University of Illinois Press Events Calendar

  • 6:00 - 7:00 pm   CST    8/1/2025
    Bookends & Beginnings, 1620 Orrington Avenue, Evanston, IL 60201-3829

    On Friday, August 1, author Lindsay Fullerton will discuss her new book "Ephemeral City: A People’s History of Chicago’s Century of Progress World’s Fair" at Bookends & Beginnings.

  • 3:00 - 4:00 pm   CDT    8/2/2025

    Marlee Bunch hosts a virtual celebration for her upcoming book, "Unlearning the Hush: Oral Histories of Black Female Educators in Mississippi in the Civil Rights Era", featuring a poetry reading and an art talk.

  • 11:45 am - 1:15 pm   MDT    8/14/2025
    Restaurant Julia, La Posada de Santa Fe, 330 E Palace Avenue, NM 87501

    Albuquerque-based architecture professor, artist, and writer Nora Wendl presents her book, "Almost Nothing: Reclaiming Edith Farnsworth" at a AIA Santa Fe Chapter luncheon meeting while also doing a book signing.

  • 6:00 - 7:00 pm   CDT    8/19/2025
    122 N Neil St, Champaign, IL 61820

    Sundiata Cha-Jua, editor of "Reparations and Reparatory Justice: Past, Present, and Future," talks about his book at the book bar: The Literary, where it will be available for purchase.

  • 6:00 pm   MDT    8/28/2025
    4022 Rio Grande Blvd NW Albuquerque, NM 87107-3100

    Nora Wendl, author of "Almost Nothing: Reclaiming Edith Farnsworth," talks about her book with Maggie Grimason at a reading and book signing event in Bookworks.