The University of Arizona Press

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.

When: March 29 – April 2, 2023

Where: Oregon Convention Center, Portland, OR

Join us at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in Portland, Oregon! The program is composed of general sessions, symposia, forums, debates, 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.

We look forward to meeting you or reconnecting with you! Make sure to visit our booth to browse our latest archaeology titles and meet with our Senior Editor, Allyson Carter, Ph.D.

When: October 19-21, 2022

Where: Yuma, Arizona, at the Pivot Point Conference Center

We are thrilled to be participating in the 2022 Arizona Historic Preservation Conference. This year’s theme is “Cultural Crossroads,” and includes a plenary panel discussion on our book Becoming Hopi. Learn more about the conference: www.azpreservation.org/conference.

From the conference organizers:
The Arizona Historic Preservation Conference boasts two full days of programming geared to professionals, with continuing education credits when available, in the fields of historic preservation, archaeology, cultural resources management, architecture, and planning.

The Arizona Historic Preservation Conference boasts two full days of programming geared to professionals, with continuing education credits when available, in the fields of historic preservation, archaeology, cultural resources management, architecture, and planning. The event is tailored for members of the public who are involved in historic preservation and archaeology through volunteer activities and non-profit or state and local board and commission membership. Programming is designed to attract elected leadership and staff of Arizona’s 22 Native American tribes, who have a special relationship to Arizona’s heritage resources. The two days of general programming are supplemented by a half-day of pre-conference workshops and five tours.

The theme of this year’s conference, “Cultural Crossroads,” has been selected in recognition of our host community’s unique geographical location on the banks of the Lower Colorado River. Indeed, Yuma’s historical development has been shaped by the Colorado. Though its importance as a cultural crossroads goes back centuries it was not until the California Gold Rush that a permanent Anglo settlement was established. The settlement soon became a busy river port for oceanic shipping, and subsequently a crossing waystation for those traveling by horse, stage, and rail across the Arizona Territory. In the twentieth century, these established transportation routes were further leveraged through the construction of large-scale irrigation projects such as Laguna Dam and the Yuma Siphon to transform the desert lands around Yuma into the agricultural breadbasket of the Southwest. Today, over 90% of the leafy greens consumed in the United States are grown in Yuma County as produce and tourists move along Interstate 8, along the alignment of the former “Ocean to Ocean Highway.”

The Cultural Crossroads theme was also selected in tribute to the culture and values of the tribal communities who, from time immemorial, have called the lower Colorado River home. The history of the Fort Yuma Quechan Tribe is inextricably linked to Yuma’s development as the largest city on the Colorado River. The history of the military establishment of Fort Yuma and subsequent boarding school is a difficult one, involving conflict and the forcible imposition of institutions of control. However, it is also a history marked by tremendous cultural resilience. Today, the Quechan Tribe’s durable contribution to the health and wellbeing of the river and the communities that rely on it is evident in the partnerships formed to promote heritage tourism, riparian restoration, recreation, and agriculture.

The event is tailored for members of the public who are involved in historic preservation and archaeology through volunteer activities and non-profit or state and local board and commission membership. Programming is designed to attract elected leadership and staff of Arizona’s 22 Native American tribes, who have a special relationship to Arizona’s heritage resources. The two days of general programming are supplemented by a half-day of pre-conference workshops and five tours.

We look forward to seeing you there!

When: November 9-13, 2022

Where: Seattle, Washington at the Washington State Convention Center and Online

We are thrilled to be participating in the 2022 American Anthropological Association’s annual meeting! This year’s theme is “Unsettling Landscapes”.

From the AAA: The 2022 AAA Annual Meeting theme “Unsettling Landscapes” encourages anthropological discussion of past, present, and future unsettlings of the world – be it through environment, power, political economy or through the collective efforts of unsettling and disrupting oppressive structures while building worlds otherwise. While our worlds are defined by nothing if not change, the current unsettling of landscapes brings with it an urgency that demands conversations which may elicit feelings of discomfort and disturbance, but may also stoke hope and determination. This orientation towards unsettling pushes us beyond easy narratives and facile binaries into moments of transformation. In essence, this theme asks two questions: In what ways are we, and those we work with, unsettled? How are we also unsettling landscapes and to what end?

The 2022 AAA Annual Meeting will again be a hybrid meeting. This means the meeting will take place in-person in Seattle, from November 9-13, 2022, as well as online over those same dates. The virtual component of the meeting will be hosted professionally on a virtual meeting platform, Pathable.

We are looking forward to meeting you! Make sure to stop by our booth to browse our new and recent anthropology titles, and to talk to our Senior Editor, Allyson Carter, PhD. If you would like to schedule a meeting with Allyson, email her at acarter@uapress.arizona.edu.

When: November 3-6, 2022

Where: New Orleans at the Hilton New Orleans Riverside

We are thrilled to be participating in the American Studies Association’s 2022 annual meeting! This year’s theme is “The Roof is on Fire.”

From the ASA: The 2022 Annual Meeting invites strategies that draw our attention to and command a multisensory, multiregister engagement with the world as it is and as we want it to be. Something is broken. Whether or not it can be repaired may not be the right question. This is an homage to the cultures and knowledges too often dismissed or taken. Touch the beat, move without instruction, abandon your isolation. We come together to continue the creation of something else altogether.

We’re looking forward to meeting you at the conference! Make sure to stop by our booth and browse our wonderful new and recent titles, and talk to our Editor-in-Chief Kristen Buckles. If you would like to schedule a meeting with Kristen, email her at kbuckles@uapress.arizona.edu.

When: October 12-15, 2022

Where: San Antonio, Texas at the Hyatt Regency

We are thrilled to be participating in the 62nd annual Western History Association conference in San Antonio! This year’s theme is “Protocols and Poets of Place.”

From WHA: In A Map to the Next World, U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo writes, “When traveling to another country it’s important to recognize the spirits there, and acknowledge them with prayers, so that you won’t inadvertently offend or hurt by ignorance of protocol of that place.” As historians, we may or may not read poetry and we may or may not be given to prayer, but we do traverse time and space. So we can heed Harjo when she implores us to ask that our presence in a place be “a blessing rather than a curse.” It takes a poet to make poetry of protocol, which we understand in relation to matters more prosaic—medical research and diplomatic practices, carceral codes and border routines, military maneuvers and pride parades. Harjo insists that places, including North American western places, also have protocols, even if historically those protocols have been too seldom observed.

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: July 11-14, 2022

Where: South Bend, IN

We are excited to be exhibiting at the Latinx Studies Association conference in South Bend, Indiana! This year’s conference theme is: Centering Blackness, Challenging Latinidad. The LSA conference is an exciting event, held every two years during the summer at different geographic locations across the United States. The conference draws together over 500 academics, students, artists, writers, filmmakers and community activists whose work is dedicated to supporting, understanding, and engaging issues relevant to Latino/a/x people in the United States. The conference provides a generative and creative space for fostering community and broadcasting the lively and critical work that defines the field of Latina/o/x studies.

Make sure to visit our booth at the conference to browse our new and recent Latinx studies titles and to speak with our Editor-in-Chief, Kristen Buckles!

When: May 5-8, 2022

Where: Virtual, visit: LASA2022 / Polarización socioambiental y rivalidad entre grandes potencias (lasaweb.org)

We are thrilled to be participating in the virtual LASA Congress! This year’s theme is: Polarización socioambiental y rivalidad entre grandes potencias, or Socio-environmental polarization and rivalry between great powers. If you are participating in the virtual congress, we invite you to visit the virtual exhibit hall and explore our latest titles here.

We are currently offering a 30% discount with free U.S. shipping when you use the code AZLASA22 at checkout. This discount is valid through 6/15/2022.

To learn more about our publishing program, visit this page, or contact our Editor-in-Chief, Kristen Buckles, at kbuckles@uapress.arizona.edu.