Calgary’s first pride festival was held in June 1988, organized by a grassroots collective of Calgary’s LGBTQ2S+ organizations. The city’s first Pride Parade was held in June 1991. The University of Calgary is a proud partner of Calgary Pride. As part of the celebration, Ucalgary Press presents a curated list of titles in Queer studies […]
Celebrating Environmental History Week with CHE Environmental History Week is an international celebration of environmental history, organized by environmental historians of all stripes to foster scholarly collaboration, teaching and public engagement with environmental history. This environmental history week, we’re exploring highlights from the series Canadian History and Environment, produced in partnership with NiCHE Canada. Launched […]
HREC Education presents Holodomor Stories: Recent Reads for Schools Five Stalks of Grain author Adrian Lysenko and illustrator Ivanka Theodosia Galadza are joined by host Mateusz Swietlicki and graphic novel scholar Anastasia Ulanowicz in a discussion of this powerful, haunting graphic novel. Discover the complete Holodomor Research and Education Consortium’s series commemorating the 90th anniversary […]
This open-access book series honours and celebrates the intellectual legacy of John Wendell Holmes, one of Canada’s foremost diplomats and foreign policy educators. In the words of his late colleague, John Halstead: “John Holmes had the knack of shedding new light on old truths, of going to the heart of the matter and of winning […]
Each year, Choice presents a selection of Outstanding Academic Titles. This prestigious list reflects the best scholarly titles reviewed by Choice during the previous calendar year, as chosen by the editors. Selected for their excellence in scholarship and presentation, the significance of their contribution to the field, and their value in treatment of their subjects, […]
A prestigious Society and University Press partner to challenge traditional book publishing Open Access monographs are revolutionizing the scholarly publishing world: scholarship made freely available for download, with print versions for sale on demand. Now, a new collaboration is offering something more. The University of Calgary Press and the British Society for the Philosophy of […]
Exploring improvements to global OA monograph data analytics through a collective usage data trust The University of Calgary Press, a leading Canadian publisher of Open Access scholarly books, announced today its participation in the global Exploring Open Access eBook Usage (OAeBU) data trust pilot project supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Director of the […]
The Manhattan Project by Ken Hunt has been reviewed at rob mclennan’s venerable poetry blog. Visit rob’s blog for a toothy exploration of this necropastoral poetic, along with a special sneak peek!
We are deeply saddened to share the obituary of Greg Donaghy. A scholar with a passion for social justice, Greg was the co-editor of three books with UCalgary Press, including From Kinshasa to Kandahar and the recent A Samaritan State Revisited. We remember him as a first-class editor, a skilled collaborator, and a person of intelligence and […]
“Before corndogs, fireworks and packed grandstands, there were frontier families working together to settle new land, innovate the cattle business and build strong communities — they lived the stories at the heart of the Stampede spirit we celebrate each year…” Celebrate the Calgary Stampede in a year of social distancing our favourite way . . […]