July 26, 2019
Join author Paloma Martinez-Cruz at La Catrina Café from 4-6 p.m. for a signing and discussion about her latest book, Food Fight!
The hard-hitting essays in Food Fight! bring a mestiza critique to today’s pressing discussions of labeling, identity, and imaging in marketing and dining. Martinez-Cruz tackles head on the real-world politics of food production from the exploitation of farm workers to the appropriation of Latinx bodies and culture, and takes us right into transformative eateries that offer a homegrown, mestiza consciousness.
The event is located at 1011 W. 18th St., Chicago, IL 60608.
Thursday, April 4 at 6:00pm – Jennifer Givhan presents her latest poetry collection Rosa’s Einstein at Albuquerque’s Bookworks. Using details both from Einstein’s known life and from quantum physics, poet Jennifer Givhan imagines Lieserl, the daughter Albert Einstein and his wife Mileva allegedly gave up for adoption at birth, in a circus-like landscape of childhood trauma and survival, guided by Rosa and her sister Nieve. Rosa’s Einstein is a Latinx retelling of the Brothers Grimm’s Snow-White and Rose-Red, reevaluating border, identity, and immigration narratives through the unlikely amalgamation of physics and fairy tale.
Givhan will be joined by Albuquerque’s Poet Laureate Michelle Otero.
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.
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.
Friday, March 1 at 7:30 p.m. – Join Rebecca Robinson and Stephen Strom at Portland’s renowned Powell’s City of Books. President Barack Obama established Bears Ears National Monument on primarily undeveloped land in Southeastern Utah in 2016, with co-management by BLM, US Forest Service and a coalition of The Navajo Nation, Hopi, Ute Mountain Ute, Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray Reservation and the Pueblo of Zuni. Though President Donald Trump has attempted to reduce the monument by 85%, legal challenges have so far preserved the land. Rebecca Robinson has edited a collection of 22 individual voices and personal histories of those involved in the debate about the future of the monument in her book, Voices from Bears Ears: Seeking Common Ground on Sacred Land. Photographer Stephen Strom, whose photographs also appear in Voices in Bears Ears as well as in his book, Bears Ears: Views from a Sacred Land, has created an awe inspiring visual celebration of the rugged beauty of the canyons, mesas and spires of Bears Ears.
Thursday, February 28 at 6:00 p.m. – Rebecca Robinson and Stephen Strom present stories and photographs from their book, Voices from Bears Ears at Bend Oregon’s Roundabout Books. Robinson captures the conflicting and passionate stances on the struggle over the Bears Ears National Monument in southeastern Utah. In 2017, President Trump shrank this monument by 85% from the original 1.35 million acres of public land that President Obama had designated in 2016.
Tuesday, February 26, 2019 – 7:00pm – Please our friends at Elliot Bay Book Company as they host Rebecca Robinson and Stephen Strom. President Barack Obama established Bears Ears National Monument on primarily undeveloped land in Southeastern Utah in 2016, with co-management by BLM, US Forest Service and a coalition of The Navajo Nation, Hopi, Ute Mountain Ute, Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray Reservation and the Pueblo of Zuni. Though President Donald Trump has attempted to reduce the monument by 85%, legal challenges have so far preserved the land. Rebecca Robinson has edited a collection of 22 individual voices and personal histories of those involved in the debate about the future of the monument in her book, Voices from Bears Ears: Seeking Common Ground on Sacred Land. Photographer Stephen Strom, whose photographs also appear in Voices in Bears Ears as well as in his book, Bears Ears: Views from a Sacred Land, has created an awe inspiring visual celebration of the rugged beauty of the canyons, mesas and spires of Bears Ears.
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.
The University of Arizona Press
