Topic: History
Town and Gown go to the movies
What can film tell us about the town and gown relationship?
READ MOREHarper and the “dumbing down” of Canadian society
It’s almost like we planned it! But even though we didn’t, the micro-lecture roundtable discussion sponsored jointly by the Canadian Political Science […]
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Business as Usual: Elite Universities during the 1930s
Resources and intelligence do not necessarily translate into political or moral fortitude. Stephen H. Norwood, The Third Reich in the Ivory Tower: Complicity and Conflict on American Campuses. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
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Plus ça change? Education in the Enlightenment and Now
Stephen Bygrave, Uses of Education: Reading in Enlightenment in England (Bucknell, 2009) and Mary Hilton and Jill Shefrin, eds, Educating the Child in Enlightenment Britain: Beliefs, Cultures, Practices (Ashgate, 2009).
READ MOREObama and the Crash: reshaping the intellectual agenda in Canada
Major developments in American politics and society always provoke some combination of consternation, envy, imitation, rejection, or righteous indignation north of the […]
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Reflections on University Press Publishing
Former University of Toronto Press executive Bill Harnum describes the current terrain of scholarly book publishing and looks to the future. There are a number of daunting challenges, he writes, but they can be overcome.
READ MOREUniversities and The Great Depression: Then and Now?
It is positively eerie for a baby boomer like me to hear talk of a possible “Depression” in Canada. Having come of […]
READ MORENo University Buildings
On November 17, 2008 the Senate of the University of Waterloo met to discuss a proposal to establish a satellite campus in […]
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Nothing Gold Can Stay
Lucien X. Polastron, Books on Fire: The Destruction of Libraries Throughout History, translator: Jon E. Graham (Rochester, Vermont: Inner Traditions, 2007); Fernando Baez, A Universal History of the Destruction of Books, translator: Alfred MacAdam (New York: Atlas & Co, 2008).
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