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MQUP Weekly Round-up

Oct 31, 2014

Friday Roundup

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Here’s a round-up of news and upcoming events at MQUP.

Excerpt: Where does Hallowe’en come from?

New release Children into Swans explores fairy tales and the lore of ancient stories embedded in them.

In this week’s excerpt, author Jan Beveridge looks at the Celtic roots of Hallowe’en, formerly known as Samain. More >

New Release: The Herbal of al-Ghāfiqī

A lavishly illustrated medieval Arabic herbal with accompanying essays exploring its scientific, historical, and artistic contexts.

We posted some images up on on Tumblr. View them here.

Nov 2nd: Bill Brownstein at 2014 Paragraphe Books & Breakfast

Bill Brownstein, co-author of You’re Not Dead until You’re Forgotten, will be a featured speaker at the 2014 fall edition of Books & Breakfast this Sunday.

Tickets to this event are $32.00. More >

Nov 4th: A Montreal Launch in Celebration of Canadian Authors

Gordon Darroch (editor of The Dawn of Canada’s Century), Michael Darroch (editor of Cartographies of Place), will be speaking about the research and challenges that shaped their books.

This group book launch will be held at the McGill Faculty Club. More >

What else?

McGill professor Morag Park was on CTV Montreal with Mutsumi Takahashi discussing The Smart Palate. Watch the interview here.

Shelley Wright’s Our Ice is Vanishing: Sikuvut Nunguliqtuq was reviewed in Publisher’s Weekly! Read it here.

And finally, Concordia’s Clea Desjardins wrote a great article on Reimagining Cinema, a new book (out this week!) about the films at Expo 67, edited by Monika Kin Gagnon and Janine Marchessault. The launch is TOMORROW at the Cinemathèque québecoise – article and event details right here.

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