Western National Parks Association and the University of Arizona Press invite you to a special book launch celebration for Michael Chiago: O’odham Lifeways Through Art.
When: Thursday, August 25, 2022, 6 p.m. at 12880 N. Vistoso Village Drive in Oro Valley, Arizona
This book offers an artistic depiction of O’odham lifeways through the paintings of internationally acclaimed artist Michael Chiago Sr. Ethnobiologist Amadeo M. Rea collaborated with the O’odham artist to describe the paintings in accompanying text, making this unique book a vital resource for cultural understanding and preservation. A joint effort in seeing, this work explores how the artist sees and interprets his culture through his art.
Chiago will be in attendance to talk about the book and his work. Western National Parks Association will have Chiago’s artwork available. Books will be available for purchase.
The University of Arizona Alfie Norville Gem & Mineral Museum, and the University of Arizona Press invite you to celebrate the publication of Mineralogy of Arizona, Fourth Edition.
When: Saturday, June 25, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. at the Alfie Norville Gem & Mineral Museum, 115 N Church Ave., Ste 121, Tucson.
Authors will be in the museum auditorium to answer all your mineralogy questions, and sign books, which will be available for purchase from 10 a.m. to 3:10 p.m. Museum Admission for two adults is included with purchase. Cost of the book is $75 for hardcover, and $49.95 for paperback.
This fourth edition covers the 992 minerals found in Arizona, showcased with breathtaking new color photographs throughout the book. The new edition includes more than 200 new species not reported in the third edition and previously unknown in Arizona. Chapters cover gemstones and lapidary materials, fluorescent minerals, and an impressive catalog of mineral species. The authors also discuss mineral districts, including information about the geology, mineralogy, and age of mineral occurrences throughout the state. The book includes detailed maps of each county, showing the boundaries and characteristics of the mineral districts present in the state.
Natural Landmarks of Arizona celebrates the vast geological past of Arizona’s natural monuments through the eyes of a celebrated storyteller who has called Arizona home for most of his life. The Southwest Center, Why I Love Where I Live, and the University of Arizona Press invite you to a book signing and celebration with David Yetman.
When: Tuesday, November 9, 2021, 5:30 p.m.
Where: MSA Annex, 267 South Avenida del Convento, Tucson
Register here.
Book sale and signing at Why I Love Where I Live, and book discussion at the MSA Annex event grounds. Event is free.
In this new book, Yetman shows us how Arizona’s most iconic landmarks were formed millions of years ago and sheds light on the more recent histories of these landmarks as well. These peaks and ranges offer striking intrusions into the Arizona horizon, giving our southwestern state some of the most memorable views, hikes, climbs, and bike rides anywhere in the world. They orient us, they locate us, and they are steadfast through generations.
Whether you have climbed these peaks many times, enjoy seeing them from your car window, or simply want to learn more about southwestern geology and history, reading Natural Landmarks of Arizona is a fascinating way to learn about the ancient and recent history of beloved places such as Cathedral Rock, Granite Dells, Kitt Peak, and many others.
With Yetman as your guide, you can tuck this book into your glove box and hit the road with profound new knowledge about the towering natural monuments that define our beautiful Arizona landscapes.
The Border and Its Bodies: The Embodiment of Risk in the U.S.-México Borderlands virtual seminar, presented by The Southwest Center and Amerind Museum, will examine the decades-long humanitarian crisis along the U.S.-México border by focusing on that most basic of all social units: the human body.
When: Friday, April 30, 2021, 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. Arizona Time
The event is free, but registration is required. For more info on the event, and to register, please go here.
When the U.S. government launched Operation Gatekeeper in 1994, the policy of “prevention through deterrence” clamped down on undocumented migrants crossing the border through urban centers like San Diego, Nogales, and El Paso. Rather than deterring migrants, however, Operation Gatekeeper forced hundreds of thousands of people from Mexico and Central America to brave the mountains and deserts of the Southwest, where thousands perished from exposure or dehydration.
This virtual seminar builds upon a research seminar held at the Amerind Foundation in Dragoon, AZ, in March 2016, where anthropologists from the U.S. and Mexico shared their perspectives and then contributed chapters to The Border and Its Bodies: The Embodiment of Risk on the U.S.-México Line, published by the University of Arizona Press in Fall 2019 from the Amerind Studies in Anthropology Series.
Moderated by Thomas Sheridan, the panel includes Rebecca Crocker, UA College of Public Health; Vicki Gaubeca, Southern Border Communities Coalition; Linda Green, UA School of Anthropology, UA; and Robin Reineke, cofounder of the Colibrí Center for Human Rights.
University Libraries hosts a panel discussion, Feminist Leadership Through Women’s Studies. This virtual event is part of a Special Collections online exhibition, Founding Mothers: From the Ballot Box to the University, that recognizes and celebrates the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage in the United States and the 45th anniversary of the founding of Women’s Studies at the University of Arizona.
When: Wednesday, March 10, 6:00-7:00 p.m.
The event is free, but registration required. Visit here for more information and to register.
Panelists include:
Eliana Rivero, Professor Emerita, Spanish and Portuguese; former Affiliate Faculty, Latin American Studies and Mexican American Studies; early Faculty Member, Women’s Studies. Co-editor of Infinite Divisions: An Anthology of Chicana Literature, published by the University of Arizona Press.
Stephanie Troutman Robbins, Department Head, Gender and Women’s Studies
Judith Temple, Professor Emerita, English and Gender and Women’s Studies; former Department Head, Women’s Studies
Patricia MacCorquodale, Professor Emerita in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, will moderate the discussion.
Join this special event with celebrated anthropologist Carlos G. Vélez-Ibáñez in conversation with other borderlands anthropologists Roberto Alvarez, Patricia Zavella, Joe Heyman, and Luis Plascencia to discuss his book and the ever-evolving work of transborder anthropology.
When: Wednesday, March 10, 2021, 6:30 p.m. MST. This is a free online event, but registration is required. Go here to register.
Reflections of a Transborder Anthropologist, Carlos G. Vélez-Ibáñez latest book, shows how both Vélez-Ibáñez and anthropology have changed and formed over a fifty-year period. Throughout, he has worked to understand how people survive and thrive against all odds. Vélez-Ibáñez has been guided by the burning desire to understand inequality, exploitation, and legitimacy, and, most importantly, to provide platforms for the voiceless to narrate their own histories.
This event is co-hosted by Open Arizona.
Our author:
Carlos G. Vélez-Ibáñez is Regents’ Professor and the Motorola Presidential Professor of Neighborhood Revitalization in the School of Transborder Studies and Regents’ Professor in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University. His numerous honors include the 2020 Franz Boas Award for Exemplary Service to Anthropology, 2004 Robert B. Textor and Family Prize for Excellence in Anticipatory Anthropology and the 2003 Bronislaw Malinowski Medal. Vélez-Ibáñez was elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1994 and was named as a corresponding member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences (Miembro Correspondiente de la Academia Mexicana de Ciencias) in 2015, the only American anthropologist so selected.
Vanessa Fonseca-Chávez, author of Colonial Legacies in Chicana/o Literature and Culture: Looking through the Kaleidoscope, will discuss her knew book and its themes on individual and collective legacies in a webinar hosted by the Santa Fe Public Library.
When: Monday, December 14, 2020, 6 p.m. MST
The event is free, but registration is required. Please register here.
From the Santa Fe Public Library:
The Southwest U.S. is a region that has been colonized by Spain and the United States and we are often left to think about the kind of legacies these colonial periods have left behind. This book challenges readers to reflect on the fragmented and peripheral narratives of colonial legacies that offer more complex understandings of individual and collective subjectivities.
For more information, visit here.
As part of its Wild Webinars series, the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum is hosting an online conversation with University of Arizona Press author Gary Paul Nabhan about his new book, The Nature of Desert Nature.
When: Thursday, December 3, 2020, 2:00 p.m. EST
The program is free, but registration is required and donations to the museum are encouraged.
In The Nature of Desert Nature, Nabhan invites a prism of voices—friends, colleagues, and advisors from his more than four decades of study of deserts—to bring their own perspectives. Scientists, artists, desert contemplatives, poets, and writers bring the desert into view and investigate why these places compel us to walk through their sands and beneath their cacti and acacia.
For more information on the event and registration, go here.
University of Arizona Press author Gary Paul Nabhan is keynote speaker for the Fourth Annual Conservation Celebration, a virtual event to support the Central Arizona Conservation Alliance (CAZCA) an initiative of the Desert Botanical Garden. Funds raised through the Conservation Celebration benefit the collaborative work of CAZCA to conserve, restore and promote the distinctive character of the Sonoran Desert.
When: Thursday, November 19, 2020, 4-5:15 p.m., MST
Nabhan will discuss his latest book, The Nature of Desert Nature, a collection of essays from Nabhan and contributors celebrating, meditating, and explaining their enchantment of the desert.
For more information on event and to register, go here.
Michelle Téllez, co-editor of The Chicana Motherwork Anthology, talks to Indigenous actress Yalitza Aparicioto in a wide-ranging interview about her childhood, her experiences with discrimination, and more!
When: Thursday, October 29, 5:30 P.M. MST
This online Power Presents event, sponsored by the College of Social and Behavioral Science at the University of Arizona, is free. You can register here.
Téllez is an assistant professor in the Department of Mexican American Studies. Téllez has been committed to mapping projects of resistance, exploring shared human experiences, and advancing social justice for the last 25-years. As an interdisciplinary scholar, she writes about transnational community formations (and disruptions), Chicana mothering, and gendered migration. Her work has been published in book anthologies, academic journals, and online outlets.
Yalitza Aparicio is a Mexican actress who made her film debut as Cleo in Alfonso Cuarón’s 2018 drama Roma, which earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. Aparicio, who holds a degree in early childhood education, is the first Indigenous woman and the second Mexican woman to receive a Best Actress Oscar nomination. An educator and activist, Aparicio is the new UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador for Indigenous Peoples. Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2019.
The University of Arizona Press
