University of California Press Blog» Events http://www.ucpress.edu/blog Blog Tue, 30 Apr 2013 20:48:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 Summoning Ghosts: The Art of Hung Liu Now at the Oakland Museum http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/15605/summoning-ghosts-the-art-of-hung-liu-now-at-the-oakland-museum/ http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/15605/summoning-ghosts-the-art-of-hung-liu-now-at-the-oakland-museum/#comments Tue, 02 Apr 2013 18:28:10 +0000 ssilverman http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/?p=15605 The exhibition Summoning Ghosts: The Art of Hung Liu, on display at the Oakland Museum through June 30, is the first comprehensive survey of the artwork of pioneering Chinese-American artist Hung Liu. The exhibition explores the evolution of Liu’s artistic practice, and investigates the complex interactions between individual memory and history, and documentary evidence and artistic [more...]]]> http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/15605/summoning-ghosts-the-art-of-hung-liu-now-at-the-oakland-museum/feed/ 0 Happy International Tempranillo Day http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/15324/happy-international-tempranillo-day/ http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/15324/happy-international-tempranillo-day/#comments Thu, 08 Nov 2012 21:03:08 +0000 ssilverman http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/?p=15324 Not that you need an excuse to tuck into a great bottle of Tempranillo, but we’re giving you one anyway! Today is International Tempranillo Day, a celebration of the Tempranillo grape with all its regional synonyms. TAPAS, the Tempranillo Advocates Producers and Amigos Society, has organized this day and is encouraging everyone to open a [more...]]]> http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/15324/happy-international-tempranillo-day/feed/ 0 Litquake 2012 Offers a Bounty of UC Press Authors http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/15240/litquake-2012-offers-a-bounty-of-uc-press-authors/ http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/15240/litquake-2012-offers-a-bounty-of-uc-press-authors/#comments Mon, 08 Oct 2012 21:19:38 +0000 ssilverman http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/?p=15240 At this year’s Litquake Festival, a series of literary events in the Bay Area through October 13 (most of them free), you won’t be able to throw a stone without hitting a UC Press author. Below is a full schedule of events featuring our authors (names in bold). You can find out more at the [more...]]]> http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/15240/litquake-2012-offers-a-bounty-of-uc-press-authors/feed/ 0 Thursday, October 4: The Best Book Deal in Berkeley http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/15230/thursday-october-4-the-best-book-deal-in-berkeley/ http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/15230/thursday-october-4-the-best-book-deal-in-berkeley/#comments Fri, 21 Sep 2012 00:05:42 +0000 ssilverman http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/?p=15230 Mark your calendars, because the annual UC Press Hurt Book Sale is approaching! We’ll be on the front steps of 2120 Berkeley Way all day on October 4 selling lightly dinged and scratched UC Press titles—books with “character,” as we call them.

You can pick up $40 hardcovers like State of Mind: New California Art circa 1970 for [more...]]]> http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/15230/thursday-october-4-the-best-book-deal-in-berkeley/feed/ 0 From Ghost World to Your World: Boom interviews graphic novelist Daniel Clowes http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/15193/from-ghost-world-to-your-world-boom-interviews-graphic-novelist-daniel-clowes/ http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/15193/from-ghost-world-to-your-world-boom-interviews-graphic-novelist-daniel-clowes/#comments Wed, 08 Aug 2012 23:06:04 +0000 ssilverman http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/?p=15193 The latest issue of our journal Boom: A Journal of California (visit Boom’s web site), published this week, features an exclusive interview with Oakland artist and graphic novelist Daniel Clowes.

Clowes launched his career with the comic series Lloyd Llewellyn, about the adventures of a private detective, then went on to create the comic series Eightball, [more...]]]> http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/15193/from-ghost-world-to-your-world-boom-interviews-graphic-novelist-daniel-clowes/feed/ 0 Hurt books, Our Hidden Tragedy http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/13800/hurt-books-our-hidden-tragedy/ http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/13800/hurt-books-our-hidden-tragedy/#comments Thu, 22 Sep 2011 20:28:58 +0000 ssilverman http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/?p=13800 Every day, innocent books, books that wanted nothing more than to spread knowledge, each like a little paper Prometheus, get hurt. And when that happens, often these books fall between the cracks and end up in hurt book bins, unread, unloved, fearing being turned to pulp.

Will you help us bring these injured tomes a better [more...]]]> http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/13800/hurt-books-our-hidden-tragedy/feed/ 0 David Deamer Explores Life’s Origins at Google http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/13670/david-deamer-explores-lifes-origins-at-google/ http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/13670/david-deamer-explores-lifes-origins-at-google/#comments Thu, 30 Jun 2011 23:57:03 +0000 ssilverman http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/?p=13670 Last week, UC Press author David Deamer spoke about his book First Life: Discovering the Connections between Stars, Cells, and How Life Began as part of Google’s forum for authors, Authors@Google. Deamer is a Research Professor in the Department of Biomolecular Engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

First Life explores how life can [more...]]]> http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/13670/david-deamer-explores-lifes-origins-at-google/feed/ 1 Center for the Art of Translation Hosts Fanny Howe in San Francisco http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/13619/center-for-the-art-of-translation-hosts-fanny-howe-in-san-francisco/ http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/13619/center-for-the-art-of-translation-hosts-fanny-howe-in-san-francisco/#comments Fri, 10 Jun 2011 21:41:08 +0000 ssilverman http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/?p=13619

On Tuesday, June 14, the Center for the Art of Translation will host leading American poet Fanny Howe at 111 Minna St. Gallery at 12:30 pm for the final Two Voices event of the season. She’ll discuss A Wall of Two:Poems of Resistance and Suffering from Kraków to Buchenwald and Beyond, which she translated and [more...]]]> http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/13619/center-for-the-art-of-translation-hosts-fanny-howe-in-san-francisco/feed/ 0 April is Poetry Month http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/13169/april-is-poetry-month/ http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/13169/april-is-poetry-month/#comments Wed, 06 Apr 2011 18:44:50 +0000 ssilverman http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/?p=13169 Establishing National Poetry Month in April, which T.S. Eliot famously deemed “the cruelest month,” might seem a little misguided. But on closer look, the Academy of American Poets may be on to something. For Eliot, April is the month that stirs up all the emotions that have lain dormant in winter, “mixing/ Memory and desire.” [more...]]]> http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/13169/april-is-poetry-month/feed/ 0 How Climate Change Damages Our Health http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/13153/how-climate-change-damages-our-health/ http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/13153/how-climate-change-damages-our-health/#comments Tue, 05 Apr 2011 22:21:53 +0000 ssilverman http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/?p=13153 One of our most anticipated titles for Spring, Changing Planet, Changing Health is an eye-opening book that looks at the ways climate change is altering patterns of disease. It’s scary—and pressing—stuff. Before reading this book, I had no idea that since 1976, the planet has given rise to 40 new diseases. Or that every year, [more...]]]> http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/13153/how-climate-change-damages-our-health/feed/ 2