LANCEMENT | BOOK LAUNCH: Expo 67 and Its World

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Rejoignez Craig Moyes et Steven Palmer pour le lancement de leur nouveau livre, Expo 67 and Its World: Staging the Nation in the Crucible of Globalization.
avec des mots de présentation de Johanne Sloan et Monique Simard

Join Craig Moyes and Steven Palmer for the launch of their new book, Expo 67 and Its World: Staging the Nation in the Crucible of Globalization.
with introductory words by Johanne Sloan and Monique Simard

WIth special thanks to:

CIRM: Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Montréal
MISC: McGill Institute for the Study of Canada
Quebec and French Canada Research Network
Distillerie du St. Laurent

Steven Palmer is professor of history at the University of Windsor.

about the book

In 1967, Montreal hosted Man and His World/Terre des hommes. By far the most successful cultural event ever produced in Canada, it was embraced by the public at the same time as intellectuals from Marshall McLuhan to Umberto Eco hailed it as a new type of exhibition for a new global age.

Expo 67 and Its World proposes a reappraisal of the 1967 Montreal International and Universal Exhibition across a range of political, social, and cultural spaces: from the dispossession of Indigenous Peoples and what was then known as the Third World, through the aspirations of Montreal, Quebec, and Canada, to the increasingly global ambit of youth culture, medicine, film, and finance. A new approach to understanding Expo 67, the collection challenges assumptions about the significance of the event to Canadian, Québécois, and First Nations history.