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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W. Jeffrey Bolster

The Mortal Sea: Fishing the Atlantic in the Age of Sail

Tuesday, July 2, 2:00–4:00 PM

Event at the Mystic Seaport Museum Bookstore

75 Greenmanville Avenue, Mystic, CT 06355

Wednesday, July 3, 4:00–6:00 PM

Event at the Mystic Seaport Museum Bookstore

75 Greenmanville Avenue, Mystic, CT 06355

Richard Breitman and Allan J. Lichtman

FDR and the Jews

Friday, May 24, 4:00 PM

Discussion and signing featuring Richard Breitman and Allan Lichtman, Politics & Prose Bookstore

5015 Connecticut Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC 20008

Friday, November 8, 2:00 PM

Discussion and signing featuring Allan Lichtman, 92nd Street Y (Uptown)

1395 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10128

Sunday, November 10, Time TBD

Event featuring Richard Breitman, Detroit Jewish Book Fair

Location TBD, Detroit, MI

November 17–24, 2013, Date and Time TBD

Event featuring Richard Breitman, Miami Book Fair International

Miami-Dade College—Wolfson Campus, 300 N.E. Second Avenue, Miami, FL 33132

Timothy Brook

The Troubled Empire: China in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties (History of Imperial China, Volume V)

Friday, May 31, 1:00 PM [Tickets]

Talk and signing, Hay Festival of Literature and the Arts

Dairy Meadows, Brecon Road, Hay-on-Wye HR3 5PJ, United Kingdom

Edward H. Burtt, Jr. and William E. Davis, Jr.

Alexander Wilson: The Scot Who Founded American Ornithology

Tuesday, June 11, Time TBD

Edward Burtt to attend an opening reception for an exhibition on Wilson at the Paisley Museum

High Street, Paisley PA1 2BA, Renfrewshire, Scotland, United Kingdom

Wednesday, June 12–Thursday, June 13, Dates and Times TBD

Edward Burtt to speak at the Glasgow Summer Science Festival, Glasgow University

Location TBD

Sherman Cochran and Andrew Hsieh

The Lius of Shanghai

Wednesday, May 29, 6:00 PM

Discussion and signing with Sherman Cochran, Portland State University

Smith Memorial Student Union, Room 238, 1825 S.W. Broadway, Portland, OR 97201

Robert Crawford

On Glasgow and Edinburgh

Monday, August 19, 8:30 PM

Talk at the Edinburgh International Book Festival

Charlotte Square, Edinburgh EH2 4DR, Scotland, United Kingdom

Ralph Waldo Emerson, edited by Ronald A. Bosco and Joel Myerson, with notes by Glen M. Johnson

Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friday May 24, 5:30–7:00 PM

Reception celebrating the final volume of Emerson’s Collected Works, sponsored by the Ralph Waldo Emerson Memorial Association, Harvard University Press, and the Houghton Library

Edison and Newman Room, Houghton Library, Harvard Yard (facing Quincy Street between Widener and Lamont libraries), Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138