University of Illinois Press Events Calendar
Thursday, October 1, 2020
Annette Joseph-Gabriel, author of "Reimagining Liberation: How Black Women Transformed Citizenship in the French Empire", will be giving a book talk on Zoom about her new book.
Thursday, October 8, 2020
Join Koritha Mitchell, author of "From Slave Cabins to the White House: Homemade Citizenship in African American Culture" for a MillerComm Lecture titled Homemade Citizenship: All But Inviting Injury.
Monday, October 26, 2020
Annette Joseph-Gabriel, author of "Reimagining Liberation: How Black Women Transformed Citizenship in the French Empire", will be speaking about her new book in a lecture presented by Princeton University's Department of French and Latin. If you would like to participate, please contact Kelly Eggers for the Zoom ID.
Tuesday, October 27, 2020
Danielle Fuentes Morgan, author of "Laughing to Keep From Dying: African American Satire in the Twenty-First Century", will be giving a book talk on Zoom about her new book.
Join Tyrone McKinley Freeman and Tiffany M. Gill for a virtual event celebrating the release of Freeman's new book "Madam C.J. Walker's Gospel of Giving: Black Women's Philanthropy During Jim Crow" on October 27 at 7pm EST. Register for the event here: http://bit.ly/FreemanEvent
Thursday, October 29, 2020
Annette Joseph-Gabriel, author of "Reimagining Liberation: How Black Women Transformed Citizenship in the French Empire", will be speaking about her new book at a workshop presented by Princeton University's Department of African American Studies. To register, contact Shelby Sinclair at shelbys@princeton.edu.
Thursday, November 19, 2020
Join Deborah Kanter of Albion College as she presents Chicago Catolico: Making/Unmaking Mexican Parishes online with Chicago History Museum.
Thursday, December 10, 2020
Join Wazhmah Osman, author of Television and the Afghan Culture Wars: Brought to You by Foreigners, Warlords, and Activists, as she looks at the national and transnational impact of media companies like Tolo TV, Radio Television Afghanistan, and foreign media giants and funders like the British Broadcasting Corporation and USAID.
Monday, December 14, 2020
Join Anya Jabour, author of "Sophonisba Breckinridge: Championing Women's Activism in Modern America," for the lecture "Relationships and Rights: Sophonisa Breckinridge, Same-Sex Relationships , and Women’s Activism in Modern America."
Saturday, April 3, 2021
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.