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Publications resulting from Community Seminars

For more information about recent publications from the Calgary Institute for the Humanities, published by UCalgary Press, please visit our page on the UCalgary Press Website or purchase them using the links below. If you are interested in our older publications or recordings for a research project, please contact us by email at cih@ucalgary.ca and we may be able to locate a copy for you. 


Intertwined Histories: Plants in Their Social Contexts

Author: Jim Ellis

Date: 2019

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Water Rites: Reimagining Water in the West

Author: Jim Ellis

Date: 2018

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Calgary: City of Animals

Author: Jim Ellis

Date: 2017 

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Dilemmas of Reconciliation: Bringing It Home to Calgary

Author: Jane H. Kelley

Date: 2000

Navigating the Information-"Rich" Society

Author: Jane H. Kelley and George X. Stacey

Date: 1999

A Window Into the Future: Alberta in 2010

Author: Jane H. Kelley

Date: 1998

Speed Limits, Stop Lights and Driver Training for the Information Highway

Author: Jane H. Kelley

Date: 1997

Violence Against Women

Author: Jane H. Kelly

Date: 1996

Family Structure and Social Change

Author: Richard C. Davis

Date: 1994

Education in an Uncertain Age

Authors: B. Donaldson, J. Kelley, and R. Davis

Date: 1993

Arts: The Soul of the Community

Authors: R. Brown, H. Coward, and J. Dugan

Date: 1992

Health Care for the Elderly

Authors: H. Buss, H. Coward, and A. Frank

Date: 1991

Civil Disobedience

Authors: H. Coward, J. Keeping, and R. Neufeldt

Date: 1990

Privacy

Authors: H. Coward, R. Knopff, and P. Fitzgerald-Moore

Date: 1989

Evolution of Multiculturalism

Authors: C. Bagley, H. Coward, and J. Friesen

Date: 1988

The Administration of Criminal Justice: Aspirations and Reality

Authors: B. Baker, H. Coward, and A. Stalker

Date: 1987

The Future of Work

Authors: S. Peitchinis, I. Wilson, and H. Coward

Date: 1986

The Role of the Modern Union

Authors: H. Coward and A. Ponak

Date: 1985

Quality of Life vs. Economic Growth

Author: J. Yardley

Date: 1984

The Use and Abuse of Language

Authors: H. Coward and J. Svilpis

Date: 1983

Ethical Issues in the Allocation of Health Care Resources

Authors: H. Coward and D. E. Larsen

Date: 1982

Calgary's Growth: Bane or Boon

Author: H. Coward

Date: 1981

The Calgary Atlas Project

The Calgary Atlas Project seeks to recover crucial stories about Calgary’s past and present, stories that illuminate in surprising ways the character and diversity of the city. Each map has text written by local historians and images specially commissioned from Calgary artists, in most cases artists who have a relation to the history they are interpreting. The initial phase of this project was supported by a grant from the Calgary Foundation. Maps are available from several local distributors.


A Queer Map: A Guide to the LGBTQ+ History of Calgary.

Contributors: Kevin Allen, author; Mark Clintberg, artist; Jeff Kulak, artist; Glenn Mielke, designer. 

Date: 2019

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First Nations Stampede: A Guide to First Nations History at the Calgary Stampede

Contributors: Adrian Stimson, artist; Erin Hryniuk, researcher; Jim Ellis, editor; Glenn Mielke, designer. 

Date: 2020

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Calgary's Art Underground: Place | Time | Art | A Guide

Contributors: Drunken Paw ( Mark Dicey, Leslie Sweder, Janet Turner), artist; Diana Sherlock, writer; Jim Ellis, editor; Glenn Mielke, designer. 

Date: 2021

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Workers Stand Up: Calgary Labour History Map

Contributors: Kirk Niergarth, author; Karen Mills, artist; Jim Ellis, editor; Glenn Mielke, designer.

Date: 2021

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Calgary Goes to the Movies! A Historical Guide

Contributors: Amanda Forbis & Wendy Tilby, artists; Tamara P. & Robert M. Seiler, Andrew Watts, & Charles Tepperman, researchers; Jim Ellis & Charles Tepperman, editors; Glenn Mielke, designer.

Date: 2021

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Calgary’s Architecture in 40 Buildings

Contributors: Graham Livesey, author; SPECTACLE Bureau for Architecture and Urbanism (Philip Vandermey, Jessie Andjelic, Veronique Ulrich, Vanessa Wang), artist; Jim Ellis, editor; Glenn Mielke, designer.

Date: 2022

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City of Romance: The Literary World of 1920s Calgary

Contributors: Shaun Hunter, author; Eveline Kolijn, artist; Jim Ellis, editor; Glenn Mielke, designer.

Date: 2022

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"RING-A-DING-DONG DANDY" A Map of Stampede Wrestling

Contributors: Heath McCoy, author; Kyle Beal, artist; Jim Ellis, editor; Glenn Mielke, designer.

Date: 2022

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The Animals Guide to Calgary

Contributors: Shelley Alexander & George Colpitts , authors; Rita McKeough, artist, Jim Ellis, editor; Glenn Mielke, designer.

Date: 2023

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Radio broadcasts developed from Community Seminars


Designing Humans

CBC Ideas. Calgary: September 18, 2000. Recorded at the Calgary Institute for the Humanities Annual Community Forum “Designing Humans: Planning the Perfect Gene Pool,” June 16, 2000.

Private Lives, Public Knowledge?

CBC Ideas. Calgary: January 21, 2002. Recorded at the Calgary Institute for the Humanities Annual Community Forum, “Private Lives, Public Knowledge?” October 19, 2001 .

Protest & Power

Ideas. Calgary: June 27, 2002. Recorded at the Calgary Institute for the Humanities Annual Community Forum, “Protest and Power,” June 14, 2002.

An Elusive Balance

CBC Ideas. Calgary: September 12, 2003. Recorded at the Calgary Institute for the Humanities Annual Community Forum, “Changing Philosophies of Work and Leisure: The Canadian Dream,” June 13, 2003.

Green, If Necessary

CBC Ideas. Calgary: September 23, 2004. Recorded at the Calgary Institute for the Humanities Annual Community Forum, “What Does it Mean to be Green?” June 11, 2004 .

Rethinking the Military

CBC Ideas. Calgary: November 4, 2005. Recorded at the Calgary Institute for the Humanities Annual Community Forum, “What is the Canadian Military? Rethinking it from the Ground Up,” June 16, 2005.

Judging the Judges

CBC Ideas. Calgary: October 12, 2006. Recorded at the Calgary Institute for the Humanities Annual Community Forum, “The Canadian Judicial System: The Role of Canadian Judges as Makers or Interpreters of the Law,” June 15, 2006.

Second Life and First

CBC Ideas. Calgary: September 17, 2007. Recorded at the Calgary Institute for the Humanities Annual Community Forum, “Identity Online: Views of the Community and Self,” June 14, 2007.

Losing Place

CBC Ideas. Calgary: May 5, 2008. Recorded at the Calgary Institute for the Humanities Annual Community Forum, “Homelessness: Private and Public Responses,” April 7, 2008.

Why People Apologize: Public Apologies and Their Consequences

CBC Ideas. Calgary: May 7, 2009. Recorded at the Calgary Institute for the Humanities Annual Community Forum, “Why People Apologise: Public Apologies and Their Consequences,” April 16, 2009.

Great Expectations. Citizens’ Expectations and Entitlements

CBC Ideas. Calgary: May 25, 2010. Recorded at the Calgary Institute for the Humanities Annual Community Forum, “Great Expectations: Citizens’ Expectations and Entitlements,” April 8, 2010.

Untangling Complexity

CBC Ideas. Calgary: May 18, 2011. Recorded at the Calgary Institute for the Humanities Annual Community Forum, “Untangling Complexity,” April 21, 2011.

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A Question of Optimism

CBC Ideas. Calgary: May 16, 2012. Recorded at the Calgary Institute for the Humanities Annual Community Forum, “The Question of Optimism,” April 19, 2012.

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Publications resulting from Conferences


Western Humanities Review. (Summer 2019, 73.3)

Annual special issue with the Western Humanities Alliance on “Spectral Cities,” from the WHA Annual Conference hosted by the CIH at the Central Library in Calgary, Alberta, Nov. 2-3, 2018. Guest editors: Jim Ellis, Noreen Humble, Graham Livesey

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Émigré Psychiatrists, Psychologists, and Cognitive Scientists in North America since the Second World War

Frank W. Stahnisch ed. Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. Preprint 490. History of Intellectual Culture 12/1 (2017–18).

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Western Humanities Review (Fall 2007, 16.3)

Annual special issue with the Western Humanities Alliance on "What is a City?" 25th Annual WHA Conference hosted by the CIH in Calgary, Alberta, Oct . 19-21. 2006. Guest editors: Wayne McCready, Susan Bennett.

History of Intellectual Culture. (2004, 4.1)

Special Issue: British World Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada (July 2003). Paul Stortz and E. Lisa Panayotidis eds. Guest Co-Editor: Phillip Buckner (Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London).

Publications resulting from targeted research (Networks) sponsored by CIH during 1978 to 2003


Dilemmas of Reconciliation

Authors: Trudy Govier and Carol Prager, eds. Wilfrid Laurier Press,

Date: 2003 

Dancing Bodies Living Histories: new writings about dance and culture

Author: Lisa Doolittle and Anne Flynn, eds. Banff Centre Press

Date: 2000

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Paul Ricoeur and Narrative: Context and Contestation

Author: Morny Joy, ed. University of Calgary Press

Date: 1997

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Gender, Genre and Religion

Author: Morny Joy and Eva Neumaier-Dargyay, eds. Wilfrid Laurier University Press

Date: 1995

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Ethics and Climate Change: The Greenhouse Effect

Author: H. Coward and T. Hurka, eds. Wilfrid Laurier University Press 

Date: 1993

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Ethical Choices and Global Greenhouse Warming

Author: L. Dotto, Wilfrid Laurier University Press

Date: 1993

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Reflections on Cultural Policy: Past, Present and Future

Author: E. Alderson, R. Blaser, and H. Coward, eds. Wilfrid Laurier University Press

Date: 1993

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Derrida and Negative Theology

Author:  H. Coward and T. Foshay, eds. State University of New York Press

Date: 1992

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The Future of Fossil Fuel

Author: H. Coward, ed. Canadian Energy Research Institute

Date: 1992

Atoms, Pneuma, and Tranquillity: Epicurean and Stoic Themes in European Thought

Author: M. J. Osler, ed. Cambridge University Press

Date: 1991

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Baptism, Peace and the State in the Reformed and Mennonite Traditions

Author: R. T. Bender and A. P. F. Sell, eds. Wilfrid Laurier University Press

Date: 1991

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The Educational Legacy of Romanticism

Author: J. Willinsky, ed. Wilfrid Laurier University Press

Date: 1990

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Silence, The Word and the Sacred

Author: E. D. Blodgett and H. G. Coward, eds. Wilfrid Laurier University Press

Date: 1989

The Effects of Feminist Approaches on Research Methodologies

Author: W. Tomm, ed. Wilfrid Laurier University Press

Date: 1989

Hindu-Christian Dialogue: Perspectives and Encounters.

Author: H. Coward, ed. Orbis Books

Date: 1989

Modern Indian Responses to Religious Pluralism

Author: H. Coward, ed. State University of New York Press

Date: 1988

Rupert's Land: A Cultural Tapestry

Author: R. C. Davis, ed. Wilfrid Laurier University Press

Date: 1988

Gender Bias in Scholarship

Author: W. Tomm and G. Hamilton, eds. Wilfrid Laurier University Press

Date: 1988

Thinking the Unthinkable: Civilization and Rapid Climate Change

Author: L. Dotto. Wilfrid Laurier University Press

Date: 1988

 

Biomedical Ethics and Fetal Therapy

Author: C. Nimrod and G. Griener, eds. Wilfrid Laurier University Press

Date: 1988

Franz Kafka (1883-1983): His Craft and Thought

Author: R. Struc and J. C. Yardley, eds. Wilfrid Laurier University Press

Date: 1986

Ancient Coins of the Graeco-Roman World

Author: W. Heckel and R. Sullivan, eds. Wilfrid Laurier University Press

Date: 1985

Crime and Criminal Justice in Europe and Modern Canada (Second Edition)

Author: L. A. Knafla, ed. Wilfrid Laurier University Press

Date: 1985

The Humanities in Alberta: Post-Secondary Technical and Vocational Education

Author: H. Coward and E. Thiessen, eds. University of Calgary Press

Date: 1985

Driving Home: A Dialogue Between Writers and Readers

Authors: E. Dansereau and B. Belyea, eds. Wilfrid Laurier University Press

Date: 1984

Ideology, Philosophy and Politics

Author: A. Parel, ed. Wilfrid Laurier University Press

Date: 1983

Doctors, Patients, and Society

Author: M. Staum and D. E. Larsen, eds. Wilfrid Laurier University Press

1981

Science, Pseudo-Science and Society

Author: M. P. Hanen, M. J. Osler, and R. G. Weyant, eds. Wilfrid Laurier University Press

Date: 1980

Theories of Property: Aristotle to the Present

Author: A. Parel and T. Flanagan, eds. Wilfrid Laurier University Press

Date: 1979

The New Land: Studies in a Literary Theme

Authors: R. Chadbourne and H. Dahlie, eds. Wilfrid Laurier University Press

Date: 1978

Religion and Ethnicity

Authors: H. Coward and L. Kawamura, eds. Wilfrid Laurier University Press

Date: 1978