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Join us at #ISA2025 for a special "Meet the Editors" session with Megan Bradley and James Milner, series editors of the McGill-Queen's Refugee and Forced Migration Studies series. March 4 from 9-10:30 am at the MQUP book display.

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Podcast alert: Jane Cooper speaks to Canadian Intelligence Eh on the subject of election monitoring. Listen to the interview and then learn more in her book, What Ukrainian Elections Taught Me about Democracy.

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“How does a focus on Global South states and other understudied cases advance knowledge of international and global affairs?” New on the blog, and just in time for #ISA2025, James Milner & Megan Bradley provide insight into the Refugee and Forced Migration Studies series. https://buff.ly/41yi8Hd

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Rhonda Gossen, author of The Twelfth of February: Canadian Aid for Gender Equality during the Rise of Violent Extremism in Pakistan, is appearing at the Lahore Literary Festival this week. Read more in Dawn:

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Could Donald Trump take over the Great Lakes? Daniel Macfarlane, author of The Lives of Lake Ontario, speaks with Allison Devereaux on the Unsalted Great Lakes podcast.

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Seattleites! @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social is trying to setup a book talk at the Elliott Bay Book Company this summer. Preorders would help! www.elliottbaybook.com/item/ixu8OOw...

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The CIA is planning its largest mass firing in 50 years? Cue "Agent of Change", by Huda Mukbil, former senior CSIS intelligence officer, who shows us that the path to stronger national security is only THROUGH diversity. Published by @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social, order your copy now!

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Une conférence avec Mairi Cowan sur les arts diaboliques et la vie quotidienne en Nouvelle-France demain après-midi!

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We are deeply saddened by the passing of R.T. Naylor. From the publication of his first book, History of Canadian Business, to his bestselling Hot Money, he was a close colleague and friend of the press. Our thoughts are with his family, friends, and the the McGill community.

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Building Mennonite Belonging by Hyung Jin Kim Sun charts a course for Canadian Mennonites, particularly those in Mennonite Church Canada, to address changing racial and ethnocultural identities in a diversifying society. Out now! https://buff.ly/4ame0wZ

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Une conférence avec Mairi Cowan sur les arts diaboliques et la vie quotidienne en Nouvelle-France samedi après-midi!

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Une conférence avec Mairi Cowan sur les arts diaboliques et la vie quotidienne en Nouvelle-France ce samedi après-midi!

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Check out our January and February new releases! https://buff.ly/3QpUmXH

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My essay "Rudderless in the storm" was published in @hilltimes.com today. Based on my book from @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/0...

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This Valentine's Day, listen to Sonia Cancian's TEDx talk about the lost art of love letters! Learn more about her book With Your Words in My Hands: The Letters of Antonietta Petris and Loris Palma https://buff.ly/4bi8kVj

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Just read a fantastic, thoughtful, review of Prophets of Love by Kip Gilmore-Clough in the journal Religions. How about Leonard Cohen for St Valentine's Day? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social

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Very very happy to say that my book, To Detain or to Punish: Magistrates and the Making of the London Prison System, 1750-1840, will be out in March with @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social

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In honour of Valentine’s Day, we wanted to gift you all an excerpt from With Your Words in My Hands, edited and translated by Sonia Cancian. Learn more about their remarkable love story and read one of the letters Loris sent Antonietta in 1948. https://buff.ly/4k08WTd

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Enjoyed speaking with Kathryn May for this piece @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social

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Our Executive Director, Lisa Quinn, will be participating in a panel discussion at Sharp Words in Hamilton on Saturday! Lisa will be joined by @debdundas.bsky.social and Meredith McLeod for a panel entitled "Is Anyone Listening?" https://buff.ly/3EGFPo0...

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"Roberts is a Canadian who saw Canada’s sovereignty crisis with the U.S. coming." writes Kathryn May in @policyoptions.irpp.org.

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Did you miss the book launch for The Rough Poets by Melanie Dennis Unrau last week? You can stream it now! Learn more about the book: https://buff.ly/40UzJHP

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Visit our booth at #CAA2025! Our editor-in-chief Jonathan will be there to chat about our books and scholarly publishing until Saturday. Check out our conference offer: https://buff.ly/42PIPID

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A successful book launch for Forced Migration in/to Canada: From Colonization to Refugee Resettlement at McNally Robinson last week! Here's a photo of editor Christina R. Clark-Kazak with contributor Shauna Labman. Learn more about this book: https://buff.ly/3XZ8AlB

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Our Executive Director, Lisa Quinn, will be participating in a panel discussion at Sharp Words in Hamilton on Saturday! Lisa will be joined by @debdundas.bsky.social and Meredith McLeod for a panel entitled "Is Anyone Listening?" supercrawl.ca/2025/01/shar...

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From an idea in 2008 to a book in 2025, ECHOES OF CARE: DEAFNESS IN MODERN BRITAIN has been published by @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social ! It explores how changing perceptions of deafness intersected with healthcare, disability, and eugenics in 19th-century Britain. www.mqup.ca/echoes-of-ca...

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Rhonda Gossen will be launching The Twelfth of February: Canadian Aid for Gender Equality during the Rise of Violent Extremism in Pakistan at the Bill Graham Centre in Toronto tomorrow afternoon. Learn more about the book: https://buff.ly/4cAs2KO

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Workers of War and Empire from New France to British America, 1688–1783 by Richard Tomczak puts French-Canadian workers front and centre in this historical account of the feudal labour arrangements that propped up the Canadian colonial state in a pivotal era. Out now! https://buff.ly/3WyzRva

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Y Tu Mamá También by Juan Llamas-Rodriguez is a critical study of the musical legacy, new media afterlives, and queer significance of the 2001 hit. Learn more: https://buff.ly/3C6tg4t Check out the rest of the bookies: https://buff.ly/3PYqwtf

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Yogalands by Paul Bramadat encourages practitioners and critics to be more curious about yoga. Out in April: https://buff.ly/3CtJXqp Check out the rest of the bookies: https://buff.ly/3PYqwtf

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I enjoyed talking with @pmazereeuw.bsky.social of @hilltimes.com about the steps Canada needs to take to preserve its sovereignty, based on my book from @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social Listen to the podcast here: www.hilltimes.com/podcast/how-...

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Book Launch for Created in the Image?: Holocaust Perpetrators in Israeli Fiction by Or Rogovin in Montreal and Zoom on Monday! Register here: https://buff.ly/4gxKN3m

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Join editor Christina Clark-Kazak and contributor Shauna Labman for the Winnipeg launch of Forced Migration in/to Canada: From Colonization to Refugee Resettlement tonight! More details: https://buff.ly/4hGNkcz

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The Wild Word presents new readings of the way animals are used in the Gospels to create, reinforce, and transgress social boundaries, as well as to enforce and collapse the categories of domesticity/wildness and natural/unnatural. Out in June: https://buff.ly/4asUVcl

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Even if you can't attend the book launch for The Rough Poets in Winnipeg tonight, you can still attend virtually! Starting at 7:00 PM CST/ 8:00 PM EST.

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White Lily by John Emil Vincent is a poetic love note to Louise Glück and Laurie Anderson. Out in April: https://buff.ly/4h4IYfm Check out the rest of the bookies: https://buff.ly/3PYqwtf

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Rhonda Gossen will be launching The Twelfth of February: Canadian Aid for Gender Equality during the Rise of Violent Extremism in Pakistan at the Bill Graham Centre in Toronto next Wednesday. Learn more about the book:

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Y Tu Mamá También by Juan Llamas-Rodriguez is a critical study of the musical legacy, new media afterlives, and queer significance of the 2001 hit. Out now! https://buff.ly/3C6tg4t

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Tomorrow evening, Melanie Dennis Unrau will be in conversation with Josiah Neufeld to celebrate the launch of her new book The Rough Poets: Reading Oil-Worker Poetry in Winnipeg. More details: https://buff.ly/4hkAQrq

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Unintended Nations by Alex R. Tipei tracks the history of a concept of civilization that emerged in nineteenth-century France and reveals the network of dynamic interactions that helped shape modernity and national identity in Southeast Europe and beyond. Out in August: https://buff.ly/40hKLXe

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This Friday February 7 at 7pm, join editor Christina Clark-Kazak and contributor Shauna Labman as they celebrate the Winnipeg launch of Forced Migration in/to Canada: From Colonization to Refugee Resettlement - mailchi.mp/grant/clark-... @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social @shaunalabman.bsky.social

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Unequal Access by Natalie Welfens explores the politics of categorization practices in European resettlement and humanitarian admission programs and the complex boundaries of inclusion and exclusion they produce. Out in July: https://buff.ly/40srJgY

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Join editor Christina Clark-Kazak and contributor Shauna Labman for the Winnipeg launch of Forced Migration in/to Canada: From Colonization to Refugee Resettlement on Firday! More details: https://buff.ly/4hGNkcz

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Echoes of Care by Jaipreet Virdi chronicles the historical shift that created complicated interdependences between medical intervention, language, and education to shape deaf people’s experiences in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain. Out now! https://buff.ly/3WAD1yu

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This Thursday, Melanie Dennis Unrau will be in conversation with Josiah Neufeld to celebrate the launch of her new book The Rough Poets: Reading Oil-Worker Poetry in Winnipeg. More details: https://buff.ly/4hkAQrq

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Tomboy by Cristina Johnston is an in-depth exploration of coming-of-age and queer themes in Céline Sciamma’s films. Out in May: https://buff.ly/3C4i3Bq Check out the rest of the bookies: https://buff.ly/3PYqwtf

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In honour of Black History Month, we've compiled a reading list of recommended titles about Black Canadian history. https://buff.ly/40YoKOM

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