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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 t …

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 …

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 t …

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 n …

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 …

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. N …

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 …

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. …

“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 y …

The Book Publisher’s Association of Alberta has released the 2020 Alberta Book Publishing Awards Shortlist, including six UCalgary Press Books! The Red Chesterfield for Best Trade Fiction Intertwined Histories: Plants in Their Social Contexts for Best Trad …

Earl Wiseman, co-author of Fishing for a Solution: Canada’s Fisheries Relations with the European Union, 1977-2013, published by University of Calgary Press, passed away in Ottawa on April 8. Deeply experienced in Canada’s foreign fisheries policy and Cana …

Open UP: The University Pres Community Opens Resources to Support Learning and Research   The University Press community is opening a wide variety of resources, books, and journals to support student learning and scholarly research in these difficult …

The University of Calgary Press is celebrating 10 years of Open Access! The University of Calgary Press published its first Open Access book in 2010. From that moment forward, the Press embraced Open Access as part of our mandate and as a vitally important …

The Red Chesterfield is now available in braille transcription. The University of Calgary Press is honoured to partner with the National Network for Equitable Library Service Braille Publication Project to produce a braille transcription of Wayne Arthurson …

We are saddened to learn of the death Dr. John George Packer, professor, scholar, and unparalleled author of Vascular Plants of Alberta. Dr. Packer was Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of Science at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. For thirty years, …

  Exhibit by Paul Zits reviewed at AlbertaViews Magazine! Check it out here: http://ow.ly/mGIp50x1IEp

Wayne Arthurson’s The Red Chesterfield is one of 49th Shelf’s Buzzed About New Books!

Join us in the beautiful TFDL Gallery Hall on Thursday, September 5th to celebrate the launch of Protest and Democracy. Editors Moises Arce and Roberta Rice present their new collection and explore the intended—and unintended—ways the 2011 protest cycle in …

The Romans get bad press when it comes to literature . . . but Clem Martini brings expert knowledge of Roman Theatre and a keen eye for a good story to his fascinating historical novel The Comedian. Check out a review in AlbertaViews!   

    Flowers in the Wall, edited by David Webster, has been reviewed at Pacific Affairs. Check out the full review at the Pacific Affairs Website.

The Writing on the Wall: The Work of Joane Cardinal-Schubert, edited by Lindsey Sharman has won the 2019 Art Libraries Society of North America Melva J. Dwyer Award!

The Comedian by Clem Martini has been shortlisted for the Writer’s Guild of Alberta 2019 Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction! The story of Titus Maccius Plautus, the principal comic playwright of his time, The Comedian is a rollicking journey throug …

The University of Calgary Press Celebrates the Life of Bob Applebaum. Bob Applebaum, a leading authority on international fisheries issues and co-author of Fishing for a Solution: Canada’s Fisheries Relations with the European Union, 1977-2013, published b …