University of Utah Press

Agha Shahid Ali Prize Reading
2024-11-14 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Denver) | Finch Lane Art Gallery, 54 Finch Lane, Salt Lake City, Utah, 84112
Guest Writers Series presents Sara Ellen Fowler, author of Two Signatures and Winner of Agha Shahid Ali Prize and Joan Naviyuk Kane, author of Ex Machina.

Western History Association (WHA)
2024-10-23 - 2024-10-26 | Kansas City, MO
The 64th Annual WHA Conference will be hosted at the Westin Kansas City at Crown Center from October 23-26 (Wednesday-Saturday). The 2024 conference will be held concurrently with the Southern Historical Association.
The 2024 WHA President is Kelly Lytle Hernández, a professor of History, African American Studies, and Urban Planning at UCLA where she holds The Thomas E. Lifka Endowed Chair in History and directs the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies. One of the nation’s leading experts on race, immigration, and mass incarceration, she is the author of Migra! A History of the U.S. Border Patrol (University of California Press, 2010), City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles (University of North Carolina Press, 2017), and the book Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands (Norton, 2022).

Stories from the Arches with Jeff Nichols
2024-10-18 16:00 - 17:00 (America/Denver) | Salt Lake City Public Library, 210 East 400 South, Salt Lake City, Utah, 84111
The extraordinary landscape of what we now call Arches National Park thrills millions of visitors every year. But people have also lived and worked in the area since long before it was a park. Jeff Nichols shares stories from the Arches, featured in the new anthology, The Arches Reader.

Gary E. Machlis on Sustainability for the Forgotten
2024-10-01 12:00 (America/Denver) | J. Willard Marriott Library, Gould Auditorium, 295 S 1500 E, Salt Lake City, Utah, 84112
Due to the hurricane Helene, we’ve regrettably had to cancel this event. We hope to be able to host Gary Machlis in the future. Please watch our webpage for further details. If you’d like to purchase the book, use the discount code MACHLIS25 for 25% off the book on our website: https://uofupress.com/books/sustainability-for-the-forgotten/
Questions? Contact Hannah.New@utah.edu. Thank you for your understanding.

Sustainability for the Forgotten is an incendiary book that confronts the history, policies, and practices of sustainability. It interrogates the usefulness of current sustainability approaches for the poorest of the poor, the chronic underclass, victims of natural disasters, refugees, the oppressed, and asks, how can we do better? With examples that range from the coffeelands of El Salvador to the coal country of American Appalachia, from the streets of Detroit to refugee camps in Greece and the upscale metro centers of the affluent, sustainability is examined with a critical eye and with an emphasis on insuring that the forgotten are heard.
Listen to Gary Machlis as he challenges the sustainability movement to follow “a just and necessary path” and provides a call to action that is ultimately hopeful.
Gary E. Machlis is University Professor of Environmental Sustainability at Clemson University. He is an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and member of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Roundtable on Science and Technology for Sustainability and its Board on Environmental Change and Society. He has written widely on issues of conservation, science policy, and sustainability.
Light refreshments will be served.

John Whitmer Historical Association (JWHA)
2024-09-12 - 2024-09-15 | St. George, UT
Join Acquisitions Editor Jedediah Rogers Sept 12-15 at the John Whitmer Historical Association’s annual conference in St. George, Utah Dixie Conference Center. More information to come.

The Book of Bauer Reading & Signing with Stephen Lottridge at Ken Sanders Rare Books
2024-08-24 18:00 - 20:00 (America/Denver) | Ken Sanders Rare Books, 209 East 500 South, Salt Lake City, Utah, 84111
Proudly presented by Ken Sanders Rare Books, The Utah Humanities Council, and The University of Utah Press.
Join us in welcoming Stephen S Lottridge for a discussion and signing of The Book of Bauer: Stories from a Forgotten Town.
Saturday, Aug. 24 | 6-8 PM
at Ken Sanders Rare Books
209 East 500 South
Salt Lake City, Utah
About Book of Bauer:
Graffiti-covered industrial concrete ruins are all that remain today to remind us of the lives, adventures, and human relationships that once animated Bauer, Utah. Located just south of Tooele, across the Oquirrh Mountains west of the Salt Lake Valley, Bauer was abandoned in 1979 and declared a toxic waste site. The Book of Bauer: Stories from a Forgotten Town brings it back to life, evoking mid-twentieth century family and community in that company town as seen through the eyes of an observant adolescent boy.
Presenting a dramatic snapshot of life in Bauer in narrative autobiographical form, the book recalls the fate of hundreds of derelict mining towns throughout the mountain and sagebrush West. With vivid prose and intimate observation, The Book of Bauer offers an unparalleled memoir of small-town life in Utah and the Great Basin.
About Stephen Lottridge:
Stephen S. Lottridge is the author of Three White Pelicans: Stories for Stephanie and Deirdre and The Old Bison: Threads from the Fabric of a Western Life. His award-winning play Gun Control was produced by Riot Act Inc. theater company. His poetry and essays have appeared in print journals, anthologies, and online.
Event is free, all ages, and open to the public.

Mormon History Association (MHA)
2024-06-13 - 2024-06-16 | Kirkland, OH
The 59th Annual Mormon History Association conference will take place on June 13-16, 2024 in Kirtland, Ohio. The theme, “Conversions, Aversion, and Reversion: Mormon Identity from Ohio to Utah,” invites scholars to think about the ways Restorationists constructed their identity in their interaction with people, ideas, time, and space.

A Conversation on Mormon Biographies
2024-06-05 18:30 - 20:00 (America/Denver) | Online
Celebrate 75 years of publishing with the University of Utah Press with a conversation on Mormon biographies. Join Stephen Taysom, Gregory A. Prince, Lindsay Hansen Park, and Richard Saunders with Jedediah Rogers as they discuss their approaches to biography and contributions to Mormon studies.
Biography is a popular genre among the general public. The study of human lives is also essential to the study of history, as it uses individuals as a lens to examine historical questions or themes. Good biography reveals intimate connections between people, communities, and events sometimes missing in traditional works of history.
Prominent biographers of the Mormon experience will join a lively conversation to reflect on their own work and the craft of biography. The event promises to be a critical examination of the genre and a celebration of seminal biographies published by the University of Utah Press.

The Arches Reader Book Release and Signing with Jeffrey Nichols
2024-05-10 18:00 - 20:00 (America/Denver) | Ken Sanders Rare Books, 209 East 500 South, Salt Lake City, Utah, 84111
Ken Sanders Rare Books will host Jeffrey Nichols for a discussion and signing of his new book The Arches Reader. Ken Sanders will read his contribution to the book. Discussion will be followed by an audience Q&A and book signing.
Geology is the star attraction in many national parks, but Arches National Park reveals erosional wonders like no other place on earth. There’s something thrilling and slightly unsettling about a massive rock with a hole in its middle or a ribbon of stone flung like a spider’s thread from one rock face to another. And there’s nothing quite like a view of blue sky or snow-capped mountains framed by stone. So many stony holes of so many shapes and sizes abound here that people spend years hunting unrecorded arches, quarreling over measurements and categories, and dreaming up original names.
Part of the National Park Readers series, The Arches Reader is an anthology of writing about Arches National Park and the surrounding area. The selections range from creative nonfiction to short fiction to poetry to amateur versions of scientific reports; they are wide-ranging and have never before been collected in one place; several selections are previously unpublished. Photographs collected here include both historic black-and-white images and beautiful, full-color images of some of Arches’ most striking features. The Arches Reader is an essential companion for anyone who wants to better understand its unique natural and human past.
Dr. Jeff Nichols is a full-time professor at Westminster University. He specializes in politics and current events, nineteenth century American West, Gilded Age, Progressive Era, Prostitution in Salt Lake City, and Environmental history.
Reviews
“If you want to know Arches National Park, and you’ve read Edward Abbey’s Desert Solitaire, your next book needs to be The Arches Reader. Jeff Nichols is a historian, and he shows here his respect for fascinating original sources and excerpts long enough to capture their full-throated flavor. Many stories in Nichols’s anthology feature park rangers and their families who turn out to be the colorful opposite of faceless bureaucrats. Arches sits on the bank of the Colorado River just outside Moab, and so this collection extends beyond the park to include uranium hunters, pilgrim poets, cranky environmentalists, and early outfitters. Nichols uses Arches as a springboard into Colorado Plateau environmental history and rural Utah culture. It’s a worthy plunge into vastly enjoyable territory.”
– Stephen Trimble, editor of The Capitol Reef Reader and Red Rock Stories
“Arches’ story is unique, tied so closely as it is to the fate of its adjacent community. I’m not sure that any other park can tell quite the same story of an explosion in popularity and a community’s attendant ambivalence. And its sometimes despair.”
-Jen Jackson Quintano, author of Blow Sand in His Soul: Bates Wilson, the Heart of Canyonlands
More about The Arches Reader can be found at:
https://uofupress.com/books/the-arches-reader/
Inquiries can be directed to:
Hattie MacLeod (Ken Sanders Rare Books) – hattie@kensandersbooks.com
Hannah New (University of Utah Press) – hannah.new@utah.edu
Jeff Nichols Ph.D – jnichols@westminsteru.edu

Rocky Mountain Anthropological Conference (RMAC)
2024-05-02 - 2024-05-05 | Laramie, WY
Biennially since 1993, the Rocky Mountain Anthropological Association has brought together anthropologists and researchers in allied fields whose work focuses on the Rocky Mountains of North America in the United States and
Canada. The purpose of these gatherings is to provide attendees a forum for discussing common issues and problems, comparing data, and sharing information and insights about this vast, varied, and fascinating region.

Society for American Archaeology (SAA)
2024-04-17 - 2024-04-21 | New Orleans, LA
The SAA Annual Meeting is the largest gathering of archaeologists of the Americas, and it offers unparalleled networking opportunities in its exhibit hall, excursions, and receptions and career-development opportunities.
The meeting has a wide audience that ranges from anyone who has interest in archaeology to experts in the field. Attendees come from all over the United States and from over 45 countries! With a wide variety of presentations and events, attendees are able to learn something new, meet new contacts, and reconnect with old friends.

National Council on Public History with the Utah Historical Society (NCPH UHS)
2024-04-10 - 2024-04-13 | Salt Lake City, UT
Historical Agency: Putting History to Work in the World

American Society for Environmental History (ASEH)
2024-04-03 - 2024-04-07 | Denver, CO
The American Society for Environmental History conference will explore the roles of extractivism and speculation in changing climates of many kinds, with attention to the diverse valences of these categories: from histories of industrial speculation about and extraction of fossil fuels; to extraction of wealth to colonial metropoles; to the role of history in speculation about our environmental futures; to extraction of environmental knowledge from Black, Indigenous, and other communities of color.

Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies (RMCLAS)
2024-03-13 - 2024-03-16 | Salt Lake City, UT
The RMCLAS Annual Conference provides an opportunity for scholars and graduate students to share original research on Latin America.

Society for California Archaeology (SCA)
2024-03-07 - 2024-03-10 | Riverside, CA
Considering Cultural Landscapes: The SCA Annual Meetings provide a venue and platform for more open communication between academic, agency, and cultural resource management archaeologists as well as the Native American community.

Public Lands Alliance (PLA)
2024-03-04 - 2024-03-07 | San Francisco, CA
The Public Lands Alliance Convention and Trade Show brings together nonprofits, land management agencies, and companies to learn, network, and engage on public lands issues.

New site launch!
2023-11-01 | Utah

Western History Association (WHA)
2023-10-25 08:00 - 2023-10-28 17:00 UTC | The Westin Bonaventure, 404 S Figueroa St, Los Angeles, CA, 90071, United States

Society for the Scientific Study of Religion + Religious Research Association (SSSR + RRA)
2023-10-20 08:00 - 2023-10-22 17:00 UTC | Marriott Salt Lake Downtown City Creek, 75 S W Temple St, Salt Lake City, UT, 84101, United States
Join us for the SSSR+RRA 2023 Annual Meeting, held at the Marriott Salt Lake Downtown City Creek in Salt Lake City, Utah on October 20-22, 2023.
The annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion provides scholars from across the social and behavioral sciences the opportunity to present their research, network with other scholars, meet with acquisitions editors from major publishing houses, and become familiar with current research. Each year SSSR meets jointly with the Religious Research Association (RRA) in late October or early November. A typical annual meeting includes three plenary sessions, several receptions, and approximately 450 papers in 140 sessions over the course of three days.

Great Basin Anthropological Conference (GBAC)
2023-10-18 08:00 - 2023-10-21 17:00 UTC | Riverhouse, 3075 N Hwy 97, Bend, OR, United States
Join Us in Bend, Oregon for the 38th GBAC
OCTOBER 18-21, 2023

PECOS Conference
2023-08-10 08:00 - 2023-08-13 17:00 UTC | Coconino Hotshot Camp, Flagstaff, AZ, United States
The 2023 Pecos Conference is hosted by The Museum of Northern Arizona and the USDA Coconino National Forest.
