access … Read More >
This is the first of a two-part series in which Miranda Campbell discusses privilege, poverty, and youth creative work.
Are young people aspiring to creative careers just a bunch of whiny trust fund brats? In the pilot episode of HBO’s hit series Girls, 24 year old Hannah Horvath is trying to make it as a … Read More >