June Round-Up

Here is a recap of what went on at UTP in the month of June.

Conferences:

• Many of us here at UTP attended the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences at the end of May/beginning of June in Calgary, Alberta. The conference was a huge success and a lot of fun.
• Daniel Quinlan attended the Law and Society Association Annual Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana from June 2^nd-5^th.

Author Events:

• Two book launches happened at Congress- The first was for Paul Saurette and Kelly Gordon’s book The Changing Voice of the Anti-Abortion Movement: The Rise of “Pro-Woman” Rhetoric in Canada and the United States. The second was for Paul Kellogg’s Escape from the Staple Trap: Canadian Political Economy after Left Nationalism.
• Ellen R. Auster and Lisa Hillenbrand’s title Stragility: Excelling at Strategic Changes was launched on June 8^th at the Rotman School of Management.
• Bessma Momani gave a talk on her book Arab Dawn: Arab Youth and the Demographic Dividend they will bring the week following at the Aga Khan Museum.
• Harold Troper gave a talk on his title More than Just Games: Canada and the 1936 Olympics on June 14^th.
• Lisa Grekul and Lindy Ledohowski’s book Unbound: Ukrainian Canadians Writing Home was launched in Winnipeg on June 21^st.

Awards:

Four UTP books won awards in June.  Congratulations to:

• Paul Saurette and Kelly Gordon for winning the Donald Smiley prize for their title The Changing Voice of the Anti-Abortion Movement: The Rise of “Pro-Woman” Rhetoric in Canada and the United States.
• Raymond B. Blake for winning the Clio: Atlantic Region Prize for his book Lions or Jellyfish: Newfoundland-Ottawa Relations since 1957.
• Enrique Fernandez for being one of the winners of the Canadian Association of Hispanists’  Best Book Award 2016 for Anxieties of Interiority and Dissection in Early Modern Spain.
• Mary Newberry for winning the Ewart-Daveluy Indexing Award for her indexing of The Letterbooks of John Evelyn.

In the Media:

• The Association of Talent Development Magazine reviewed Stragility: Excelling at Strategic Changes by Ellen R. Auster and Lisa Hillenbrand.
• The Globe and Mail reviewed the anthology In Defence of Theatre: Aesthetic Practices and Social Interventions, edited by Kathleen Gallagher and Barry Freeman.
• Publishers Weekly reviewed Bruce Newman’s The Marketing Revolution in Politics: What recent U.S. Presidential Campaigns can teach us about Effective Marketing.
• Blacklocks Reporter described Maureen K. Lux’s Separate Beds: A History of Indian Hospitals in Canada, 1920s-1980s as “a riveting and extraordinary account of mistreatment of citizens.”
• June’s edition of The Literary Review of Canada contains reviews of two UTP titles: The Inequality Trap: Fighting Capitalism instead of Poverty by William Watson and Dying from Improvement: Inquests and Inquiries into Indigenous Deaths in Custody by Sherene Razzack.
• Small Business Forum called Achieving Longevity: How Great Firms Prosper through Entrepreneurial Thinking by Jim Dewald one of “3 Books Small Business Owners Should Read.”
• The Hamilton Spectator reviewed Hamilton Babylon: A History of the Mcmaster Film Board by Stephen Broomer.
• The South Niagara news network, Erie Media, reviewed Separate Beds: A History of Indian Hospitals in Canada, 1920s-1980s by Maureen Lux.

New Releases:

• A Culture of Rights: Law, Literature, and Canada by Benjamin Authers
• Understanding School Choice in Canada by Lynn Bosetti and Diane Gereluk
• The Letter and The Cosmos: How the Alphabet has shaped the Western View of the World by Laurence de Looze
• Dialogues of Love by Leone Ebreo, Damian Bacich, and Rosella Pescatori (first in paperback)
• Back from the Brink: Lessons from the Canadian Asset-Backed Commercial Paper Crisis by Paul Halpern, Caroline Cakebread, Christopher C. Nicholls, and Poonam Puri
• Borderline Canadianness: Border Crossings and Everyday Nationalism in Niagara by Jane Helleiner
• Politicized Microfinance: Money, Power, and Violence in the Black Americas by Caroline Shenaz Hossein
• Doctors of Empire: Medical and Cultural Encounters between Imperial Germany and Meiji Japan by Hoi-eun Kim (first in paperback)
• A Second Collection by Bernard Lonergan, edited by Robert M. Doran and John D. Dadosky
• North/South: The Great European Divide by Ricardo J. Quinones
• Our Battle for the Human Spirit: Scientific Knowing, Technical Doing, and Daily Living by Willem H. Vanderburg
• Imagining the Jew in Anglo-Saxon Literature and Culture Samantha Zacher