The Human Rights Research and Education Centre and UBC Press are pleased to invite you to the book launch, "Disabling Barriers: Social Movements, Disability History and the Law." This UBC Press collection brings together legal scholars, historians and disability studies academics. ...more

Meet author Frank Maas at the launch of his book The Price of Alliance, a book that balances high politics with military requirements in the first major reappraisal of Pierre Trudeau’s controversial defence policy. ...more

Marilyn Schuster, professor emerita in the Study of Women & Gender at Smith College, will present a reading of her new book, A Queer Love Story: The Letters of Jane Rule and Rick Bébout. ...more

Book Launch for Reluctant Warriors by Patrick Dennis. ...more

Join commentators Mireille McLaughlin and Véronique Strimelle in a discussion about Power Through Testimony. This groundbreaking volume assesses the power of residential school survivors to reframe – through memory, story, and testimony – how Canadians think about residential schools and their long-term impact on individuals, families, communities, and the nation. ...more

University presses are in the business of communicating important, often verbose and scholarly, information to a sometimes very targeted audience. It’s what we do, it’s what we do well, and it’s what should remain our core mission as a university press. However, this method of communicating is often in opposition to the goal of social media—to relay quick snippets of information and videos of cats doing things. ...more