Blog — ...Crowds “The goal for any academic should be to increase the amount of knowledge in the world, so the removal of barriers to spreading that knowledge can only be a...
Blog — ...of a single soldier. Hart discovered Charles Smith’s diary from the First World War in the Toronto Reference Library and was struck by a voice full of life, and the...
Blog — Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences is an annual gathering of dozens of academic associations in Canada. It runs from May 12 to 20 and is fully virtual for...
Blog — ...as Alternative History: The Aesthetics of Bahram Beizai • Khatereh Sheibani 11 Technologies of Memory, Identity, and Oblivion in Persepolis (2007) and Waltz with Bashir (2008) • William Anselmi and...
Blog — ...modern world, new and often unforeseen effects of plastic and its production are continually being discovered. Plastics are entangled in multiple ecological and social crises, from the plasticization of the...
Blog — ...participants in the design of their future lives? How could those seeking refuge be encouraged to actively participate in the policies that impact them? What might that transformative world of...
Blog — This week’s #AUPBookOfTheWeek is Hobohemia and the Crucifixion Machine: Rival Images of a New World in 1930s Vancouver by Todd McCallum. This monograph explores Vancouver’s “hobo jungle,” and forces us...
Blog — ...of Lethbridge Library. October 27: Rumi Graham will share the advantages of publishing your next article open access. New Westminster October 26: Christina Hendricks discusses open pedagogy and how...
Blog — ...the humid, exhaust-filled air of Tel Aviv. It had been five months since my family’s rushed exodus from Iran amidst a revolution that turned our lives upside down, and I...
Blog — ...of research might be happening over the next century. Will grad students be writing dissertations on “reimagining water”? Will we be publishing books entitled “The Diaspora of Americans, 2017–2020: Where...