Université de Montréal's Michel Seymour and Pierre Popovic win book prize, ditto for D'Arcy McGee and reasonable accomodation

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Two professors at the Université de Montréal are the winners of the French-language prizes for the year’s best scholarly books, announced today by the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and  Social Sciences.

Michel Seymour, (shown at right) a philosophy professor at U de M, won the Prix Jean-Charles Falardeau for the best French-language work in the social sciences  for De la tolérance à la reconnaissance. Published by Éditions du Boréal, Seymour’s book “explores the complex relationships and tensions that exist between individual and collective rights – providing readers with rich perspectives on tolerance and pluralism.”
 The Prix Raymond-Klibansky for the best French-language work in the humanities goes to Pierre Popovic, professor of French literature for Imaginaire social et folie littéraire, published by the University of Montreal Press.  The awards committee praised Popovic’s fascinating look at the little-known life of 19th-century writer Paulin Gagne.

The awards for English-language works went to

David Wilson

, professor of History and Celtic Studies at the University of Toronto, for Thomas D’Arcy McGee, Volume 1:  Passion, Reason, and Politics, 1825-1857, published by McGill-Queen’s University Press, described by as “a landmark work on a Canadian icon.”

John Lutz, a history professor at the University of Victoria, receives the social sciences prize for Makúk:  A New History of Aboriginal-White Relations, published by the University of British Columbia Press.

Prizes will be presented at a ceremony in Ottawa on Saturday.
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