Category Archives: events

May 21, 2020

Your 2020 Olympics Reading List

Posted by Charrice Jones
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Although the 2020 Olympic Games have been postponed, we’ve assembled a list of titles featuring the history and impact of the Games to help you get into the Olympic spirit. From politics to social norms, the Olympic Games have permeated … Continue reading →

June 6, 2019

Mark Your Calendars for Radical Illini: Conversations on Student Activism

Posted by Heather Gernenz
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Join us October 4-5 on the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus for conversations on past and present student activism in honor of our new book by Michael Metz, Radicals in the Heartland: The 1960s Student Protest Movement at the University … Continue reading →

September 6, 2018

Centennial Reception at Jane Addams Hull House

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Today marks Jane Addam’s 158th birthday and at UI Press, we’re the proud publisher of many of her books and personal papers. As a fitting tribute to the mother of social work, next week on September 13, the Press will … Continue reading →

May 23, 2018

Celebrating 100 Years of Publishing Excellence Reception

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Join us for a reception celebrating 100 years of publishing excellence with Illini Union Document Services, and Campus Mail at the Illini Union Art Gallery on Friday June, 1st from 1:30-3:30pm. Established by the the Board of Trustees on June 2, 1918, … Continue reading →

August 3, 2017

The Five Books You Need at AEJMC

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Headed to AEJMC next week? Here are five books to keep on your radar as you peruse the exhibit hall: 1. Interactive Journalism: Hackers, Data, and Code By Nikki Usher “In Interactive Journalism, Nikki Usher skillfully answers three questions rarely addressed at the … Continue reading →

June 9, 2017

Printer’s Row 2017

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Authors. Conversations. Books (lots of books). Dogs with bandannas. It’s time again for the Printer’s Row Book Fair, now in its 33rd Year as a Chicago Loop perennial. Skies promise to be as sunny as the faces staffing the booths. Your … Continue reading →

September 14, 2016

Book release party and you’re invited

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The Larry Kanfer Gallery and the University of Illinois Press invite you to a reception for Larry’s new book, A Prairie State of Mind, an amazing new collection of photographic art that reveals the many ways the prairie connects us all. … Continue reading →