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Hearts of Freedom: Stories of Southeast Asian Refugees

McGill-Queen's University Press @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social · 1d

Join the authors of Hearts of Freedom: Stories of Southeast Asian Refugees for the launch of their book in Winnipeg on October 18!

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Book Launch: Bohdan Kordan | Audreys Books

McGill-Queen's University Press @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social · 1d

Join Bohdan Kordan for the launch of No Place Like Home in Ottawa tomorrow evening!

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Edmonton's Oldest Independent Bookstore selling new books for adults and children

Our iPods, ourselves: a new book explores how we came to adore our devices

McGill-Queen's University Press @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social · 1d

Join Adrian Ciani for the launch of his book, Contesting Zion: The Vatican, American Catholics, and the Partition of Palestine, at the Toronto School of Theology on Thursday, October 9!

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McGill-Queen's University Press @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social · 2d

"From the start, the iPod’s surface was fetishized by Apple and Apple customers alike." Read more about iPods in Stephen Monteiro's new book, Needy Media, featured in the Toronto Star.

We took them everywhere and even engraved them. Then all of a sudden they had skins. As one theorist notes, the skins' arrival “explicitly connects the iPod to flesh, to

Our iPods, ourselves: a new book explores how we came to adore our devices

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Stephen Monteiro @stephenmonteiro.bsky.social · 2d

Interested in how iPod personalization practices - the engravings, the tattoos, the skins - helped set the stage for today’s device intimacy? Check out the Toronto Star’s excerpt from Needy Media, my new @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social book.

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We took them everywhere and even engraved them. Then all of a sudden they had skins. As one theorist notes, the skins' arrival “explicitly connects the iPod to flesh, to

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A History of Photography in Canada - New Brunswick Museum

McGill-Queen's University Press @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social · 2d

Many thanks to the New Brunswick Museum for sharing photos from A History of Photography in Canada by Martha Langford. The first volume has just published - take a sneak peek here:

The deposit copy of Martha Langford’s long awaited book, A History of Photography in Canada [Volume I – Anticipation to Participation] (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2025) has just been received…

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McGill-Queen's University Press @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social · 2d

Join Martha Langford for the launch of the first of her three-volume History of Photography in Canada, 1839-2010 at the McCord Stewart Museum in Montreal this Wednesday!

RSVP and/or request link to livestream at [email protected] by the end of the day today.

More details: buff.ly/eMVU5JB

Book Launch: Bohdan Kordan | Audreys Books

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Matthew R Anderson @mrapomquet.bsky.social · 6d

Quentin Amundson wrote a lovely piece in The Catholic Register about Prophets of Love (MQUP), and the five-afternoon online class on Leonard and Paul I'm teaching for Atlantic School of Theology (still some spots open!) digital.catholicregister.org/Catholic-Reg...

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Toronto School of Theology @torschtheology.bsky.social · 6d

Coming up on October 9, 5:00 pm at the TST building, Dr. Adrian Ciani (St. Augustine's Seminary) launches his new book, "Contesting Zion: The Vatican, American Catholics, and the Partition of Palestine," published by McGill-Queen's University Press. Details below...

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McGill-Queen's University Press @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social · 5d

Join Adrian Ciani for the launch of his book, Contesting Zion: The Vatican, American Catholics, and the Partition of Palestine, at the Toronto School of Theology on Thursday, October 9!

Learn more: buff.ly/vcLbDq2

McGill-Queen's University Press @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social · 5d

Please join the authors of Hearts of Freedom for the launch of their book and a presentation on the Hearts of Freedom Project in Ottawa on Saturday afternoon!

More details: buff.ly/U3QGtEy

McGill-Queen's University Press @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social · 6d

Join Bohdan Kordan for the launch of No Place Like Home in Ottawa on Wednesday, October 8!

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Edmonton's Oldest Independent Bookstore selling new books for adults and children

McGill-Queen's University Press @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social · 7d

Please join the authors of Hearts of Freedom for the launch of their book and a presentation on the Hearts of Freedom Project in Ottawa on Saturday afternoon!

More details: buff.ly/U3QGtEy

POETRY READING | Water Quality & Whiny Baby | McGill-Queen’s University Press

McGill-Queen's University Press @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social · 7d

Join MQUP authors Cynthia Woodman Kerkham and Julie Paul, along with Yvonne Blomer, and Carolyne Van Der Meer for a poetry reading at Librairie Bertrand Bookstore in Old Montreal tomorrow evening!

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McGill-Queen's University Press @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social · 7d

Join Martha Langford for the launch of the first of her three-volume History of Photography in Canada, 1839-2010 at the McCord Stewart Museum in Montreal on Wednesday, October 8!

RSVP and/or request link to livestream at [email protected] by October 6th.

More details: buff.ly/eMVU5JB

Finalists announced for 2025 Balsillie Prize for Public Policy | CBC Books

McGill-Queen's University Press @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social · 7d

Learn more about his book, Irrational Publics and the Fate of Democracy: bit.ly/46yB3o1

McGill-Queen's University Press @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social · 7d

Congratulations to Stephen J. A. Ward for being shortlisted for the 2025 Balsillie Prize for Public Policy!

www.cbc.ca/books/finali...

The annual award, now in its fifth year, recognizes nonfiction that advances public discourse. The prize purse has been increased from $60,000 to $70,000 to the winner.

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Dan Hayward @danielhayward.bsky.social · 8d

I have visited the United Church congregation on the Curve Lake First Nation and heard stories from elders, but not in the detail that is in this new book on the Day School.

McGill-Queen's University Press @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social · 8d

"As Survivors remind us, reconciliation is not just about documents or apologies. It’s about action." Jackson Pind in The Conversation discussing his new book, Students by Day: Colonialism and Resistance at the Curve Lake Indian Day School.

Curve Lake’s day school history reveals Indigenous activism in the face of colonial schooling

Archives are full of letters from Curve Lake dating back to the 19th century, demanding better pay for teachers, requesting Indigenous teachers and even asking for their own school boards.

Curve Lake’s day school history reveals Indigenous activism in the face of colonial schooling

McGill-Queen's University Press @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social · 8d

"As Survivors remind us, reconciliation is not just about documents or apologies. It’s about action." Jackson Pind in The Conversation discussing his new book, Students by Day: Colonialism and Resistance at the Curve Lake Indian Day School.

Archives are full of letters from Curve Lake dating back to the 19th century, demanding better pay for teachers, requesting Indigenous teachers and even asking for their own school boards.

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McGill-Queen's University Press @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social · 8d

Students by Day is a history of the Curve Lake Indian Day School. A story of Indigenous resilience, activism, and hope in the face of educational injustice, Students by Day not only recovers the archive, written and oral, but builds on files repatriated to the community.

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McGill-Queen's University Press @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social · 8d

You can also purchase print copies of the TRC report, available in both French and English, through our website at 30% off with the coupon code MQEX at check-out: buff.ly/geI5otn

We would like to bring these reports to the country’s attention as there is more work to be done and more children to be found to honour and protect them. Reports listed here were issued or created…

McGill-Queen's University Press @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social · 8d

To learn more about the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and its 94 Calls to Action, you can read the Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. It can be accessed for free through the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation. buff.ly/xuxyU1v

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McGill-Queen's University Press @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social · 8d

Today is the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, a day that recognizes and commemorates the intergenerational harm caused by residential schools to Indigenous families and communities, and to honour those who have been affected by this injustice.