Stephen Shapiro

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

“They Think We Are Stupid”: Reinventing Kazakh Tradition | Atomic Collective View all available purchase options and get full access to this chapter.

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

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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

Cardboard box open to reveal two stacks of the same book. The cover of the book has a backdrop the colour of a green carnation, with two colourised photos showing the same individual in two different exposures, one in masculine-coded clothing from the early 20th century, and one in feminine-coded clothing. On the left the individual is wearing a suit coloured mid-blue with a white starched collar and purple tie and waistcoat and a black hat. On the right the individual is wearing a pink overcoat with wide sleeves over a light-blue blouse and a purple skirt, as well as a purple broad-brimmed hat with a blue ribbon. The text at the top reads MAGNUS HIRSCHFELD/Translated and with an afterword by James J. Conway/BERLIN’S THIRD SEX

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

ACLS Announces Finalists for 2025 ACLS Open Access Book Prizes and Arcadia Open Access Publishing Awards Twenty books advance to final round of $50,000 prize for open access titles in the humanities

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.
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A book cover with a backdrop the colour of a green carnation, with two colourised photos showing an individual in two different exposures, one in masculine-coded clothing from the early 20th century, and one in feminine-coded clothing. On the left the individual is wearing a suit coloured mid-blue with a white starched collar and purple tie and waistcoat and a black hat. On the right the individual is wearing a pink overcoat with wide sleeves over a light-blue blouse and a purple skirt, as well as a purple broad-brimmed hat with a blue ribbon. The text at the top reads MAGNUS HIRSCHFELD/Translated and with an afterword by James J. Conway/BERLIN’S THIRD SEX

The cover of the book Berlin’s Third Sex by Magnus Hirschfeld with the original German title in old script enclosed by a wild cat with a garland below it in green and black, all against a pink-beige background.

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)

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Honestly, it feels like the ostensible request here is never what actually gets attention. It's either reversion to the status quo with a big for-profit multi-national or a radical structural shift.

If a for-profit provider is an issue, there are even multiple non-profit platforms that offer perpetual access. And have for decades. One of them offers it even if you cancel all your ongoing agreements with them! Another permits local archiving for use if you no longer have an agreement.

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?

Importantly, Clarivate left themselves a substantial fallback position. Their Rialto platform still lets libraries do perpetual access purchases on sites other than Ebook Central. According to the Rialto website, that's 23 sites, some of which are multi-publisher platforms themselves. /2

Not to be flip, but its probably a bit of both. Very few presses are large enough to pick only one platform/strategy. That's one reason the Clarivate/ProQuest decision to drop non-subscription acquisitions on Ebook Central made such waves. /1

Publishing's not a bad fit for HSS graduate students, but these articles are always about books/journals, rather than being the copy-editor for the state lottery and gaming commission (the instructor in my c/e class) or proofreader for financial marketing collateral (my first freelance gig)

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!

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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!

And a big thank-you to the Freie Universität Berlin and Andrea for making that happen.

Queer Lives across the Wall - University of Toronto Press Desire and Danger in Divided Berlin, 1945–1970

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WCGS Book Prize | Waterloo Centre for German Studies The Waterloo Centre for German Studies promotes research into any and all aspects of the German-speaking world.

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

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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.