Please join us on January 14th 2025 for a special event to celebrate geographer Minelle Mahtani’s new memoir, May it Have a Happy Ending.
Co-sponsored by the UBC School of Community and Regional Planning (SCARP) and the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Justice (GRSJ), Dr. Mahtani’s home department. Geography’s Juanita Sundberg will host a conversation with the author about her book.
May It Have a Happy Ending is generating a lot of buzz! Listed in the Toronto Star’s 25 books “worthy of a place at the top of your to-read pile,” and She Does the City’s most anticipated books in fall 2024, the book has been showered with praise in numerous reviews. Dr. Mahtani also presented her book at the 2024 Vancouver Writers Fest in October.
Dr. Mahtani an Associate Professor at GRSJ; with Associate appointments at UBC with Geography and Journalism; as well as the Chair, Canadian Studies. In addition to a long list of journal articles, she is the author of Mixed Race Amnesia: Resisting the Romanticization of Multiraciality with UBC Press. In addition to her academic work, Dr. Mahtani has a long history in journalism. She hosted Sense of Place, a radio show at Roundhouse Radio, which won four awards over the course of three years on air. In addition, Dr. Mahtani was a finalist for the 2024 National Magazine award for her piece on the Tragically Hip, Canadiana, and Ruthie Gilmore. In 2022, her essay Finding My Voice as My Mother Lost Hers was a gold Digital Publishing Awards winner from the National Media Awards Foundation.
Please join us for this special conversation.
This is hybrid event hosted in Geog 229 and on zoom.
