Thursday, November 7, 6:00p.m. —
Please join us in the University of Arizona Libraries Special Collections for a talk by author Derek Sears for the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the 
Apollo 11 Moon landing. In this talk, Sears will present the new biography Gerard P. Kuiper and the Rise of Modern Planetary Science, which describes the life of a man who lived through some of the most dramatic events of the twentieth century and ended up creating a new field of scientific research—planetary science. As NASA and other space agencies explore the solar system, they take with them many of the ideas and concepts first described by Gerard P. Kuiper. With an introduction by Tim Swindle, Director of the Lunar and Planetary Lab at the University of Arizona, we welcome you to join us for this exciting and timely lecture.
The University of Arizona Libraries Special Collections are located at 1510 E University Blvd, (adjacent to the Main Library) Tucson, AZ 85721.
Seating is limited. Please reserve your place.
Wednesday, April 10 at 5:30 p.m. – Join us in celebrating The Feminist Wire Books: Connecting Feminisms, Race, and Social Justice with series editors Tamura A. Lomax and Monica J. Casper and special remarks from University of Arizona Press Editor-in-Chief Kristen Buckles. The Feminist Wire Books is a new series from The Feminist Wire (TFW) and the University of Arizona Press dedicated to the sociopolitical and cultural critique of anti-feminist, racist, and imperialist politics.
Location:
Women’s Studies/SIROW, Room 100, 925 N. Tyndall Ave.
Tucson, AZ
United States
Readings and panel discussions:
Marquis Bey, Author
Them Goon Rules: Fugitive Essays on Radical Black Feminism
Michelle Téllez, Judith Pérez-Torres, and Christina Vega, Editors
The Chicana Motherwork Anthology: Porque sin madres no hay revolución
Julia Jordan-Zachery and Duchess Harris, Editors
Black Girl Magic Beyond the Hashtag: Twenty-First Century Acts of Self-Definition (forthcoming Fall 2019)
The event is free and open to the public, and books will be available for purchase at a reception following the program.
The program is cosponsored by the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, the University Libraries, the Office of the Provost, the department of Gender & Women’s Studies, the department of Africana Studies, and the department of Religious Studies and Classics.
Thursday, May 9 – Marge Bruchac presents “Voices Carry: Recovering Messages from Indigenous Archives.” She will be the featured speaker in seminar series “Current Research in Anthropological Archives” at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC. The event is open to public.
Friday, April 19 – Marge Bruchac presents “Reverse Ethnography: Investigating the History of Anthropological Search and Rescue,” a talk for anthropology department at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. The event is open to public.
Sunday, April 14 – Marge Bruchac presents “Reconsidering (and Recovering from) Acts of Ethnographic Search and Rescue,” a talk for Indigenous Voices in Plainfield at the Cummington Community House, in Cummington, Massachusetts. The event is open to public.
Saturday, April 13 – Marge Bruchac will present “Rural Indigenousness: A History of Iroquoian and Algonquian Peoples of the Adirondacks.” This will be a panel discussion with Melissa Otis and Joseph Bruchac at the Ndakinna Education Center at the Greenfield Center in New York. The event is open to the public.
Tuesday, May 14 at 5:30 p.m. – The Bi-National Arts Institute will host Beth Henson for a discussion of her recently released book Agrarian Revolt in the Sierra of Chihuahua, 1959-1965 at Bisbee’s Copper Queen Library. The early 1960s are remembered for the emergence of new radical movements. One such protest movement rose in the Mexican state of Chihuahua. With large timbering companies moving in on the forested sierra highlands, campesinos and rancheros did not sit by as their lands and livelihoods were threatened. Henson’s book is the story of how they organized and demanded agrarian rights—ultimately with deadly consequences.
Wednesday, August 14 at 6 p.m. – The Clark County Wetlands Park hosts Lawrence R. Walker, a Professor of plant biology at UNLV and Frederick Landau, Research Associate at UNLV for a discussion of their newly released book, A Natural History of the Mojave Desert. The Mojave Desert has a rich natural history. Despite being sandwiched between the larger Great Basin and Sonoran Deserts, it has enough mountains, valleys, canyons, and playas for any eager explorer. A Natural History of the Mojave Desert shares how the geology, geography, climate, and organisms, including humans, have shaped and been shaped by this fascinating desert.
Thursday, March 7 at 6:00 p.m. – Maneula Picq will present Vernacular Sovereignties: Indigenous Women Challenging World Politics as part of the University of New Mexico’s Global Futures Initiative Speakers Series. The book is the fruit of a decade working with Kichwa peoples in the Ecuadorean Andes. Her work at the intersection of scholarship, journalism, and activism led her to be detained and expelled by the government of Ecuador in 2015, then nominated in a New Generation of Public Intellectuals in 2018.
Global Futures is an interdisciplinary arts and humanities initiative for critical inquiry, pedagogical innovation, and social justice. The manifold and accelerating crisis of the current historical moment presents unique challenges that require creative new forms of research and collective action. The Global Futures Initiative brings together artists, activists, organizers, and scholars to creatively envision new social possibilities that connect community-based engagement and global movements for social transformation and planetary futurity.
Wednesday, February 27 – Seattle University hosts Casandra López alongside Cedar Sigo and Laura Da’. López will be reading from her debut University of Arizona Press collection Brother Bullet. In this powerful collection, 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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