Upcoming Author Events
We are pleased to provide this listing of upcoming events featuring authors of recent Harvard University Press titles. This page is updated weekly and features events that are open to the public (though some may be ticketed). Contact an individual event’s host or sponsor to confirm details of time and location, or for additional information.
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Karen Avrich
Sasha and Emma: The Anarchist Odyssey of Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman
Wednesday, April 10, 6:30–8:30 PM
Speaking and signing, Mid-Manhattan Library (New York Public Library)
455 Fifth Avenue (at 40th Street), New York, NY 10016-0122
Sunday, May 19, 2:00–4:00 PM
Discussion and signing, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum
200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY 11238-6052
Vivek Bald
Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America
Thursday, March 7, 6:30–9:00 PM [RSVP by March 5]
Multimedia presentation featuring a reading by Bald, performance by actor Aladdin Ullah, and screening of an excerpt of their documentary film, In Search of Bengali Harlem, Asian/Pacific/American Institute at New York University
5 Washington Place, Room 101, New York, NY 10003
Saturday, March 23, 4:00–5:15 PM
Panel discussion, “The South: Literature of Exile, Refuge, and Return,“ Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival
Queen Anne Ballroom, Hotel Monteleone, 214 Royal Street, New Orleans, LA 70130
Saturday, April 6, 5:30–8:30 PM
Multimedia presentation, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, presented by the New York Public Library. The evening will feature a reading by Bald, performance by actor Aladdin Ullah of a portion of his one-man show Dishwasher Dreams, a screening of an excerpt of their documentary film, In Search of Bengali Harlem, a panel discussion with descendants of Bengali men who settled in Harlem, and music DJ-ed by Himanshu Suri, a.k.a Heems, formerly of the rap group Das Racist.
Langston Hughes Auditorium, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 515 Malcolm X Boulevard, New York, NY 10037-1801
W. Jeffrey Bolster
The Mortal Sea: Fishing the Atlantic in the Age of Sail
Friday, March 1 or Saturday, March 2, Time TBD
Lecture and signing, Maine Fishermen’s Forum
The Samoset Resort, 220 Warrenton Street, Rockport, ME 04856
Albert Camus, edited and with an introduction by Alice Kaplan
Thursday, May 9, 7:00 PM
Editor Kaplan in conversation with the New Yorker’s Adam Gopnik, 192 Books
192 Tenth Avenue (at 21st Street), New York, NY 10011
John Connelly
From Enemy to Brother: The Revolution in Catholic Teaching on the Jews, 1933–1965
Monday, March 4, 6:00 PM
12th Floor Lounge, E. Gerald Corrigan Conference Center, Lowenstein Center, Lincoln Center Campus, New York, NY 10023
Sunday April 7, 4:00–5:30 PM
Lecture commemorating Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day), Center for Christian–Jewish Learning at Boston College
Gasson Hall 305, 140 Commonwealth Avenue, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Robert Crawford
Saturday, April 20, 3:00 PM
Aye Write! — The Glasgow Book Festival
Mitchell Theatre, 6 Granville Street, Glasgow G3 7DN, United Kingdom
James Dawes
Monday, April 29, 7:00 PM
Discussion and signing with documentary photographer Wing Young Huie, Common Good Books
38 S. Snelling Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55105
Harold Holzer
Emancipating Lincoln: The Proclamation in Text, Context, and Memory
Friday, March 1, 7:00 PM
Screening and discussion of Young Mr. Lincoln (1939) starring Henry Fonda, New-York Historical Society
Robert H. Smith Auditorium, New-York Historical Society, 170 Central Park West (at 77th Street), New York, NY 10024
Friday, March 8, 7:00 PM
Screening and discussion of Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940) starring Raymond Massey, New-York Historical Society
Robert H. Smith Auditorium, New-York Historical Society, 170 Central Park West (at 77th Street), New York, NY 10024
Thursday, March 21, 12:30 PM
Lecture, “Emancipating Lincoln,” Long Island University
Hillwood Commons Lecture Hall (Pioneer Boulevard), C.W. Post Campus, 720 Northern Boulevard, Brookville, NY 11548
Friday, March 22, 7:00 PM [Tickets]
“EMANCIPATION! A Jubilee Celebration,” gala event, the United Nations
General Assembly Hall, United Nations, 760 United Nations Plaza (First Avenue at 46th Street), New York, NY 10017
Tuesday, April 2, 6:30 PM [Tickets]
Discussion, “Grant and Sherman,” with John Marszalek, New-York Historical Society
Robert H. Smith Auditorium, New-York Historical Society, 170 Central Park West (at 77th Street), New York, NY 10024
(For a complete listing of Harold Holzer’s upcoming public appearances, please see his website.)
Gish Jen
Tiger Writing: Art, Culture, and the Interdependent Self
Tuesday, March 19, 7:30 PM
Discussion and signing, Tattered Cover Book Store (Lower Downtown)
1628 16th Street (at Wynkoop), Denver, CO 80202
Thursday, March 21, 7:00 PM
Discussion and signing, Politics & Prose Bookstore & Coffeehouse
5015 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20008
Wednesday, March 27, Time TBD
Discussion and signing, Harvard Book Store
1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
Sunday, April 14, Time TBD
Discussion and signing, Diesel, a Book Store (Oakland)
5433 College Avenue, Oakland CA 94618
Monday, April 15, 7:00 PM
Discussion and signing, Book Passage (Corte Madera/Marin)
51 Tamal Vista Boulevard, Corte Madera, CA 94925
Tuesday, April 16, 6:00 PM
Discussion with Maxine Hong Kingston, Mechanics’ Institute Library
57 Post Street, San Francisco, CA 94104
Wednesday, April 17, 7:00 PM
Discussion and signing, Vroman’s Bookstore
695 E. Colorado Boulevard, Pasadena, CA 91101
Friday, April 19, 7:00 PM
Discussion and signing, Elliott Bay Book Company
1521 Tenth Avenue, Seattle, WA 98122
Aaron B. O’Connell
Underdogs: The Making of the Modern Marine Corps
Saturday, May 18, 10:00 AM
Spotlight on Local Authors, Gaithersburg Book Festival
City Hall Grounds, 31 South Summit Avenue, Gaithersburg, MD 20877
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