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This October, Dr. Tammy Gaber will be speaking at the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto about her research and new book on Canadian mosques. This is a particularly meaningful venue as the Aga Khan Museum is the only one in North America dedicated to Islamic arts and architecture, and it sits across from the … Read More >

After warm months of summer bliss, September brings the annual back-to-school frenzy for students across the country. In honour of this return to the classroom, we’ve complied a reading list of recently-published books examining higher education in Canada and beyond.  From historical studies to contemporary issues in university governance, these titles remind us to actively … Read More >

We are pleased to officially announce our Fall/Winter 2022-23 catalogue, in both hard-copy and digital form. You can download the PDF and browse the new titles on our website.

Some highlights from the new catalogue include:

Singular Creatures
Robots, Rights, and the Politics of Posthumanism

By Mark Kingwell

Welcome to posthuman life: could non-human consciousness be an evolutionary … Read More >

In Cecilia Morgan’s forthcoming book, Sweet Canadian Girls Abroad, the little-known lives of late-nineteenth-century Canadian actresses take center stage. In this era, many Canadian women left their homes at young ages with hopes of becoming successful in the theatre circuits of the United States, Britain, Australia, and New Zealand. While only a handful of … Read More >

Heirs of an Ambivalent Empire by Scott Berthelette explores how French-Indigenous interactions in the Hudson Bay watershed area led to the rise of the Métis Nation. The recently-published book follows French-Canadian (Canadien) fur traders across the Northwest as they navigated relationships between sovereign Indigenous nations and the French government. Over time, the Canadien’s ties with the French … Read More >

In Autobiography of a Garden, Patterson Webster recounts her twenty-five-year gardening journey on the 750-acre property called Glen Villa in Quebec. The recently-published book explores the meaning of a garden, the ways in which we can learn from the land, and how we might preserve and present its history and the history … Read More >

This post was first published on September 30, 2021.  From July 24 to 29, 2022, Pope Francis is visiting Canada. Pope Francis delivered an apology for the Catholic Church’s role in Canada’s residential school system on the first day of this visit. We would like to share a reading list that can shed some light … Read More >

“Do you know my most beautiful memory? It was New Year’s Eve. To celebrate the new-year there were traditions.  One of my mother’s traditions was she would open the door at midnight. All the surrounding factories would sound their whistles, the sounds of the factories. All the whistles would go off together, all the CNR … Read More >

July 1st is Canada Day. While it is traditionally a holiday in honour of Canadian Confederation, the meaning of Canada Day has evolved amidst more accurate understandings of the country’s history. Not only a day of celebration, Canada Day also allows the time and space for learning, reflection, and remembrance. A day dedicated to Confederation … Read More >

In honour of World Refugee Day on Monday, June 20th, we’ve invited Neil James Wilson Crawford, author of The Urbanization of Forced Displacement: UNHCR, Urban Refugees, and the Dynamics of Policy Change to write a guest blog.

UNHCR and global refugee policies have come to play an increasingly important role in the governance of global displacement. The Urbanization … Read More >