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The Brutality of the Sexual Assault Trial

30 March 2016 Contributor Blog

Written by guest blogger, Elaine Craig, Dalhousie University The media coverage and countless stories that have been told by survivors of sexualized violence in the lead up to, throughout, and following the Jian Ghomeshi trial have shone a spotlight on the brutality of the courtroom process for sexual assault survivors. The harm experienced by sexual […]

Reading John Cage with my Mother

23 March 2016 Contributor Blog

Written by guest blogger, Dani Spinosa, York University To be quite honest, I started writing on John Cage because it was easy. It was the first year of my doctoral studies and I was drowning in a sea of Foucault and my interest at the time in critical animal studies and I found much […]

What does a Philippine university publisher look like?

22 March 2016 Contributor Blog

Written by guest blogger, Karryl Kim Sagun Books and I go way back. Being born to a family of publishers’ representatives, I was fed and raised thanks to (sales of) books; choosing librarianship as a profession, I lived and breathed books; and doing my PhD thesis on book trade, I guess I could say I will […]

Political Talk about Food Insecurity in Canada

24 February 2016 Contributor Blog

Written by guest blogger, Laura Anderson How can it be that in a rich country like Canada, food insecurity, and its most extreme form—hunger—are not rare? In fact, 1 in 8 households in Canada is food insecure. Would an answer be apparent if we knew how the problem was talked about by our legislators? In […]

Journal of Scholarly Publishing – Call for Submissions

27 January 2016 UTP News

Journal of Scholarly Publishing Special Issue: Digital Publishing for the Humanities and Social Sciences Deadline: July 15, 2016 Send all submissions to: jsp@utpress.utoronto.ca Digital forms of scholarship present opportunities and challenges for scholarly publishers, who until recently have been used to defining their work as the production of books and journals in the material medium […]

Cost burden of Quebec’s carbon market seen as modest

20 January 2016 In the News

Cost burden of Quebec’s carbon market seen as modest Study by McGill researchers assesses short-run impacts on households, industries The cost burden of Quebec’s carbon-pricing policy, is likely to be modest across income groups and industries, according to a McGill University research team. The policy, which began to be implemented in 2013, provides a model […]

Confronting Canada’s Violent Colonial History and the Representation of Indigenous Women

12 January 2016 Contributor Blog

Written by guest blogger, Carmen Nielson. Example of a caricature of Indigenous women in Canada’s late 19th cent. satirical magazine Grip. First Nations, Métis and Inuit women have been working for a very long time to decolonize their representation in the Canadian mainstream. The First Nations collective ReMatriate – founded in response to Canadian designer […]

The First Acadian Film: Visibility, Modernity, and Landscape in Les aboiteaux

5 January 2016 Contributor Blog

Written by guest blogger, Ronald Rudin. Les aboiteaux ©1955 National Film Board of Canada. All rights reserved. Collection : Cinémathèque québécoise Over the past decade, I have been pre-occupied with various landscapes of importance to the Acadians, the French-speakers of Atlantic Canada. I began by looking at the site of the beginning of Acadie, Île […]

Perpetrators, Prostitution, and Popular Culture

2 December 2015 Contributor Blog

Written by guest blogger, Jessica Steinberg. Photo Credit, JD Howell, McMaster Daily News My interest in crime and prostitution in eighteenth-century London began in my dissertation work in which I examine the violence perpetrated against prostitutes and the violence committed by prostitutes. “She was ‘a comon night walker abusing him & being of ill behavior’: […]

William Beveridge and the Dominion Down Under

25 November 2015 Contributor Blog

Written by guest blogger, John Stewart. Image from the Wellington Post in April of 1948 and shows the Labour Prime Minister, Peter Fraser, and Beveridge disagreeing over what do to for the ‘patient’ – New Zealand My article, “William Beveridge in New Zealand: Social Security and World Security,” derives from research I carried out on […]

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