University of Illinois Press Events Calendar
Friday, January 24, 2020
Devon Powers, author of "On Trend: The Business of Forecasting the Future", will give a book talk at the University of Ottawa.
Saturday, February 1, 2020
Richard Hughes, author of "Myths America Lives By: White Supremacy and the Stories that Give us Meaning", will be giving a book talk at Child Hall of The Cathedral of St. Phillip in Atlanta, GA, about his new book.
Tuesday, February 4, 2020
Rob Wells, author of "The Enforcers: How Little Known Trade Reporters Exposed the Keating Five and Advanced Business Journalism", will be giving a book talk at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, SC, about his new book.
Wednesday, February 5, 2020
Devon Powers, author of "On Trend: The Business of Forecasting the Future", will give a book talk at Rutgers University.
Saturday, February 8, 2020
Join Deborah Kanter for a book launch party to celebrate the publication of "Chicago Católico: Making Catholic Parishes Mexican" at the National Museum of Mexican Art.
Wednesday, February 12, 2020
Alison Syring, Assistant Acquisitions Editor, will provide general information about how to approach publishing a scholarly book, including tips for turning a dissertation into a book, selecting a press, approaching an editor, submitting an effective proposal, and navigating peer review in 314 Main Library.
Contributors and editors of "New Media Futures: The Rise of Women in the Digital Arts", will participate in a panel at the College Art Association Conference called "HERSTORY: Digital Innovations."
Friday, February 14, 2020
Join us for our Spring 2020 Publishing Symposium! See the current agenda here: https://www.press.uillinois.edu/about/symposium/
Saturday, February 15, 2020
Stephen Wade, author of The "Beautiful Music All Around Us: Field Recordings and the American Experience", will perform at Saint Mark Presbyterian Church.
Sunday, February 16, 2020
Simine Short, author of Locomotive to Aeromotive: Octave Chanute and the Transportation Revolution, will participate in a Q&A session after the screening of the documentary Octave Chanute, Patron Saint of Flight.
Tuesday, February 18, 2020
Himanee Gupta-Carlson, author of "Muncie, India(na): Middletown and Asian America", will be giving a book talk at the Community Center of Greenfield Center in Greenfield Center, NY, about her new book.
Thomas Goldsmith, author of "Earl Scruggs and Foggy Mountain Breakdown: The Making of an American Classic", will be giving a book talk at The Regulator Bookshop in Durham, NC with special guest Laurent Dubois about his new book.
Wednesday, February 19, 2020
Sowande' Mustakeem, author of "Slavery at Sea: Terror, Sex, and Sickness in the Middle Passage," will give a Black History Month lecture called Freedom’s Blood Memories at the Heinz History Center.
Friday, February 28, 2020
Cicero Fain III, author of "Black Huntington: An Appalachian Story", will give a book talk at Shepherd University.
Saturday, February 29, 2020
Devon Powers, author of "On Trend: The Business of Forecasting the Future", will give a book talk at Penn State University.
Friday, March 13, 2020
Rob Wells, author of "The Enforcers: How Little Known Trade Reporters Exposed the Keating Five and Advanced Business Journalism", will be giving a book talk at the Columbia University in New York, NY, about his new book.
Sunday, March 22, 2020
George van Dusen and Michael Dorf, authors of "Clear it with Sid!", will be giving a book talk at the Chicago Jewish Historical Society.
Cicero Fain III, author of "Black Huntington: An Appalachian Story", will give a book talk at Fairmont State University.
Monday, March 23, 2020
Rob Wells, author of "The Enforcers: How Little Known Trade Reporters Exposed the Keating Five and Advanced Business Journalism", will be giving a book talk at Townson University in Townson, MD, about his new book.
Tuesday, March 24, 2020
Rob Wells, author of "The Enforcers: How Little Known Trade Reporters Exposed the Keating Five and Advanced Business Journalism", will be giving a book talk at University of Maryland in College Park, MD, about his new book.
Thursday, March 26, 2020
Rob Wells, author of "The Enforcers: How Little Known Trade Reporters Exposed the Keating Five and Advanced Business Journalism", will be giving a book talk at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, PA, about his new book.
Thursday, April 2, 2020
Anya Jabour, author of "Sophonisba Breckinridge: Championing Women's Activism in Modern America", will be giving a book talk at the Filson Historical Society in Louisville, KY, about her new book.
Saturday, April 4, 2020
Anya Jabour, author of "Sophonisba Breckinridge: Championing Women’s Activism in Modern America", will be give a book talk at the OAH Conference.
Deborah Kanter, author of "Chicago Católico: Making Catholic Parishes Mexican," will give a presentation at OAH called "New Directions in Latina/o History: Using Religious History to Overcome Inequalities of the Historical Record. "
Saturday, April 11, 2020
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.
Friday, April 17, 2020
Himanee Gupta-Carlson, author of "Muncie, India(na): Middletown and Asian America", will be giving a book talk at the Taj Mahal Restaurant in Schenectady, NY, about her new book.
Sunday, April 26, 2020
Cicero Fain III, author of "Black Huntington: An Appalachian Story", will give a book talk at the West Virginia Humanities Council.
Tuesday, June 9, 2020
Cicero Fain III, author of "Black Huntington: An Appalachian Story", will give a book talk at the WV Defense Trial Lawyers Council.