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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.
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Emily Eaton and Growing Resistance
I grew up in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. And despite what you might have been lead to believe based on my upcoming book, Growing Resistance: Canadian Farmers and the Politics of Genetically Modified Wheat, I have no personal or familial ties to agriculture.
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Barbour & Lehr win 2011 Margaret McWilliams Awards!
Last week, the Manitoba Historical Society announced that UMP authors had won awards in two Margaret McWilliams Awards categories!
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Winnipeg Beach receives AMA Manitoba Day Award!
Dale Barbour’s Winnipeg Beach will be recognized at the 6th annual Manitoba Day Awards, presented by the Association for Manitoba Archives on May 10.
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Seeing Red wins THREE awards!
Mark Anderson and Carmen Robertson’s collaboration, Seeing Red, took home First Peoples’ Writing, Scholarly Writing Award, and Regina Book Award awards at the Saskatchewan Book Awards!
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Award Season Continues!
University of Manitoba Press is pleased to announce that UMP titles have received multiple nominations for awards over the past few weeks.
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Seeing Red up for FOUR awards!
Mark Anderson and Carmen Robertson’s Seeing Red: A History of Natives in Canadian Newspapers received four nominations for the 2011 Saskatchewan Book Awards!
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Winnipeg Beach Podcasted
Dale Barbour will be featured on Sean Kheraj’s Nature’s Past podcast.