Les Presses de l’Université d’Ottawa / University of Ottawa Press (PUO-UOP) is North America’s flagship bilingual university press.

PUO-UOP offers an award-winning publishing program of 25-30 titles per year, which includes academic publications with an open access component, a literary program, as well as imprints and journals.

Highlights

First, Do Less Harm

Gain a deeper understanding of how different approaches to harm reduction can lead to more effective policymaking and legislation. Multidisciplinary insights are converging to transform how society addresses substance-related challenges.

This is a unique interdisciplinary edited collection which features the work of leading Canadian and international scholars, frontline workers =, and people with lived experience.

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Staging Prison Theatre in Canada

Providing an unprecedented look inside Canada’s only prison theatre run by inmates, William Head on Stage (WHoS), this research examines the prison context, participants’ experiences, and the transformative impact of theatre on the lives of criminalized individuals.

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Bringing History to Life

Bringing History to Life explores the school-based uses of history as cultural goods, leisure, and services to train students to better practice some of the thinking that historians must perform when they 'practice their craft.'

The proliferation of video games, film productions, multimedia shows for young audiences, theatrical productions, etc. raises the issue of critical school use of these mass media products from the cultural industry that exploit the past as a theme.

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About University of Ottawa Press

The publishing house of one Canada’s top 10 research-intensive universities, and of the world’s largest bilingual university.

The oldest of the French-language university presses in Canada, as well as the only French-language university press outside Quebec.

One of the largest publishers in Canada’s national capital region.