What’s On

May 2024

book launch

The End of Peacekeeping by Marsha Henry (University of Pennsylvania Press)

1 May 2024, 17:30 – 19:00 BST – LONdon school of economics, mar. 1. 04, Marshall building


book event

The Collected Short Stories of Bharati Mukherjee, edited by Ruth Maxey (Temple University Press)

2-3 May 2024 – nottingham central library


roundtable & book launch

The End of Peacekeeping by Marsha Henry (University of Pennsylvania Press)

7 May 2024, 13:00 – 14:30 BST – senate room, queen’s university, belfast


online panel discussion

Paid to Care by Rachel Randall (University of Texas Press)

9 May 2024, 17:30 – 19:00 BST – online via zoom


Lecture

Curating the Moving Image, Mark Nash (Duke University Press)

Spaces of the CUratorial,  a conversation between Ute Meta Bauer and Mark Nash, moderated by Ines Weizman

15 May 2024, 7PM – Goethe-Institut London, London, SW7 2PH


book launch

The Mother, the Politician, and the Guerrilla by Nazan Üstündağ (Fordham University Press)

17 May 2024, 16:30 – 17:15 BST – room b05, darwin building, university college london

April 2024

Hybrid Event

The International Library: Brown Diaspora with Moon Charania – Archive of Tongues (Duke University Press)

3 april 2024 – The American Library in Paris, and online VIa ZOoM, 19:30-20:30 (CET)


conference

British Sociological Association Annual Conference – Virtual

3 – 5 april 2024 – online


conference

European Association of American Studies Conference, Munich

4 – 6 april 2024 – Amerikahaus Munich, Germany


conference

Rhythm Changes Conference 2024, Graz, Austria

3 – 6 april 2024 – institute for jazz research, university of music and performing arts, graz, austria


conference

British Forum for Ethnomusicology Conference

4 – 7 april 2024 – university college cork, ireland


conference

British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies Conference

5 – 7 april 2024 – robinson college, university of cambridge


BOOK TALK

Authoritarian Laughter: Political Humor and Soviet Dystopia in Lithuania by Neringa Klumbytė (Cornell University Press)

8 April 2024, 6-8pm  – Queen Mary University of London


conference

British Association of American Studies Conference – Virtual

10 – 12 april 2024 – online


conference

Société de Dix-Neuvièmistes Annual Conference

10 – 12 april 2024 – school of advanced study, university of london


BOOK TALK

Authoritarian Laughter: Political Humor and Soviet Dystopia in Lithuania by Neringa Klumbytė (Cornell University Press)

11 April 2024, 5:30-7pm  – Bush House South East Wing, Room 1.02, King’s College London


ONLINE BOOK TALK

Camera Geologica by Siobhan Angus (Duke University Press)

15 April 2024, 4pm CEST – online via zoom, hosted by The Greenhouse, Centre for Environmental Studies, Norway


Conversation: Urban Design and the Making of Property Markets in Cairo and Istanbul 

Politics in the Crevices by Sarah El-Kazaz (Duke University Press)

17 April 2024, 6:30pm (GMT+3) – Salt Galata,  Istanbul, Turkey


keynote speaker

AntoloGaia by Porpora Marcasciano (Rutgers University Press)

17 – 21 april 2024 – international journalism festival, perugia, italy


book event

Hound Dog by Eric Weisbard (Duke University Press)

24 april 2024 – 16:00 – 17:30 BST Clothworkers North Building LT, university of Leeds


book event

Hound Dog by Eric Weisbard (Duke University Press)

25 april 2024 – 18:00 – 20:00 BST – LSBU Hub, 116 London Road, London


book LAUNCH

Home after Fascism by Anna Koch (Indiana University Press)

25 april 2024 – 17:15 – 19:00 BST – IAS Common Ground, UCL, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT


book launch

Taiwan Lives by Niki Alsford (University of Washington Press)

13:30 – 14:30 BST – 29 april 2024 – 2024 spotlight taiwan festival, Greenbank Lecture Theatre & Harrington Social Space, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, Lancashire

MARCH 2024

book event

Ways of Belonging by Francesca Meloni (Rutgers University Press)

1 march 2024 – 17:00 – 19:00 gmt – king’s building, strand campus, king’s college london


book event

New Israeli Horror by Olga Gershenson (Rutgers University Press)

3 march 2024 – 17:00 gmt – Jewish literary foundation book week events, king’s place, london


book event

The State of Desire by Lea Taragin-Zeller (New York University Press)

3 march 2024 – 12:30 gmt – Jewish literary foundation book week events, king’s place, london


book talk

The Daughter of History by Susan Rubin Suleiman (Stanford University Press)

3 march 2024 – 20:00 gmt – Jewish book week, king’s place, london


virtual book event

Gender and Violence against Political Actors edited by Elin Bjarnegård and Pär Zetterberg (Temple University Press)

5 march 2024 – 15:00 – 16:30 CET – online


hybrid book launch

Death Dust by William C. Potter, Sarah Bidgood, Samuel Meyer & Hanna Notte (Stanford University Press)

6 march 2024 – 12:30 – 14:00 CET (11:30 – 13:00 GMT) – geneva centre for security policy, geneva, Switzerland & online


book launch

Possible Knowledge by Debapriya Sarkar (University of Pennsylvania Press)

6 march 2024 – 18:00 – 19:30 gmt – online via zoom


ONLINE Book launch

Not My Type by Apryl Williams (Stanford University Press)

7 march 2024 – 14:30 – 16:00 EST – online (hosted by university of michigan)


festival

Black on Both Sides & Nobody is Supposed to Know by C. Riley Snorton  (University of Minnesota Press)

8 march 2024 – 11:00 – 17:00 cet – massimadi festival, centre pompidou, paris


HYBRID Author Event

A Conversation with Sara Rahnama – The Future is Feminist  (Cornell University Press)

8 march 2024 – 3pm GMT – In person at University College Cork-The Shtepps & ONLINE via Zoom


book presentation

Textile Orientalisms by Suchitra Choudhury (Ohio University Press)

8 march 2024 – 19:00 – 20:30 EST – the georgian house, 7 charlotte square, edinburgh


book Launch

For a Liberatory Politics of Home by Michele Lancione (Duke University Press)

12 March 2024 – 16:00 gmt – Channing Hall, 45 Surrey Street, Sheffield City Centre


book talk

The Labor of Hope by Harry Pettit (Stanford University Press)

13 March 2024 – 16:00 gmt – heyendaalseweg 141 6525AJ Nimjmegen, netherlands


book launch

For Women and Girls Only by Jessica Roda (New York University Press)

14 March 2024 – 18:30 – 20:30 gmt – cabad belgravia, 11 grosvenor place, london


AUTHOR event

Sufi Civilities by Annika Schmeding (Stanford University Press)

15 march 2024 – 18:30 – 20:00 cet – lindenmuseum, stuttgart, germany


BOOK LAUNCH

Politics in the Crevices by Sarah El-Kazaz (Duke University Press)

18 march 2024 – 17:00 – 19:00 GMT – SOAS University of London


book launch

Paid to Care by Rachel Randall (University of Texas Press)

20 march 2024 – 17:30 – 18:30 GMT – graduate centre, mile end campus, queen mary university of london


salon talk

For Women and Girls Only by Jessica Roda (New York University Press)

20 march 2024 – 18:00 cet – villa seligmann, hanover


book talk

Being Human by Fazil Moradi (Rutgers University Press)

21 march 2024 – 14:00 – 16:00 weT – Auditório DCV, Colégio de São Bento, Universidade de Coimbra


online book discussion

Photo-Attractions by Ajay Sinha (Rutgers University Press)

22 march 2024 – 19:00 – 20:30 ist – online via zoom


conference

Classical Association Conference 2024, Warwick

22 – 24 March 2024 – oculus & faculty of arts building, university of warwick


online book talk

Africanising Oncology by Marissa Mika (Ohio University Press)

25 march 2024 – 18:00 eaT (15:00 GMT) – online via zoom


Author event

Haunting Biology, by Emma Kowal (Duke University Press)

25 march 2024 – 18:30 – 20:00 GMT – River Room, KIng’s Building, Strand Campus,King’s College London


book talk

Textile Orientalisms by Suchitra Choudhury (Ohio University Press)

26 march 2024 – opening event for the ‘passion for paisley’ exhibition, gallery 1420, the great tapestry of scotland, Galashiels, Scotland


Author event

Making Gaybies, by Jaya Keaney (Duke University Press)

26 march 2024 – 18:30 – 20:00 GMT – River Room, KIng’s Building, Strand Campus,King’s College London


conference

Socio-Legal Studies Association Annual Conference 2024

26 – 28 March 2024 – university of portsmouth


book event

Family Law in Action by Emilie Biland (University of British Columbia Press)

27 march 2024 – 16:00 – 17:30 gmt – slsa conference, university of portsmouth


book event

Archive of Tongues by Moon Charania (Duke University Press)

27 march 2024 – 18:00 – 19:30 gmt – Marshall Building, Room 1.04, london school of economics


book event

Beekeeping in the End Times by Larisa Jašarević (Indiana University Press)

28 march 2024 – 17:00 gmt – BLOC, Queen mary university of london


book event

Fictions of Consent by Urvashi Chakravarty (University of Pennsylvania Press)

28 march 2024 – 17:00 – 19:30 gmt – king’s college london, strand, london

FEBRUARY 2024

book presentation

Anteaesthetics by Rizvana Bradley (Stanford University Press)

1 february 2024 – 19:30 GMT – PRO QM bookstore, Almstadtstraße 48, 10119 Berlin, Germany


Talk and Book Launch

Together, Somehow by Luis-Manuel Garcia-Mispireta (Duke University Press)

3 february 2024 – 18:00-20:00 CET – CTM Festival, Berlin, Germany


book launch

The Labor of Hope by Harry Pettit (Stanford University Press)

7 february 2024 – 18:30 – 20:00 GMT – shaw library, old building, the london school of economics and political science, london


book launch

A Body of One’s Own by Patricio Simonetto (University of Texas Press)

14 february 2024 – 12:30 – 13:45 GMT – seminar rooms 12.21 & 12.25, social sciences building, university of leeds


book launch

ISRF Book Launch: Struggles for the Human (Duke University Press)

15 february 2024 – 18:30 – 20:00 GMT – BLOC, Queen Mary University of London


AUTHOR event

Sufi Civilities by Annika Schmeding (Stanford University Press)

16 february 2024 – 13:00 – 14:00 GMT – IRISH CENTRE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS SEMINAR ROOM, UNIVERSITY OF GALWAY


conference

Annual Gesellschaft fur Kanada-Studien Conference, Grainau

16 – 18 February 2024 – hotel am badersee, grainau, Germany


hybrid book launch

The Entablo Manuscript by Sarah Bennison (University of Texas Press)

21 february 2024 – 16:00 – 17:30 GMT – united colleges room 50, st salvator’s quadrangle, university of st andrews & online via zoom


VIRTUAL BOOK TALK

Nonhuman Witnessing by Michael Richardson (Duke University Press)

21 february 2024 – 10:00 GMT – Online/ University of Salford
*EVENT NOW SOLD OUT*


hybrid book talk

A “Jewish Marshall Plan” by Laura Hobson Faure (Indiana University Press)

22 february 2024 – 18:30 – 20:00 GMT – weiner holocaust library, 29 russell square, london & online


AUTHOR talk

The Invisible Palestinians by Andreas Hackl (Indiana University Press)

22 february 2024 – 19:30 – 21:00 GMT – jewish museum hohenems, Villa Heimann-Rosenthal, Schweizer Straße 5, Hohenems, austria


online book launch

Pink Gold by María L. Cruz-Torres (University of Texas Press)

23 february 2024 – 16:00 GMT – online via zoom


book launch

Portraits of Empires by Robyn Dora Radway (Indiana University Press)

27 february 2024 – 17:40 – 19:30 ceT – central european university, vienna

January 2024

conference

British Society of Eighteenth Century Studies

3 – 5 january 2024 – st hugh’s college, oxford


book launch

Street Level Governing by Elise Massicard (Stanford University Press)

10 January 2024 – 17:00 – 18:00 GMT – online via zoom


author talk

Photo-Attractions by Ajay Sinha (Rutgers University Press)

13 January 2024 – 18:30 GMT – INDIA INTERNATIONAL CENTRE, NEW DEHLI, INDIA


author talk

“Three Experiments in Music” by David Grubbs

15 January 2024 – 17:00 GMT – ARU, Cambridge


seminar

AntoloGaia by Porpora Marcasciano (Rutgers University Press)

18 January 2024 – 16:30 – 18:00 CET – Kromme Nieuwegracht 20, Grote Zaal, utrecht university, netherlands


Book launch

Afterlives of Revolution by Alice Wilson (Stanford University Press)

18 January 2024 – 17:00 – 18:30 GMT – Chrystal Macmillan building, university of edinburgh


book launch

Struggles for the Human (Duke University Press)

19 January 2024 – 19:30 – 20:00 GMT – Brighton Reading Room, at the Florence Road Café


meet the author

Afterlives of Revolution by Alice Wilson (Stanford University Press)

23 January 2024 – 17:00 – 18:30 GMT – arts building, arts lecture theatre, university of st andrews

DECEmber 2023

workshop

Transcolonial Maghreb edited by Olivia C. Harrison (Stanford University Press)

1-2 December 2023 – University of Münsteronline via zoom


Book launch

The Pulse of the Earth by Adam Bobbette (Duke University Press)

2 December 2023 17:00 – 19:00 GMT – hunterian art gallery, University of glasgow


Book discussion

Souffles-Anfes edited by Olivia C. Harrison and Teresa Villa-Ignacio (Stanford University Press)

3 December 2023 18:00 CEST – hOPSCOTCH EVENTS, GERICHSTRASSE 45, BERLIN


Book discussion

Natives against Nativism by Olivia C. Harrison (University of Minnesota Press)

4 December 2023 14:00 CEST – georg-simmel-saal, friedrichstrasse 191, berlin


Book TALK

Changing the Subject by Srila Roy (Duke University Press)

5 December 2023 16:00 – 18:00 GMT – wills memorial building, university of bristol


Book launch

The Chinese Revolution on the Tibetan Frontier by Benno Weiner (Cornell University Press)

5 December 2023 17:00 – 18:30 GMT – the portico library, manchester


Book presentation

Operational Images by Jussi Parikka (University of Minnesota Press)

6 December 2023 19:00 GMT – transmediale, Geritchstr. 35, berlin


Book launch

A Blessing and a Curse by Matt Wilde (Stanford University Press)

7 December 2023 18:00 GMT – Graham Wallas Room, 5th Floor (5.25), Old Building, London School of Economics and Political Science


Book TALK

Changing the Subject by Srila Roy (Duke University Press)

7 December 2023 14:00 GMT – South Asia Forum Reading Group, ARTSTWO SCR (4th FLoor), Queen Mary University of London


lecture

Changing the Subject by Srila Roy (Duke University Press)

8 December 2023 18:00 GMT – conway hall, london


conference

Association for the Study of Modern Italy

8 – 9 december 2023 – senate house, london


joint book launch

The Unknowable in Early Modern Thought by Kevin Killeen (Stanford University Press)

The Paradoxes of Ignorance in Early Modern England and France by Sandrine Parageau (Stanford University Press)

11 December 2023 17:00 GMT – society of renaissance studies, online via crowdcast

November 2023

book talk

Jewish Self-Determination beyond Zionism by Jonathan Graubart (Temple University Press)

1 November 2023 – 17:30 – 19:30 GMT – people’s palace 1, queen mary, university of london mile end campus, london


book LAUNCH

Traders and Tinkers by Maitrayee Deka (Stanford University Press)

2 November 2023 – 16:30 – 18:30 GMT – Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS), South Wing, UCL, Gower Street, London


book LAUNCH

Anteaesthetics by Rizvana Bradley (Stanford University Press)

13 November 2023 – 18:00 – 20:00 GMT – Institute of Advanced Studies, UCL, london


book LAUNCH

Lively Cities by Maan Barua (University of Minnesota Press)

15 November 2023 – 17:30 GMT – Maison francaise d’oxford, 2-10 norham rd, oxford


book launch

Danzón Days by Hettie Malcomson (University of Illinois Press)

20 November 2023 – 17:15 GMT – SG1 Ground Floor, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, CB3 9DT, london


book talk

Sexuality Beyond Consent by Avgi Saketopoulou (New York University Press)

20 November 2023 – 18:00 GMT – online event with freud museum, london


book launch

Judging Insanity, Punishing Difference by Chloé Deambrogio (Stanford University Press)

29 November 2023 – 17:30 – 19:00 GMT – mure room, murton college, oxford


AUTHOR KEYNOTE

Climate Change and the New Polar Aesthetics by Lisa E. Bloom (Duke University Press)

29 November – 1 December 2023 – Precarious Planet: Disability, Rights & Justice conference, University of Wollongong, Sydney Campus, Australia


Book launch

The Pulse of the Earth by Adam Bobbette (Duke University Press)

30 November 2023 – 18:30 – 20:30 GMT – clubroom, centre for contemporary arts (cca), 350 sauchiehall street, glasgow


LECTURE

Anteaesthetics by Rizvana Bradley (Stanford University Press)

30 November 2023 – 19:30 (CET) – Institute for Cultural Inquiry
Berlin, Germany

OCTOBER 2023

keynote lecture

Rising Up, Living On by Catherine E. Walsh (Duke University Press)

4 -6 October 2023 – conference ventana 5, University of york


book event

Why Willie Mae Thornton Matters by Lynnée Denise (University of Texas Press)

5 October 2023 – 19:30 CEST – Bijlmer Park Theater, Amsterdam


literature festival

Hereafter by Vona Groarke (New York University Press)

6 October 2023 – 20:00 – 21:00 bst – dromineer nenagh literature festival, nenagh arts centre, nenagh, ireland


book event

Why Willie Mae Thornton Matters by Lynnée Denise (University of Texas Press)

11 October 2023 – 19:00 CEST – LA FLÈCHE D’OR, PARIS, FRANCE


AUTHOR TALK

The Lives and Deaths of Jubrail Dabdoub by Jacob Norris (Stanford University Press)

13 October 202310:00 – 16:30 BST – Liminal Texts: Writing Society Between Literature And Sociology, Selwyn College, Cambridge and online


book event

The Hatred of Sex by Oliver Davis & Tim Dean (University of Nebraska Press)

16 October 202310:00 – 17:00 BST – A108 Arts Building A Falmer, university of sussex


book TALK

Climate Change and the New Polar Aesthetics by Lisa E. Bloom (Duke University Press)

17 October 202317:00 – 19:00 BST – gorvy lecture theatre, dyson building, battersea, uk


book launch

Condoland by James T. White & John Punter (UBC Press)

18 October 202315:00 – 17:00 BST – kelvin hall lecture theatre, university of glasgow


lecture

Scripts of Blackness by Noémie Ndiaye (University of Pennsylvania Press)

19 October 202318:00 BST – sam wanamaker playhouse, london


Guest lecture

Environmental Humanities on the Brink by Vincent Bruyere (Stanford University Press)

19 October 2023 – 15:00-17:00 cesT – Room J335, Humanisten, Renströmsgatan 6, university of gothenburg, sweden


webinar

An Ecological History of Modern China by Stevan Harrell (University of Washington Press)

20 October 202314:00 – 16:00 ceST – online


book launch

Famine Worlds by Tylor Brand (Stanford University Press)

20 October 202317:00 – 19:00 BST – Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute, trinity college dublin, dublin, ireland & online


book TALK & Signing

Inside the Spiral by Suzaan Boettger (University of Minnesota Press)

20 October 202318:00 – 19:30 BST – Vernon Square campus, Lecture Theatre 2, the courtauld institute of art, london


virtual book launch

Street-Level Governing by Elise Massicard (Stanford University Press)

25 October 202318:00 – 19:00 BST – online via zoom


book launch

Violence of Democracy by Ruchi Chaturvedi (Duke University Press)

30 October 202313:00-14:00 SAST – HUMA, University of Cape Town And online via zoom