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An Image of Violence and Survivance
In this short reflection, Dr. Sandra Styres and Dr. Huia Tomlins-Jahnke discuss the decision process in choosing the cover image for Indigenous Education: New Directions in Theory and Practice, which they co-edited with Spencer Lilley and Dawn Zinga. Senator Murray Sinclair, former Commissioner for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) in Canada, said it best […]
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Featured Reviews of “The Larger Conversation”
“This collection of essays is the third in a series of books in which Lilburn reflects on his own sense of rootlessness, often as a cultural phenomenon. The current book’s emphasis on the colonial condition is new…[The] construal at the heart of the book is individual and specific: North Americans of European descent suffer from […]
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Acquisitions Editor for UAlberta Press
You may have heard that University of Alberta Press is hiring an Acquisitions Editor to work in our Edmonton office. We want every potential candidate to hear of the position and encourage our blog readers to help us spread the word! Recently we hired Mat Buntin to acquire in the social sciences. The new acquisitions […]
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Congress 2019
The University of British Columbia in beautiful Vancouver hosted this year’s Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences. As always, the seven days were filled with lectures, such as the Big Thinking series, book launches, poetry readings, and other special events. UAlberta Press had a booth at the Book Fair and we—Douglas Hildebrand, Mat Buntin, […]
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Featured Reviews of “Searching for Mary Schäffer”
“Skidmore’s monograph offers a robust introduction to Schäffer’s work and contributes to recent scholarship in American art that attends to work produced across the North American continent…. Overall, Skidmore delivers an analysis of Schäffer’s prolific career as an artist and writer that will be of specific interest to scholars interested in the history of photography, […]
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Fall 2019 Catalogue is Here!
Our newest catalogue—Fall 2019—is now available! A list of award winners, for content and design, is on the inside cover, followed by our front list. Our newest titles cover a gamut of subjects from urban studies, feminism, and music, to labour history, research creation, and literary criticism. You might find your favourite UAlberta Press book […]
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Alan Brownoff at Form and Function in Great Book Design
As part of hosting the Association of University Press’s Book, Jacket, and Journal Show recently, Wilfrid Laurier University Press (WLUP) organized a wonderful panel discussion on April 25 with three Canadian designers featured in the exhibit: Alan Brownoff (University of Alberta Press), Lara Minja (Lime Design), and Michel Vrana. The panel, titled “Form and Function in Great […]
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Literary Cocktails 2019
University of Alberta Press celebrated both poetry and our 50 years in publishing on April 25 with three remarkable readers: Apostrophes VIII: Nothing Is But You and I by E.D. Blodgett (read by Astrid Blodgett) There Are Not Enough Sad Songs by Marita Dachsel Magnetic North: Sea Voyage to Svalbard by Jenna Butler Our Chief […]
