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“Smith’s work on the experience of Black farmers during the Jim Crow era joins a vibrant field of scholarship focused on agriculture as a site of independence and self-sufficiency, not only as a site of exploitation.” —Adrienne Monteith Petty, author of Standing Their Ground: Small Farmers in North Carolina Since the Civil War
“Taking us away from where we are?” Translation in Paul Auster’s Writing / Paul Auster’s Writing in Translation Keynote speaker: Marita Thomsen Online Colloquium, Friday 19 March 2027, 1 p.m. – 6 p.m. This online colloquium is hosted by the Paul Auster Society and the David Bruce Centre for the Study of the Americas, based at Keele University. It will bring together professional translators and Auster scholars to explore translation in and of Auster’s writing in a range of senses.
"An outstanding piece of scholarship that starts with great questions. In refusing to take the calorie for granted, Mackert thoroughly denaturalizes the ubiquitous measure of food value, revealing it as an unstable and yet remarkably useful construct with a history and function that is inseparable from politics." - Charlotte Biltekoff, author of Eating Right in America: The Cultural Politics of Food and Health
“An important, scholarly feminist history of the treatment of women in public that has clear connections to the manifestations of today’s toxic masculinity.”—Booklist “An outstanding history of an urban practice that hides in plain sight.”—Anne Gray Fischer, author of The Streets Belong to Us: Sex, Race, and Police Power from Segregation to Gentrification
Joseph Larnerd is the most exciting voice to emerge in decorative arts scholarship in a generation. His deeply researched, theoretically sophisticated, and above all, beautifully written study of cut glass is like the subject itself: multifaceted in its implications, crystalline in its clarity. Undercut is a crucial intervention into the field, one that sets a new standard for material culture studies in the 21st century. - Glenn Adamson, author of A Century of Tomorrows
Bertrand Bickersteth was the Athabasca University Writer in Residence for 2024-2025. He is a poet, playwright, essayist, and educator. His poetry collection, The Response of Weeds, was the winner of several awards. His current exploration of Black Cowboys on the Prairies is an ongoing project in three parts, consisting of nonfiction, poetry, and fiction respectively. He lives in Moh’kins’tsis (Calgary) and teaches at Olds College.
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