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March 2025

March 29th, 2025 2:30pm - 4:00pm
A Conversation with Judith Barrington at Portland's Up Up Books

Judith Barrington will lead an informal conversation about short form and book-length literary memoirs at Up Up Books in Portland. Bring ideas, questions, and book recommendations. No writing involved.

This event is free. Please reserve your spot by registering online.

Up Up Books, 1211 SE Stark, Portland, OR 97214

April 2025

March 31st, 2025 7:00pm - 8:30pm
McMenamins and Oregon Historical Society Present History Pub: Punjabi Rebels of the Columbia River

Author Johanna Ogden presents her book Punjabi Rebels of the Columbia River: The Global Fight for Indian Independence and Citizenship, followed by Q&A.

Oregon is commonly perceived to have little, let alone notable, South Asian history. Yet in the early 1900s Oregon was at the center of two entwined quests for Indian independence and civic belonging that rocked the world. Punjabi Rebels of the Columbia River traces the stories of the radical Indian independence organization known as Ghadar and Bhagat Singh Thind's era-defining US Supreme Court citizenship case. Ghadar sought the overthrow of India's British colonizers while Thind utilized sanctioned legal channels to do so. Despite widely differing strategies, both the movement and the man were targeted, often in coordination, by the highest levels of the US and British governments. The empires' united message: India would not be an independent country and Indians could not be citizens.

In the decades that followed, it was a verdict Indians refused to abide Johanna Ogden's detailed history of migrants' experience expands the time frame, geographic boundaries, and knowledge of the conditions and contributions of Indians in North America. It is the story of a people's awakening amid a rich community of international workers in an age of nationalist uprisings. To understand why one of the smallest western Indian settlements became a resistance center, Punjabi Rebels mines the colonial underpinnings of labor, race, and place-making and their regional and global connections, rendering a history of whiteness and labor as much as of Indian-ness and migration. The first work to rejoin the lived experience of Thind and Ghadar activists, Punjabi Rebels complicates our understanding, not just of the global fight for Indian political rights, but of multi-racial democracy.

Tickets: $5 advance, $6 at the door. To purchase your ticket and learn more, visit mcmenamins.com.

McMenamins, Kennedy School, 5736 NE 33rd Ave. Portland, OR, 97211

April 2nd, 2025 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Readers' Books "Nature on the Edge" Book Talk with Bruce Byers's

Bruce Byers presents Nature on the Edge: Lessons for the Biosphere from the California Coast at Readers' Books in Sonoma, California.

In Nature on the Edge, ecologist Bruce Byers offers readers new perspectives on two iconic California coastal regions, San Francisco Bay and the Golden Gate and the Santa Barbara Channel Islands. While many people—in California and elsewhere—are familiar with these two areas, they may not know that they are part of a network of international biosphere reserves organized by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). Nature on the Edge traces the history of nature conservation in these places and introduces the committed individuals who led those efforts and model effective action.

Visit the Readers' Books website to order the book and learn more about this event.

Readers' Books, 130 E Napa Street, Sonoma, CA 95476

April 10th, 2025 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Chaucer's Books Welcomes Bruce Byers for Book Talk & Signing

Chaucer's Books hosts author Bruce A. Byers for a book talk and signing of his latest release Nature on the Edge: Lessons for the Biosphere from the California Coast.

In Nature on the Edge, ecologist Bruce Byers offers readers new perspectives on two iconic California coastal regions, San Francisco Bay and the Golden Gate and the Santa Barbara Channel Islands. While many people—in California and elsewhere—are familiar with these two areas, they may not know that they are part of a network of international biosphere reserves organized by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). Nature on the Edge traces the history of nature conservation in these places and introduces the committed individuals who led those efforts and model effective action.

Chaucer's Books, 3321 State Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93105

April 9th, 2025 4:00pm - April 12th, 2025 3:00pm
OSU Press Exhibiting at the 2025 American Society for Environmental History Conference

OSU Press is pleased to be attending the 2025 ASEH meeting in Pittsburgh. This year's theme, “Forging Environments: Confluence, Resilience, Intersectionality,” speaks directly to Pittsburgh’s past. Located where the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers form the Ohio, the city sits on lands historically stewarded by the Onödowá'ga:' (Seneca), saawanwa (Shawnee) and Lenape (Delaware) peoples. These nations intersected in an environment rich with natural resources at the gateway to the continent’s heartland. Later, the extraction of the area’s coal, timber, natural gas, and limestone by colonizers forged new landscapes. But the Steel City’s industrial might came at a significant environmental and human cost, necessitating remediation and mitigation strategies in the face of deindustrialization. Now a hub for technology and finance, the Greater Pittsburgh region stands as a monument to environmental resilience and renewal.

Visit our table at the meeting and tell us bout your latest book project while browsing our new titles. Be sure to ask us about this year's discount code to receive a 25% discount on featured titles. 

Visit the website for more information about the conference.

Omni William Penn Hotel, 530 William Penn, Pittsburgh, PA 15219

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