Author Events in May

Catch our authors at in-person and online events in May.

Cover of Archive of Tongues: An Intimate History of Brownness by Moon Charania. Cover is an artistic depiction of red flowers that resemble bloodstains splattered against a heather gray wall. Underneath this depiction, at the bottom of the cover, is a dark red banner which contains the title and author information.

May 1, 5 pm BST: Anne Allison, author of Being Dead Otherwise, gives an in-person talk at Cambridge University. Lecture Theatre, Old Divinity School, St John’s College, Cambridge

May 2, 7 pm EDT: Moon Charania, author of Archive of Tongues, appears in person at Lost City Books. 2467 18th Street Northwest, Washington, DC

May 2, 12 pm PDT: UC Berkeley’s Social Science Matrix hosts an in-person Author Meets the Critics event for Juana María Rodríguez, author of Puta Life. Social Sciences Building, 8th Floor, Berkeley, California

Cover of dear elia: letters from the Asian American abyss by Mimi Khúc.Cover has a light blue background, with a photograph in the center of the page. The photograph depicts a young girl in a floral dress adn pink shoes. She holds a stick and walks down an empty path, lined on each side with grass and bushes.

May 7-8: Mimi Khúc, author of dear elia, will give three workshops at UC Santa Barbara, one for undergraduates, one for instructors, and one for graduate students.

May 7: 5:30pm BST, The Stuart Hall Foundation presents the first event in their online Reading the Crisis series, The West and the Rest: Discourse and Power with Ilan Pappe and Priyamvada Gopal.

May 7, 9 am – 3 pm EDT: Duke University presents a hybrid symposium celebrating the work of Walter Mignolo entitled De/coloniality, 30 Years After. Holsti-Anderson Assembly Room, Rubenstein Library Rm 153, Durham, North Carolina

May 9, 4:30 pm CEDT: Luis Manuel Garcia Mispireta, author of Together, Somehow, speaks in-person at the Nuits Sonores festival. 12 rue Gabriel Péri, La Mulatière, France

May 10, 9:30 am PDT: Mimi Khúc, author of dear elia, gives the keynote address at the Care as the First Student Learning Objective symposium at University of California, Irvine. Humanities Instructional Building 135, Irvine, California

Cover of Stay Black and Die: On Melancholy and Genius by I. Augustus Durham. Cover has a black background. In the center of the image is a portrait of a man, staring stoicly at the viewer. The face is portrayed in shades of gray and black.The artist overlays the simple portrait with sketches in pastel shades of yellow, pink, and blue.

May 11, 6:30 pm EDT: I. Augustus Durham, author of Stay Black and Die, appears in person at Unnamable Books. 615 Vanderbilt, Brooklyn, New York

May 22, 6 pm EDT: I. Augustus Durham, author of Stay Black and Die, is joined in conversation by Kinohi Nishikawa at a hybrid event at Princeton Theological Seminary. Theodore Sedgwick Wright Library, Theron Room, 6 Mercer Street, Princeton, New Jersey

May 22, 7 pm EDT: Mimi Khúc, author of dear elia, appears in-person with Peggy Kyoungwon Lee at Loyalty Books. Registration required. 843 Upshur St NW, Washington, DC

May 24, 6:30 pm EDT: Rob Drew, author of Unspooled, appears in person at the Ann Arbor District Library. Multi-purpose Room, 343 South Fifth Ave., Ann Arbor, Michigan

May 25, 3:30 pm CDT: Deon Haywood, co-author of Fire Dreams, and Marsha Jones lead a master class at the Texas Black Womxn Reproductive Justice Summit. Hyatt Regency Hotel Drive Dallas, Texas