University of Illinois Press Events Calendar
Wednesday, October 20, 2021
Tyrone McKinley Freeman, author of "Madam C.J. Walker's Gospel of Giving: Black Women's Philanthropy During Jim Crow," will give the closing keynote at the Association of Fundraising Professionals' LEAD.
Thursday, October 21, 2021
Join Jenny Carson, author of "A Matter of Moral Justice: Black Women Laundry Workers and the Fight for Justice" for a book talk with LAWCHA.
Tuesday, October 26, 2021
Join Mecca Jamilah Sullivan, author of The Poetics of Difference: Queer Feminist Forms in the African Diaspora for a book talk at the Well Read Black Girl Festival.
Wednesday, October 27, 2021
Join Mecca Jamilah Sullivan, author of The Poetics of Difference: Queer Feminist Forms in the African Diaspora for a book talk at the Well Read Black Girl Festival.
he first of New Books, New Feminist Directions event will feature Stephanie Vander Wel, Associate Professor of Music at UB, whose book Hillbilly Maidens, Okies, and Cowgirls: Women’s Country Music 1930-1960 (Illinois 2020) was named by PopMatters as one of the top nonfiction books of 2020. Professor Nadine “Dean” Hubbs from the Women’s and Gender Studies Department at the
Thursday, October 28, 2021
Join Mecca Jamilah Sullivan, author of The Poetics of Difference: Queer Feminist Forms in the African Diaspora for a book talk at the Well Read Black Girl Festival.
Friday, October 29, 2021
Join Mecca Jamilah Sullivan, author of The Poetics of Difference: Queer Feminist Forms in the African Diaspora for a book talk at the Well Read Black Girl Festival.
Saturday, October 30, 2021
Join Mecca Jamilah Sullivan, author of The Poetics of Difference: Queer Feminist Forms in the African Diaspora for a book talk at the Well Read Black Girl Festival.
Tuesday, November 9, 2021
Join us for the University of Illinois Press Fall Publishing Symposium on November 9, 2021 from 4-5:50 PM CST. Panels are Beyond the Monograph and New Directions for Marketing Academic Work. Learn more and register for the panels here: https://www.press.uillinois.edu/symposium/fall21symposium
Saturday, November 13, 2021
Join Mecca Jamilah Sullivan author of "The Poetics of Difference: Queer Feminist Forms in the African Diaspora," at the 40th Anniversary Celebration of This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color with Cherríe Moraga, Cheryl Clarke, and others.
Wednesday, November 17, 2021
Join Robert M. Marovich and Rev. Dr. Stefanie Minatee for a virtual event celebrating the release of "Peace Be Still: How James Cleveland and the Angelic Choir Created a Gospel Classic" on November 17 at 12pm CT.
Saturday, November 20, 2021
Join Mecca Jamilah Sullivan, author of The Poetics of Difference: Queer Feminist Forms in the African Diaspora for a book talk at NWSA
Tuesday, December 7, 2021
Join Sonia Hernández, author of For a Just and Better World: Engendering Anarchism in the Mexican Borderlands, 1900-1938 for a virtual book launch with the Center for Global Studies featuring her in conversation with University of Illinois Press Acquisitions Editor, Alison Syring.
Thursday, December 9, 2021
Join Cara Finnegan, author of Photographic Presidents, for an event at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute.
Saturday, April 23, 2022
Stephen Wade, author of The "Beautiful Music All Around Us: Field Recordings and the American Experience", will perform at the Old Town School of Folk Music.