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Happy Friday! Here’s MQUP’s weekly roundup of news and events.
CBC The Current
Pearl Eliadis, author of upcoming Speaking out on Human Rights
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TOMORROW, Jan 30th 5:30-7:30pm
Carleton University, Ottawa
View Map (“CO” building)
The Carleton University Department of History invites you to the annual
Public History Partnerships Network Reception.
The Carleton Centre for Public History is committed to building bridges between Carleton faculty, graduate students, and the wider community of professionals working in public history and the PHPN is their foremost networking … Read More >
TOMORROW, Jan 29th 7-9pm
Octopus Books (Centretown location)
251 Bank St, 2nd Floor, Ottawa
Join us for an evening of discussion of sexuality and social justice in Africa with MQUP authors S.N. Nyeck and Marc Epprecht.
The persecution of people in Africa on the basis of their assumed or perceived homosexual orientation has received considerable coverage … Read More >
Here is a weekly round-up of MQUP’s news and events.
Guest blog:
Co-editor of the MacLennan Poetry Series, Carolyn Smart
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We’re very pleased to have Carolyn Smart, the new co-editor of MQUP’s Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series, as today’s guest blogger.
As a poet and professor of Creative Writing at Queen’s, it’s a natural fit for me to be working with poets through the MacLennan Poetry Series at McGill-Queen’s Press.
But the story doesn’t feel quite … Read More >
The following excerpt is from England’s Medieval Navy, 1066-1509, by Susan Rose.
War at Sea
Despite the fact that the most usual service provided to the crown of England by the navy of England was the transport of men and war material to the scene of conflict, occasions did, of course, arise when an engagement … Read More >
This week has zoomed by. Here is a round-up of MQUP’s news and events.
PW Review
The Politics of the Pantry
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Since our recent publication of Shadow Woman, by Grant Hayter-Menzies, we’ve been seeing puppets everywhere!
We came across this fascinating article in the McGill News Alumni Magazine on Master of Puppets Jeffrey Achtem, AKA “Mr. Bunk”, a McGill grad who is now taking the world by storm with his cinematic puppet shows.
“Getting the silhouette … Read More >
Among the many upheavals in North America caused by the French and Indian War was a commonplace practice that affected the lives of thousands of men, women, and children: being taken captive by rival forces.
In Setting All the Captives Free, Ian Steele presents, from a mountain of data, the differences rather than generalities … Read More >
The following excerpt is from the Publishers Weekly review of The Politics of the Pantry, by Michael Mikulak.
Mikulak’s experience as a small-scale farmer, coupled with his academic background, gives him unique insights into the food we eat, how we grow it, how we acquire it and how much of it we consume. … Read More >