University of Illinois Press Events Calendar
Wednesday, October 30, 2019
Frances R Aparicio, author of "Negotiating Latinidad: Intralatina/o Lives in Chicago," will be speaking about her book at Marquette University.
Friday, November 1, 2019
Join us for a celebration of new books and their authors and journals and their editors at AMS.
Saturday, November 2, 2019
Henry Kisor, co-author of "Traveling with Service Animals," will be giving a presentation at the Hearing Loss Assn. of America Chicago Lincoln Park Chapter about his new book.
Wednesday, November 6, 2019
Anya Jabour, author of "Sophonisba Breckinridge: Championing Women’s Activism in Modern America", will give a book talk at Kentucky Historical Society.
Thursday, November 7, 2019
George van Dusen and Michael Dorf, authors of "Clear it with Sid!" will be giving a book talk at the Union League Club of Chicago.
Anya Jabour, author of "Sophonisba Breckinridge: Championing Women’s Activism in Modern America", will give a book talk at University of Kentucky entitled “’A Kentucky Portia’: The Legal Career of Sophonisba Breckinridge”.
Join us at ASA's welcome reception to celebrate the publication of "Black Cultural Production after Civil Rights," "Black Sexual Economies," and "The World in a City."
Friday, November 8, 2019
Join us for a reception celebrating new books and their authors, journals and their editors, and the Bruno Nettl Fund for Ethnomusicology at SEM.
Saturday, November 9, 2019
Anya Jabour, author of "Sophonisba Breckinridge: Championing Women’s Activism in Modern America", will give a book talk at Southern Historical Association.
Matthew Ehrlich, author of "Kansas City Vs. Oakland: The Bitter Sports Rivalry that Defined an Era," will be speaking about his book at Barnes & Noble Booksellers at Leawood's Town Center Plaza.
Brooks Blevins, author of "A History of the Ozarks Volume 2: The Conflicted Ozarks," will be presenting Vol. 1 at Southeast Missouri State University Crisp Museum.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, author of "Cinematic Encounters 2," will be speaking about his new book at the Seminary Co-Op Bookstore in Chicago, IL.
Contributors from "Black Cultural Production after Civil Rights" will participate in a roundtable about the book at ASA.
Emily Thuma, author of "All our Trials: Prisons, Policing, and the Feminist Fight to End Violence," will be speaking about her book at the Dismantle, Change, and Build Center in Portland, Oregon.
Monday, November 11, 2019
Henry Kisor, co-author of "Traveling with Service Animals," will be giving a presentation at the North Shore Senior Center about his new book.
Tuesday, November 12, 2019
Frances R Aparicio, author of "Negotiating Latinidad: Intralatina/o Lives in Chicago," will be speaking about her book at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Peter Cole, author of "Dockworker Power: Race and Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area" , will be giving a book talk at the University of Washington at Tacoma.
George van Dusen and Michael Dorf, authors of "Clear it with Sid!", will be giving a book talk at the Cliff Dweller's Club.
Peter Cole, author of "Dockworker Power: Race and Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area" , will be giving a book talk at the International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 23 Hall.
Wednesday, November 13, 2019
Richa Nagar, author of "Hungry Translations: Relearning the World Through Radical Vulnerability," will be speaking about her book at the University of Toronto.
Peter Cole, author of "Dockworker Power: Race and Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area" , will be giving a book talk at St. Martin's University.
Thursday, November 14, 2019
Peter Cole, author of "Dockworker Power: Race and Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area" , will be giving a book talk at University of Washington at Seattle.
Friday, November 15, 2019
Peter Cole, author of "Dockworker Power: Race and Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area" , will be giving a book talk at the International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 19 Hall.
Join us for a reception at NWSA to celebrate new books and their authors and journals and their editors.
Richa Nagar, author of "Hungry Translations: Relearning the World Through Radical Vulnerability" will attend the Author Meets Critics Roundtable at the Annual Conference of the National Women's Studies Association in San Francisco, CA.
Saturday, November 16, 2019
Sophie Richter-Devroe, author of "Women's Political Activism in Palestine: Peacebuilding, Resistance, and Survival" will participate in an Authors Meet Critics session at NWSA.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, author of "Cinematic Encounters: Interviews and Dialogues" and "Cinematic Encounters 2: Portraits and Polemics", will give a talk and sign books at the Gene Siskel Film Center.
Jessica Wilkerson, author of "To Live Here, You Have To Fight: How Women Led Appalachian Movements for Social Justice" will be on the New Appalachian Woman Panel at the Kentucky Book Fair.
Brooks Blevins, author of "A History of the Ozarks Volume 2: The Conflicted Ozarks," will be speaking about his new book at Shiloh Museum of Ozark History.
Henry Kisor, author of "Traveling with Service Animals," will be speaking about his new book at the Evanston Public Library.
Monday, November 18, 2019
Emily Thuma, author of "All our Trials: Prisons, Policing, and the Feminist Fight to End Violence," will be speaking about her book at San Francisco State University as part of the Women and Gender Studies Lecture Series.
Tuesday, November 19, 2019
George van Dusen and Michael Dorf, authors of "Clear it with Sid!", will be giving a book talk at The Standard Club of Chicago.
Saturday, November 23, 2019
Thomas Goldsmith, author of "Earl Scruggs and Foggy Mountain Breakdown," will be speaking about his book at the Earl Scruggs Center in Shelby, NC.