University of Illinois Press Events Master Calendar
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4:00 - 4:50 pm 11/12/2020Please join us for the University of Illinois Press Publishing Symposium panel "Getting it Written" on Thursday, November 12 at 4pm CT.
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5:10 - 6:00 pm 11/12/2020
Please join us for the University of Illinois Press Publishing Symposium panel "Getting it Published" on November 12 at 5:10pm CT.
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1:30 pm 11/13/2020
Join Bennetta Jules-Rosetta at 1:30 pm PST on November 13th for Session 2 of the virtual two-part African Art Reframed Workshop as part of the UCSD/Mesa College PATH Program in San Diego!
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7:00 pm 11/17/2020
Join Deborah Kanter of Albion College as she presents "Chicago Catolico: Making/Unmaking Mexican Parishes" online with Chicago History Museum.
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4:00 pm 11/18/2020
Join Danielle Fuentes Morgan and W. Kamau Bell for a virtual event celebrating the release of Morgan's new book "Laughing to Keep From Dying: African American Satire in the Twenty-First Century" on November 18, at 4pm PST.
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7:00 pm 11/19/2020
Join Deborah Kanter of Albion College as she presents Chicago Catolico: Making/Unmaking Mexican Parishes online with Chicago History Museum.
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7:00 pm 11/19/2020
Join Eithne Luibhéid and Karma R. Chávez for a conversation with contributors Ruben Zecena, Fadi Saleh, Myisha Arellanus, and Sasha Wijeyeratne to celebrate the release of Queer and Trans Migrations: Dynamics of Illegalization, Detention, and Deportation. Books can be purchased from BookWoman bookstore here: https://www.ebookwoman.com/book/9780252085239
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6:00 pm 12/1/2020
Tyrone McKinley Freeman, Ph.D, author of "Madam C.J. Walker’s Gospel of Giving: Black Women’s Philanthropy during Jim Crow", will be giving a virtual book talk sponsored by the National Coalition of 100 Black Women, Inc.'s Pennsylvania Chapter. Online registration is free and available until 12/1/2020, the day of the event.
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12:00 pm 12/10/2020
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.
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1:00 pm 12/14/2020
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."
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6:00 pm 1/19/2021
Claudrena N. Harold, author of the new book, "When Sunday Comes," Greg Tate and Corey D.B. Walker discuss the sacred soundscapes and search for the Divine in black music.
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12:00 pm 1/20/2021
UI Press authors Annette Joseph-Gabriel and Tiffany N. Florvil, join other scholars for a lively conversation about global race studies, Black diaspora studies, and transnational feminisism.
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4:30 - 5:45 pm 1/21/2021
Join Tiffany N. Florvil and Keisha N. Blain for a virtual event celebrating the release of Florvil's book "Mobilizing Black Germany: Afro-German Women and the Making of a Transnational Movement" on January 21, at 4:30pm EST. Register for the event here: https://bit.ly/FlorvilEvent
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4:00 pm 1/28/2021
Join Annette Joseph-Gabriel, author of "Reimagining Liberation: How Black Women Transformed Citizenship in the French Empire", at The Polis Project Virtual Book Salon for a talk about her new book.
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3:30 pm 2/24/2021
The African American Studies Program at the College of Charleston presents the 2021 Conseula Francis Emerging Scholar Lecture: a conversation with Dr. Danielle Fuentes Morgan about her book, "Laughing to Keep from Dying: African American Satire in the Twenty-First Century".
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7:00 pm 2/25/2021
Join Alice Kessler-Harris and Thavolia Glymph for a conversation about gender and labor history. Kessler-Harris was a series editor of the Working Class in American History series for 35 years. As she steps down, Thavolia Glymph will be taking her place as a series editor.The conversation will be moderated by Tera Hunter, another crucial player in gendering labor history.
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2:00 pm 2/26/2021
The Center for European Studies at the University of Michigan hosts Dr. Tiffany Florivil, author of "Mobilizing Black Germany: Afro-German Women and the Making of a Transnational Movement", for a webinar discussing her new book as apart of their Conversations on Europe lecture series. This event will be held via Zoom and requires prior registration.
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3:30 pm 2/26/2021
Join Robert Schatz, author of "The Labor Board Crew: Remaking Worker-Employer Relations from Pearl Harbor to the Reagan Era", for the “On Top of the World, 1946-56” Labor History seminar presented by the Newberry Library.
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4:00 pm 3/5/2021
The Goethe-Institut/Transatlantic Outreach Program hosts Dr. Tiffany Florivil, author of "Mobilizing Black Germany: Afro-German Women and the Making of a Transnational Movement", for a webinar discussing her new book. This event will be held via Zoom and requires prior registration.
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4:00 pm 3/18/2021
Join Jennifer McClearen and Julie Kedzie for a virtual event celebrating the release of McClearen's new book Fighting Visibility: Sports Media and Female Athletes in the UFC on March 18 at 4pm CST. Victoria E. Johnson will moderate the event.
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4:00 pm 3/25/2021
Join Wazhmah Osman, author of "Television and the Afghan Culture Wars: Brought to You by Foreigners, Warlords, and Activists", for a book talk discussing her new book in this virtual event presented by New York University's Department of Media, Culture and Communication and Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies.
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5:00 pm 3/31/2021
Join Krista Van Vleet for a virtual book talk presented by Bowdoin College discussing her new book, "Hierarchies of Care: Girls, Motherhood, and Inequality in Peru".
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5:30 pm 3/31/2021
Join Jennifer McClearen for a book talk discussing her new book, "Fighting Visibility: Sports Media and Female Athletes in the UFC", as a part of the University of Washington's Department of Communication's COM Spring Colloquium series.
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7:00 pm 4/6/2021
Join the Birthplace of Country Music Museum on Tuesday, April 6, 7:00pm for a conversation with author Lydia R. Hamessley about her book Unlikely Angel: The Songs of Dolly Parton.
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12:00 pm 4/13/2021
Join Jenifer L. Barclay, author of The Mark of Slavery: Disability, Race, and Gender in Antebellum America and Stefanie Hunt-Kennedy, author of Between Fitness and Death: Disability and Slavery in the Caribbean for an event celebrating the release of their books on April 13 at 12pm ET. Daina Ramey Berry will moderate.
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4:00 pm 4/15/2021
In this panel, we will talk with the people that know the most about the life cycle of your article and how you can understand its impact. Additionally, we will take a closer look at some of the metrics used to measure impact and ask whether they are useful tools for evaluating scholarship in the humanities.
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5:10 pm 4/15/2021
This panel will feature practical tips on virtual events, and address how to partner with your press to raise your book's profile, how to plan out your publicity campaign if you have a forthcoming book, and strategies for pitching op-eds.
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1:30 pm 4/17/2021
Join Ronald Schatz, author of "The Labor Board Crew: Remaking Worker-Employer Relations from Pearl Harbor to the Reagan Era", for the “A Whole Different Ball Game, 1968-81" virtual panel alongside Nelson Lichtenstein, Dorothy Sue Cobble and Elizabeth Tandy Shermer.
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6:00 pm 4/17/2021
Join Ronald Schatz, author of "The Labor Board Crew: Remaking Worker-Employer Relations from Pearl Harbor to the Reagan Era", for the “On Top of the World, 1946-56” Labor History seminar presented by the Newberry Library.
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6:00 pm 4/28/2021
Join Badia Ahad-Legardy for a virtual event celebrating "Afro-Nostalgia: Feeling Good in Contemporary Black Culture."
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8:30 am 4/29/2021
Join Jennifer McClearen for a book talk discussing her new book, "Fighting Visibility: Sports Media and Female Athletes in the UFC", as a part of the University of Texas at Austin's Moody College of Communication Media Studies Colloquium series.
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6:00 pm 4/29/2021
Join Dr. Adam Crymble, author of "Technology & the Historian: Transformations of the Digital Age", for a teaching workshop and launch of his new book hosted by the Programming Historian. This event requires prior registration and will be held virtually as an online event.
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5:00 pm 5/19/2021
Join Cara A. Finnegan and Michael Shaw to celebrate the release of "Photographic Presidents: Making History From Daguerreotype to Digital" on May 19 at 5pm CT. Register here: https://bit.ly/PhotographicPresidents
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12:00 pm 5/27/2021
Join Badia Ahad-Legardy and Natalie Moore for a Literary Lunchbreak at Bookends and Beginnings to discuss Afro-Nostalgia: Feeling Good in Contemporary Black Culture. More information to come.
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8:30 am 6/3/2021
Join Anya Jabour for an event at the Filson Historical Society.
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4:00 pm 6/15/2021
Join Jonathan Wright and Dawson Barrett for a virtual event celebrating the release of "Punks in Peoria: Making a Scene in the American Heartland." Marc Alghini will moderate. Register here: https://bit.ly/PunksinPeoria
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7:00 pm 6/17/2021
Join Ronald Schatz, author of "The Labor Board Crew: Remaking Worker-Employer Relations from Pearl Harbor to the Reagan Era" for a book talk.
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6:00 pm 6/22/2021
Join Curt Ellison and Fred Bartenstein for an event at the Kenton County Library to learn more about "Industrial Strength Bluegrass."
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All Day 7/2/2021
Join Melanie Bell for a book launch celebrating "Movie Workers."
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12:00 pm 7/13/2021
Join Vanessa M. Holden and Erica Armstrong Dunbar for a virtual event celebrating the release of Holden's book "Surviving Southampton: African American Women and Resistance in Nat Turner's Community" on July 13 at 12pm ET.
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12:00 pm 7/22/2021
Professor and LERA Past President Tom Kochan will interview Ron Schatz, about his new book "The Labor Board Crew: Remaking Worker-Employer Relations from Pearl Harbor to the Reagan Era."
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5:30 pm 8/10/2021
Join Lynn Hudson for a talk about her book "West of Jim Crow: The Fight Against California's Color Line."
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3:00 pm 8/15/2021
Join Tammy Kernodle, author of "Soul on Soul: The Life and Music of Mary Lou Williams" for a presentation on the artist.
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3:00 - 5:00 pm 8/22/2021Bearsville Theater, 291 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY
Join John Milward for a book launch for "Americanaland."
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10:00 am 9/16/2021
Join Charles Titus, author of "Exploring the Land of Lincoln: The Essential Guide to Illinois Historic Sites," for a book talk at the Effingham Public Library.
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10:00 am 9/25/2021Effingham Public Library
Join Charles Titus, author of "Exploring the Land of Lincoln: The Essential Guide to Illinois Historic Sites" at the Effingham Public Library for a book talk.
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6:30 - 7:30 pm 9/29/2021
Join author Melanie Holmes for a book talk about "A Hero on Mount St. Helens."
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10:05 am 10/6/2021
Tyrone McKinley Freeman, author of "Madam C.J. Walker's Gospel of Giving: Black Women's Philanthropy During Jim Crow," will give the opening plenary at the Indiana Philanthropy Alliance's Closing the Racial Wealth Gap Symposium.
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7:00 pm 10/6/2021
Join Jake Johnson, author of "Lying in the Middle: Musical Theater and Belief at the Heart of America" for a virtual event with NYU's Center for Religion and Media.
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7:00 pm 10/6/2021
Join Deborah Kanter for a virtual author lecture during Hispanic Heritage Month.
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All Day 10/14/2021
Join Mecca Jamilah Sullivan for an Instagram live with Harriet's Bookshop to celebrate her new book, "The Poetics of Difference: Queer Feminist Forms in the African Diaspora."
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7:00 pm 10/14/2021
Join the Evanston History Center for a presentation by Cara A. Finnegan as she discusses her new book, Photographic Presidents, Making History from Daguerreotype to Digital.
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5:30 pm 10/18/2021
Join Rachel Afi Quinn, PH.D. and Dr. LeConte Dill for a virtual event celebrating the release of "Being La Dominicana: Race and Identity in the Visual Culture of Santo Domingo."
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12:00 pm 10/20/2021
Tyrone McKinley Freeman, author of "Madam C.J. Walker's Gospel of Giving: Black Women's Philanthropy During Jim Crow," will give the closing keynote at the Association of Fundraising Professionals' LEAD.
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7:00 pm 10/21/2021
Join Jenny Carson, author of "A Matter of Moral Justice: Black Women Laundry Workers and the Fight for Justice" for a book talk with LAWCHA.
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1:00 - 3:00 pm 10/22/2021
Join Wanda Hendricks, author of "Madie Hall Xuma: Black Women’s Activism during Jim Crow and Apartheid", as she speaks at the YWCA World Service Council virtual meeting.
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All Day 10/26/2021 - 10/30/2021
Join Mecca Jamilah Sullivan, author of The Poetics of Difference: Queer Feminist Forms in the African Diaspora for a book talk at the Well Read Black Girl Festival.
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12:00 pm 10/27/2021
he first of New Books, New Feminist Directions event will feature Stephanie Vander Wel, Associate Professor of Music at UB, whose book Hillbilly Maidens, Okies, and Cowgirls: Women’s Country Music 1930-1960 (Illinois 2020) was named by PopMatters as one of the top nonfiction books of 2020. Professor Nadine “Dean” Hubbs from the Women’s and Gender Studies Department at the
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3:30 pm 11/1/2021
Join Gina Velasco, author of "Queering the Global Filipina Body: Contested Nationalisms in the Filipina/o Diaspora" for a book talk.
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12:00 - 1:30 pm 11/5/2021
Join Einav Rabinovtich-Fox, author of "Dressed for Freedom: The Fashionable Politics of American Feminism," for an online lecture about her book.
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9:00 am - 12:00 pm 11/6/20211325 S Oak Street, Champaign, IL
The University of Illinois Press is having an overstock yard sale on Saturday November 6 from 9am-12pm! $1 paperbacks, $2 hardcovers. Come visit our tent at 1325 S Oak Street, Champaign. Street parking available.No presales. No sale if it rains.
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1:30 pm 11/6/2021
Join Tomie Hahn, author of "Arousing Sense: Recipes for Workshopping Sensory Experience," for a workshop at ACMHE.
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All Day 11/9/2021620 Michigan Ave., N.E. Washington, DC 20064
Join Deborah Kanter, author of "Chicago Católico: Making Catholic Parishes Mexican," for a book talk at the The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.
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4:00 - 5:50 pm 11/9/2021
Join us for the University of Illinois Press Fall Publishing Symposium on November 9, 2021 from 4-5:50 PM CST. Panels are Beyond the Monograph and New Directions for Marketing Academic Work. Learn more and register for the panels here: https://www.press.uillinois.edu/symposium/fall21symposium
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4:30 pm 11/10/2021
Join Kathy Forde, co-editor of "Journalism and Jim Crow: White Supremacy and the Black Struggle for a New America," for a book talk at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, CT.
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All Day 11/11/2021
Join Benetta Jules Rosette and JR Osborn authors of "African Art Reframed: Reflections and Dialogues on Museum Culture "for a workshop hosted by the Stanley Museum of Art at the University of Iowa
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6:30 pm 11/12/2021Second African Church, 123 Houston St, Savannah, GA
Join Sowande' Mustakeem, author of Slavery at Sea: Terror, Sex, and Sickness in the Middle Passage for a lecture about her book as part of the Pioneers in Preservation Series.
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All Day 11/13/2021
Join Mecca Jamilah Sullivan author of "The Poetics of Difference: Queer Feminist Forms in the African Diaspora," at the 40th Anniversary Celebration of This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color with Cherríe Moraga, Cheryl Clarke, and others.
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12:00 pm 11/17/2021
Join Robert M. Marovich and Rev. Dr. Stefanie Minatee for a virtual event celebrating the release of "Peace Be Still: How James Cleveland and the Angelic Choir Created a Gospel Classic" on November 17 at 12pm CT.
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All Day 11/19/2021
Join Join Benetta Jules Rosette and JR Osborn authors of "African Art Reframed: Reflections and Dialogues on Museum Culture" for a museum panel at the American Anthropological Association (AAA) conference in Baltimore.
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8:30 am 11/19/2021
Join Cynthia Clampitt author of, "Midwest Maize: How Corn Shaped the U.S. Heartland" and "Destination Heartland: A Guide to Discovering the Midwest's Remarkable Past," for a talk with the LaSalle Library.
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11:00 am 11/20/2021
Join Tomie Hahn, author of "Arousing Sense: Recipes for Workshopping Sensory Experience," for a lecture titled “Troubling failure(s): Situating bodies in research and art” at AMS.
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1:00 pm 11/20/2021
Join Mecca Jamilah Sullivan, author of The Poetics of Difference: Queer Feminist Forms in the African Diaspora for a book talk at NWSA
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1:00 - 2:00 pm 11/20/2021
Join Robert Marovich author of, "Peace Be Still: How James Cleveland and the Angelic Choir Created a Gospel Classic," at an online book talk with Dr. Deborah Smith-Pollard as part of the Detroit Public Library Author Series.
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All Day 11/29/2021
Join Kathy Forde, co-editor of "Journalism and Jim Crow: White Supremacy and the Black Struggle for a New America," for a book talk at Columbia Journalism School in New York City during Professor Richard John’s Proseminar.
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6:00 pm 11/30/2021
Join Einav Rabinovitch-Fox and Kathy Peiss for a virtual book launch celebrating the release of "Dressed for Freedom: The Fashionable Politics of American Feminism" on November 30 at 6pm EST.
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2:00 pm 12/5/2021380 S. Ninth Street Batesville, Arkansas 72501
Join Brooks Blevins author of "A History of The Ozarks, Volume 3: The Ozarkers," as he has a book talk at the Old Independence Regional Museum in Batesville, Arkansas .
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12:00 - 1:30 pm 12/7/2021
Join Sonia Hernández, author of For a Just and Better World: Engendering Anarchism in the Mexican Borderlands, 1900-1938 for a virtual book launch with the Center for Global Studies featuring her in conversation with University of Illinois Press Acquisitions Editor, Alison Syring.
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4:00 pm 12/7/2021901 S. National Ave. Springfield, MO 65897
Join Brooks Blevins author of "A History of The Ozarks, Volume 3: The Ozarkers," as he has a book talk at the Meyer Library at Missouri State University.
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2:00 pm 12/8/2021300 Library Hill, Mountain Home, AR 72653
Join Brooks Blevins author of "A History of The Ozarks, Volume 3: The Ozarkers," as he has a book talk at the Donald W. Reynolds Library in Mountain Home, Arkansas.
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3:00 pm 12/9/2021
Join Cara Finnegan, author of Photographic Presidents, for an event at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute.
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6:00 pm 12/14/20214653 S Campbell Ave, Springfield, MO 65810
Join Brooks Blevins author of "A History of The Ozarks, Volume 3: The Ozarkers," as he has a book talk at the The Library Center in Springfield, Missouri.
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6:30 - 7:30 pm 12/16/20219400 S. Troy Ave. Evergreen Park, IL 60805
Join Ayana Contreras author of, "Energy Never Dies: Afro-Optimism and Creativity in Chicago," for a book talk in the Reading Room at the Evergreen Park Library in Evergreen Park, IL.
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1:00 pm 1/18/2022
Join Cynthia Clampitt author of, "Midwest Maize: How Corn Shaped the U.S. Heartland" and "Destination Heartland: A Guide to Discovering the Midwest's Remarkable Past," for a talk with the Geographic Society of Chicago.
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6:00 pm 1/19/2022
Join Deborah Kanter, author of "Chicago Católico: Making Catholic Parishes Mexican," for a Lecture at the Oak Park Public Library in Oak Park, Illinois.
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All Day 1/20/2022
Join Kathy Forde, co-editor of Journalism and Jim Crow: White Supremacy and the Black Struggle for a New America, for a book talk at the UGA Grady College of Journalism.
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3:00 pm 1/21/2022
Ethnomusicologist Pete Hoesing will introduce his new book Kusamira Music in Uganda.
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2:00 pm 1/29/2022
Join Chicago Public Library and Black Metropolis Research Consortium (BMRC) for an author event with Ayana Contreras, author of Energy Never Dies.
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4:00 pm 2/3/2022
Join Matthew C. Ehrlich and Ryan Ross for a virtual event celebrating the release of "Dangerous Ideas on Campus: Sex, Conspiracy, and Academic Freedom in the Age of JFK" on February 3 at 4pm CT.
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4:00 pm 2/6/2022523 S Webster St, Naperville, IL 60540
Join Cynthia Clampitt author of, "Midwest Maize: How Corn Shaped the U.S. Heartland" and "Destination Heartland: A Guide to Discovering the Midwest's Remarkable Past," for a talk at Century Memorial Chapel.
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6:00 pm 2/8/20225751 S Woodlawn Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Join Badia Ahad-Legardy, author of "Afro-Nostalgia: Feeling Good in Contemporary Black Culture" for a book talk at the Seminary Co-op Bookstore.
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7:00 pm 2/9/20221170 N Midlothian Road Mundelein, IL 60060
Join Cynthia Clampitt author of , "Midwest Maize: How Corn Shaped the U.S. Heartland" and "Destination Heartland: A Guide to Discovering the Midwest's Remarkable Past," for a talk at the Freemont Public Library.
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6:00 pm 2/16/2022
Join Mirelsie Velázquez, author of "Puerto Rican Chicago: Schooling the City, 1940-1977" for a book talk via zoom at Northern Illinois University.