University of Illinois Press Events Calendar
Saturday, October 7, 2023
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Join the Pilsen Art and Community House for a discussion of "Chicanas of 18th Street: Narratives of a Movement from Latino Chicago" by Leonard G. Ramírez with Yenelli Flores, María Gamboa, Isaura González, Victoria Pérez, Magda Ramírez-Castañeda, and Cristina Vital and a zine making activity.
Tuesday, October 10, 2023
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Join Gary Scott Smith and Randall Balmer for a virtual event celebrating the release Smith's book "Do All the Good You Can: How Faith Shaped Hillary Rodham Clinton's Politics."
Wednesday, October 11, 2023
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Join editor Shreerekha Pillai and contributors Demita Frazier, Alka Kurian, Beth Matusoff Merfish, Maria F. Curtis, Autumn Elizabeth, Francisco Argüelles Paz Y Puente, and Joanna Eleftheriou for a virtual event celebrating the release of "Carceral Liberalism: Feminist Voices Against State Violence." Register here: https://bit.ly/CarceralLiberalism
Tuesday, October 17, 2023
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Jake Johnson, author of "The Possibility Machine: Music and Myth in Las Vegas", will be signing books and speaking virtually with the IASPM-US about his new book.
Friday, October 20, 2023
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Ethel Tungohan, author of "Care Activism: Migrant Domestic Workers, Movement-Building, and Communities of Care", will be signing books and speaking at the University of Ottawa about her new book.
Saturday, October 21, 2023
Friday, October 27, 2023
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Nicosia Shakes, author of "Women’s Activist Theater in Jamaica and South Africa: Gender, Race, and Performance Space", will be signing books and speaking at the National Women's Studies Association's Conference in Baltimore, MD about her new book.
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Join author Jennifer Freeman Marshall for a discussion of her new book "Ain't I an Anthropologist: Zora Neale Hurston Beyond the Literary Icon" with Dr. A. Lynn Bolles, Drs. Beverly Guy-Sheftall, and Deborah McDowell in an Authors Meet Critics session at NWSA.
Friday, November 3, 2023
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Ethel Tungohan, author of "Care Activism: Migrant Domestic Workers, Movement-Building, and Communities of Care", will be signing books and speaking at the University of Guelph about her new book.
Saturday, November 4, 2023
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Join the Pilsen Arts and Community House and the Rudy Lozano Library for a platica about the impact of the activists covered in Chicanas of 18th Street: Narratives of a Movement from Latino Chicago by Leonard G. Ramírez with Yenelli Flores, María Gamboa, Isaura González, Victoria Pérez, Magda Ramírez-Castañeda, and Cristina Vital.
Wednesday, November 8, 2023
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Ethel Tungohan, author of "Care Activism: Migrant Domestic Workers, Movement-Building, and Communities of Care", will be signing books and speaking at Another Story Bookshop about her new book.
Tuesday, November 14, 2023
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Langston Collin Wilkins, author of "Welcome 2 Houston: Hip Hop Heritage in Hustle Town", will be signing books and speaking virtually with the IASPM-US about his new book.
Thursday, January 4, 2024
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Robert Cherny, author of "Harry Bridges: Labor Radical, Labor Legend", will be signing books and speaking at the 2024 American Historical Association meeting in San Francisco, CA about his new book.
Friday, January 5, 2024
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Robert Cherny, author of "Harry Bridges: Labor Radical, Labor Legend", will be signing books and speaking at the 2024 American Historical Association meeting in San Francisco, CA about his new book.
Saturday, January 6, 2024
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Robert Cherny, author of "Harry Bridges: Labor Radical, Labor Legend", will be signing books and speaking at the 2024 American Historical Association meeting in San Francisco, CA about his new book.
Sunday, January 7, 2024
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Robert Cherny, author of "Harry Bridges: Labor Radical, Labor Legend", will be signing books and speaking at the 2024 American Historical Association meeting in San Francisco, CA about his new book.
Tuesday, January 9, 2024
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Join Dick Simpson and Betty O'Shaughnessy and contributors for an event celebrating the release of Chicago's Modern Mayors: From Harold Washington to Lori Lightfoot.
Sunday, January 21, 2024
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Robert Cherny, author of "Harry Bridges: Labor Radical, Labor Legend", will be signing books and speaking virtually with the San Francisco Bay Area Institute for Historical Study about his new book.
Tuesday, February 27, 2024
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Monica Eng and David Hammond, authors of "Made in Chicago: Stories Behind 30 Great Hometown Bites", will be signing books and speaking at the Fountaindale Public Library District about their new book.
Sunday, March 17, 2024
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Leta Miller, author of "Union Divided: Black Musicians’ Fight for Labor Equality", will be signing books and speaking virtually with the Osher Lifelong Learners Institute at UCSC about her new book.