Randia’s Quiet Theatre draws on autofiction, interviews, and performance ethnography to unravel the politics of aging in Poland, while revealing how theatre and ethnography can become springboards for creating worlds in which the elderly can live with dignity.
In the mid-twentieth century, Montreal’s influential mayor Jean Drapeau endeavoured to transform Montreal into a world-class... Læs mere
Drink and Democracy traces the development of democratic ideas in a corner of the nineteenth-century British Empire through the history of drinking and temperance.
Apparition Fever examines a series of Marian apparitions that swept over Belgium in the 1930s and ’40s, tracing how knowledge of the apparitions was formed among bystanders, medical experts, and church authorities as they decided if the visionaries were worthy of belief.
Ancient writings, including the Jewish and Christian Bibles, reflect lived human experiences rather than mere dogma.... Læs mere
In 1912 French legislators established a distinct criminal justice system for juveniles, enshrining probation at its... Læs mere
An exploration of Céline Sciamma’s Tomboy, a quiet, understated examination of childhood, gender, and queer selfhood amidst the shifting sands of late childhood and early adolescence.
In Triquet's Cross John MacFarlane tells the story of Paul Triquet, a French-Canadian soldier who was awarded the Victoria Cross for bravery in the battle for Casa Berardi during the Second World War.
The Price of Gold traces the troubling history of one of Canada’s most contaminated mine sites and the Indigenous community, labour unions, and environmentalists who fought back against the federal government and the mining companies.
Civic Parties in Divided Societies explores how societies transition from armed conflict to issue-based democracies.