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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Sunil S. Amrith
Crossing the Bay of Bengal: The Furies of Nature and the Fortunes of Migrants
Wednesday, October 2, 4:15 PM
Lecture and signing, Harvard University Joint Center for History and Economics
CGIS-S020, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Sumantra Bose
Transforming India: Challenges to the World’s Largest Democracy
Wednesday, October 16, 12:00–1:00 PM [Register]
Lecture, “India in Transition: The 2014 Election in Perspective,” Chatham House
The Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House, 10 St James’s Square, London SW1Y 4LE, United Kingdom
Thursday, October 17, 6:30 PM
Lecture and signing at the London School of Economics
Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE, United Kingdom
Thursday, December 11, 1:00–2:00 PM
Lecture at the International Institute for Strategic Studies
Arundel House, 13–15 Arundel Street, Temple Place, London WC2R 3DX, United Kingdom
Richard Breitman and Allan J. Lichtman
Thursday, October 10, 7:00 PM
Allan Lichtman lecturing and signing at the Westchester Jewish Center
Rockland Avenue at Palmer Avenue (GPS: 175 Rockland Avenue), Mamaroneck NY 10543
Sunday, October 13, 10:25 AM
Allan Lichtman lecturing on “Current Developments,” as part of the Coffee, Conversation & Controversy series, River Road Unitarian Universalist Congregation
6301 River Road, Bethesda MD 20817
Wednesday, October 16, 11:00 AM
Allan Lichtman lecturing at the Annual Book & Author Luncheon, Brandeis National Committee of Greater Washington
Location TBD, Washington, DC
Friday, October 18, 12:00–1:30 PM [Register]
Allan Lichtman lecturing and signing at the Live and Learn Bethesda [PDF] “Lunch and Learn” series
4805 Edgemoor Lane (2nd Floor), Bethesda, MD 20814
Tuesday, October 22, 6:45–8:45 PM [Tickets]
S. Dillon Ripley Center, 1100 Jefferson Drive S.W., Washington, DC 20560
Thursday, October 24, 4:15–6:00 PM
Cabot Room, Busch Hall, 27 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Friday, October 25–Sunday, October 27, Times TBD
Allan Lichtman lecturing at Congregation Beth Israel
5716 Carmel Valley Road, Carmel, CA 93923
Monday, October 28, 7:00 PM
Memorial Lounge (Room 338), Waterman Building, South Prospect Street at College Street, Burlington, VT 05405
Tuesday, October 29, 7:30 PM [Tickets]
Allan Lichtman lecturing and signing at the Alper JCC 33rd Annual Jewish Book Festival
Young Israel of Kendall, 7880 S.W. 112th Street, Miami, FL 33156
Wednesday, October 30, 7:30 PM
Richard Breitman lecturing at Ithaca College, sponsored by the Jewish Studies Program
Emerson Suites, Campus Center, 953 Danby Road, Ithaca, NY 14850
Friday, November 8, 2:00 PM [Tickets]
Allan Lichtman lecturing and signing, 92nd Street Y (Uptown)
Weill Art Gallery, 1395 Lexington Avenue (Lexington Avenue at 92nd Street), New York, NY 10128
Saturday, November 9, Time TBD
Richard Breitman speaking and signing at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Ann Arbor Book Festival
Location TBD, Ann Arbor, MI
Sunday, November 10, Time TBD
Richard Breitman speaking and signing at the Detroit Jewish Book Fair
Location TBD, Detroit, MI
Tuesday, November 12, Time TBD
Speaking and signing at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Washington Book Festival
Location TBD, Rockville, MD
November 17–24, 2013, Date and Time TBD
Richard Breitman speaking and signing at Miami Book Fair International
Miami-Dade College—Wolfson Campus, 300 N.E. Second Avenue, Miami, FL 33132
Sunday, December 1, 12:00 PM
Allan Lichtman lecturing at The Generation After, Inc. of Greater Washington, DC
Location TBD, Washington, DC
Thursday, December 5, Time TBD
Richard Breitman speaking and signing, Dutchess Community College
Location TBD, 53 Pendell Road, Poughkeepsie, New York 12601
Sunday, December 8, 7:00 PM
Allan Lichtman giving the 2013 Kraft Education Foundation Lecture at Congregation Beth Shalom
1801 Baynard Boulevard, Wilmington, DE 19802
Sunday, March 2, 2014, Time TBD
Lecture at the Museum of Jewish Heritage
Edmond J. Safra Plaza, 36 Battery Place, New York, NY 10280
Michael C. Dawson
Tuesday, October 8, 6:00 PM
Discussion and signing, Seminary Co-op Bookstore
5751 South Woodlawn Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637
Estelle B. Freedman
Redefining Rape: Sexual Violence in the Era of Suffrage and Segregation
Thursday, October 17, 1:30–2:30 PM
Speaking at the Stanford University Reunions (open to the greater Stanford University community)
Terrace Room (4th floor), Margaret Jacks Hall, Stanford University, Palm Drive, Stanford, CA 94305
Wednesday, October 30, 6:00 PM
Speaking and signing, Humanities Forum of the Commonwealth Club of California, with book sales to benefit San Francisco Women Against Rape
595 Market Street, 2nd Floor, San Francisco, CA 94105
Sunday, November 3, 4:00 PM
Speaking and signing, Book Passage Marin
51 Tamal Vista Boulevard, Corte Madera, CA 94925
Monday, March 24, 2014, 7:00 PM
Discussion and signing, Harvard Book Store
1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
Tuesday, March 25, 2014, Time TBD
Speaking at the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University
Radcliffe Yard, 3 James Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Robert Frost
The Letters of Robert Frost, Volume 1: 1886–1920
Sunday, March 16, 2014, 11:00 AM [Tickets]
Editors Donald Sheehy and Mark Richardson in a discussion of Frost’s early years, 92nd Street Y
Weill Art Gallery, 1395 Lexington Avenue (Lexington Avenue at 92nd Street), New York, NY 10128
David M. Halperin
Saturday, November 23, 1:00–3:30 PM [Registered Conference Participants Only]
Baltimore Convention Center (or environs), One West Pratt Street, Baltimore, MD 21201
Michael Ignatieff
Fire and Ashes: Success and Failure in Politics
Thursday, January 30, 2014, 7:00 PM
Discussion and signing, Harvard Book Store
1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
Gish Jen
Tiger Writing: Art, Culture, and the Interdependent Self
Monday, October 21, 5:30 PM (doors open at 5:00 PM) [Tickets]
Speaking and signing at the Writers’ Room of Boston 25th Anniversary Event
The Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle Street, Cambridge MA 02138
Tuesday, October 29, 5:45 PM (reception at 5:00 PM)
Fiction writing workshop, “Now There’s a Story” [PDF event flyer], part of the fall 2013 Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence Program, Baruch College of CUNY
Asriel and Marie Rackow Conference Room (Room 750), 151 East 25th Street, New York, NY 10010
David Mikics
Thursday, October 3, 7:00 PM
David Mikics in conversation with Mark Edmundson (author of Why Teach? In Defense of a Real Education), Book Court
163 Court Street (between Pacific & Dean), Brooklyn, NY 11201
Tuesday, October 29, 7:00 PM
Discussion and signing, Brazos Bookstore (also featuring Robert Zaretsky, author of A Life Worth Living: Albert Camus and the Quest for Meaning)
2421 Bissonnet Street, Houston, TX 77005
Steve Nadis and Shing-Tung Yau
A History in Sum: 150 Years of Mathematics at Harvard (1825–1975)
Wednesday, November 13, 7:00 PM
Speaking and signing, Harvard Coop
1400 Massachusetts Avenue (Harvard Square), Cambridge, MA 02138
Gregory Nagy
The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours
Saturday, October 19, 1:30–2:30 PM
Conversation with critic Chuck Klosterman and novelist Claire Messud, moderated by Homi Bhabha, Boston Book Festival
Copley Square, 560 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02116
Friday, November 15, 3:00 PM
Discussion and signing, Harvard Book Store
1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
Ben Urwand
The Collaboration: Hollywood’s Pact with Hitler
Wednesday, October 2, 7:30 PM
Discussion and signing, Cape Ann Community Cinema, part of the Doctoberfest Documentary Film Festival
21 Main Street, 2nd Floor, Gloucester, MA 01930
Thursday, October 10, 7:30–9:00 PM [Tickets]
Conversation with Jenna Weissman Joselit, part of the Hyman S. & Freda Bernstein Jewish Literary Festival
Washington DC Jewish Community Center (DCJCC), 1529 16th Street N.W., Washington, DC 20036
Tuesday, October 15, 7:30 PM
Lecture and signing, Free Library of Philadelphia
Central Library, 1901 Vine Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103
Wednesday, October 16, 7:00 PM
Lecture and signing, Holocaust & Human Rights Education Center
The Ursuline School Auditorium, 1354 North Avenue, New Rochelle, NY 10604
Thursday, October 17, 7:00 PM [Tickets]
Lecture and signing at the Museum of Tolerance, New York
Simon Wiesenthal Center, 226 East 42nd Street, New York, NY 10017
Friday, October 25, 3:00 PM
Speaking and signing at the Harvard Bookstore, co-sponsored by Facing History and Ourselves
1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
Monday, October 28, 7:00–8:15 PM
Reading, speaking, and signing at the Open Visions Forum, Quick Center for the Arts at Fairfield University
Kelley Theatre, 1073 N. Benson Road, Fairfield, CT 06824
Monday, November 4, 6:30 PM [Register]
U.K. launch event, Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide
29 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DP, United Kingdom
Wednesday, November 13, 7:30 PM [Tickets]
Lecture and signing, Marcus Jewish Community Center of Atlanta, part of the 22nd MJCCA Book Festival
MJCCA-Zaban Park, 5342 Tilly Mill Road, Dunwoody, GA 30338
Friday, November 22, 7:00 PM [Private Event]
Discussion and signing, Harvard Club of New York City
35 West 44th Street (between 5th Avenue and the Avenue of the Americas), New York, NY 10036
Wednesday, December 11, 12:00 PM
Lecture, signing, and film screening, National Archives
McGowan Theater, 700 Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC 20408
Thursday, December 12, 6:00 PM
Columbia University Seminar on Cinema (part of the Columbia University Seminars)
Columbia University Faculty House, 64 Morningside Drive, New York, NY 10027
Thursday, January 23, 2014, 7:00 PM
Conversation with Greil Marcus, followed by signing, Jewish Community Center of San Francisco
3200 California Street, San Francisco, CA 94118
Sunday, January 26, 2014, 4:00 PM
Lecture and signing, University of California, Riverside in partnership with Temple Isaiah of Palm Springs
Temple Isaiah, 332 West Alejo Road, Palm Springs, CA 92262
Robert Zaretsky
A Life Worth Living: Albert Camus and the Quest for Meaning
Tuesday, October 29, 7:00 PM
Discussion and signing, Brazos Bookstore (also featuring David Mikics, author of Slow Reading in a Hurried Age)
2421 Bissonnet Street, Houston, TX 77005
Sunday, December 15, 11:00 AM [Tickets]
Lecture and signing in celebration of the centenary of Albert Camus, 92nd Street Y
Weill Art Gallery, 1395 Lexington Avenue (Lexington Avenue at 92nd Street), New York, NY 10128


