Events Calendar

Thursday, November 05, 2009
James Lorence at the Southern Historical Society meeting, Louisville, KY
Event type: Conference Paper
James Lorence, author of "A Hard Journey: The Life of Don West," will present a paper on Communism in the South, which will deal in part with Don Wests organizational work for the Workers Alliance in Kentucky.

Saturday, November 07, 2009
Larry Kanfer at the Midway Village & Museum Center, Rockford, IL
Event type: Reading/Signing
Larry Kanfer will discuss and sign copies of his new book "Barns of Illinois."

Saturday, November 07, 2009
Gary Cialdella at Brauer Museum of Art, Valparaiso University, Valaparaiso, Indiana
Event type: Reading/Signing
Gary Cialdella will sign copies of his new book The Calumet Region.

Sunday, November 08, 2009
Larry Kanfer & Alaina Kanfer at Barnes & Noble, Joliet, IL
Event type: Book Signing
Larry Kanfer & Alaina Kanfer will sign copies of their new book "Barns of Illinois."

Monday, November 09, 2009
Janet Flammang at Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA
Event type: Lecture
Janet Flammang will discuss her new book The Taste for Civilization: Food, Politics and Civil Society. Reservations are required (contact Jeanette Miller at J3Miller@scu.edu).

Monday, November 09, 2009
Maureen Fitzgerald at the College of Mount Saint Vincent, Bronx, NY
Event type: Lecture
Maureen Fitzgerald, author of Habits of Compassion: Irish Catholic Nuns and the Origins of New York's Welfare System, 1830-1920 will talk on the theme Sisters of Charity in Social Welfare. She will then participate in a panel discussion on the theme Social Welfare: Wheres the Compassion Now? Copies of the book will be available. For more information, go to www.scny.org.

Friday, November 13, 2009
Maurice Hamington at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC
Event type: Lecture
Maurice Hamington will give the keynote address at the annual Joanne Brown Symposium at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, BC. His talk will be on Jane Addams. His forthcoming book is "The Social Philosophy of Jane Addams."

Saturday, November 14, 2009
Larry Kanfer at the Illini Union Bookstore, Champaign, IL
Event type: Book Signing
Larry Kanfer will sign copies of his new book "Barns of Illinois."

Monday, November 16, 2009
Stefan Bradley at the Brecht Forum, New York, NY
Event type: Lecture
Book Party/Forum for Stefan Bradley's new book Harlem vs. Columbia University: Black Student Power in the late 1960s

Monday, November 16, 2009
Larry Kanfer at the Barn Keepers/Illinois Farm Bureau, Bloomington, IL
Event type: Book Signing
Larry Kanfer will discuss and sign copies of his new book Barns of Illinois.

Saturday, November 21, 2009
Richard Hughes at Barnes & Noble, Camp Hill, PA
Event type: Panel
Richard Hughes will discuss and sign copies of his new book "Christian America and the Kingdom of God."

Saturday, November 21, 2009
Carole Marks at The Intown Uptown Inn, Washington, D.C.
Event type: Book Signing
Carole Marks will sign copies of her new book Moses and the Monster and Miss Anne.

Thursday, December 03, 2009
Louis Fiset at the Wing Luke Asian Museum, Seattle, WA
Event type: Reading/Signing
Louis Fiset will discuss and sign copies of the new book "Camp Harmony: Seattle's Japanese Americans and the Puyallup Assembly Center."

Thursday, December 03, 2009
Alyn Shipton at The Albion Beatnik Bookshop, Oxford, England
Event type: Reading/Signing
Alyn Shipton will discuss and sign copies of his new book I Feel a Song Coming On: The Life of Jimmy McHugh.

Friday, December 04, 2009
Andrew N. Weintraub and Bell Yung at a book launch symposium, Pittsburgh, PA
Event type: Launch Party
A Symposium Celebrating the publication of "Music and Cultural Rights" edited by Andrew N. Weintraub and Bell Yung. Participants include: Beverley Diamond, Canada Research Chair in Music and Ethnomusicology, Memorial University of Newfoundland Mike Madison, Professor of Law, University of Pittsburgh Damien Pwono, Executive Director of Global Initiative on Culture and Society, The Aspen Institute Andrew Weintraub, Associate Professor of Music, University of Pittsburgh Bell Yung, Professor of Music, University of Pittsburgh

Saturday, December 05, 2009
Larry Kanfer at the Bloomington Art Show & Sale, Bloomington, IL
Event type: Book Signing
Larry Kanfer returns to Bloomington with original artwork, including new images from the book "Barns of Illinois."

Saturday, December 12, 2009
Larry Kanfer & Alaina Kanfer at Barnes & Noble, Champaign, IL
Event type: Book Signing
Larry Kanfer & Alaina Kanfer will sign copies of their new book "Barns of Illinois."

Thursday, February 18, 2010
Terry Trilling-Josephson at Case Western University, Cleveland, OH
Event type: Reading/Signing
Terry Trilling-Josephson will discuss her book "Cafe Society: The Wrong Place for the Right People."

exhibits

The University of Illinois Press attends scholarly conferences and trade book shows throughout North America each year. A list of our meetings follows. Stop by our booth to browse, to buy, or to speak to one of our acquisition editors or staff. For further information, contact Exhibits Manager Margo Chaney.

Nov, 5 2009 - Nov, 8 2009
American Studies Assn
Washington, DC

Nov, 5 2009 - Nov, 8 2009
Southern Historical Assn
Louisville, KY

Nov, 7 2009 - Nov, 10 2009
American Academy of Religion
Montreal, Quebec

Nov, 12 2009 - Nov, 15 2009
American Musicological Society
Philadelphia, PA

Nov, 12 2009 - Nov, 15 2009
National Communication Assn
Chicago, IL

Dec, 2 2009 - Dec, 6 2009
American Anthropological Assn
Philadelphia, PA