Events

April 12: Beers and books! We are launching Defying Expectations: The Case of UFCW Local 401 by Jason Foster at Blind Enthusiasm Brewery. We are excited to be partnering with the Alberta Labour History Institute and the Canadian Committee on Labour History for this event. You can find all the details on Facebook or below.

May 3: Mark your calendar. We will be launching The Medium Is the Monster by Mark McCutcheon at the McLuhan House here in Edmonton. Stay tuned to Facebook and Twitter for more details.

May 7: Arthur Bear Chief will be in Edmonton as a guest speaker at MacEwan University. The event is hosted by Chi Nu – Sigma Theta Tau International – Honour Society of Nursing (MacEwan University Chapter) and everyone is welcome. Tickets are available on Eventbrite.

May 26–June 1: Congress! We’re busy planning the biggest event of the year and you know we like to get creative with our displays. Check out our booth from last year and two years ago. We can’t wait for you to see what’s in store for 2018.

New Releases

Connectionist Representations of Tonal Music looks at the surprising results of training artificial neural networks to make basic judgments concerning tonal music, such as identifying the tonic of a scale or the quality of a musical chord. Read more about the alien music that cognitive scientist Michael R. W. Dawson discovered when working with artificial neural networks.

In The Medium Is the Monster, Mark McCutcheon deepens our understanding of Frankenstein’s influence on the way we talk about technology and popular culture. McCutcheon’s enthusiastic consumption of adaptations of Frankenstein takes the reader down a mind-bending rabbit hole of literature, film, music, and news stories. But McCutcheon also reveals a layer of anxiety in these adaptations about the unintended consequences of new or developing technologies. Available at the end of April!

Reviews and Media

Ian Bullock’s latest book, Under Siege: The Independent Labour Party in Interwar Britain was reviewed for the Independent Labour Publications website.

Without Apology: Writings on Abortion in Canada edited by Shannon Stettner was reviewed in the Canadian Historical Review.

Angie Abdou, co-editor of Writing the Body in Motion (forthcoming) spoke to Carla Knipe from The Voice about what sport literature has to offer.

Alberta’s Lower Athabasca Basin: Archaeology and Palaeoenvironments edited by Brian Ronaghan was reviewed in Great Plains Research.