The University of Arizona Press

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!

When: September 19-21, 2022

Where: Museum of Native American History, 202 southwest O Street, Bentonville, AR, 72712

University of Arizona Press author Laura Harjo will be presenting at the 6th annual Native American Culture Celebration at the Museum of Native American History in Bentonville, Arkansas. This event is a global three day Indigenous celebration with live music, crafts, story telling, food, guest speakers, science panels, a contest for a solution for the environment, and more! This year’s theme is Ingenuity 2.0: Honoring the Lessons of Mother Earth.

Laura Harjo is a Muscogee (Creek) scholar, Associate Professor and Interim Chair in Department of Native American Studies and affiliated faculty in the Regional and City Planning program at the University of Oklahoma. Her scholarly inquiry is at the intersection of geography and critical ethnic studies with “community” as an analytic focus. Harjo’s research and teaching centers on three areas: spatial storytelling, anti-violence informed Indigenous architecture and planning, and community-based knowledge production. She is the author of Spiral to the Stars: Mvskoke Tools of Futurity.

When: March 8-11, 2023

Where: Seattle Convention Center

Join us in Seattle at the AWP Conference & Bookfair, 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 Seattle, Washington in 2023.

Visit our booth for book signings and to browse and purchase our latest Sun Tracks and Camino del Sol titles, Academy of American Poets’ Ambroggio Prize-winning titles, and more! Plus, take some time to talk to us and learn about our publishing program. We look forward to seeing you!

AWP 2023 Book Signings

Thursday, March 9:

1:30 PM – 2:30 PM: Elizabeth Torres signing copies of Lotería.

Friday, March 10:

11:00 AM – 12:00 PM: Gloria Muñoz signing copies of Danzirly.

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM: Jennifer Givhan signing copies of Rosa’s Einstein.

2:00 PM – 3:30 PM: Carlos Aguasaco and Jennifer Rathbun signing copies of Cardinal in My Window with a Mask on Its Beak.

Saturday, March 11:

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM: Cynthia Guardado signing copies of Cenizas.

When: February 1-3, 2023

Where: Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

Join us at the American Indian Studies Association Conference in Tempe, AZ! This year’s theme is Reconciliation, Reparations, Relationality: Keeping Our Promise to the Future, which focuses on the social, legal, and political challenges confronting Indigenous scholars as they strive for reconciliation, reparations, and relationality.