Archives: Book Launch

Thursday, October 10, 2024

Book Launch Featuring Critical Perspectives on Migration and Contributions from FIST Director Amrita Hari

We are excited to share the launch of Forced Migration in/to Canada: From Colonization to Refugee Resettlement, edited by Christina R. Clark-Kazak from the University of Ottawa. Hosted by Carleton University's Migration and Diaspora Studies program and the Local Engagement Refugee Research Network (LERRN), this event provides a platform to explore... More

Friday, October 21, 2022

New Book Chapter by Dr. Shanouda!

FIST Assistant Professor and Critical Disability Studies scholar, Dr. Fady Shanouda, has a new book chapter titled "Black-abundance, Fat-revolt, and Crip-desire: Intersectionality as Interference in the Life and Death of Rohan Garfield Salmon" in the Handbook of Disability. Check it out! Abstract: "This chapter is an examination of the life and... More

Friday, April 29, 2022

Patrizia Gentile’s Research Featured on CBC Radio

On March 31, CBC Radio’s The Secret Life of Canada featured research originally published in The Canadian War on Queers (UBC Press, 2010), the book Patrizia Gentile, Associate Professor in PJIWGS and Human Rights and Social Justice, co-authored with Gary Kinsman.   Click here to access the article and... More

Tuesday, October 19, 2021

Prof. Xuan Thuy Nguyen – Chapter in new dis/ability studies book!

Associate Professor, Dr. Xuan Thuy Nguyen has contributed to a new publication entitled "Still Living the Edges: A Disabled Woman's Reader" with her chapter entitled "Critical Disability Studies at the Edge of Global Development: Why Do We Need to Engage with Southern Theory?" Check out the publication here! "More than a decade after the... More

Wednesday, October 13, 2021

Ryan Conrad book launch – Between Certain Death and Possible Future!

Ryan Conrad is participating in a book launch event for a new anthology of queer writing about growing up with the AIDS crisis that just came out from Arsenal Pulp Press. His contribution is about growing up outside the metropolises and the role film/video/tv played in teaching me about queer HIV/AIDS histories, politics, and... More

Wednesday, July 21, 2021

Dr. Kelly Fritsch co-authors new children’s book about dis/ability justice!

Cross-appointment professor, Kelly Fritsch has co-authored "We Move Together", a new children's book that "chronicles the experiences of a diverse group of characters as they cleverly negotiate barriers and conflicts that impede their ability to move together. But more than that, We Move Together is a celebration of disability culture, community,... More

Friday, October 23, 2020

Dr. Patrizia Gentile’s new book is out TODAY!

Congratulations to our colleague Pat Gentile on the publication of her book "Queen of the Maple Leaf Beauty Contests and Settler Femininity"!  You can order your copy HERE! Book Description: As modern versions of the settler nation took root in twentieth-century Canada, beauty became a business. But beauty pageants were more than just frivolous... More

Thursday, October 15, 2020

Katharine Bausch Book Launch!

Join us in congratulating our colleague Dr. Katharine Bausch on her new book “He Thinks He’s Down: White Appropriations of Black Masculinities in the Civil Rights Era!  We're hosting a book launch for her so be sure to Register Here so you don't miss it! The end of the Second World War saw a... More

Monday, October 17, 2016

Gringo Gulch: Sex, Tourism, and Social Mobility in Costa Rica

Costa Rica Tourist Brochure by Nick Ward The term “pura vida” is a colloquialism unique to Costa Rica. The direct translation of pura vida is “pure life,” and it is meant to express a national ethos of eternal optimism. Costa Ricans use pura vida as a means to say hello, goodbye, thank you and... More

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