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David Drummond on Louis Riel
Graphic designer David Drummond talks about the design process for the cover of Jennifer Reid’s Louis Riel and the Creation of Modern Canada: Mythic Discourse and the Postcolonial State.
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Warming Winter Minds
Warming Winter Minds: A Guest Post by Kim Anderson (originally published on Canadian Bookshelf).
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Larry Krotz: Three events in three days!
UMP author Larry Krotz has three events scheduled for the first week of December. (In fact, he has three events in three days!)
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Extra! Extra!
Shuja Safavi, a reporter for The Manitoban, profiled University of Manitoba Press in the October 26 edition of the paper: “Tucked away in a small office in St. John’s College, it is easy to miss the University of Manitoba Press….” Read more here.
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A northern travelogue
Timothy C. Winegard author of the forthcoming For King and Kanata: Canadian Indians and the First World War provides a travelogue of his recent research trips and current projects.
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Kim Anderson on CBC's Manitoba Scene
Kim Anderson was in Winnipeg as part of the Thin Air: Winnipeg International Writers Festival. In this Q and A posted to CBC’s Manitoba Scene website Kim Anderson explains how traditional knowledge can be applied toward rebuilding healthy Indigenous communities today.
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Kim Anderson On Tour!
Kim Anderson, a Cree/Métis educator based in Guelph, will be touring her new UMP title, Life Stages and Native Women: Memory, Teachings, and Story Medicine throughout September and October.
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Howard Pawley 2011 Distinguished Alumni Award recipient!
Howard Pawley is the University of Manitoba’s 2011 Distinguished Alumni Award recipient.
The Distinguished Alumni Award is an honour presented annually to a graduate who demonstrates outstanding professional achievement and community service, and who also maintains links with the University of Manitoba.
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Manitoba Day Award for Jim Blanchard's Winnipeg's Great War
In early May, Jim Blanchard’s Winnipeg’s Great War: A City Comes of Age was one of nine recipients of the Manitoba Day Award, presented by the Association of Manitoba Archives.
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Jo-Ann Episkenew talks about Taking Back Our Spirits
Jo-Ann Episkenew, author of Taking Back Our Spirits, was recently interviewed by Cassandra J. Opikokew for the University of Regina’s YOURblog.
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Jo-Ann Episkenew on CBC's The Next Chapter
Jo-Ann Episkenew, author of Taking Back Our Spirits appeared on the June 27 edition of CBC’s The Next Chapter, entitled A Prairie Feast of Saskatchewan Writers.
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Prairie Metropolis On the Night Table
Greg MacPherson, Winnipeg songwriter, musician, and performance artist named Prairie Metropolis: New Essays on Winnipeg Social History to his On the Night Table list in the June 4 edition of the Winnipeg Free Press’ Books Section.
“I’m seven years into an obsession with Russian literature, particularly the writings of Fyodor Dostoevsky. In a world where libraries and second-hand book stores are filled with great translations of The Brothers Karamazov and Crime and Punishment, it seems outrageous to me that anyone could suffer from a lack of inspiration or fail to recognize our enormous potential as human beings. The stack of books on my night stand includes several Dostoevsky novels, Tolstoy’s War and Peace and the exceptional University of Manitoba Press compilation of essays on Winnipeg social history, Prairie Metropolis.”