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From November 9 through 15, 2020, UBC Press will join the Association of University Presses (AUPresses) and university presses across the world to celebrate University Press week. Emphasizing the role that university presses play in elevating authors, subjects, AUPresses has chosen “Raise UP” as the theme for this year’s University Press Week. “Raise UP” is a particularly apt theme in a time when information moves at faster speeds than ever before across all platforms. It’s critical that scholarship about the most important ideas of the day is nurtured, championed, and made widely available. Check out our University Press Week features below.
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Please join us for an event celebrating University Press Week featuring a quartet of Canada’s scholarly presses and moderated by Michelle Lobkowicz.
In this event, each press will have two people presenting a book—from the point of view of the press and the author—identifying how university presses provide a platform in Canada for Indigenous voices.
Date: November 10, 3pm CT / 1pm PT
Send questions or comments to: Ariel.Gordon@umanitoba.ca.
A Q&A will follow the presentation.
Participant Details
Mcgill-Queens University Press: Kyla Madden (Senior Editor) and Nancy J. Turner, editor of Plants, People, and Places: The Roles of Ethnobotany and Ethnoecology in Indigenous Peoples' Land Rights in Canada and Beyond.
University of Manitoba Press: Jarvis Brownlie (Series editor, Critical Studies in Native History), and Brittany Luby, author of Dammed: The Politics of Loss and Survival in Anishinaabe Territory.
University of Toronto Press: Jodi Lewchuk (Acquisitions Editor) and Miigam'agan, one of the contributing authors for our forthcoming book The Gatherings: Reimagining Indigenous-Settler Relations.
Wilfrid Laurier University Press: Siobhan McMenemy (Senior Editor) and Deanna Reder and Daniel Heath Justice (Series editors, Indigenous Studies Series).The official University Press Week website
Association of American University Presses
The Scholarly Kitchen
"The Importance of Scholarship" by Nicole Mitchell and Peter Berkery, via Publishers Weekly.