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.
When: November 14-17, 2024
Where: Baltimore, Maryland at the Hilton Baltimore Inner Harbor
We are thrilled to be participating in this year’s American Studies Association conference in Baltimore! This year’s theme is “Grounded Engagements in American Studies.”
From ASA: Grounded engagement eats at the kitchen table, rests in nested sovereignties, manifests in home rules, and envisions liberations. It is a fertile place to think through our relationships in, between, and beyond the campus. In examining the intimacies and power of place, we confront settler and racialized structures globally, working towards mapping new strategies that lead to just worlds. By its nature—studying the power structures in the Americas, American Imperialism abroad, and its force worldwide—American Studies is local and global with interconnected and fluid scales. In examining grounded engagements not as discrete bounded places but rather as interconnected, we increase the potential to examine and move beyond enforced borders, dystopian policies, state violence, and capitalist networks as well as buzzwords that never quite deliver: decolonization, democracy, DEI, and multiculturalism. These are not easy conversations, yet one of the primary strengths of American Studies is that it does not shy away from difficult discussions.
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 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: November 20-23, 2024
Where: Tampa, Florida at the Tampa Convention Center
We are thrilled to be participating in this year’s American Anthropological Association conference in Tampa! This year’s theme is “Praxis.”
From AAA: Paulo Freire defined praxis as “reflection and action directed at the structures to be transformed,” but praxis can have multiple meanings. In the context of mainstream anthropological tradition, praxis is often framed as the antithesis of theory. However, marginalized scholars have insisted on theoretically informed anthropological praxis as a corrective to the colonial, imperialist, extractive approach of late twentieth-century anthropological methodologies. Across universities, government, community organizations, and private industry, anthropologists operationalize praxis as a conceptual and methodological tool to respond to systemic oppression. Praxis, when informed by theory, is foundational to our research, pedagogy, work, and living in society. We aim for Praxis, the 2024 American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting theme, to serve as an organizing principle for contemplating applications of anthropology, responding to systemic injustice, and reimagining our discipline now and in the future.
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 23-26, 2024
Where: Kansas City, Missouri at The Westin Kansas City at Crown Center
We are thrilled to be participating in the 64th annual Western History Association conference in Kansas City! This year’s theme is “Free Soil? Migration, Dispossession, and Rising up on Contested Ground.”
From WHA: Meeting in Kansas City, Missouri, the WHA’s 2024 conference offers an opportunity to reconsider the history and historiography of the U.S. West as a long and unfinished story of diverse peoples and their freedom dreams. An Indigenous crossroads of Kaw, Osage, Kickapoo, Missouria, and Dakota homelands, the Kansas/Missouri borderlands have long been a nexus of migration and resurgence as well as of dispossession and rebellion. Indeed, the 19th century battles over “free soil” here remind us that efforts to secure land and liberty for some have often meant removal, exclusion, and unfreedom for others. The 2024 WHA Program welcomes panels and papers that consider the many migrations, dispossessions, and uprisings that have shaped the U.S. West.
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 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.
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