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Backpacks Full of Hope: The UN Mission in Haiti	Blazing Figures: A Life of Robert Markle	Troubling Tricksters: Revisioning Critical Conversations

Book Launch

Please join us for the book launch of Blazing Figures: A Life of Robert Markle by J.A. Wainwright on Thursday, March 11, 2010 from 6:30 to 8:30 pm at Ben McNally Books, 366 Bay Street, Toronto. Call 519-884-0710 ext. 2665 or 416-361-0032 for more information. Map to Ben McNally Books.

Raymond Klibansky Prize

Harmony & Dissent: Film and Avant-garde Art Movements in the Early Twentieth Century by R. Bruce Elder has been selected for the shortlist of the prestigious Raymond Klibansky Prize for Best Book in the Humanities. The Prize is awarded annually by the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences to an English and a French publication showing exceptional scholarship and vision in humanities research. The winning books will be announced at the Federation's Annual General Meeting in Ottawa this month.

Harmony & Dissent: Film and Avant-garde Art Movements in the Early Twentieth Century is also winner of the 2009 Robert Motherwell Book Award for outstanding publication in the history and criticism of modernism in the arts and was selected as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2009 by Choice (ALA).

Ideas & Issues Lecture Series

Laurier Press author Stephen Wenn will be presenting post Olympic analysis at the Ideas and Issues Lectures Series at the Kitchener Public Library on Monday, March 15, at noon.

Stephen Wenn is also among a group of experts interviewed in the New York Times about the future of the Olympics.

Wenn is co-editor with Gerald Schaus of Onward to the Olympics: Historical Perspectives on the Olympic Games which bridges the historical divide between the ancient and the modern games. Choice says the book will “please those fascinated by the Olympics.... Recommended.”

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