The University of Arizona Press

When: October 25-28, 2023

Where: Tucson, Arizona; Tucson Convention Center (TCC)

We are thrilled to be participating in the 2023 Arizona Historic Preservation Conference in our lovely hometown this year! This year’s theme is “History in the Balance.”

As an added bonus, the 2023 keynote speaker is Lydia Otero, author of La Calle: Spatial Conflicts and Urban Renewal in a Southwest City. Otero will be presenting the conference welcome and keynote session on Thursday, October 26th at the Leo Rich Theater, 8:00-9:30 a.m.

From the Arizona Preservation Foundation: This year’s conference theme was selected to reflect the delicate dance we do as historic preservationists to manage what at times can feel like competing objectives. All preservation occurs within a context, whether it is urban planning and development, recreation, heritage education, wildfire fuels reduction, or infrastructure development. Choices need to be made and compromise is often the name of the game.

Often the scales seem to be weighted heavily against preservation. Our rapidly changing world demands innovation and advancement—drawing our attention invariably toward the future. However, the communities in which we live, work, and recreate embody our spirit, values, and—of course—our history. The framers of the National Historic Preservation Act knew this when they wrote the following line into its preamble: “the historical and cultural foundations of the Nation should be preserved as a living part of our community life and development in order to give a sense of orientation to the American people.” 

We look forward to meeting you at the conference! Be sure to stop by our table to purchase books and browse our wonderful collection of new and recent titles.

When: July 13-15, 2023
Where: University of California, Riverside

We look forward to attending the 40th Anniversary MALCS Summer Institute at the University of California, Riverside. This year’s theme is “40 years of MALCS, Centuries of Activism: La Lucha Sigue for Racial, Reproductive and Decolonial Justice.”

From the conference website:
As we work to thrive as violence, economic inequities and health crises continues to ravage disproportionately our communities, and we continue to create and exist as scholars and activists within violent systems of misogyny, racial capitalism, and white supremacy, we suggest we take this moment to reflect on the four decades of transformative work done by MALCistas as activists, scholars, and community members. We also invite our community to reflect on the legacies, enseñanzas, and strategies for movement building around racial, reproductive and decolonial justice. How do we celebrate, bring forward, and learn from the ancestral activism and scholarship from MALCistas? How do we draw upon the legacies to continue our fights against white supremacy, reproductive oppression, and colonialism? Our Davis MALCS community invites us together to highlight the importance of collective activism and scholarship, movement building, lucha, community building, bringing forward ancestral knowledge, as we move through our work toward justice. We want to draw upon the legacies of challenging oppressions and injustices and explore, understand, and expand what present and future intersectional justice movements might look like.

We invite our community to engage in conversations and scholarship about how we draw on new understandings about ourselves, our activism, our movement building and pursuit of justice. The 2023 MALCS Summer Institute encourages our community to bring forward the words and practices of our luchadoras to help us create new realities rooted in justicia.

When: November 15-19, 2023

Where: Toronto, Canada

Join us in Toronto when the American Anthropological Association and the Canadian Anthropology Society come together for their 2023 annual meeting. This year’s theme is Transitions.

Find us at booth #211 to browse our latest anthropology titles and meet with our Senior Editor, Allyson Carter.

From the meeting, “Transitions may be the most constant feature of everyday life. With endless uncertainties that are exacerbated by political turmoil, pandemic unpredictability, and climate crisis, our quotidian experiences are steeped in mutability. Transitions present us with both challenges and opportunities, not only in our everyday lives but also in our work as anthropologists. By dwelling in the process of transition, understanding it as a project of connection and mobility, our Toronto meeting will bring us together to linger in the contingencies of transition, and to understand transition as a professional, scholarly, and everyday condition which we must embrace.”

When: October 25-28, 2023

Where: Los Angeles, CA

Join us in Los Angeles for the 2023 Western History Association Conference! This year’s theme is Restoration and Repairs: Lives and Landscapes Across Many Wests. From the program committee, We will gather in downtown Los Angeles in October of 2023. Despite myriad and thorny challenges – as difficult as any across the globe – Los Angeles remains a place open to individual and community reinvention and innovation. Much of this energy is aimed at the future: how will this place, for example, embrace more sustainable patterns of environmental impact as climate change and drought deepen? How will Los Angeles, California, and the greater Wests of North America reckon with systemic racial injustice and right past wrongs through reparative action? How can we–as practitioners, educators, and activists–harness our expertise, and our access to circuits of knowledge and power, so that we can collaborate with stakeholders to reconsider the past in order to reimagine the future?

We look forwarding to seeing you in LA!

When: May 27, 7 p.m.

Where: Blåsenhus, Uppsala Unviersity,  Uppsala, Sweden

Anthony Macías will speak at the Nordic Association for American Studies conference: “Crises and Turns: Continuities and Discontinuities in American Culture.”  He will be part of panel on “Cultural Identities” with Philip E. Wegner from the University of Florida and Sahra Dahl Christensen from the University of Southern Denmark. Macías is a Professor in the Ethnic Studies Department at the University of California, Riverside. He will discuss his new book, Chicano-Chicana Americana: Pop Culture Pluralism Starring Anthony Quinn, Katy Jurado, Robert Beltran, and Lupe Ontiveros.

Chicano-Chicana Americana is a cultural history of Mexican Americans in film, television, and theater. Through biographical sketches of performers such as Anthony Quinn, Katy Jurado, Robert Beltran, and Lupe Ontiveros, this work asserts Mexican Americans’ proper place in the national narratives of our collective imaginary. Conveying a multicentered, polycultural America, this book shows us intriguing performers in bit parts who steal the scene and redefine what it means to be American.

When: March 29 – April 2, 2023

Where: Denver, CO

Join us for the 2023 National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies Conference in Denver, Colorado! The NACCS 2023 Conference theme, “Work, Sustainability, and Resilience in the Post-Pandemic,” focuses on how we tackle our forthcoming challenges, as a national organization focused on a particular field of study, but also as an intellectual space that has fed generations of thinkers, activists, artists, organizers, teachers, and planners. The geographic space for Mexican America continues to grow, nationally, internationally, and bi-nationally; the intellectual space, Chicana/o/x Studies, also has grown and changed.

Make sure to stop by our table to browse our recent books and connect with our Editor-in-Chief, Kristen Buckles!

When: April 12-15, 2023

Where: Tempe Mission Palms Hotel, East 5th Street, Tempe, AZ 85281

Join us for the World Social Science Association meeting in Tempe, Arizona!

We will be selling our titles at a 30% discount, and you’ll be able to speak with our Editor-in-Chief, Kristen Buckles, about our publishing program. We hope to see you there!

When: Online April 13-14, 2023 and in-person April 15, 2023

Where: Tempe Community Center, Tempe AZ or online

The 2023 Arizona History Convention will be held online April 13 and 14 and in-person on Saturday, April 15, at the Tempe Community Center, located on the southwest corner of Rural and Southern roads in Tempe, Arizona.

Featured speakers will include:

Shelly Lowe, chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities and citizen of the Navajo Nation, will be giving the keynote address.

Dr.  Maurice Crandall, Arizona State University and a citizen of the Yavapai-Apache Nation of Camp Verde, will give the plenary speech, titled, “Voices from the Past, Lessons for the Future: Indigenous Arizona.” His talk is sponsored by ASU’s School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies .

There will be 30 sessions, half online and half in-person, featuring nearly 100 presenters speaking on a wide range of topics. Scholars from universities in Arizona, Oklahoma, Tennessee, California, and New York, as well as local avocational historians will be presenting their latest findings on a wide range of subjects. The full program will be released in early 2023, but here’s a sneak peek:

We’ll be screening three documentary films that take a look at Arizona’s iconic roads and experts will discuss two of Arizona’s most notorious cold cases—the Wickenburg Massacre and the Don Bolles murder investigation. Many award-winning local and national authors, including Tom Zoellner, John Boessenecker, James McGrath Morris, Wynne Brown, and Jim Kristofic, to name just a few, will talk about their work. Whether you are a seasoned scholar or a novice to historical research, our expert panelists will help provide insights on how to approach archives, primary sources, writing nonfiction, and academic publishing.

Stop by our table to browse our recent Arizona history books, and purchase books at a 30% discount!

When: January 5-7, 2023

Where: La Fonda on the Plaza, Santa Fe, New Mexico

Join us for the 2023 Southwest Symposium in Santa Fe, New Mexico! We will be displaying our new and recent southwest archaeology titles, and our Senior Editor, Allyson Carter, Ph.D., will be there to answer your questions about our books and our publishing program.

This year’s theme is: Attributes to Networks: Multi-scalar Perspectives on Understanding the Past in the Southwest US and Northwest Mexico

From the conference organizers: The papers and posters in this symposium highlight alternate approaches to interpreting the archaeological record of the American Southwest and Northern Mexico at multiple scales, addressing the full range of analysis from big data initiatives to the use of attributes to recognize the actions of past individuals. The range of topics is equally broad, from networks and roads to sandals and the health of individuals. Featured topics include the many facets of collaboration; the advent of agriculture in the region; material networks and the people and ideas that travel them; and the agency and effect of individual action, in the past and today.  We hope that whatever your personal research interests, this conference will offer new ideas, rich discussion, and a chance to network on a personal scale.

We hope to see you there!

When: May 11-13, 2023

Where: Toronto, ON

Join us in Toronto for the annual NAISA meeting! The annual gathering provides an important intellectual community, as well as the renewal of existing relations and the generation and fostering of new relations. It is much more than an academic conference, and we are all elated at the opportunity to be together once again as Indigenous peoples. We eagerly anticipate reunions with friends and colleagues in 2023, and we remain mindful of the need for flexibility in planning processes as the COVID pandemic continues to impact our world.

Make sure to stop by our booth to browse our new and recent Indigenous studies titles and connect with one of our acquiring editors!