Since 2012, University Press Week has provided an annual opportunity to raise awareness of the work of university presses. University presses and other nonprofit scholarly publishers perform invaluable services for researchers, teachers, librarians, and the rest of the scholarly community, for the broader world of readers, and ultimately for society itself. While university presses individually highlight what they do year-round, University Press Week allows us to celebrate the value and quality of university presses with one voice.
Here are some of the events scheduled for UP Week 2023, exemplifying the ways that university presses #SpeakUP, amplify their authors, and give voice to ideas that shape conversations around the world.
Throughout the month of November
University of Alberta Press Book Display
Foyer of the University of Alberta’s Rutherford Library
Edmonton, Alberta
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Sunday, November 12
virtual event
Second Sunday Readings: Jared Harél, Let Our Bodies Change the Subject
(in conversation with Megan Freshley)
published by University of Nebraska Press
6pm CT
Free, but registration required
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Monday, November 13
Dan Sinykin, author of Big Fiction: How Conglomeration Changed the Publishing Industry and American Literature
(in conversation with Mark Krotov)
published by Columbia University Press
Strand Book Store, 3rd Floor, Rare Book Room, 828 Broadway
New York, NY
7 pm ET
Recording from C-SPAN BookTV
Esra Mirze Santesso, author of Muslim Comics and Warscape Witnessing
(in conversation with Gerald Maa)
published by Ohio State University Press
Athens-Clarke County Public Library (in association with Avid Bookshop)
2025 Baxter St
Athens, GA
7pm ET
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virtual event
Naveeda Khan, In Quest of a Shared Planet: Negotiating Climate From the Global South
(in conversation with Perrin Selcer)
published by Fordham University Press
Literati Bookstore (Ann Arbor, MI)
7pm ET
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Tuesday, November 14
Notre Dame Press Book Festival and Book Sale
University of Notre Dame Hesburgh Library Concourse
Notre Dame, IN
10 am CT
This year’s festival (November 14 and 15) will include events featuring Latinx poetry and Notre Dame history, plus a discussion by press staff about book covers and design.
Free, no registration required
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virtual event
Samuel Moyn, Liberalism against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times
(in conversation with Becca Rothfeld)
published by Yale University Press
hosted by Boston Review
7pm ET
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virtual event
Melvin Rogers, author of The Darkened Light of Faith: Race, Democracy, and Freedom in African American Political Thought
(in conversation with Jamelle Bouie)
published by Princeton University Press
National Constitution Center
7pm ET
Free, but registration required
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Wednesday, November 15
University of Illinois Press Fall 2023 Publishing Symposium
hosted by the Institute for the Humanities at the University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago Behavioral Sciences Building,
1007 W Harrison Street, Suite 153, MC 206,
Chicago, IL 60607
9am CT
Free, but registration required
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Jim Minick, Without Warning: The Tornado of Udall, Kansas
published by University of Nebraska Press
hosted by East Tennessee State University
Johnson City, TN
5pm CT
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Philip Pettit, author of The State
(in conversation with Fintan O’Toole)
published by Princeton University Press
Labyrinth Books,
122 Nassau St
Princeton, NJ
6pm ET
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Steve Cooke, What Are Animal Rights For? and Catherine Oliver, What is Veganism For?
(in conversation with George Miller)
published by Bristol University Press
Bookhaus, 4 Rope Walk
Bristol UK
6pm GMT
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Kirk Johnson, First Meal and the Art of Julie Green
(in conversation with Theo Downes-Le Guin)
published by Oregon State University Press
Powell’s Books
1005 W Burnside St
Portland, OR
7 pm PT
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Susan Kiyo Ito, I Would Meet You Anywhere: A Memoir
(in conversation with Faith Adiele)
published by Ohio State University Press
Booksmith,1727 Haight St
San Francisco, CA
7 pm PT
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Barbara Sjoholm, The Palace of the Snow Queen: Winter Travels in Lapland and Sápmi
published by University of Minnesota Press
Third Place Books, 6504 20th Ave NE
Seattle, WA
7 pm PT
Free, but registration required
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Thursday, November 16
Kristen Gentry, Mama Said
(in conversation with Magogodi oaMphela Makhene)
published by West Virginia University Press
P&T Knitwear, 180 Orchard Street
New York, NY
7pm ET
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Dr. Katie Wells, author of Disrupting DC: The Rise of Uber and the Fall of the City
(in conversation with Lester Spence)
published by Princeton University Press
Red Emma’s Bookstore Coffeehouse
3128 Greenmount Avenue
Baltimore, MD
7 pm ET
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Friday, November 17
Branko Milanovic, Visions of Inequality: From the French Revolution to the End of the Cold War
published by Harvard University Press
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA
7 pm ET
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Rachel DeWoskin, Absolute Animal
(in conversation with Ydalmi Noriega)
published by University of Chicago Press
Seminary Coop, 751 S. Woodlawn
Chicago, IL
6 pm CT
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Raj Tawney, Colorful Palate: A Flavorful Journey Through a Mixed American Experience
published by Fordham University Press
NYU Department of Nutrition and Food Studies
411 Lafayette St, 5th floor
New York, NY 10003
12pm ET
Free, but registration required
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virtual event
Daniel Herbert, Maverick Movies: New Line Cinema and the Transformation of American Film
(in conversation with A.S. Hamrah)
published by University of California Press
Literati Bookstore (Ann Arbor, MI)
7 pm ET
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virtual event
Sam Stephenson, Dream Street: W. Eugene Smith’s Pittsburgh Project
(in conversation with Ross Gay)
published by University of Chicago Press
Riverstone Books (Pittsburgh, PA)
7 pm ET
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Saturday, November 18
John Mabry, Nebraska Volleyball
(in conversation with former Nebraska Volleyball players)
published by University of Nebraska Press
Francie & Finch Book Shop (Lincoln, NE)
4:30pm CT
Free, but registration required
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Lee McIntyre, On Disinformation: How to Fight for Truth and Protect Democracy and Adam Berinsky, Political Rumors: Why We Accept Misinformation and How to Fight It
published by MIT Press and Princeton University Press
The MIT Museum
Gambrill Center Building E-28
314 Main Street
Cambridge, MA
1:00 pm ET
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Kirsten Hines, Wild Florida,
Jacki Levine, Once Upon a Time in Florida,
and Bob Kealing, Good Day Sunshine State
published by University Press of Florida
Miami Book Fair, “Here in Florida” strand
Room 8202 (Building 8, 2nd Floor) 300 NE Second Ave.
Miami, FL
1 pm ET (Hines and Levine), 5 pm ET (Kealing)
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Sunday, November 19
Phillip A. Hubbart, From Death Row to Freedom
published by University Press of Florida
Miami Book Fair,
Room 8202 (Building 8, 2nd Floor) 300 NE Second Ave.
Miami, FL
11 am ET
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