University of Illinois Press Events Calendar
Friday, February 22, 2019
Jessica Wilkerson, author of "To Live Here, You Have To Fight," will be giving a book lecture at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
Barbara Martin Stephens, the author of "Don't Give Your Heart to a Rambler," will sign books at Wintergrass.
Thursday, February 28, 2019
Kimberly Mckee, author of "Disrupting Kinship," will be speaking at the Brooks College of Interdisciplinary Studies at Grand Valley State University.
Friday, March 8, 2019
Cynthia Clampitt, author of Midwest Maize: How Corn Shaped the U.S. Heartland, will give a presentation at the Atlanta Public Library and Museum.
Monday, March 11, 2019
Peter Cole, the author of "Dockworker Power: Race and Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area", will give a talk at Saint Mary's College in Claey's Lounge.
Tuesday, March 12, 2019
Peter Cole, the author of "Dockworker Power: Race and Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area", will give a talk at University of California Berkeley.
Peter Cole, the author of "Dockworker Power: Race and Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area", will give a book talk at the University of California Berkeley.
Wednesday, March 13, 2019
Jessica Wilkerson, author of "To Live Here, You Have To Fight," give a book lecture at Malaprop's Bookstore.
Peter Cole, the author of "Dockworker Power: Race and Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area", will give a talk at Shaping SF
Peter Cole, the author of"Dockworker Power: Race and Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area", will give a talk at the Eric Quezada Center for Culture and Politics.
Thursday, March 14, 2019
Peter Cole, the author of "Dockworker Power: Race and Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area", will give a talk at the J. Paul Leonard Library at San Francisco State University.
Cynthia Clampitt, author of Midwest Maize: How Corn Shaped the U.S. Heartland, will give a presentation at the Des Plaines Historical Center.
Laura Helen Marks, the author of "Alice in Pornoland: Hardcore Encounters with the Victorian Gothic" will join Brandon Arroyo for a live recording of the Porno Cultures podcast.
Friday, March 15, 2019
Jonathan Eller, author of "Becoming Ray Bradbury" and "Ray Bradbury Unbound" will be speaking at the Illinois Reads Book Festival.
Thursday, March 21, 2019
Jessica Wilkerson, author of "To Live Here, You Have To Fight," will be giving a book lecture at University of Kentucky.
Join us for a book signing at the University of Illinois Press booth during the Society for American Music conference to celebrate the publication of: "Leonard Bernstein & the Language of Jazz" by Katherine Baber "Rethinking American Music", edited by Tara Browner and Thomas Riis
Tuesday, March 26, 2019
Cynthia Clampitt, author of "Midwest Maize", will be giving a talk at the University of Illinois Department of Crop Sciences.
Thursday, March 28, 2019
Jessica Wilkerson, author of "To Live Here, You Have To Fight," will be speaking and signing books at the Oxford Conference for the Book.
Friday, March 29, 2019
Natalie Fixmer-Oraiz, author of "Homeland Maternity: US Security Culture and the New Reproductive Regime" will sign books at Prairie Lights bookstore.
Thursday, April 25, 2019
Join us at the AAAS New Books Reception at the Illinois Press booth in the exhibit hall.
Tuesday, May 14, 2019
Peter Cole, the author of"Dockworker Power: Race and Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area", will give a talk at the Work Organisation and Employment Relations Research Centre.
Sunday, June 2, 2019
Join us for a book launch celebrating the release of "A Hero on Mount St. Helens: The Life and Legacy of David A. Johnston by Melanie Holmes at the David Johnston Community Center in Oak Lawn, IL.
Monday, June 10, 2019
Michael C. Dorf and George Van Dusen, authors of "Clear It With Sid!" will be speaking at Politics and Prose Bookstore at the Wharf.
Friday, June 28, 2019
Cynthia Clampitt, author of Midwest Maize: How Corn Shaped the U.S. Heartland, will give a presentation at Sun City.
Saturday, July 27, 2019
Join entomologists and authors of "Butterflies of Illinois: A Field Guide", Dr. Michael Jeffords and Susan Post for a unique look at the diversity of butterflies found across Illinois. They will also explore the status of Illinois butterflies and the best places in Illinois to see these remarkable creatures.
Friday, August 30, 2019
Saturday, August 31, 2019
Jessica Wilkerson, author of "To Live Here, You Have To Fight," will be speaking and signing books at the Reuther-Pollack Labor History Symposium.