A New Globalisation?
Author Fiona Moore discusses the research that went into her new book, Global Taiwanese: Asian Skilled Labour Migrants in a Changing World, and discusses why globalisation is far from over.
June 17, 2021
Tag: Toronto
The New Spice Box: A Sparkling Collection of Contemporary Jewish Writing
We asked author Ruth Panofsky, author of The New Spice Box, to talk us through her book which celebrates recent Jewish writing.
January 11, 2021
Accidental Wilderness: Toronto’s Tommy Thompson Park
Local artist and photographer Robert Burley tells us more about Toronto’s Tommy Thompson Park, and explains why this fortuitous urban miracle offers a hopeful narrative about how nature can flourish in a modern-day city.
November 10, 2020
Local Voices: Another Story Bookshop
Today, University Press Week celebrates the “local voices” within the community. We reached out to Another Story Bookshop in downtown Toronto, and asked them questions about the history and philosophy of the bookshop, as well as their relationship with university presses.
A Green and Just Recovery Requires Bold Action. Not Bold Words.
David Miller, author of Solved writes for us on the blog and discusses how Canada can recover from the current global health crisis, by making the case for a green and just recovery that can lower greenhouse gas emissions and create jobs.
September 18, 2020
Isolation Reading for the Week of June 15
This week’s staff pick comes from our acquisitions editor Carli Hansen who has chosen Queering Urban Justice: Queer of Colour Formations in Toronto.
June 15, 2020
Isolation Reading for the Week of June 1
This week, Jennifer DiDomenico, our Manager of Social Sciences Acquisitions, has chosen Making a Global City: How One Toronto School Embraced Diversity as her staff pick.
June 1, 2020
Homeless in the Time of COVID: What Happens When COVID-19 and a Shelter Crisis Collide
A.J. Withers, co-author of A Violent History of Benevolence, looks at the crisis facing homeless people in Toronto and other parts of Canada as a result of COVID-19, and examines what can be done to avert the crisis.
May 14, 2020
Toronto: A City of Neighbourhoods
In today’s stop on the University Press Week Blog Tour, our Director of Sales and Marketing, Jane Kelly, discusses the many neighbourhoods that constitute the city of Toronto, and how UTP publishes for and about those neighbourhoods.
November 14, 2018
University of Toronto Press Moves Offices to Accommodate New Book Publishing Division
We’ve moved! Find out more about our brand new, state-of-the-art office space at the corner of Bay and College in downtown Toronto.
April 20, 2018