When: November 19-23, 2025
Where: New Orleans, Louisiana
The University of Arizona Press is attending the 2025 American Anthropological Association conference in New Orleans! This year’s theme is “Ghosts.”
On the theme, AAA writes, “For the 2025 meeting of the American Anthropological Association, we take inspiration from the popular reputation of New Orleans as ‘the most haunted city in America’ to examine the ways that the past haunts the present, and that the immaterial becomes tangible to inflect the everyday…We welcome our colleagues to embrace the creative potential of the ghostly and the spectral. Our ghosts take many forms. They appear in social theory, useful metaphors for the mysterious power of commodities, or for the occult economies that lurk in the shadows of daily life. They can be found in the impacts of conquest and exploitation, reminders of the never-completed tasks of decolonizing, whether it be of lands or epistemologies. They manifest in the flood of images through which warfare and genocide are mediated, masks of all-too-real suffering. They resonate in the sense of the uncanny that permeates the quotidian: the unsettling look of an AI-generated photo, realistic but somehow distorted, or the resurgence of long-discredited conspiracies that fuel political extremism.”
We look forward to meeting you at the conference. Be sure to stop by our booth to browse our wonderful collection of new and recent anthropology titles, and talk to Senior Editor Allyson Carter! If you would like to set up a meeting with Allyson, email her at acarter@uapress.arizona.edu.
When: October 15-18, 2025
Where: Albuquerque, New Mexico
The University of Arizona Press is attending the 65th annual Western History Association conference in Albuquerque! This year’s theme is “Roots/Routes: Relationality in Times of Disenchantment.”
On the theme, the Program Committee writes, “New Mexico is affectionately nicknamed the ‘Land of Enchantment.’ Since time immemorial, it has been home to Pueblo, Diné, and Ndee peoples. Settlers have been coming to its striking landscape–and remaining–since the sixteenth century. Many jokingly refer to it as the ‘Land of Entrapment;’ once you go there, you don’t want to leave. Such characterizations belie deep legacies of layered colonialisms that challenge relationships between kin, communities, and the land and reinscribe alternate logics of being and belonging.”
We look forward to seeing you at the conference! Be sure to stop by our booth to browse our wonderful collection of new and recent history titles, and talk to our Editor-in-Chief Kristen Buckles! If you would like to set up a meeting with Kristen, email her at kbuckles@uapress.arizona.edu.
When: May 23-25, 2025
Where: San Francisco, CA, Marriott Marquis
Join us at the Latin American Studies Association’s (LASA) annual congress in San Francisco! The LASA book fair is located in Salon 9 on the B3 level of the San Francisco Marriott Marquis. This year’s theme is “Poner el cuerpo en Latinx América.”
From the conference organizers: “This iteration of the LASA Congress sets out to put the body on the line. To place the body center-stage in order to reveal its weight, relevance, and meaning. To recover its memory and materiality in our debates and agendas; to explore its dimensions at once individual and communal, biological and digital, contingent and situated. Because awakening our skin, opening our eyes and ears, setting our tongues in motion means reading ourselves, understanding ourselves as other(s), and rejecting the petrification of a single way of feeling and thinking.
We want to emphasize the power of fiction, art, and those aesthetic operations that frame and refocus what is failing, what remains of the world. But also those that let us experience pleasure, explore the unsayable, and materialize the unimaginable. Rita Segato has proposed that the Humanities are the most powerful disciplines since they have the task of naming the world and thus activating other possible realities. Therefore, in this edition of LASA, we issue an invitation to locate aesthetic technologies at the heart of the array of disciplines represented by our association and to defy the destructive algorithm of a difficult present.”
When: February 6-7, 2025
Where: Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
Join us at the American Indian Studies Association Conference in Tempe, AZ! This year’s theme is Imagining Sovereign Indigenous Futures: Drawing Wisdom from the Past for a Self-Determined Future.
From the conference organizers: “The American Indian Studies Association (AISA) honors the scholars and communities who established and continue to strengthen the discipline of American Indian Studies (AIS). This year’s conference celebrates generations of scholars, educators, activists, researchers, and practitioners whose work protects and furthers Indigenous sovereignty and self-determination across spaces and spectrums. Sovereignty is ever-changing and not without challenge. We welcome submissions that highlight work on issues of land, language and linguistics, culture, identity, social and environmental justice, economics, policy and politics, treaty rights and representation in film and media. We wish to highlight scholarship rooted in Indigenous epistemologies and in collaboration with community as we seek sovereign, self-determined futures.”
When: Wednesday, October 30, 2024
Time: 5-8 p.m., MDT
Where: Colorado State University Student Center, 1101 Center Ave. Mall, Fort Collins, CO
Stephen E. Strom will be part of a feature panel discussion for the 75th Anniversary of Aldo Leopold’s A Sand County Almanac at CSU’s Lory Student Center. Strom will be joining other speakers in discussing “the importance of people, land and animals in effective conservation.”
This in-person event is free and open to the public. For more information, visit the event page.
About the Forging a Sustainable Southwest:
Forging a Sustainable Southwest introduces readers to four conservation efforts that provide insight into how diverse groups of citizens have worked collaboratively to develop visions for land use that harmonized sometimes conflicting ecological, economic, cultural, and community needs. Through the voices of more than seventy individuals involved in these efforts, we learn how they’ve developed plans for protecting, restoring, and stewarding lands sustainably; the management and funding tools they’ve used; and their perceptions of the challenges that remain and how to meet them.
When: March 25-29, 2025
Where: Portland, Oregon
Join us in Portland for the annual 2025 Society for Applied Anthropology meeting. This year’s theme is “Revitalizing Applied Anthropology.” Learn more about the conference at the SfAA website.
From the meeting organizers: “The history of applied anthropology is substantial and storied. Although peppered with occasional missteps, since its inception most of anthropology’s practitioners have been committed to rendering a better world for its many and diverse inhabitants through the application of their work. The Society for Applied Anthropology has long provided a gathering place for an interdisciplinary mix of scholars and practitioners from diverse backgrounds, from different academic traditions, from different cultural contexts, and from heterodox ideological vantage points. This diversity has been our strength, and has been central to applied anthropology’s identity. As we gather in Portland to discuss our current research and consider how to better advance our work, we foremost seek to cultivate a veneration for the achievements of those who came before us — to praise the inspiring practitioners and traditions of a disciplinary legacy dedicated to convening practicing and academic social scientists together. And in that legacy, we hope to discern and convey the magic at the heart of the discipline that draws us together.”
About the SfAA Conference:
“The SfAA Annual Meeting provides an invaluable opportunity for scholars, practicing social scientists, and students from a variety of disciplines and organizations to discuss their work and brainstorm for the future. It is more than just a conference: it’s a rich place to trade ideas, methods, and practical solutions, as well as enter the lifeworld of other professionals. SfAA members come from a variety of disciplines—anthropology, sociology, economics, business, planning, medicine, nursing, law, and other related social/behavioral sciences. Make 2025 the year you’ll spend a few days presenting, learning, and networking in Portland, OR, with the SfAA.”
When: April 23-27, 2025
Where: Denver, Colorado
Join us in Denver for the annual 2025 Society for American Archaeology meeting. Learn more about the conference at the SAA website.
About the SAA Conference:
“The program is composed of general sessions, symposia, forums, lightning rounds, posters, and workshops. The SAA Annual Meeting is the largest gathering of archaeologists of the Americas, and it offers unparalleled networking opportunities in its exhibit hall, excursions, and receptions and career-development opportunities. The meeting has a wide audience that ranges from anyone who has interest in archaeology to experts in the field. Attendees come from all over the United States and from over 45 countries! With a wide variety of presentations and events, attendees are able to learn something new, meet new contacts, and reconnect with old friends.”
When: March 26-29, 2025
Where: Los Angeles, California
Join us in Los Angeles for the 2025 Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) Conference & Bookfair. Learn more about the conference at the AWP website.
About AWP:
“The AWP Conference & Bookfair is the annual destination for writers, teachers, students, editors, and publishers of contemporary creative writing. It includes thousands of attendees, hundreds of events and bookfair exhibitors, and four days of essential literary conversation and celebration. The AWP Conference & Bookfair has always been a place of connection, reunion, and joy, and we are excited to see the writing community come together again in Los Angeles, California in 2025.”
Date: Monday, July 8, 2024
Time: 4:00 – 5:20 pm, CST
Where: Forum Majadas, Guatemala City, Guatemala
Víctor Montejo, author of Kidnapped to the Underworld: Memories of Xibalba, will present at the Feria Internacional del Libro en Guatemala / Guatemala International Book Fair. He will be part of the Indigenous/Afroamerican Communities panel and speak on “El conejo y la cabra: Un cuento de timador sobre la migración transnacional a los Estados Unidos” (The rabbit and the goat: a con man’s tale of transnational migration to the United States). Other panelists are Carlos Gerardo González Orellana and Tiffany D. Creegan Miller; the moderator is Dante Barrientos Tecún.
Víctor Montejo (Jakaltek Maya) is professor emeritus of Native American studies at the University of California, Davis. An internationally recognized author, his major publications include Maya Intellectual Renaissance: Critical Essays on Identity, Representation, and Leadership (2003), Entre dos Mundos (Memoria) (2021), and Mayalogue: An Interactionist Theory of Indigenous Cultures (2021).
About Kidnapped to the Underworld:
Víctor Montejo’s story recounts the near-death experience of his grandfather, Antonyo Mekel Lawuxh (Antonio Esteban), who fell gravely ill in Guatemala in the late 1920s but survived to tell his family and community what he had witnessed of the afterlife. Narrated from Antonio’s perspective, the reader follows along on a journey to the Maya underworld of Xibalba, accompanied by two spirit guides. Antonio traverses Xibalba’s levels of heaven and hell, encountering instructive scenes of punishment and reward. Infused with memory, the author illustrates Guatemala’s unique religious syncretism, exploring conceptions of heaven and hell shared between Catholicism and Indigenous Maya spirituality.
When: October 2-5, 2024
Where: Tucson, Arizona at the Hilton El Conquistador Resort
We are thrilled to be participating in the 58th annual Western Literature Association conference right here in Tucson, Arizona, where we’ll have a fantastic selection of new and classic books on sale! This year’s theme is “Speculative Territorializations of New Western Literatures.”
2024 WLA President and University of Arizona Press author, Billy J. Stratton, writes about the conference that it “aims to inspire fresh intellectual and artistic engagement with a range of relevant texts, while extending ongoing experimentations in western literature and transcending the boundaries of literary genres and temporal contexts.” He also says that the theme of the conference “seeks to provide a fertile ground for playful intellectual inquiry, reflecting the vibrant enthusiasm for diverse and forward-thinking speculative futures and artistic forms, which are central to current discussions about the West and the direction of western literature, art, film, and popular culture.”
We look forward to meeting you at the conference! Be sure to stop by our booth to browse our wonderful collection of Southwest literature titles and meet our staff! If you’re a prospective author interested in meeting with an editor, find information for authors at this link.
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