Author Events in April

Celebrate Spring by catching our authors in events around the world!

April 4, 2 pm PDT: Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez gives an in-person talk about her book Empire’s Mistress, Starring Isabel Rosario Cooper at University of California, Riverside.

April 4, 4 pm PDT: Sara Ahmed, author of Complaint!,  gives a hybrid lecture entitled “Losing Your Hand: Complaint, Common Sense, and Other Institutional Legacies” at Stanford University. Stanford Humanities Center, Levinthal Hall, 424 Santa Teresa Street

April 5, 8 pm EDT: McKenzie Wark launches her book Raving in-person at Nowadays, with readings by Brock Colyar, Jesús Hilario-Reyes aka Morenxxx, Sabrina Imbler, Oni Lem, and Sul Mousavi. 56-06 Cooper Ave. Ridgewood, New York. 

April 6, 3:30 pm PDT: Barbara Winslow talks about her forthcoming book Revolutionary Feminists in-person at the University of Washington. Communications Building 120, 2023 King Ln NE, Seattle

April 11, 4 pm PDT: Sami Schalk, author of Black Disability Politics, gives an in-person talk at UCLA. Department of English. Kaplan Hall 193, 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles

April 12, 4-5:30 pm BST (11 am – 12:30 pm EDT): Arseli Dokumacı, author of Activist Affordances, gives a hybrid talk at King’s College London.

April 12, 5:30 pm PDT:  Bharat Venkat, author of  At the Limits of Cure, gives a hybrid talk at the Stanford Humanities Center. 424 Santa Teresa Street, Stanford, California

April 13, 5pm EDT: Beeta Baghoolizadeh, author of the forthcoming book The Color Black: Enslavement and Erasure in Iran, gives a hybrid talk at NYU’s Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies. 255 Sullivan St., New York

April 13, 7pm EDT: Rhiannon Stephens, author of Poverty and Wealth in East Africa, gives a reading at Book Culture. 536 W 112th St, New York

April 15, 8 pm PDT: McKenzie Wark, author of Raving, joins Zoë Beery, Geoffrey Mak, Brittany Newell, Anne Lesley Selcer, McKenzie Wark, Chris Zaldua, and Fault Radio for in-person readings and discussion about writing on raving. An afterparty follows at Club Moniker. The Lab, 2948 16th Street, San Francisco

April 18, 7 pm EDT: Columbia Theological Seminary hosts a book signing with Monique Moultrie, author of Hidden Histories. Harrington Center Chapel, 701 S. Columbia Drive, Decatur, Georgia

April 19, 4 pm EDT: Jean-Thomas Tremblay, author of Breathing Aesthetics, joins former DUP editor Joshua Gutterman Tranen for an in-person conversation at Letters Bookshop. 116 W Main St, Durham, North Carolina

April 19, 7 pm PDT: The Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund hosts a hybrid conversation with Sami Schalk, author of Black Disability Politics. Ed Roberts Campus, 3075 Adeline St, Berkeley

April 19-June 16: An exhibition to accompany Dissident Practices by Claudia Calirman will be on display at the Anya and Andrew Shiva Art Gallery at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, 860 11th Avenue, New York

April 20, 1:30 pm EDT: Duke University’s cultural anthropology department celebrates the work of the late Diane Nelson, author of Who Counts? and Reckoning. Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Smith Warehouse, Bay 4, C105, 114 South Buchanan Blvd, Durham, North Carolina

April 27, 7 pm CET: Martin Savransky, author of Around the Day in Eighty Worlds, joins Paula Serafini for an in-person conversation at Ark Books. Møllegade 10, Copenhagen

April 27, 5:30 PM CDT: Shannen Williams, author of Subversive Habits gives a hybrid talk about her book at the University of Chicago’s Martin Marty Center. Swift 3rd Floor Lecture Hall, 1025 E. 58th St., Chicago

April 28, 9:30 am BST: Stefan Helmreich will read from and speak about A Book of Waves in a hybrid talk at Exeter University. Streatham Court C, Streatham Campus, University of Exeter, Exeter

March Author Events

March is a great time to get out and see our authors at events around the world, or to catch them at online events. Some of these events do not yet have complete information; follow us on Twitter for up-to-date event information.

March 2, 12 pm EST: Sami Schalk, author of Black Disability Politics, presents an online webinar on Black disability activism, sponsored by Western University. 

March 2, 12 pm PST: Richard T. Rodríguez, author of A Kiss across the Ocean, joins John Alba Cutler for an in-person conversation at University of California, Berkeley. 2547 Channing Way, Berkeley, California

March 2, 4:30 pm PST: Jennifer Lynn Kelly, author of Invited to Witness, joins Nick Mitchell and Sophia Azeb for a hybrid conversation sponsored by University of California Santa Cruz’s Feminist Studies and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies departments. Humanities Institute, Rm 210, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA

March 2, 7:30 pm PST: Eric Stanley, author of Atmospheres of Violence, is in conversation Toshio Meronek in an in-person event at Revolutions Bookshop. 8713 N Lombard, Portland, Oregon

March 2, 3:45 pm PST: Joseph Plaster, author of Kids on the Street, speaks in-person at the University of Puget Sound. Rausch Auditorium, McIntyre Hall, 1500 North Warner Street, Tacoma, Washington

March 2, 5:30 pm EST: Shannen Dee Williams, author of Subversive Habits, will give a lecture at The University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Strong Hall 101, 1621 West Cumberland Avenue, Knoxville, TN 37996

March 6, 5:30 pm EST: Lucia Hulsether, author of Capitalist Humanitarianism, is joined by Adam Tinkle for an in-person conversation at Skidmore College. Payne Preservation Room, Tang Museum, 815 N Broadway #1632, Saratoga Springs

March 6, 6:30 pm EST: Sami Schalk, author of Black Disability Politics, is in conversation with Vilissa Thompson, Brandon Kazen-Maddox, and Juana Aguilar in an online event sponsored by Intellectual Publics.

March 7, 4:30 pm GMT: AbdouMaliq Simone, author of The Surrounds, gives an in-person talk about his book at University College London, followed by responses by Dr Tatiana Thieme and Dr Fabien Cante and then refreshments. UCL Institute of Advanced Studies, Common Ground (room G11 of the South Wing), London

March 7, 11 am CST: Sami Schalk, author of Black Disability Politics, takes part in the Spring Diversity Forum at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. University Center 275, Old Main Ballroom, 800 W Main St, Whitewater, Wisconsin

March 7, 12 pm EST: Rumya Putcha, author of The Dancer’s Voice, will give a virtual lecture with the Morrisson-Reeves Library in-conjunction with Earlham College’s Center for Social Justice.

March 8, 5:30 pm SAST: Love Books hosts an in-person launch for Wake Up, This is Joburg by Tanya Zack and Mark Lewis. They will be joined in conversation by Bronwyn Law-Viljoen. The Bamboo Lifestyle, 53, Rustenburg Road, Melville, Johannesburg

March 8, 6:30 pm GMT: The Bayes Business School of the City University of London hosts Shani Orgad and Rosalind Gill, authors of Confidence Culture, for a hybrid talk. Bayes Business School, 106 Bunhill Row, London

March 8: Sami Schalk, author of Black Disability Politics, gives an in-person talk at State University of New York at New Paltz.

March 8, 5 pm PST: Lata Mani gives an online presentation about her book Myriad Intimacies, sponsored by the Las Maestras Center at UC Santa Barbara.

March 9, 5:30 pm CET, Penny Von Eschen, author of Paradoxes of Nostalgia, gives an in-person lecture at Charles University. Faculty of Arts Building, Rm 111, Charles University, Prague

March 10, 1 pm EST: Thomas Beller, author of Lost in the Game, joins Tyler Bridges and Jeff Duncan on a panel at the New Orleans Book Festival. Pederson Lobby, Lavin-Bernick Center, Tulane University, New Orleans

March 11, 11am EST: Christopher Schaberg, author of Fly-Fishing, will moderate a panel with Todd Doughty, Priscilla Painton, & Julia Prosser at the New Orleans Book Festival. Diboll Gallery, Tulane University, New Orleans.

March 13, 12:25pm EDT, Mary Louise Pratt, author of Planetary Longings, speaks in-person at Penn State’s Comp Lit Luncheon. 102 Kern Building, State College, Pennsylvania

March 13, 5pm EDT: Rupal Oza, author of Semiotics of Rape, joins Vasuki Nesiah, for an in-person conversation at Hunter College’s Roosevelt House. 47-49 E 65th St, New York City

March 15, 11 am GMT, Gavin Butt, author of No Machos or Pop Stars, gives an in-person lecture at Leeds School of Arts entitled “Revisiting Art Education’s Intermedia Dream.”. Leeds School of Arts Building, The Theatre, Portland Way, Leeds

March 15: Joseph Plaster, author of Kids on the Street, gives a talk at SF State

March 16, 5:30 pm PDT: Joseph Plaster, author of Kids on the Street, participates in an in-person book talk and discussion panel at the Tenderloin Museum with Susan Stryker. 398 Eddy St. SF, CA 94102

March 16, 6 pm EDT, Cisco Bradley, author of The Williamsburg Avant-Garde, signs books at Shift, followed by a musical performance at 8 pm. 411 Kent Ave., Brooklyn

March 17, 5 pm GMT, Gavin Butt, author of No Machos or Pop Stars, speaks in person at the École des beaux-arts. He is joined by James Horton and Gallien Déjean on a panel entitled Pédagogie et post-punk : histoires alternatives de l’école d’art. 14 rue Bonaparte, Bâtiment des Loges, salle 2B, Paris

March 20, 6 pm EDT: Christopher Schaberg, author of Fly-Fishing, joins some of his students for an in-person reading of his book and their essays on fly-fishing. The Eliza Jane, 15 Magazine Street, New Orleans

March 21, 3 pm GMT: Moyukh Chatterjee, author of Composing Violence, participates in the Social Anthropology Joint Book Launch hosted by CRITIQUE. Gaddum Lecture Theatre, 1 George Square, Edinburgh

March 21, 4:30 pm EDT: Sonny Coráñez Bolton, author of Crip Colony, gives an in-person talk at Cornell University. Klarman Hall, 232 Feeney Way, Ithaca, NY

March 21, 4 pm EDT: Eric Stanley, author of Atmospheres of Violence, gives an in-person talk at Brown University, sponsored by the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women. Pembroke Hall, Room 305, Providence

March 22, 6 pm EDT: Thomas Beller will read in-person from his recent book Lost in the Game at Vassar College. Spitzer Auditorium, Sanders Classroom, 24 Raymond Avenue, Poughkeepsie

March 22, 12 pm PDT: Lisa Bloom, author of Climate Change and the New Polar Aesthetics, gives an online talk sponsored by UC Berkeley’s Gender and Women’s Studies department.

March 22, 6:30 pm EDT: Hiʻilei Julia Kawehipuaakahaopulani Hobart, author of Cooling the Tropics, will feature in a panel for the A/P/A Institute at NYU. Kimball Hall Lounge, 246 Greene Street, New York City

March 23, 5 pm EDT: Sophie Chao, author of In the Shadow of the Palms, gives an online talk sponsored by Concordia University entitled “More than Human Entanglements in the Plantation Nexus.” 

March 23, 6:30 pm PDT: Lindsey A. Freeman launches her new book Running with an in-person event at Simon Fraser University. SFU Harbour Center, Room 7000, 555 West Hastings Street, Vancouver

March 23, 7 pm EDT: Eric Stanley, author of Atmospheres of Violence, has an in-person discussion with Chris Lee at Riffraff Bookstore. 60 Valley Street, Providence, RI

March 24, 2-3:30 pm GMT: Srila Roy, author of Changing the Subject, gives an online talk at the University of Essex’s Centre for Global South Studies.

March 24, 1 pm EDT: Christopher Schaberg, author of Fly-Fishing, appears on a panel at the Tennessee Williams Festival in New Orleans called “Passion Projects: Writing About What You Love.”Hotel Monteleone, Queen Anne Ballroom, 938 Lafayette St, New Orleans, LA 

March 24, 7 pm EDT: Eric Stanley, author of Atmospheres of Violence, gives an in-person book talk with Ianna Hawkins Owen at the Lucy Parsons Center. 549 Columbus Ave, Boston, MA.

March 26, 3 PM EDT: Eric Stanley, author of Atmospheres of Violence, appears at the Bureau of General Services–Queer Division with Tourmaline. 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY

March 28, 4 pm EDT: Sami Schalk, author of Black Disability Politics, gives an in person talk entitled “Black Disability Poetics and Politics: A Conversation” at Wake Forest University, hosted by the Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Department.

March 29: Sami Schalk, author of Black Disability Politics, speaks at the Health Humanities Program at Salem College in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

March 29: Eric Stanley, author of Atmospheres of Violence, speaks at VCU in Richmond, Virginia.

March 30, 6 pm EDT: Rupal Oza, author of Semiotics of Rape, joins Linda Alcoff and Dina Siddqi in-person for a discussion at the CUNY Graduate Center. Pre-registration is required. CUNY Graduate Center Room 9205, 365 5th Avenue New York City

March 30, 6 pm CDT: Christopher Schaberg, author of Fly-Fishing, reads and speaks at Octavia Books in New Orleans.

March 30, 6:15 pm PDT: Lindsey A. Freeman, author of Running, holds an in-person event sponsored by the  Vancouver Running Company Flight Crew. 1886 W1st Ave, Vancouver

Author Events in January

Start your new year with some great talks and readings by our authors!

January 13, 7 pm EST: Ed Cohen, author of On Learning to Heal, discusses his book with Emily Lim Rogers at a hybrid event at Bureau of General Services, Queer Division. Room 210, LGBT Community Center, 208 W 13th St., New York City

January 16, 5 pm CEST: Bharat Venkat, author of At the Limits of Cure, gives a virtual book talk at Humboldt University of Berlin

January 19, 7:30 pm EST: Ed Cohen, author of On Learning to Heal, discusses his book with Emily Lim Rogers at an in-person event at Greenlight Books. 686 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, New York

January 26, 12 pm CST: Bharat Venkat, author of  At the Limits of Cure, gives a virtual book talk at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston Institute for Bioethics and Health Humanities

January 26, 7 pm CST: Elisabeth R. Anker, author of Ugly Freedoms, gives a hybrid book talk at the University of Tulsa’s Oklahoma Center for the Humanities. Zarrow Center for Art & Education, 124 East Reconciliation Way, Tulsa, OK

January 29, 4:00 pm EST: Alexandra Juhasz and Theodore Kerr, authors of We Are Having This Conversation Now, will join Cory Silverberg and other authors in an online event with GLASS Bookshop in Edmonton.

At the time of writing, several of these events did not have links. Check back closer to the time of the event to get the link, or follow us on Twitter.

December Events

As we wrap up the year, you still have a few chances to catch out authors at in-person and online events.

December 1, 2 pm EST: Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan, author of The Globally Familiar, speaks at the Mortara Center for International Studies. 3600 N St NW Washington, DC 20007

December 1, 6 pm EST: Manijeh Moradian joins Nadine Naber and Mae Ngai to discuss her new book, This Flame Within in an in-person event sponsored by the Barnard Center for Research on Women. Denise Jackson Lewis ’66 Conference Room 614 Milstein Center, Barnard College, 3009 Broadway, New York City

December 2, 11 am EST: Michael Degani, author of The City Electric, gives a hybrid talk about his book at Johns Hopkins University.

December 4, 2 pm EST, Michael Degani gives an in-person talk about his book The City Electric at Johns Hopkins University. RSVP to receive the address.

December 8, 6:30pm EST: Thomas Beller and Alexander Wolff discuss their books Lost in the Game and Big Game, Small World in-person at Letters Bookshop. 116 W Main St, Durham, NC

December 10: Alexandra Juhasz and Theodore Kerr, authors of We Are Having This Conversation Now, participate in an in-person event hosted by the William Way Community Center with guests and authors. 1315 Spruce St, Philadelphia, PA

December 12, 10 am EST:  Lisa Bloom, author of Climate Change and the New Polar Aesthetics, joins Dolly Jorgensen for an online conversation that is part of the Environmental Humanities Book Talk series at the Greenhouse at the University of Stavenger.

December 11, 2pm PST: Lisa Uperesa speaks in-person about her book Gridiron Capital at Eastwind Books in Berkeley. 2066 University Ave, Berkeley, CA

December 15, 6 pm MST: ecoartspace hosts an online event with Lisa Bloom, author of Climate Change and the New Polar Aesthetics. There is a $10 charge for non-members.

December 21, 6:30 pm IST: Srila Roy, author of Changing the Subject, discusses her book in-person with Arvind Narrain, Atreyee Majumder and Swethaa Ballakrishnen. Bangalore International Centre7, 4th Main Road, Domlur II Stage, Bangalore, Karnataka

Author Events in November

Our authors are busy at virtual, hybrid, and in-person events around the world in November. We hope you can make it to some of them! And November is also a busy month for conferences. We will have in-person booths at the American Studies Association, American Anthropological Association, National Women’s Studies Association, African Studies Association, and American Academy of Religion. Stop by our booths and visit with us.

November 1, 12-1:30 pm EDT: Eric A. Stanley, author of Atmospheres of Violence, has an in-person book talk at Yale University, in WLH 309. A light lunch will be provided.

November 1, 5 pm GMT: Catherine Grant will have an in-person conversation with James Boaden about her new book A Time of One’s Own at the University of York, in the Treehouse of the Berrick Saul Building.

November 1, 4:30 pm EDT: Katina Rogers, author of Putting the Humanities PhD to Work, gives an in-person talk and leads a student workshop at Georgia State University. 223, 25 Park Place, Atlanta, Georgia.

November 1, 6 pm EDT: John D’Emilio, author of Memories of a Gay Catholic Boyhood, joins Claire Potter for a hybrid online and in-person Q&A and book signing at The New School. Starr Foundation Hall, 63 Fifth Avenue, New York City.

November 2, 5 pm GMT: Catherine Grant, author of A Time of One’s Own, has an in-person book talk at Northumbria University, Newcastle, in the Lipman Building.

November 2, 6 pm CET: Muriam Davis, author of Markets of Civilization, is joined by Giulia Fabbiano and Thierry Fabre for an in-person discussion at Aix Marseille University. 2 place Leverrier, 13004 Marseille, France

November 4, 4-5:30 pm EDT: The UNC Department of Communication hosts an in-person book-launch event for Torin Monahan, author of Crisis Vision. Hill Hall 103, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC

November 5, 1 pm CST: Ann Marie Leimer, co-editor of Consuelo Jimenez Underwood, speaks in-person at Underwood’s exhibition at Ruiz-Healy Art, 201-A East Olmos Drive, San Antonio, Texas

November 7, 4:45 pm EST: Penny Von Eschen, author of Paradoxes of Nostalgia, speaks in-person  at Cornell University. Kaufmann Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall, Ithaca, NY

November 7, 5 pm EST: Robert Bliwise, author of The Pivot, joins Duke faculty members Tom Ferraro, Kristin Goss, and Omid Safi for an in-person discussion about lessons learned from teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic. Perkins Library 217, Duke University, Durham, NC.

November 9, 4:00 pm EST: Jodi Kim, author of Settler Garrison, joins Amanda C. Demmer and  Daniel Y. Kim for a virtual panel discussion at the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU.

November 9, 4:30 pm EST: Penny Von Eschen, author of Paradoxes of Nostalgia, gives an in-person talk at Yale University.

November 10, 11:30 am AEDT: The Environmental and Media Research Program at Monash University hosts a virtual talk by Jean-Thomas Tremblay, author of Breathing Aesthetics.

November 10, 7 pm GMT, Gavin Butt, author of No Machos or Pop Stars, talks with the band Gang of Four’s Jon King about the story of post-punk in Leeds at the Walthamstow Rock ‘N’ Roll Book Club. The event will be held at The Barrel Store, Wildcard Brewery, Shernhall Street, London, E17 9HQ.

November 10, 6 pm EST: Rinaldo Walcott, author of The Long Emancipation, participates in Borders, Human Itineraries and All Our Relation, an in-person event at York University. It also features Dele Adeyemo, Natalie Diaz, and Nadia Yala Kisukidi. Sandra Faire and Ivan Fecan Theatre Ian Macdonald Boulevard Toronto, ON 

November 11, 12 pm GMT: Srila Roy, author of Changing the Subject, will give a virtual talk at the University of the Witwatersrand as part of their social reproduction seminar series. 

November 12, 6:30 pm CET,  Marcus Boon, author of The Politics of Vibration, launches his book at the Minor Cosmpolitan Assembly conference in Berlin. University of Potsdam, Am Neuen Palais 10, 14469 Potsdam

November 12, 1:30 pm EST: Katina Rogers, author of Putting the Humanities PhD to Work, appears on a panel at the hybrid University of Virginia conference, 30 Years of Digital Humanities at UVA.

November 13, 3:00 pm EST: Alexandra Juhasz and Theodore Kerr, authors of We Are Having This Conversation Now, have an online event with the Bureau of General Services, Queer Division in New York City.

November 13, 6:00 pm EST: Alexandra Juhasz and Theodore Kerr, authors of We Are Having This Conversation Now, have an in-person launch party held by Parkside Lounge. 317 E Houston St, New York City

November 14, 1 pm EST: The American Prospect hosts an in-person discussion with the authors of Our Veterans. Economic Policy Institute, 1225 I Street Northwest #600 Washington, DC

November 15, 6:15 pm EST: Heather Davis, author of Plastic Matter, will give a virtual talk called “Explorations in Medical Humanities” sponsored by Columbia University.

November 15, 3:00 pm CET: Lisa Bloom, author of Climate Change and the New Polar Aesthetics, speaks in person at the Department of Art History, Södertörn University, Stockholm.

November 15, 5 pm EST: Harvard University’s Mahindra Humanities Center hosts an online conversation with Breathing Aesthetics author Jean-Thomas Tremblay and Annabel L. Kim.

November 15, 3 pm PST: Lisa Uperesa speaks in person about her book Gridiron Capital at UCLA. Royce Hall room 306, Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles, CA

November 15, 7 pm EST: Harper’s Magazine and Duke University Press present an in-person writerly discussion of basketball featuring Alexander Wolff, author of Big Game, Small World,  and Thomas Beller, author of Lost in the Game. W83 Ministry Center 150 West 83rd Street 4th Floor New York

November 15th, 7:00 pm CST: John D’Emilio, author of Memories of a Gay Catholic Boyhood participates in an in-person event at the Chicago Theological Union in partnership with Seminary Co-op Bookstores

November 16, : Lisa Bloom, author of Climate Change and the New Polar Aesthetics, gives an in-person talk at Konst/ig bookstore. Åsögatan 124, 116 24, Stockholm, Sweden

November 16, 4:30 pm EST: Penny Von Eschen speaks about her book Paradoxes of Nostalgia at Temple University. The event is both in-person and online. Welgley 914, Gladfelter Hall, 1115 W. Berks Street Philadelphia.

November 16, 1 pm PST, Katina Rogers, author of Putting the Humanities PhD to Work, gives an online talk at UC Merced entitled “Career Pathways for Humanities Graduate Students.”

November 17, 4:30 pm: Penny Von Eschen, author of Paradoxes of Nostalgia, gives the Distinguished Lecture in European History in-person at Rutgers University.

November 17, 7 pm EST: Elisabeth Anker, author of Ugly Freedoms, speaks in-person at Muhlenberg College as part of the Center for Ethics Speculative Futures series. Moyer Hall, 2400 W Chew St, Allentown, PA.

November 17, 7 pm EST: In celebration of University Press Week, Book Culture hosts an in-person poetry reading featuring Simone White, author of or, on being the other woman, along with Cheryl Boyce-Taylor, Ellen Hagan, and Brionne Janae. Gabriel Cleveland will moderate. 536 West 112th St, New York City

November 17, 4:15 pm PST: Lisa Uperesa discusses her book Gridiron Capital in person at the Claremont Colleges. 108 Hahn Hall, 420 Harvard Ave N, Claremont, CA

November 18, 12 pm EST: Jean-Thomas Tremblay, author of Breathing Aesthetics, is joined by Jules Gill-Peterson and Brad Harmon for an in-person conversation at Johns Hopkins University.

November 19, 7:30 pm EST: Alexandra Juhasz and Theodore Kerr, authors of We Are Having This Conversation Now, will participate in an online event with CHARIS books in Atlanta. 

November 22, 2 pm EST, Jean-Thomas Tremblay discusses his new book Breathing Aesthetics in-person with Sarah Dowling at the University of Toronto.

November 24, 7 pm GMT: Gavin Butt holds a South Coast launch for his new book No Machos or Pop Stars at The Rose Hill in Brighton. Gavin will be reading from his book and playing rare and unreleased sounds by bands from the West Yorkshire scene of the 1970s and 1980s.

November 24, 4:40 pm EST: La Marr Jurelle Bruce, author of How to Go Mad without Losing Your Mind, gives the Lynch Distinguished Lecture in-person at the University of Toronto. Claude T. Bissell Building, 140 St George St, Toronto, Ontario

November 25: Jean-Thomas Tremblay, author of Breathing Aesthetics, gives a seminar at Concordia University

November 29, Thomas Beller, author of Lost in the Game, appears in-person at Octavia Books. 513 Octavia St, New Orleans, Louisiana

Author Events in October

This October, check out some of the many opportunities to see our authors at online and in-person events around the world. Be sure to note the local time zone for each event.

October 3, 7 pm EDT: Shannen Dee Williams, author of Subversive Habits, presents an in-person talk based on her book at Mount Saint Mary’s College. Kaplan Family Library and Learning Center, 330 Powell Ave., Newburgh, NY.

October 4, 5 pm  EDT: Neferti X.M. Tadiar, author of Remaindered Life, speaks in-person at Duke University as part of the Gender Studies Now event series, East Duke Parlors, 1304 Campus Drive, Durham, NC.

October 4, 3:30 pm MDT: Joseph Pugliese, author of Biopolitics of the More-Than-Human, gives the 2022 IHR Book Award Lecture online.

October 5, 12pm PDT: Andrea Ballestero and Brit Ross, coeditors of Experimenting with Ethnography, host a virtual event celebrating the first anniversary of their book’s publication. The event features commentary by Marilyn Strathern, Dawn Nafus, and Nikhil Anand, along with a panel of two of the book’s contributors, Patricia Alvarez Astacio and Tone Walford. This event is co-sponsored by the Ethnography Studio, the Levan Institute for the Humanities, and the Center on Science, Technology, and Public Life at USC.

October 5, 4:15 EDT: Heather Davis, author of Plastic Matter, gives a talk called “Ambivalent Repair” hosted by the Program for the Study of Women, Gender and Sexuality at John Hopkins University.

October 6, 7pm EDT: Kaysha Corinealdi, author of Panama in Black, will be in conversation with Ariana A. Curtis in a virtual event hosted by Cafe con Libros.

October 6, 7 pm PDT: Richard T. Rodríguez, author of A Kiss across the Ocean, reads from his book in-person at Fabulosa Books. 489 Castro Street, San Francisco.

October 10, 6 pm PDT: Elisabeth Anker, author of Ugly Freedoms, speaks in-person at Reed College. Eliot Hall 314, 3203 Southeast Woodstock Boulevard, Portland, OR.

October 11, 11:15 am CEST: Breathing Aesthetics author Jean-Thomas Tremblay lectures in-person about his book at the University of Copenhagen. Læderstræde 20, Lecture Hall, Copenhagen.

October 11, 7 pm PDT: Vicente L. Rafael, author of The Sovereign Trickster, joins Moon-Ho Jung to discuss colonialism, empire, late-stage capitalism, and more at an in-person event at Elliott Bay Book Company, 1521 Tenth Avenue, Seattle, WA.

October 12, 12 pm PDT: Suzanne Gordon and Steve Early, authors of Our Veterans, speak in-person at the Rotary Club of Napa. 2840 Soscol Avenue, Napa, CA.

October 12, 12 pm PDT: Elisabeth Anker, author of Ugly Freedoms, speaks in-person at the University of Washington. Petersen Room, 4th floor of Allen Library, 4000 15th Ave NE, Seattle, WA.

October 13, 5 pm EDT: Elisabeth Anker speaks about her book Ugly Freedoms in-person at Whitman College. Kimball Theatre in Hunter Conservatory, 324 Boyer Ave., Walla Walla, WA.

October 17, 5 pm EDT: Matt Brim, author of Poor Queer Studies, gives the annual Queer Theory Lecture in person at Duke University. East Duke Pink Parlor, East Duke Bldg, 112 Campus Dr, Durham, NC.

October 18, 7 pm EDT: NYU’s Department of Performance Studies sponsors a book launch for Barbara Browning’s The Miniaturists. Room 612, PS Studio, NYU, New York City.

October 18, 5 pm EDT: Ricky Rodriguez, author of A Kiss across the Ocean, is in virtual conversation with Alexandra Vazquez, author of The Florida Room, as part of the IASPM-US Popular Music Books in Process series.

October 19, 3:30 pm PDT: Juan Herrera, author of Cartographic Memory, gives an in-person talk entitled “Social Movement Activism and the Production of Space” sponsored by the University of California Berkeley Department of Geography.  575 McCone Hall, Berkeley.

October 20, 4 pm EDT: Elisabeth Anker, author of Ugly Freedoms, speaks in-person at Hamilton College.

October 20, 4-5:30pm EDT: micha cárdenas, author of Poetic Operations, will give an online book talk as part of the Fall 2022 Humanities Forum hosted by UMBC’s Dresher Center for the Humanities.

October 20, 6 pm EDT: John D’Emilio, author of Memories of a Gay Catholic Boyhood, speaks at an in-person event at the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute in New York City. Pre-registration is required.

October 21, 3:30 pm CDT: Darren Byler, author of Terror Capitalism, speaks in-person at the University of Chicago Center for East Asian Studies. Joseph Regenstein Library, Room 122, 1100 E. 57th St. Chicago.

October 24, 6 pm EDT: Srila Roy, author of Changing the Subject, speaks in-person at The New School Sociology Colloquium. Wolff Conference Room, 6 E 16 St, New York City.

October 25, 7 pm GMT: Diana Paton and Matthew Smith, editors of The Jamaica Reader, give an in-person talk at Millennium Gallery, 48 Arundel Gate, Sheffield City Centre, Sheffield. Tickets are £7 in advance and £8 at the door.

October 25-27: The Samuel DuBois Cook Center at Duke University hosts a conference inspired by the book The Pandemic Divide, edited by Gwendolyn L. Wright, Lucas Hubbard, and William A. Darity. Washington Duke Inn & Golf Club 3001 Cameron Boulevard Durham, NC.

October 25, 5-6pm CDT: Jean-Thomas Tremblay, author of Breathing Aesthetics, hosts a virtual event with the Seminary Co-Op Bookstore. They will be joined in conversation by Jennifer Scappatone.

October 26, 11 am EDT: Sami Schalk launches her new book Black Disability Politics at the Ford Foundation, 320 E 43rd St, New York City.

October 27, 4 pm EDT: Vicente L. Rafael, author of The Sovereign Trickster, gives an online lecture entitled “How Revolutionary was the Philippine Revolution?” as part of the Philippines Lecture Series at Harvard University.

October 27, 4:10 pm EDT: Srila Roy, author of Changing the Subject, speaks in-person at Columbia University. 208 Knox Hall, 606 West 122nd Street, New York.

October 27, 5:45 pm CET: Heather Davis, author of Plastic Matter, gives a keynote address titled “Petro-modernity as Pleasure and Threat” at the Swiss Design Network Research Summit in Switzerland.

October 28, 7:30 pm GMT: The bands Scritti Politti and The Mekons77 play at The Brudenell in Leeds to support Gavin Butt’s new book No Machos or Pop Stars. Tickets are £20 in advance.

Author Events in September

We have so many great in-person and virtual author events in September, all around the world. Hope you can make it to some of them! Please note the local time zone for each event.

September 1, 6 pm EDT: Shannen Dee Williams discusses her book Subversive Habits in a virtual talk sponsored by the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture.

September 2, 10 am SGT: Fran Martin, author of Dreams of Flight, gives an online talk sponsored by the National University of Singapore Department of Communications and New Media.

September 2, 10:30 am SGT: Sophie Chao shares insights from her book In the Shadow of the Palms at a virtual event organized by NTU Singapore’s Southeast Asian Studies department.

September 7, 6 pm PDT:  Suzanne Gordon and Steve Early, co-authors of Our Veterans, speak about their book as part of the KPFA Author series at Veterans Memorial Building, (Room 206), 401 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco, California.

September 8, 7 pm PDT: Richard T. Rodriguez discusses his book A Kiss Across the Ocean in person at Vroman’s Bookstore in Pasadena, CA.

September 8, 6 pm EDT: The Etherredge Center for the Fine and Performing Arts at the University of South Carolina Aiken hosts an in-person reading and book signing by LeRhonda Manigault-Bryant, author of Talking to the Dead.

September 10, 3:15 PM EDT: Author David Grubbs will read from his book Good night the pleasure was ours and play a first-time duo with Fred Lonberg-Holm as part of a program curated by Notice Recordings for Verbatim, a festival for small presses and record labels.

September 11, 2 pm AEST: Sophie Chao will launch her book In the Shadow of the Palms at the West Papua Open Day at 838 Collins St, Docklands, Victoria. The event will also be streamed.

September 12, 5:30 pm EDT: Suzanne Gordon, Steve Early, and Jasper Craven will speak about their book Our Veterans at Still North Books in Hanover, NH. 

September 13, 7 pm EDT: Suzanne Gordon, Steve Early, and Jasper Craven read from and sign Our Veterans at Phoenix Books, 191 Bank St. Burlington, Vermont. 

September 14, 6 pm EDT: Lorgia García Peña, author of Translating Blackness, gives a book talk titled “Community as Rebellion” at CUNY Graduate Center. Register here for the Zoom link. 

September 15, 4:30 pm EDT:  Suzanne Gordon, Steve Early, and Jasper Craven speak about Our Veterans at Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont.  

September 15, 5 pm EDT: Lorgia García Peña gives an in-person book talk on Translating Blackness at the SCA Flex Space, 20 Cooper Square, New York University.

September 15, 7 pm PDT: Mila Zuo, author of Vulgar Beauty, will speak and lead a discussion following a screening of the film Irma Vep. The event, sponsored by the University of British Columbia, takes place at Robson Square and is is part of the Cinema Thinks The World project. 

September. 16: Steve Early and Suzanne Gordon will speak about Our Veterans in the Albany/Troy area.  

September 16: Lorgia García Peña gives a book talk and signs copies of Translating Blackness at WordUp bookstore in New York City.

September 17, 4 pm PDT: Libro Mobile and Ghostown Anaheim sponsor a book launch for A Kiss across the Ocean by Richard T. Rodríguez. It will feature the author in conversation with Marlén Ríos-Hernández as well as live music, at the Bristol Swap Mall Food Court, 1150 S. Bristol St. #A3, Santa Ana, California. The event will also be streamed on Instagram Live.

September 20, 6 pm EDT: Simone White, author of or, on being the other woman, is in conversation with The Friend in a virtual event sponsored by The New School.

September 21, 7 pm EDT: Steve Early and Suzanne Gordon speak about and sign Our Veterans at Porter Square Books, 25 White Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts.  

September 21, 8 pm EDT: The Poetry Project celebrates Simone White’s new book or, on being the other woman at an in-person event in St. Marks Church in New York City.

September 22, 4:30 pm EDT: Lorgia García Peña holds a book launch for Translating Blackness at Tufts University and will be joined by respondents Robin DG Kelley and SA Smythe. The event will be held in the Sophia Gordon Multipurpose Room, 15 Talbot Avenue, Medford, Massachusetts.

September 23, 7 pm PDT: David Grubbs reads from his new book Good night the pleasure was ours at 2220 Arts + Archives in Los Angeles. The reading is free. A solo and ensemble performance follows at 9pm as a separate ticketed event. 2220 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles.

September 28, 6 pm EDT: Mary Louise Pratt, author of Planetary Longings, will speak about her book at Brown University. The talk takes place at Joukowsky Forum and is sponsored by the Department of Hispanic Studies and the Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies.

September 29, 3:30 pm CDT: John D’Emilio will read from his new book Memories of a Gay Catholic Boyhoood at the University of Illinois Chicago. The event will be held in the Illinois Room in the Student Center East.

September 29, 10:30 am PDT: Xochitl Marsilli-Vargas virtually presents her book Genres of Listening in conjunction with Stanford’s Humanities Center as part of their Inside the Center series. RSVP for Zoom link.

September 29, 6 pm: Lorgia García Peña, author of Translating Blackness speaks at the University of Toledo Law School’s McQuade Law Auditorium.

September 30, 10 am EDT: micha cárdenas, author of Poetic Operations, will serve as keynote speaker at the Future Bodies symposium of the New Media Caucus at Virginia Tech. Free and open to the public.

September 30, 7 pm EDT: Thomas Beller, author of Lost in the Game, will moderate a Bookforum panel at the Brooklyn Book Festival. Panelists include Lindsay Zoladz and Ross Gay.

Author Events in August

Our authors will be participating in online and in-person events around the world in August. Hope you can make it to one!

August 5, 6 pm AEST: Glee Books in Sydney hosts an in-person book launch for Sophie Chao, author of In the Shadow of the Palms. 

August 10, 6 pm EDT: Shola von Reinhold, author of LOTE, will be in conversation with Marlowe Granados at Rizzoli Bookstore. 1133 Broadway, New York City

August 11, 1 pm AEST: Srila Roy, author of Changing the Subject, speaks on ‘Feminist Development In Eastern India: Entangled Histories And Empowered Women’ at the University of Sydney. A02 Level 6 Seminar Room 650

August 11, 7pm EDT: The final session of the Duke University 2022 APSI Summer Book Club will feature a discussion with Yan Lianke, author of Discovering Fiction, and Carlos Rojas, the book’s translator. This is a hybrid event with in-person and online components. The in-person event will be held at the John Hope Franklin Center Ahmadieh Family Conference Hall, 2204 Erwin Road, Durham, NC.

August 13, 8pm PDT: Simone White, author of or, on being the other woman, will read from her work at the Poetic Research Bureau, 2220 Beverly Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA.

August 13, 1-6 pm EDT: Fonderie Darling hosts a day of exchange around the book Re-understanding Media, co-edited by Sarah Sharma and Rianka Singh. Fondarie Darling, Main Hall, 745 rue Ottawa, Montréal, Canada.

August 23, 8 am PDT: Suzanne Gordon and Steve Early, co-authors of Our Veterans, speak to the Novato Rotary Club at Moylan’s Brewery and Restaurant, 15 Rowland Way, Novato, California.

August 25, 4 pm PDT: Lynn Spigel, author of TV Snapshots, gives a virtual talk sponsored by the UCLA Library Film and Television Archive.

August 31, 6 pm PDT: Suzanne Gordon and Steve Early, co-authors of Our Veterans, hold a launch party for their book and a fundraiser for the Richmond Pulse newspaper at Kaleidoscope Coffee, 109 Park Place, Richmond, California.

Author Events in July

From symposiums and workshops to musical performances and book parties, Duke Press authors have exciting events scheduled throughout the month of July. We hope you can catch one.

July 1, 7pm CEST:  CRC 1171 Affective Societies Freie Universität Berlin hosts an in-person book party for Omar Kasmani, author of Queer Companions at SAVVY Contemporary, Reinickendorfer Straße 17 in Berlin.

July 2, 1pm EDT: Eric Stanley, author of Atmospheres of Violence, is in conversation in person with Jamie Grace at Red Emma’s Bookstore Coffeehouse in Baltimore. 

July 4, 1:30-7:30 pm, CEST: Omar Kasmani, author of Queer Companions, and Juana María Rodríguez, author of the forthcoming book Puta Life, participate in an in-person workshop on new work in queer studies at Leuphana University of Lüneburg.

July 6, 1pm EDT: Film Quarterly sponsors the “Page Views Live” webinar featuring a conversation between Page Views editor Bruno Guaraná and Lindsey B. Green-Simms about her new book, Queer African Cinemas.

July 7, 1:30-3:00 pm, WEST: António Tomás, author of In the Skin of the City, will speak at the Iberian Conference on African Studies in Lisbon.

July 7, 7pm EDT: Eric Stanley, author of Atmospheres of Violence, joins Eli Coston and Travis Williams for an in-person conversation at Small Friend Records and Books in Richmond.

July 9, 7 pm EDT: David Grubbs will read from his new book Good night the pleasure was ours and also do a solo guitar performance at Unnameable Books in Brooklyn.

July 15, 11 am BST: Affect and Social Media/University of East London present a special Preview Symposium for the forthcoming publication of The Affect Theory Reader II, edited by Gregory Seigworth and Carolyn Pedwell. We hope it will be out in Fall 2023.

July 28, 3 pm AEST: The University of Queensland School of Social Science sponsors an online talk by Sophie Chao, author of In the Shadow of the Palms.

Author Events in June

You can catch our authors at both virtual and in-person events this month, in Europe and in the U.S.

June 1, 3 PM BST: Srila Roy, author of the forthcoming book Changing the Subject, will give an online talk sponsored by the Centre for the Study of Women and Gender at Warwick University.

June 2-3: Northwestern University hosts a two-day celebration of the work and legacy of Hamid Naficy, author of the three-volume work A Social History of Iranian Cinema. The gathering will include three panels, a keynote address, film screenings, personal testimonials, and more. It will include both in-person and virtual events.

June 3, 3:30 PM PDT: Darren Byler, author of Terror Capitalism, participates in a colloquium centered on how Uyghurs articulate experiences of dehumanization and rage, sponsored by the Simpson Center for the Humanities at the University of Washington.

June 3, 7:30 PM PDT: David Boarder Giles, author of A Mass Conspiracy to Feed People, will appear in person at Left Bank Books in Seattle.

June 11, 6:30 PM EDT: The Sisters of St. Joseph of Baden, PA, and Duquesne University sponsor a book launch for Shannen Dee Williams’s Subversive Habits. The event is in-person at the Duquesne University Power Center.

June 14, 9AM PST: micha cárdenas, author of Poetic Operations, will give an online talk at the colloquium “Medien | Denken” (Media | Thinking) hosted by the Institute for Media Studies at Ruhr University Bochum in Germany.

June 15, 3:00 PM GMT: Gil Hochberg, author of Becoming Palestine, speaks in-person at the Beyond the Archive symposium at the Centre for Comparative Political Thought, SOAS London.

June 15, 2:30 PM EDT: Marlon Ross, author of Sissy Insurgencies, gives the keynote address at the 2022 virtual Conference on Men and Masculinities. 

June 16, 12 PM CEST:  micha cárdenas, author of Poetic Operations, gives a talk at the international conference AN-ICON.

June 17: Heather Davis, author of Plastic Matter, is a participant in the symposium “Bad Taste? Culture and Consumption in the Great Acceleration” hosted by the Institute for Cultural Inquiry, Berlin. It takes place in-person.

June 22, 5:00 PM CEST: Gil Hochberg, author of Becoming Palestine, gives an in-person lecture at the Netherlands Institute for Cultural Analysis.