If you’re looking for something to do in Chicago this month, the Chicago Architecture Foundation (CAF) has an exhibit called SynergiCity: Reinventing the Postindustrial City which roughly coincides with our publication of […]
Category: author events
Annette Insdorf helps honor Philip Kaufman at San Francisco Film Festival
Filmmaker Philip Kaufman will be honored with the Founder’s Directing Award by the San Francisco Film Society. Annette Insdorf will lead a Q&A with director Philip Kaufman at the San Francisco International Film Festival […]
Denise Levertov event at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.
This week we officially published the new biography Denise Levertov: A Poet’s Life by Dana Greene. Levertov was born in England (October 24, 1923), published her first book of poems at […]
Philip Kaufman Q&A at the Chicago Film Festival
Annette Insdorf will lead a Q&A with director Philip Kaufman at the Chicago Film Festival on October 16. Her critically acclaimed book in our Contemporary Film Directors series was published earlier this year. […]
Celebrate poet Michael S. Harper
CALL FOR PAPERS Michael S. Harper “Canon Maker: Poet, Editor, Teacher, Mentor, Scholar” Wednesday – Friday, March 13-15, 2013 The English Department at The University of Missouri – Columbia in […]
Join us at ASALH and IBMA for booksignings and more
It will be a be a busy week for University of Illinois Press staff and authors. We will be at the Association for the Study of African American Life and […]
SF Bay Guardian posts Marion Jacobson’s accordion picks
Marion Jacobson, author of Squeeze This! A Cultural History of the Accordion in America, recommends her favorite accordion acts in a San Francisco Bay Guardian event preview. Alex Meixner makes […]
Tomorrow! Farmers’ Markets of the Heartland @ Urbana’s Market at the Square
Like local food and farmers’ markets? Author Janine Maclaclan will be signing copies of Farmers’ Markets of the Heartland next to the NW entrance to the Market between 9:30-11:30 this […]
The American Theatre and Drama Society awards Living with Lynching
The American Theatre and Drama Society has awarded its 2011/2012 Annual Book Award to Living with Lynching: African American Lynching Plays, Performance, and Citizenship, 1890-1930. This award recognizes outstanding works […]
Concert celebrates Nicholas Temperley’s 80th birthday
Nicholas Temperley, author of two University of Illinois Press books, will be honored by the North American British Music Studies Association with a July 28 concert at the University of Illinois’ […]
UIP author Dana Greene to speak at the National Portrait Gallery
The Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery will host the exhibition Poetic Likeness: Modern American Poets, which opens in October 2012. A portrait of poet Denise Levertov (1923-1997) will be included in the exhibit. In […]
San Francisco area accordion events
Marion Jacobson, author of the new University of Illinois Press book Squeeze This! A Cultural History of the Accordion in America, will travel to Northern California in mid-August for a series of music and […]