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Coming to #MLA26 in Toronto this week? Come by the @uoftpress.bsky.social booth to see our newest titles. If you want to meet to discuss a book project in German, Eastern European, or Eurasian literary studies, send me an e-mail.

In case you haven’t seen it, today we posted our fascinating interview with Douglas Pretsell on Urning: Queer Identity in the German Nineteenth Century. Read the full interview here: wp.me/p6JJ6S-4Px 1/3 #historyofsexuality #Germanhistory

UBC Queer and Trans German Studies is hosting Andrea Rottmann (FU Berlin) as the next Tobin Distinguished Lecture in Queer and Trans German Studies! The event will take place in person at UBC as well as online. We would be grateful if you could pass the announcement on to your networks.

My book launch @dependencybonn.de on June 12 follows by a reception!! See you if you are around.

It's always so exciting to see how the field of Central Asian studies is shaping. But for this particular book, I've been waiting for Stawkowski's study for a long time since we first almost coincided at ASEES almost a decade ago. I knew of Magdalena's fieldwork utppublishing.com/doi/10.3138/...

Excited to be headed to the book expo at Congress 2025 on Monday #congreSSH @federationhss.ca. If you want to talk about titles in history or European and Eurasian studies, send me an email or drop by the @uoftpress.bsky.social booth

Receiving fresh copies of a book you’ve worked on – it never gets tired. Berlin‘s Third Sex by Magnus Hirschfeld, published by @uoftpress.bsky.social

Today, ACLS announced the finalists for the 2025 ACLS Open Access Book Prizes and Arcadia Open Access Publishing Awards: bit.ly/3Fr4PA3 These $50,000 prizes recognize and reward the authors and publishers of exceptional, innovative, and open access humanities books published from 2018 to 2023.

The European Accessibility Act goes into effect in June. Publishers selling digital products. such as e-books, in the EU must ensure their products meet accessibility standards. Mary Lui explains for #FeedingTheElephant what authors and publishers need to know. ➡️ networks.h-net.org/group/discus...

It was on this day that Magnus Hirschfeld was born (1868) and died (1935), so it’s a good time to tell you my translation of his utterly groundbreaking 1904 study of sexuality and gender, “Berlin’s Third Sex”, has just been reissued by @uoftpress.bsky.social. This is also good timing because … 🧵

Going to the Canadian Association of Slavists conference in Edmonton next week? So am I. Want to talk about a book project? Send me an e-mail and we can find a time to chat (I won't have a book exhibit)

Reading yet another opinion piece on the Clarivate pivot-to-subscriptions and it's starting to get to me. May I humbly suggest, even if just a short-term measure, mentioning that you can spend your money with publishers and platforms that *do* offer perpetual access?

Folks, we started a journal! Send us your articles and reviews about queer culture in Central and Eastern Europe!

New ebook storefront, associated with Bookshop.org. Interesting that's it'll pull from a non-Ingram source too (unless I'm missing something about Draft2Digital)

A great-looking conference featuring the African and Asian perspectives on writing histories of the Holocaust from (post/de)colonial contexts, far beyond Shanghai and other better-explored “peripheries.” www.hsozkult.de/event/id/eve...

Thrilled for Andrea and for the field! uwaterloo.ca/centre-for-g...

This is wonderful and so well deserved!!! 😍 I had the chance to review it and it was one of my favourite books in queer history of the last decade!

Congratulations to Andrea Rottmann, whose book "Queer Lives across the Wall" (@uoftpress.bsky.social) won the 2023 Waterloo Centre for German Studies Book Prize. uwaterloo.ca/centre-for-g...

I guess I'm trying Bluesky for a bit, so let's start with news you can use. @uoftpress.bsky.social has a new website utppublishing.com and that website comes with a big backlist sale: 1800 titles are all 75% off with the code WINTERSALE75 from now until January 6.