University of Illinois Press Events Master Calendar
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Devon Powers, author of "On Trend: The Business of Forecasting the Future" will give the closing keynote at the New Future of Work Microsoft Virtual Conference.
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Wanda Hendricks at National Women's History Museum in collaboration with the Newberry Library Online
Join Dr. Wanda Hendricks, author of Fannie Barrier Williams: Crossing the Borders of Region and Race, for a virtual panel titled Chicago’s African American Women in the Fight for the Vote. In a conversation moderated by the Newberry’s Liesl Olson, scholars will explore the role of African American women in the fight for suffrage.
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Join the Women's and Gender Studies Program at the College of Charleston for a virtual lecture and Q&A with Regents Professor of History at the University of Montana and author of Sophonisba Breckinridge: Championing Women's Activism in Modern America, Anya Jabour.
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Join Anya Jabour, author of "Sophonisba Breckinridge", for a virtual event with Hull House Museum.
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Join Koritha Mitchell and Brittney Cooper for a conversation about Mitchell's new book "From Slave Cabins to the White House: Homemade Citizenship in African American Culture."
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Dr. Kimberly Nielsen, author of "Money Marriage and Madness: The Life of Anna Ott”, will be giving a book talk on Zoom about her new book.
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Anya Jabour, author of "Sophonisba Breckinridge: Championing Women's Activism in Modern America”, will be giving a book talk on Zoom about her new book.
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Simidele Dosekun, author of "Fashioning Postfeminism: Spectacular Femininity and Transnational Culture", will be giving a book talk on Zoom about her new book.
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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.
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Join Dr. Koritha Mitchell for a workshop on ethical teaching entitled Violence in U.S. Education: Approaches & Practices.
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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.
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Madeline Y. Hsu, co-editor of "A Nation of Immigrants Reconsidered: U.S. Society in an Age of Restriction, 1924-1965", will be virtually hosted by University of Texas at Austin for talk about her new book. Zoom Registration Link: https://utexas.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_QoXodu64TtKEMAS4eO-2pg
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Elizabeth Clendinning, author of "American Gamelan and the Ethnomusicological Imagination", will be hosted by Wake Forest University on Zoom for a virtual launch of her new book. Join Zoom Meeting https://wakeforest-university.zoom.us/j/98914636518?pwd=c2ZPR2JzSmtEcDhLV0NVZ2lZZSt1UT09 Meeting ID: 989 1463 6518 Passcode: gamelan
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GerShun Avilez, author of "Black Queer Freedom", will be hosted by the University of Maryland's Africana/Black Studies Colloquium for the launch of her new book. Registration opens two weeks in advance of the event.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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Join Bennetta Jules-Rosetta at 1:30 pm PST on November 6th for Session 1 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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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. If interested, please send Professor Cyra Akila Choudhury an e-mail and she will add you to the mailing list.
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Please 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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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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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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Join Deborah Kanter of Albion College as she presents "Chicago Catolico: Making/Unmaking Mexican Parishes" online with Chicago History Museum.
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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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Join Deborah Kanter of Albion College as she presents Chicago Catolico: Making/Unmaking Mexican Parishes online with Chicago History Museum.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Join Badia Ahad-Legardy for a virtual event celebrating "Afro-Nostalgia: Feeling Good in Contemporary Black Culture."
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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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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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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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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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Join Anya Jabour for an event at the Filson Historical Society.
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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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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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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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Join Melanie Bell for a book launch celebrating "Movie Workers."
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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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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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Join Lynn Hudson for a talk about her book "West of Jim Crow: The Fight Against California's Color Line."
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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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Join John Milward for a book launch for "Americanaland."
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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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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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Join author Melanie Holmes for a book talk about "A Hero on Mount St. Helens."
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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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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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Join Deborah Kanter for a virtual author lecture during Hispanic Heritage Month.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Join Tomie Hahn, author of "Arousing Sense: Recipes for Workshopping Sensory Experience," for a workshop at ACMHE.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.