April 15-18, 2020—
Join us in Seattle for the 47th annual NACCS conference! This year’s theme is “New Fire: The Flowering of a Union of Free Pueblos”.
The year 1968 has long been heralded as a year of global revolution. From the Tet Offensive to Tlatelolco, and from Black, Red, Yellow, and Chicano Power to Brown is beautiful and the Blowouts, the stage was set for the emergence of Chicana and Chicano Studies. The following year witnessed the Santa Barbara and Denver conferences where, respectively, the blueprint for Chicano Studies and MEChA were born and for the first time Chicanas/os declared themselves a People, a Nation, a Pueblo among other Pueblos, and Aztlan itself as a Union of Free Pueblos. As we commemorate the various 50th anniversaries of many of these events and accomplishments, as well as the anniversaries of several respective departments, let us also heed the call of the Zapatistas for the need to rethink our cartographies and calendars. So rather than the uncritical mapping of Aztlan premised on the national-territorial borders of western colonial nation-states, or the marking of yet another decade or half-century as is the hallmark of western temporalities, let us use this upcoming 2020 conference to develop the critical hindsight and conceptual clarity on the need for a New Fire— the ceremonial rebirthing that occurs every 52 years among several Pueblos of the misnamed territories currently named Mexico and the U.S. Southwest.
Please come visit the University of Arizona Press booth and browse our latest books!
April 16-18, 2020—
Join us at the Arizona Historical Society Annual Meeting! The historical society is holding its 61st annual meeting in Tucson, Arizona at the Casino Del Sol. This year’s theme is “Advocating for Change”. The meeting is an opportunity to join amateur and professional historians in exploring Arizona’s rich and colorful past during three days of papers, talks, workshops, discussions, book displays, and field trips. Established in 1960, the Arizona History Convention offers a congenial venue for historical researchers to share their results of their labors with one another and the general public.
The Arizona History Convention is located at 5655 W Valencia Rd, Tucson, AZ 85757.
October 4-6, 2019
The Southwest Festival of the Written Word is offering a unique opportunity to see our authors discuss their writing. Located in the creative Silver City, New Mexico, the festival will include authors Daniel Chacón, Oscar J. Martínez, Tim Z. Hernandez, and many other talented writers. During the three-day festival, attendees will have a chance to attend writing workshops, listen to panels, and even catch a performance piece based on Hernandez’ All They Will Call You.
The festival’s events will be located at various venues around Silver City. See their website for more information on how to plan your trip!
March 4-7, 2020— Join us at the annual Association of Writers and Writers Programs meeting in San Antonio, Texas! The AWP conference and bookfair is an essential annual destination for writers, teachers, students, editors, and publishers. Each year more than 12,000 attendees join the meeting for four days of insightful dialogue, networking, and unrivaled access to the organizations and opinion-makers that matter most in contemporary literature.
The conference features over 2,000 presenters and 550 readings, panels, and craft lectures. The bookfair has hosted over 800 presses, journal, and literary organizations from around the world. AWP is now the largest literary conference in North America. Come visit our booth and celebrate the best of what contemporary literature has to offer!
November 7-10, 2019— Join us for the annual American Studies Association meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii! This year’s theme is “Build as We Fight”, which questions how interdisciplinary, intersectional analyses can help to dissect our historical moment and envision alternative futures. Please come visit us at the Hawai’i Convention Center and say hello!
November 20-24, 2019— Join us at the 2019 American Anthropological Association meeting in Vancouver, BC! The Canadian Anthropology Society (CASCA) is joining the meeting at the Vancouver Convention Center, where thousands of anthropologists will attend to build lasting connections, uncover new career and mentoring opportunities, and explore the latest research. The theme of the joint AAA/CASCA meeting is “Changing Climates: Struggle, Collaboration, and Justice”.
We look forward to seeing you in Canada for this year’s meeting! Please be sure to stop by our booth and say hello.
The Vancouver Convention Center is located here: 1055 Canada Pl., Vancouver, BC V6C 0C3, Canada.
June 19-22, 2019— Join us for the 2019 Western Writers of America convention, located right here in Tucson, Arizona! Every year, WWA holds its annual convention somewhere in the American West, and we are thrilled that Tucson will be home to a convention where members, agents, publishers, editors, and more gather to discuss writing, make connections, and renew friendships. Featuring panels, tours, auctions, and more, the 2019 WWA convention is sure to be a great time for anyone involved in western writing.
Please come say hello to the University of Arizona Press, we would love to see you there!
The conference will be located at the Hilton Tucson East, 7600 East Broadway, Tucson, AZ 85710.
October 16-19, 2019— Join us for the 59th annual Western History Association meeting in fabulous Las Vegas, Nevada! This year’s conference theme is “What Happens in the West Doesn’t Stay in the West”. The Western History Association will be exploring a more accurate twist on this slogan, seeking to highlight the connections between western history and the histories and historiographies of other parts of the nation, continent, and world.
We look forward to seeing you at the meeting, please come visit our booth!
The conference will be located at the Westgate Las Vegas Resort & Casino, 3000 Paradise Rd, Las Vegas, NV 89109.
Friday, April 5 – Marge Bruchac presents “Voices Carry: Recovering Messages from Indigenous Archives.” This will be the keynote speech for the conference “Decolonizing the Digital Humanities: Indigenous Arts, Histories, and Knowledges from the Material to the Screen” at the University of Virginia.
Friday, February 15, 2019 at 11:00 a.m. – Tom Lutz and the UC Riverside host Casandra López for the 42nd Annual Writers Week Conference 2019. Writers Week is the longest-running, free literary event in California and features the most renowned authors of our day alongside those at the start of promising careers.
Speaking to both a personal and collective loss, in her debut collection Brother Bullet Casandra López confronts her relationships with violence, grief, trauma, guilt, and, ultimately, survival. Revisiting the memory and lasting consequences of her brother’s murder, López traces the course of the bullet—its trajectory, impact, wreckage—in poems that are paralyzing and raw with emotion, yet tender and alive in revelations of light.
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