PSU Press Presents is a monthly virtual event series featuring authors of new and recent books in conversation with each other. Topics will reflect the wide range of subjects published by the Press, including history, rhetoric, literature, animal studies, graphic studies, nature, medieval studies, and much more.
Attendance for all PSU Press Presents events is free, but please register in advance to receive the event link. Events will take place on Zoom and will be concurrently broadcast to Facebook Live.
More monthly events will be added often, so please check back! To be notified via email, sign up here and choose PSU Press Virtual Events.
Upcoming events:
Women & Art Practice
Friday, January 29th @ 4pm EST
Guests:
- Babette Bohn, author of Women Artists, Their Patrons, and Their Publics in Early Modern Bologna
- Megan Brandow-Faller, author of The Female Secession: Art and the Decorative at the Viennese Women’s Academy
- Jessica Gerschultz, author of Decorative Arts of the Tunisian École: Fabrications of Modernism, Gender, and Power
- Rebecca VanDiver, author of Designing a New Tradition: Loïs Mailou Jones and the Aesthetics of Blackness
Moderated by , PSU Press Executive Editor
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Africana Religions
Friday, February 19th @ 4pm EST
Guests:
- Danielle N. Boaz, author of Banning Black Gods: Law and Religions of the African Disapora
- Michael Muhammad Knight, author of Metaphysical Africa: Truth and Blackness in the Ansaru Allah Community
- Oludamini Ogunnaike, author of Deep Knowledge: Ways of Knowing in Sufism and Ifa, Two West African Intellectual Traditions
- Adriaan van Klinken, author of Kenyan, Christian, Queer: Religion, LGBT Activism, and Arts of Resistance in Africa
Moderated by Sylvester A. Johnson, Africana Religions series editor
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New Books in Assyriology from Eisenbrauns
Friday, March 5th @ 1pm EST
Guests:
- Elena Devecchi, author of Middle Babylonian Texts in the Cornell Collections, Part 2
- Grant Frame, author of The Royal Inscriptions of Sargon II, King of Assyria (721–705 BC)
- Gina Konstantopoulos and Shana Zaia, editors of the forthcoming volume As Above, So Below: Religion and Geography (RAI)
- Frauke Weiershäuser and Jamie Novotny, authors of The Royal Inscriptions of Amēl-Marduk (561–560 BC), Neriglissar (559–556 BC), and Nabonidus (555–539 BC), Kings of Babylon
Moderated by , Eisenbrauns Acquisitions Editor
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Magic in History
Friday, April 30 @ 4pm EST
Guests:
- Michael D. Bailey, author of Origins of the Witches’ Sabbath
- Allegra Iafrate, author of The Long Life of Magical Objects: A Study in the Solomonic Tradition
- Frank Klaassen and Sharon Hubbs Wright, coauthors of The Magic of Rogues: Necromancers in Early Tudor England
- Marla Segol, author of the forthcoming book Kabbalah and Sex Magic: A Mythical-Ritual Genealogy
Moderated by Claire Fanger, author of Rewriting Magic: An Exegesis of the Visionary Autobiography of a Fourteenth-Century French Monk.
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Past Events
New Books in Archaeology from Eisenbrauns
Wednesday, November 11th @ 1pm EST
Guests:
- Suzanne Richard, editor of New Horizons in the Study of the Early Bronze III and Early Bronze IV of the Levant
- Bezalel Porten, coauthor of Textbook of Aramaic Ostraca from Idumea
- Daniel M. Master, coauthor of Ashkelon 7: The Iron Age I
Moderated by , Eisenbrauns Acquisitions Editor
See the presentation here
New Books on Biblical and Akkadian Literature from Eisenbrauns
Thursday, November 12th @ 4pm EST
Guests:
- Phyllis A. Bird, author of Harlot or Holy Woman?
- Mary L. Conway, author of Judging the Judges
- Alan Lenzi, author of An Introduction to Akkadian Literature
- Philip Zhakevich, author of Scribal Tools in Ancient Israel
Moderated by , Eisenbrauns Acquisitions Editor
See the presentation here
Rhetoric in America: Then & Now
Thursday, October 22nd @ 7pm EST
Guests:
- Stephen Howard Browne, author of The First Inauguration: George Washington and the Invention of the Republic
- William Keith and Robert Danisch, authors of Beyond Civility: The Competing Obligations of Citizenship
- Lisa A. Flores, author of Deportable and Disposable: Public Rhetoric and the Making of the “Illegal” Immigrant
Moderated by , PSU Press Acquisitions Editor
See the presentation here
Medieval & Early Modern Women in Politics & Power
Friday, September 25th @ 7pm
Guests:
- Tracy Adams and Christine Adams, authors of The Creation of the French Royal Mistress: From Agnès Sorel to Madame Du Barry
- Silvia Z. Mitchell, author of Queen, Mother, and Stateswoman: Mariana of Austria and the Government of Spain
- Mariah Proctor-Tiffany, author of Medieval Art in Motion: The Inventory and Gift Giving of Queen Clémence de Hongrie
- Gail Orgelfinger, author of Joan of Arc in the English Imagination, 1429–1829
Moderated by , PSU Press Executive Editor
See the presentation here
Animals & the Anthropocene
Friday August 28th @ 4pm
Guests:
- Marcus Baynes-Rock, author of Crocodile Undone: The Domestication of Australia’s Fauna
- Louise Green, author of Fragments from the History of Loss: The Nature Industry and the Postcolony
- Susan McHugh, author of Love in a Time of Slaughters: Human-Animal Stories Against Genocide and Extinction
- Deborah Nadal, author of Rabies in the Streets: Interspecies Camaraderie in Urban India
Moderated by Nigel Rothfels, general editor of the series >Animalibus: Of Animals and Cultures
See the presentation here
Pennsylvania Stories: Community & Activism in the Keystone State
Thursday, July 30th @ 4pm EST
Guests:
- William Burton and Barry Loveland, authors of Out in Central Pennsylvania: The History of an LGBTQ Community
- Robert P. Wolensky, editor of Sewn in Coal Country: An Oral History of the Ladies’ Garment Industry in Northeastern Pennsylvania, 1945–1995
- Dennis B. Downey and James W. Conroy, editors of Pennhurst and the Struggle for Disability Rights
Moderated by , PSU Press Acquisitions Editor
See the presentation here
New Books in Early American Studies
Friday, June 19th @ 1pm EST
Guests:
- Alexander Ames, author of The Word in the Wilderness: Popular Piety and the Manuscript Arts in Early Pennsylvania
- Wendy Bellion, author of Iconoclasm in New York: Revolution to Reenactment
- Cecile Fromont, editor of Afro-Catholic Festivals in the Americas: Performance, Representation, and the Making of Black Atlantic Tradition
- Bethany Wiggin, editor of Babel of the Atlantic
Moderated by , PSU Press Acquisitions Editor
See the presentation here
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