Tucson now has one of the largest book festivals in the country, and SBS is proud that several our units and professors are involved. Here are some of the ways SBS is involved:
Center for Middle Eastern Studies
CMES will have a booth at the Tucson Festival of Books -- Booth #149 (Across the Old Chemistry Building)
Booksigning Schedule
Saturday, March 12
10-12pm - Deborah Durland DeSaix
The Grand Mosque of Paris: A story of how Muslims rescued Jews during the Holocaust
12-1:30pm - George Dardess and Peggy Rosenthal,
Reclaiming Beauty for the Good of the World: Muslim and Christian Creativity as Moral Power
2-4pm - Deborah Durland DeSaix
The Grand Mosque of Paris: A story of how Muslims rescued Jews during the Holocaust
Sunday, March 13
10-11:30am - Carine Bourget
The Star, the Cross, and the Crescent: Religious and conflicts in Francophone
Literature from the Arab World
11:30-1pm - Julia Clancy-Smith
Mediterraneans: North Africa and Europe in an Age of Migration, c. 1800-1900
1-3pm - Laila Halaby
West of the Jordan & Once in a Promised Land
3-4:30pm- Brian Silverstein
Islam and Modernity in Turkey
Communication
Communication Professors Kate Kenski and Kevin Coe will present “Obama, Politics and Religion,” which will be covered on C-SPAN.
Panel / Sun 4:00 PM - 05:00 PM
Student Union - Gallagher Theater
Gender and Women’s Studies
Judy Nolte Temple
Temple teaches at the University of Arizona in both Gender and Women's Studies and the English Department. She is the author of two books based on women's diaries and the editor of two volumes of essays on Southwestern literature and culture. Her most recent book is "Baby Doe Tabor: the Madwoman in the Cabin."
Creating Biography from Diaries and Letters
History/Biography/Memoir
Workshop / Sun 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Integrated Learning Center - Room 119
Eithne Luibhéid
Luibhéid is the director of the Institute for LGBT Studies and an associate professor of women’s studies at the University of Arizona. She is the author of "Entry Denied: Controlling Sexuality at the Border" and of articles and book chapters on immigration and sexualities.
Queer and Migrant Politics in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands and Beyond
Panel / Sat 1:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Student Union - Catalina Room
Journalism
Adjunct faculty members Tom Beal (Arizona Daily Star) and Jim Nintzel (Tucson Weekly) will be part of a panel discussion moderated by NPR’s Scott Simon titled “Bringing Meaning out of Meaninglessness: How Literature Can Respond to the January 8th Shootings.” It will take place March 12 at 10 a.m. in the Chemistry Building Room 111. Mike McKisson, adjunct instructor, will give a presentation about blogging at 11 a.m. March 13 at an event sponsored by University Communications on new media. McKisson is the publisher of TucsonVelo.com. Jay Rochlin will moderate a panel on “Dispatches from the Borderlands: Human Rights, Personal Stories” on the 12th at 2:30 p.m. in the Integrated Learning Center Room 137. Mort Rosenblum will discuss his latest book, Little Bunch of Madmen, on March 13 at 2:30 p.m. in the Koffler Building Room 216.
Linguistics
Ofelia Zepeda
Zepeda, Regents’ Professor at the University of Arizona, is a member of the Tohono O’odham Nation. Her three books of poetry are "Ocean Power: Poems from the Desert," "Jewed I-hoi/Earth Movements" and "Where Clouds are Formed." She is the series editor of Sun Tracks, publisher of American Indian writers.
Featured Poetry Reading: Valerie Martinez, Ofelia Zepeda
Panel / Sun 2:30 PM - 03:30 PM
Student Union - Kiva Room
Mexican American Studies
Lydia Otero
Otero’s works on claiming place, historic preservation and Mexican-American resistance have appeared as contributions to various anthologies. Her latest book is "La Calle: Spatial Conflicts and Urban Renewal in a Southwestern City." She is an associate professor at the University of Arizona.
Tierra y Voz: Arizona's Oral History
Panel / Sat 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Student Union - Tucson Room
School of Information Resources and Library Science
SIRLS will have a booth at the Tucson Festival of Books again this year. They will offer information about their programs and the chance to meet SIRLS authors (students, faculty, alumni who have written books, poetry, articles, etc). The booth will be staffed by students and alumni, who will answer questions and chat about their programs.
Jana Bradley
Bradley heads a research team looking at the changes in authoring, publishing, books and readers in the 21st century. She distills advice on reasons to (or not to) consider self-publishing, how to get started and what to expect.
Future of Publishing
Panel / Sun 4:00 PM - 05:00 PM
UA Bookstore
Southwest Institute for Research on Women (SIROW)
SIROW Researcher Corey Knox is for the second year a member of the Tucson Festival of Books Non-fiction/memoir Planning Committee. For the 2011 Festival of Books, she has created and organized two panels: 1) Becoming America: Immigration Memoir Through the Decades, featuring Governor Raul Castro, Ismael Beah, Dr. Paula Fass, and Martha (Chiquis) Barron and 2) Shout Out: Women of Color Speak to Violence, featuring Maria Ochoa, Barbara Inge and Janice Gould. In addition, Ishmael Beah will be presenting a solo presentation entitled, “Be the Moon: Stories of War and Hope”, on Saturday, March 12 at 1:00 PM. The Becoming America panel has been selected by CSPAN to be televised live!
SIROW Scholar Susan Cummins Miller will be presenting at two events during this year's festival.
Bio: Miller's Frankie MacFarlane, Geologist, mystery series includes "Death Assemblage," "Detachment Fault," "Quarry," "Hoodoo" and "Fracture."
Wild Science: Adventures in Crime Fiction
Panel / Sat 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Integrated Learning Center - Room 140
Writing the West: Crime Fiction
Panel / Sun 1:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Student Union - Tucson Room
Southwest Center
David Yetman
Dr. David Yetman is a speaker in the UA Alumni Authors Tent
Sunday, March 13, 2:45
"The Ópatas: In Search Of a Sonoran People"
In the early 1960s, while traveling in eastern Sonora, David Yetman learned of a people called the Ópatas. They had inhabited the area at the time of the arrival of Spaniards and, it turns out, were the largest indigenous group in what would come to be Sonora. Yet the Ópatas appear to have disappeared, while other indigenous Sonoran groups remain.
In "The Ópatas" Yetman traces the Ópatas' ethnohistory in an attempt to address their apparent disappearance as a people. In doing so, he describes the land where the Ópatas lived and pores into the archival history of eastern Sonora and the peoples and individuals that made the region what it is today.