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Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair on Anishinaabeg storytelling
Centering Anishinaabe Studies co-editor Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair on how storytelling is at the heart of Aboriginal tradition.
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Billy Joe Green to appear at CAS/Beautiful Razor launch
The dual launch of Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair’s Centering Anishinaabeg Studies (UMP) and Al Hunter’s Beautiful Razor: Love Songs and Other Lies (Kegedonce Press) will also feature the Winnipeg bluesman.
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Emily Eaton on John Gormley Live TODAY
The author of Growing Resistance will be on John Gormley Live TODAY at 11:00 Mountain Time. Call in and ask her something!
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Imagining Winnipeg gets FOUR nominations!
Esyllt W. Jones and Imagining Winnipeg were nominated for four Manitoba Book Awards!
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Jennifer Reid on Having the Right Language
Jennifer Reid in conversation Dr. Robert-Falcon Ouellette about Reid’s new book Louis Riel and the Creation of Modern Canada: Mythic Discourse in the Post-Colonial State.
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Spring Launches (mostly) Confirmed!
UMP authors will be everywhere this spring, launching their titles!
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Holiday closing
UMP will be closed for the holidays from December 22 to January 3. If you are ordering books through our shopping cart after December 22, please note that they will not be shipped until the first week of January.
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Jess Koroscil on Stories in a New Skin
Graphic designer Jess Koroscil talks about the design process for the cover of Keavy Martin’s “Stories in a New Skin: Approaches to Inuit Literature”.
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Anna Willow on the Boreal Forest
Anna J. Willow, author of Strong Hearts, Native Lands and Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Ohio State University, on how someone based in Ohio with stints in Michigan and Wisconsin came to be interested in Ontario’s boreal forest.
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Larry Krotz on Tour!
Larry Krotz, author of six books including Piecing the Puzzle: The Genesis of AIDS Research in Africa, will be giving several guest lecturesd in November, including stops at McGill’s Faculty of Medicine and UWO’s Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry.
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Tim Winegard at National History Forum
Tim Winegard, author of For King and Kanata, will be presenting at the 6th National History Forum to be held in Ottawa as part of the Governor General’s History Awards.
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Tripped out on the Prairies
Erika Dyck, the author of Psychedelic Psychiatry: LSD on the Canadian Prairies, was profiled in the August/September issue of the AUCC’ magazine University Affairs.