University of Utah Press

Society for American Archaeology (SAA) Annual Meeting
2025-04-23 - 2025-04-27 | Denver, CO
The 90th Annual Meeting will be held April 23–April 27, 2025, in Denver, Colorado.
The program is composed of general sessions, symposia, forums, lightning rounds, posters, and workshops. 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.

Tales of a Mud Brick City
2025-04-03 09:30 - 11:00 (America/Denver) | U of U Continuing Education Building, 540 Arapeen Dr., Salt Lake City, UT, 84108, United States
Pioneer homes in western North America are often assumed to have been log cabins. Not so in Salt Lake City! Near the Great Salt Lake, on level land to be used for farming, trees were in short supply. But mud, which a few pioneers knew could be made into bricks, was easy to find on the wet land near the Great Salt Lake. So the pioneers of every rank made bricks, made homes, and made history with adobe.
Instructor: Laurie Bryant. This is a single-day class.

The Last Miner hosted by The King's English Bookshop
2025-04-01 18:30 - 20:30 (America/Denver) | The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 South 1500 East, Salt Lake City, Utah, 84105
Join local author, Dick Fluehe, for a discussion and signing of his memoir, The Last Miner.
This event is $5 and open to the public. All proceeds go to the literary non-profit, Brain Food Books.
Copies of the book will be available to purchase at the event. You may also pre-order your signed copy of The Last Miner to pick up at the event by either calling the store at 801-484-9100 or ordering online. If you cannot make this event, signed copies of The Last Miner may be ordered from our website. Please specify in the comments if you would like your copy personalized. Places in the signing line are reserved for those who purchase a copy from The King’s English.
About the Book:
Explore Utah’s legendary lost and hidden silver mines with the last miner The Last Miner is a captivating memoir chronicling the final days of mining exploration in Utah’s legendary Little Cottonwood Canyon during the 1950s. Through the eyes of Dick Fluehe, the last living miner to traverse these haunted, silver-laden tunnels, readers are immersed in a forgotten world beneath the internationally renowned Alta and Snowbird ski areas. With a knowledge as deep as the mines themselves, Dick recounts tales of collapsed shafts, gloriously jeweled stopes, and colorful personalities, such as “Swingin’ Door,” “Slick,” and “The Bull,” who lived and died pursuing ore. Edited by New York Times bestselling author Dan Schilling, The Last Miner offers a unique, firsthand account of the treacherous, adventurous, and humorous lives of mid-century miners. Both thrilling and insightful, this memoir is the mining equivalent of a float down the Mississippi with Mark Twain and an unprecedented insight into the history of American West mining.

Amy Tanner Thiriot - Slavery in Zion
2025-03-13 11:00 - 14:00 (America/Denver) | Joseph F. Smith Building (BYU), 1100 Campus Drive, Provo, UT, 84604, United States
B192 JFSB (Education in Zion Auditorium)

Facing Limits In the American West: A community Discussion on Past, Present, and Future Directions
2025-02-28 10:00 - 12:00 (America/Denver) | Merrill-Cazier Library, 3000 Old Main Hill, Logan, Utah, 84321
A new collection of essays, A Watershed Moment, reveals tensions between a culture of economic growth and personal freedom and the ecological, economic, and social constraints set by community values and the land itself. As Western communities come up against these limits, chapter authors highlight issues of sustainability endemic to the region and to the nation as a whole. Join us to hear from authors and discuss critical social-environmental issues in the West.
Panelists:
Robert Frodeman, Environmental Philosopher
Regina Lopez-Whiteskunk, Montezuma Land Conservancy
Kekek Jason Stark, Director of the Margery Hunter Brown Indian Law Clinic
Luther Probst, Teton County, Wyoming County Commissioner
Paul Rogers, Director of Western Aspen Alliance
Sponsored by: Department of Environment & Society, Community and Natural Resources Institute. Western Aspen Alliance, Native American Cultural Center, and Quinney College of Natural Resources.
A Watershed Moment edited by Robert Frodeman, Evelyn Brister, and Luther Propst

PLA's Annual Convention and Trade Show
2025-02-02 - 2025-02-06 | Westgate Las Vegas, 3000 Paradise Rd, Las Vegas, NV, 89109, United States
The annual Convention and Trade Show (PLA) is the premier gathering for leaders in the public lands sector to network, gain essential tools, and explore products that enhance the visitor experience and support conservation, preservation, and enrichment efforts.

Faith and the Fight: France Davis
2025-01-23 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Denver) | J. Willard Marriott Library, Gould Auditorium, 295 S 1500 E, Salt Lake City, Utah, 84112
One of the most foundational roles that civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. served in was as a religious leader. He first served as pastor at the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama and then later became co-pastor, along with his father, of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia.

In addition to being a center of worship, what has been the role in the Black Church in the fight for equal rights? Does the Black Church of today serve as a space for inspiring and mobilizing its members?

In celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s tireless work, please join us for a discussion, led by Pastor Emeritus France Davis (retired from Calvary Baptist Church in Salt Lake City), and including pastors from several Black Churches along the Wasatch Front.

Moderator:

Pastor Emeritus France Davis
(retired from Calvary Baptist Church, Salt Lake City)

Panelists:

Pastor Vada Southern,
Pastor at Embry Chapel, A.M.E., Ogden

Pastor Bobby Allen, Jr.,
Pastor at Griffin Memorial Church of God in Christ, Ogden

Bishop Bobby Allen,
Jurisdiction Bishop of the Churches of God in Christ for Utah And Pastor of the Kingdom Church of God in Christ, Salt Lake City

Pastor Charles Petty,
Pastor of the Second Baptist Church, Ogden

Steven Simms - First Peoples of Great Salt Lake
2025-01-23 11:00 (America/Denver) | Joseph F. Smith Building (BYU), 1100 Campus Drive, Provo, UT, 84604, United States
Steven Simms (Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, Utah State University)
First Peoples of Great Salt Lake: A Cultural Landscape from Nevada to Wyoming
B192 JFSB Education in Zion Auditorium

Betsy Howell - Wild Forest Home: Stories of Conservation in the Pacific Northwest
2024-11-24 17:00 - 18:00 (America/Denver) | Village Books and Paper Dreams, 1200 11th St, Bellingham, WA, 98225, United States
Join Village Books and North Cascades Institute in the last Nature of Writing event of 2024 with Betsy Howell as talks about her new book Wild Forest Home: Stories of Conservation in the Pacific Northwest!
Growing up in the Pacific Northwest, Betsy Howell spent her childhood exploring and thriving in old-growth coniferous forests. In the summer of 1986, she volunteered in Mt. Hood National Forest, surveying northern spotted owls. That position turned into three decades as a wildlife biologist with the U.S. Forest Service agency.
Betsy L. Howell is a writer and wildlife biologist living on Washington State’s Olympic Peninsula. She has worked as a biologist since 1986 and earned her bachelor’s degree in wildlife management at Washington State University. She began writing in 1998 and has published articles on natural history and travel in American Forests, Earth Island Journal, The Wildlife Professional, South Loop Review, Clackamas Literary Review, Apple Valley Review, 1859 Oregon’s Magazine, and Prairie Fire. Her two previous books are Acoustic Shadows, Men at War and a Daughter Who Remembers Them, a memoir about her father and great-great-grandfather and their lives as soldiers; and The Marvelous Orange Tree, A Novel of the Civil War, a story chronicling the life and war experiences of a woman soldier from the time. She is a member of The Wildlife Society, Partners in Amphibian and Reptile Conservation, the Martes Working Group, and the Author’s Guild.

A Wallace Stegner Center Green Bag
2024-11-21 12:15 - 13:30 (America/Denver) | S.J. Quinney College of Law and Virtual Event
The American West has long been seen as a place of rugged landscapes presenting endless opportunities. But the land is more fragile and resources more finite than popular perceptions admit.
We are presenting a volume of essays, A Watershed Moment, that explores tensions between a culture of economic growth and personal freedom and the ecological, economic, and social constraints set by community values and the land itself. The book examines practical approaches to land use, land management, and community planning rooted in philosophical views on justice, quality of life, and sustainability in the American West. The result is a compelling vision of place-based, policy-oriented sustainability across the West.
Our presentations focus on what the management of water resources demonstrates about how communities and environmental systems are dealing with the implications of growth, development, and climate change

Jody Olsen: Hope, Purpose, and Service in Times of Change
2024-11-19 12:00 (America/Denver) | Hinkley Caucus Room, 260 Central Campus Dr, Salt Lake City, UT, 84112, United States
Jody Olsen, author of A Million Miles: My Peace Corp Journey will be speaking at the Hinckley Institute Forum on Hope, Purpose, and Service in Times of Change.

Dr. Josephine (Jody) Olsen, PhD, served as the 20th Director of the Peace Corps between March, 2018 – January, 2021. With the beginning of the global COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Olsen made the unprecedented decision to evacuate all 7,000 Peace Corps Volunteers and bring them safely back to the United States. Dr. Olsen then led the development of a comprehensive re-entry plan for Volunteers to return to service and expanded what it means to serve, launching the Virtual Service Pilot Program. She also championed global women’s economic empowerment, opened a new country, Viet Nam, and re-opened three countries in which Peace Corps had previously served.Dr. Olsen began her career as a Peace Corps Volunteer, serving in Tunisia from 196601968. She has also served the agency as Acting Director (2009), Deputy Director (2002-2009), Chief of Staff (1989-1992), Regional Director (1981-1984), and Country Director (1979-1981).
Prior to returning to the Peace Corps in 2018, Dr. Olsen was Visiting Professor at the University of Maryland-Baltimore School of Social Work and Director of the University’s Center for Global Education. In this capacity she developed and directed inter-professional global health projects for health graduate students, oversaw health research projects in Malawi, and taught international social work, global social policy, and global health.
Dr. Olsen received a BS from the University of Utah, and a Master’s in Social Work and a PhD in Human Development from the University of Maryland.
Throughout her career, Dr. Olsen has championed the expansion of service, learning and international opportunities for Americans of all backgrounds.

Cosponsored by:

The University of Utah Press
The Tanner Center for Human Rights
The Office of Global Engagement

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 | UT

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.
