Book Launch and Discussion, Feb. 10: Reading the Room
Concordia University Press invites you to celebrate and discuss the release of Reading the Room: Lessons on Pedagogy and Curriculum from the Gender and Sexuality Studies Classroom. Edited by Natalie Kouri-Towe, this new collection features twenty candid contributions on classroom experiences from instructors and students throughout Canada to provide guidance on often-fraught issues relating to gender, sexuality, race, class, disability, and decolonization. Working from a place of coalition building, this volume is a frank, insightful, and pragmatic invitation to share different pedagogical practices with educators in a range of academic disciplines.
Please join Natalie Kouri-Towe and contributors Kimberley Manning (Concordia University), Nathalie Batraville (Concordia University), Alexis Poirier-Saumure (Concordia University), and Kelly Fritsch (Carleton University). Together they will discuss topics including trigger warnings, student expectations, asymmetrical power relations between students and teachers, how students and professors learn from each other, how to negotiate conflict in a classroom, and how to be self-reflective about methods of teaching and learning. This panel will ask question such as: How do professors navigate their relationship to course design and pedagogical methods with student anxieties, expectations, and desires for the classroom? What approaches do professors hope that students and colleagues from outside of gender and sexuality classrooms will engage with more in the coming years? And what lessons do gender and sexuality studies scholars think people outside their disciplines should be taking into their own classes?
With these topics as a starting point, the editor and contributors will engage in a roundtable discussion in a hybrid format. This will be followed by light refreshments, further conversations, and an opportunity to purchase the volume at a special book event discount!
How can you participate? Join us in person or online by registering for the Zoom Meeting or watching live on YouTube.
Have questions? Send them to info.4@concordia.ca
Natalie Kouri-Towe is a professor of feminism and sexuality at the at the Simone de Beauvoir Institute at Concordia University.
Book Launch: Reading the Room, Ottawa, Jan. 21
Join us on Tuesday, January 21, 2025, at 6:30 P.M., for the Ottawa launch of Reading the Room: Lessons on Pedagogy and Curriculum from the Gender and Sexuality Studies Classroom (Concordia University Press, 2024). This groundbreaking collection, edited by Natalie Kouri-Towe, brings together first-hand experiences from gender and sexuality studies classrooms, offering profound insights into the transformative power of pedagogy.
The event will be hosted at Carleton University in Ottawa, FSS 4004 (120 University Private) and will feature conversations with contributors and a panel discussion that delves into the book’s key themes: navigating power dynamics in the classroom, addressing debates around “trigger warnings” and “cancel culture,” and creating equitable and inclusive learning environments.
Panelists include: Natalie Kouri-Towe, Gulzar R. Charania, Kelly Fritsch, Dan Irving, and Megan Rivers-Moore. Please note that this event will be held in English.
Light snacks will be provided and copies of the book will be available for purchase! Please RSVP at this link.
Ian Carr-Harris Book Launch at Librairie De Stiil, Fri. Jan. 24
Join us at Librairie De Stiil in Montreal for an evening celebrating the launch of Tracings: Writing Art, 1975–2020, by artist, curator, critic, and teacher Ian Carr-Harris! This career-spanning work collects Carr-Harris's impressive output of essays, critical experiments, and reviews into a single volume, documenting the growth of conceptual art and postmodernism in Canadian art, as well as the expansion of mediums and spaces, while providing insights into methods of representation and the role of criticism in contemporary art.
For the event, Carr-Harris will be in conversation with art historian, critic, and curator Dan Adler, associate professor in the department of Visual Art & Art History at York University, Toronto.
📅 When: Friday, January 24, 2025
🕟 Time: 6:00-8:00 PM
📍 Where: Librairie De Stiil, 351 ave Duluth E., Montreal
Join us for a reception celebrating the launch of Reading the Room: Lessons on Pedagogy and Curriculum from the Gender and Sexuality Studies Classroom, edited by Natalie Kouri-Towe.
Date: Tuesday, January 14, 2025
Time: 4:30-6:30 PM
Where: Mezzmiz, 1407 Crescent St., Montreal (metro Guy or Peel)
Enjoy light refreshments and pick up a copy of the book at a 20% discount! Drinks and additional food can be purchased from Mezzmiz.
RSVP at this link: https://tr.ee/8Wi4WZSgrm
Concordia University Press at Read Quebec Book Fair
Join us this weekend, December 7-8 at Casa d'Italia in Montreal (505 Jean-Talon E.) for AELAQ's annual Read Quebec book fair in support of Quebec's indie English-language publishers! We'll be tabling 12-7pm on Saturday and 12-5pm on Sunday, come say hi and check out our latest titles!
Full programme available at ReadQuebec.ca. We hope to see you there!
Ian Carr-Harris, Tracings, at Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto, November 28, 2024 to January 11, 2025
Thursday November 28, at Susan Hobbs Gallery in Toronto, 6–8pm, we celebrate the opening of Ian Carr-Harris' exhibition, Tracings! The exhibition is keyed to Carr-Harris new book, Tracings: Writing Art, 1975–2020, available now from Concordia University Press with an introduction by Dan Adler.
Collecting Carr-Harris's impressive body of essays, critical experiments, and reviews into a single volume, Tracings documents the emergence of conceptual art and postmodernism in Canadian art, as well as the expansion of mediums and art spaces, while providing insights into methods of representation and the role of criticism in contemporary art.
This exhibition functions as a response to Carr-Harris's anthology, furthering his longstanding exploration of the the relation between art and language, the word and the thing, books and artworks (and books as artworks).
The book as a work, the work thanking the book for its time.
The exhibition continues until January 11, 2025. There will be a drop-in/drop-out book launch at the gallery on Saturday, December 14 from 2 to 4 pm. A Montreal launch will follow in January—stay tuned for details!
Concordia University Press at Salon du Livre Montreal 2024
November 27–December 1, we will be at Salon du Livre Montreal, thanks to AELAQ, who are hosting a Read Quebec table! We're thrilled to be participating along with other English-language publishers at the city's largest book event of the year. Come visit us at kiosk 401 to find your next favourite read!
For more details, see:
https://readquebec.ca/event/read-quebec-at-the-salon-du-livre-de-montreal/
Concordia University Press at Expozine 2024!
Join us at Expozine this weekend, Saturday Nov 23, 12–7pm, and Sunday Nov 24, 12:30–7pm! This year's event will take place at Église Saint-Arsène (1025 Rue Bélanger) in Rosemont–La Petite-Patrie. We will be tabling with all of our latest titles.
For more details, including the full programme and list of exhibitors, see here:
https://expozine.ca/en/fair/2024-2/
Concordia University Press Fall 2024 Events
As the weather cools, our schedule is heating up! Concordia University Press is thrilled to be hosting and participating in a plethora of events and activities in the coming months. We hope you’ll join us for the following dates:
Thursday, October 3
Volume Montreal book fair satellite events, Concordia University
- Some Magnetic Force: Lionel LeMoine FitzGerald Writings: Michael Parke-Taylor in conversation with Saelan Twerdy, 1:00–1:30pm, 4TH Space
- Concordia Art Publishers’ Conversation, 2:00–3:30pm, 4TH Space
Saturday/Sunday, October 5–6, 12-6pm
Volume MTL book fair at Casa Italia (505 Jean-Talon E.)
Thursday, October 10, 4–6pm
Book Launch: Family and Justice in the Archives w/ Peter Gossage and Lisa Moore, 4TH Space, Concordia
Thursday, October 17, 5–7pm
Book Launch: The Regulation of Desire: Queer Histories, Queer Struggles (Revised 3rd ed.) w/ Gary Kinsman and Rhea Rollman, at The Breezeway Bar, St. John's (Room UC-1004, 1 Arctic Ave)
Wednesday, October 23, 7–11pm
Yolk Literary Oktoberfest, $10, Riverside St-Henri, Montreal (5020 Saint Ambrose St.)
Monday, October 28, 1–5:30pm
Open Access Month Events at 4TH Space:
- Community Over Commercialization, 1–3pm: Stop by for informal conversations, networking, and hands-on button-making, all while enjoying a cup of coffee! This info session and button-making workshop is an opportunity for students, professors, librarians, staff, and anyone curious about open-access publishing, open data, open-source software, and open education to learn more about Concordia’s open landscape!
- How Do You Picture It? A Presentation and Discussion on Alt-texts and Art Books, 4–5:30pm: Join Concordia University Press and Mehrnoosh Alborzi for a conversation and an example-driven presentation on writing alt-text descriptions for visually illustrated books.
Stay tuned for further updates, including more book events and details about our participation at upcoming fairs like Salon du Livre and Read Quebec!
Gary Kinsman Events July 2024
Gary Kinsman's book tour for the revised third edition of The Regulation of Desire continues! In the month of July, you can catch him appearing in Amsterdam in the Netherlands, and in Halifax, Nova Scotia!
Dates and details:
Sunday July 14, 3-5pm
Book Launch w/ Gary Kinsman and Peter Drucker, author of Warped: Gay Normality and Queer Anti-Capitalism
IIRE - International Institute for Research and Education
Lombokstraat 40, Amsterdam
(bus 22 or bus 65 to Janaplein)
Masked Event
More info here
Sunday, July 21, 7pm
Book launch w/ Gary Kinsman, OmiSoore Dryden, and Rebecca Rose
This is a hybrid event: in-person at Venus Envy and online via Zoom. Registration closes 3 hours before the event. Zoom codes will be emailed 3 hour before the start of the event, please check your spam folder!
Email education coordinator Rachele rachele@venusenvy.ca for:
- questions about the workshop
- accessibility information/requests
- troubleshooting Zoom
- late registration (after 4:00pm ADT the day of the workshop)
Venus Envy
1727 Barrington St
Halifax, NS B3J 2A4
Masked Event
https://venusenvy.ca/products/regulation-of-desire-3rd-edition-book-launch
Gary Kinsman Events May 2024
Gary Kinsman's book tour for the revised third edition of The Regulation of Desire continues! In the month of May, you can catch him appearing in Edmonton, Vancouver, and Winnipeg, and watch out for upcoming dates in Montreal, Halifax, and Amsterdam!
See details below for Gary's June appearance in Montreal, as well, coinciding with the 2024 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences!
Dates and details:
Thursday May 2, 7pm
Book Launch w/ Gary Kinsman, River Rossi, and Tom Hooper
Audreys Books
10702 Jasper Ave.
Edmonton, AB
Friday, May 10, 6pm
Double Book Launch: The Regulation of Queer, Trans, and Disabled Bodies
World Arts Centre, 149 W. Hastings
Vancouver, BC
Hosted by SFU Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies
Thursday, May 16, 7pm
Book Launch w/ Gary Kinsman
Ft. speakers Tom Hooper, Leon Ladlaw, and Erica McNabb
Willow Press, 214 Osborne St.
Winnipeg, MB
https://www.willowpressco.com/
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Monday, June 17, 6:30pm
Book launch w/ Gary Kinsman
Ft. speakers Ross Higgins, Vincent Mousseau, and Tom Waugh
L'Euguélionne, librairie feministe, 1426 rue Beaudry
Montreal, QC
Call for Statements of Interest: Cultural Production and Everyday Life
29 January 2024 - Concordia University Press seeks statements of interest for titles in a new book series
Cultural Production and Everyday Life
Series editors: Miranda Campbell (Toronto Metropolitan University) and Benjamin Woo (Carleton University)
What happens to our view of culture and creativity when we ground it at the level of everyday life – something that is produced by people in particular contexts? The Cultural Production and Everyday Life series seeks to expand the study of culture to include a broader range of producers, practices, and predicaments while also moving beyond a blockbuster or superstar view of culture and creativity – a more limited notion that culture is good for the economy. Alongside being a source of livelihoods, cultural production is also a way for us to know ourselves, each other, and the world – a mode of engagement or disengagement, an orientation or an ethos.
This view of culture and creativity is a lens to register the processes of creating – and the intersections of social, economic, and cultural forces that ultimately shape products or outputs – but juicier analyses might be found by foregrounding the process or the lived experience, rather than the product in itself. Working through, mapping, or registering relationships between sectors, actors, policies, and cultural forms gives rise to a messier account of cultural production, circulation, and reception.
Cultural Production and Everyday Life is conceived as a series of short, accessibly written, print and open-access edition pamphlets of approximately 30,000–65,000 words that foreground such questions as:
• What are the enabling conditions that allow people to keep doing and making what they are doing and making?
• What contexts inform the cultural form that is being made? How are these contexts impacted by flows of power?
• How is a cultural form experienced, and what impact does it have on the context that informed it?
• If expansion and even longevity might not necessarily be the best indicators of success, how else can cultural importance and value be registered?
It publishes contributions that read either as manifestoes for new directions for studying the practices and contexts that shape the production of media, communication and culture, or as focused vignettes exploring particular sites, spaces, and practices in rich, empirical detail. Monographs, dialogues, forums, or other alternative formats are all welcomed. Potential topics might include, but are not limited to:
• Conceptual frameworks for approaching cultural production as lived experience;
• Forms of sociality, economic activity, or both emerging in relation to creative practices;
• Experiences of particular workers, consumers, fans, audiences, or residents in relation to cultural production and creative practice;
• Collectives, organizations, spaces, scenes, and unions that support cultural production;
• Ecological analysis of contemporary or historical forms of cultural production, informal, under-attentioned, or celebrated forms of creative practice;
• and Community-making and care as forms of cultural production.
All submissions should incorporate an intersectional analysis in their arguments. Publications in this series will be both print editions and open access ebooks, and, in dialogue with the series editors and Concordia University Press, the format can be tailored to suit the particular focus of the project. Please send inquiries or proposals to miranda.campbell@torontomu.ca.
Concordia University Press Announces the Launch of Three New Series
20 February 2023 - Concordia University Press is pleased to announce the launch of three new book series, with publications forthcoming.
Cultural Production and Everyday Life
Series editors: Miranda Campbell (Toronto Metropolitan University) and Benjamin Woo (Carleton University)
Cultural production and Everyday Life disrupts narrow, economistic, and instrumentalized views of culture and seeks to expand what counts as “cultural production” and who counts as a “cultural producer” beyond creative industries success stories. By focusing on lived experience and always insisting on thinking of the cultural and the social together, this series provides lines of inquiry into cultural forms, producers, and communities that have been marginalized, received less attention, or otherwise have not been considered cultural or significant.
Counter-Archives: Media and Material Practices
Series editors: Stacy Allison-Cassin (Dalhousie University), Monika Kin Gagnon (Concordia University), and Janine Marchessault (York University)
Counter-Archives: Media and Material Practices will explore the theoretical, methodological, and political questions that arise from the evolving nature of archives as keepers of memory and collective histories. Volumes will create a dialogue between scholars, artists, archivists, librarians, curators, media professionals, and policymakers, while reactivating media and materials and refreshing methodologies and approaches to history, to national and transnational cultures, and to community-based collective memories and social practices.
Feminist Tech Histories
Series editor: Alex D. Ketchum (McGill University)
Feminist Tech Histories encourages scholarship that examines the ways in which tech can both support and hinder feminist practices, causes, and worldmaking projects. Books in this series will address questions of how the use of tech has been gendered, racialized, and classed, while revealing how analogue and digital tech has impacted and been transformed by marginalized communities, including Indigenous peoples, LGBT2Q+ folks, people of colour, and immigrants.
Alex D. Ketchum on tour in February and March 2023
20 February 2023 - Concordia University Press author and series editor Alex D. Ketchum is on tour throughout the eastern US in February and March promoting her books Engage in Public Scholarship! and Ingredients for Revolution.
You can catch her in person or tune in online on the following dates:
- February 26: All She Wrote Books, Feminist Bookstore, Somerville, MA, on Ingredients for Revolution, 5pm (in person)
- February 27: Harvard University's Berkman Klein Center, on Engage in Public Scholarship!, 3-5pm (hybrid)
- February 28: Boston University, Jacques Pépin Lecture, on feminist restaurants, 6-7pm, in the demonstration kitchen with tea, coffee, muffins, and pastry (in person)
- March 1: Brown University (Center for Public Humanities in Providence, RI), on doing public scholarship, 5:30-6:30pm (in person)
- March 2: Wesleyan University, Middleton, CT, with Emily Larned, on food, feminism, and revolution, 4:30-6pm at Allbritton Center 311 (in person)
- March 3: Bluestockings Bookstore, NYC, on Ingredients for Revolution, 5-7pm (in person)
- March 7: Firestorm Books, Asheville, NC, in conversation with Wren Awry, on kitchen sink activism, 7-8:30om (virtual)
- March 13: Charis Books, Decatur, GA, co-sponsored by Violet Valley Books, Water Valley, MS, on Ingredients for Revolution, 7:30pm (virtual)
Jon Davies in Conversation with Geoffrey Little
17 February 2023 - In January of this year, author, editor, and art historian Jon Davies sat down in 4TH SPACE with CUP's Geoffrey Little for a lightning round Q&A about the recent publication of More Voice-Over: Colin Campbell Writings. You can watch the archived chat on Youtube.
New Roles at the Press
19 January 2023 - In January 2023, Saelan Twerdy joined the Press as Editorial Coordinator. Since 2018, Saelan has been Managing Editor of RACAR, the journal of the Universities Art Association of Canada, and his art writing has appeared in many outlets including Beside, CBC Arts, Momus, Border Crossings, C Magazine, and Canadian Art. Also in January, Meredith Carruthers, lately Managing and Production Editor, moved into a new role centred on Outreach and Special Projects. Finally, and in January as well, Press Director Geoffrey Little will begin a one-year sabbatical. In his absence, Rebecca Duclos will be Acting Director. Rebecca is Professor of Art History and a former Dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts.
At the end of August 2022, Guylaine Beaudry, Concordia's University Librarian since 2014, took up a new role as Trenholme Dean of Libraries at McGill University. Guylaine was one of the Press's founders and we extend our sincere thanks and best wishes to her.
