The University of Arizona Press

January 6-9, 2021

Join us for the first virtual Society for Historical Archaeology conference!

The theme this year is “An Archaeological Decameron: Research, Interpretation, and Engagement in the Time of Pandemic”.

In the middle of the 14th century, as Europe was in the grip of bubonic plague, the Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–1375) wrote his masterpiece, The Decameron. The book is framed as a collection of stories told by a group of 10 young people who had fled Florence to escape the Black Death. Socially distanced in a villa outside the city, they told each other tales to pass the time and to provide a distraction from the pandemic. In 2020, as a different pandemic circled the globe, the Board of the Society for Historical Archaeology, with the health and safety of its members, staff, and the archaeological community in mind, made the difficult decision to alter the form of the 2021 annual conference, planned for Lisbon, Portugal. Rather than cancel altogether, an untenable and agonizing thought, the Board decided to take the SHA conference virtual.

Make sure to visit our virtual book table to browse our recent titles in historical archaeology and discover a great conference discount!

March 3-7, 2021

Join us for the first virtual Association of Writers and Writers’ Programs Conference!

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 & bookfair exhibitors, and five 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 have this experience in a new way this year.

Make sure to visit our virtual booth to chat with our assistant editor, Scott DeHerrera, browse our recent titles, and discover a great discount code.

May 26-29, 2021

Join us for the second virtual Latin American Studies Association congress!

The global crisis highlighted by the expansion of COVID-19 over the entire planet has had dramatic consequences in Latin America, testing states’ capacity to protect their citizens. The effects of the disease have laid bare the structural shortcomings of the countries in the region and the persistence of inequality, exclusion, and authoritarianism.

The purpose of the 2021 LASA congress is to convene people who study the societies and cultures of Latin American and the Caribbean to reflect on globalization and its impacts on the lives of its inhabitants, the institutional architecture of its states, and the cultural dynamics on the continent. The management of the crisis, and the consequences for the most vulnerable, demonstrate the need to reflect on the causes of that vulnerability in both historical and contemporary terms.

The University of Arizona Press will be featured as a virtual exhibitor, so please be sure to visit our virtual booth to browse our recent Latin American Studies titles and find a great discount code.

October 26-30, 2020

We are excited to be participating in the virtual AAS Division for Planetary Sciences meeting!

The virtual conference will offer 5 days of:

November 5-14, 2020

We are excited to be participating in the American Anthropological Association’s virtual fall event series, Raising Our Voices 2020.

This 10-day event series will feature live and recorded events, as well as an interactive virtual exhibit hall that we look forward to meeting you in! Make sure to “stop by” and chat with us, explore our books, and receive 35% off all anthropology books when you use the code AZAAA20 at checkout on our website.

October 13-17, 2020

We are excited to be participating in the virtual Western History Association conference! 

This year’s theme is “Migrations, Meeting Grounds, and Memory,” which explores our understanding of the West as a set of meeting grounds where diverse peoples have come together and interacted in myriad ways.

Registration for this year’s conference is free! To learn more about the virtual conference, and to register, visit here.

Make sure to visit our booth in the virtual exhibit hall, and order history books at a 35% discount with the code AZWHA20.

May 7-9, 2020

Join us in Toronto, ON, for the annual NAISA conference!

The Native American and Indigenous Studies Association invites people to the 2020 meeting in Tkaronto, a place that is both lands and waters. While in Tkaronto, you might pause just before arriving to reflect on the longstanding Haudenosaunee practice of the ceremony at the edge of the woods, or you might travel from the edge of the lake uphill on the path called Ishpaadina— a word used by Anishinaabe people to refer to its position as the high place— and feel yourself become a larger part of the choreography of remembering what the street called Spadina means to Indigenous peoples.

The 2020 NAISA conference will be hosted by the University of Toronto. We would love to see you there!

November 18–22, 2019—

University of Arizona Press author Stephen J. Pyne will be giving a Fire AFEx talk at the 8th International Fire Ecology and Management Congress in Tucson, Arizona. Pyne’s talk, titled “Welcome to the Pyrocene”, is on November 20 at 9:05 A.M. to 9:25 A.M. in the Kiva Ballroom. The congress will be held at the Lowes Ventana Canyon Resort.

The 2019 Fire Congress will redefine the ecological concept of pyrodiversity to explore cross-cutting issues across a variety of disciplines. The complexity of wildland fire requires partners to consider diverse perspectives and disciplines at multiple scales to develop strategies for living in fire-dominated landscapes Managers, practitioners, scientists, policy makers, and community members are encouraged to join. The conference will engage participants in presentations, workshops, field trips, fire circle discussions, and networking. Learn more here.

Stephen Pyne will be signing books in the exhibit hall from 5:30 P.M. to 6:30 P.M., and his University of Arizona Press books will be for sale. These books include Between Two Fires and the To the Last Smoke series.

February 21–22, 2020—

Join us at the Desert Nights, Rising Stars Writers Conference in Tempe, Arizona. The Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing at Arizona State University is bringing together over 300 writers from all backgrounds, genres, and levels of experience for two days of literary craft, culture, and community.

The conference is eclectic, comprehensive, balanced, and diverse, featuring over 50 craft talks, workshops, panels, and other presentations on literary craft, current trends, special topics, publishing, and more. Sessions cover all major genres and forms— fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, memoir, young adult, and genre fiction— while also touching on editing, publishing, the business of writing, and the writing life. Special topics like travel writing, climate change, graphic novels, translation, disability studies, hybrid forms, social justice, and more will also be highlighted.

We hope to see you there, and we hope you will stop by our booth and browse the books in our two amazing literary series, Sun Tracks and Camino Del Sol.

January 30– February 1, 2020—

Join us for the 17th biennial Southwest Symposium in Tempe, Arizona! The Southwest Symposium organization was founded in 1988 to promote new ideas and new directions in the archaeology of the U.S. Southwest and Mexican Northwest. The conference will be held on the Arizona State University Campus in the Ventana Ballroom within the Memorial Union. The theme for the 2020 Conference is “Thinking Big: New Approaches to Synthesis and Partnership in the Southwest/Northwest.”

Participants are encouraged to “think big” in terms of the spatial extent of research but also the range of topics and stakeholders that archaeology in the region can serve. What can we learn by breaking down boundaries between traditional research areas and thinking of the Southwest/Northwest as a whole? What are the new avenues for making archaeology relevant and responsive to different stakeholders in the twenty-first century? How can archaeology in the Southwest/Northwest be better integrated into debates in archaeology beyond this region or perhaps even in the social and physical sciences broadly?

We look forward to seeing you at the symposium, and we cannot wait to share our excellent titles in archaeology with you!