University of Illinois Press
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University of Illinois Press / Publisher of scholarly and regional trade books and journals since 1918
🤖 💬 Can chatbots make assertions, promises, and other speech acts? According to the most popular theory of artificial speech, the answer is “yes,” but only as a proxy—a stand-in for a human speaker or corporation. @loehrgui.bsky.social in APQ 63.3: scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/apq/arti...
Love it when attendees show up at my book store events sporting vintage #bloodshotrecords gear. This loon showed up in #kalamazoo a couple weeks back at the great This Is A Bookstore Bring it on! @illinoispress.bsky.social #chicagomusichistory #booksky📚 #authorevents
Don't miss Cleve Francis, author of the new memoir DO MY HEART GOOD (www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...), at the Grand Ole Opry: OPRY 100 on Friday, Sept 4 at 7pm CDT! www.opry.com/show/2026-09... #CleveFrancis #CleveFrancisMusic #YouDoMyHeartGood #BeyondTheWillowTree
In Journal of American Ethnic History 45.4, @colincrawford.bsky.social reviews "Catholics across Borders: Canadian Immigrants in the North Country, Plattsburgh, New York, 1850–1950" by Mark Paul Richard (@sunypress.bsky.social). cc: @iehs.bsky.social scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jaeh/art...
In Italica 102.4, Darren Kusar situates Matteo Noris's opera Il demone amante (1686), within a broader tradition of early modern staged exorcisms, as seen in Shakespeare and Cervantes, and explains how the libretto was censored in Venice at the time scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/ital/art...
In HPQ 43.1 @marioschaerli.bsky.social expounds A. G. Baumgarten's innovative account of contingent existents. Baumgarten's contribution consists in accounting for the difference between merely possible and actual beings in terms of determinacy. scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/hpq/arti...
After four years of collaboration and more than one hard pivot, I am delighted to say: it's almost here! @illinoispress.bsky.social @disability-history.bsky.social @ncph.bsky.social www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...
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Reviews in The Polish Review 71.2: 📗 @nyurtsaba.bsky.social on "The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story" by Olga Tokarczuk ( @riverheadbooks.bsky.social ) scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/tpr/arti...
Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education Nos. 247-248 DOUBLE ISSUE! Featuring @eeejones.bsky.social, @emmettoleary.bsky.social, @juliethess.bsky.social, Saleel Adarkar Menon @masongross.bsky.social, @nataliestroyston.bsky.social & more scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/bcrme/is...
NEW IN STOCK - Yvonne Tasker and Sadie Wearing analyze Craigie's oeuvre while delving into the filmmaker's use of the medium as the space for her distinctive feminist engagement with key cultural, social, and political questions. 📚️ buff.ly/jxhXyl1 @illinoispress.bsky.social
Für die Englisch-Lesenden unter euch: jeden Monat gibt es bei der University of Illinois ein kostenloses eBook, immer zu interessanten Themen. Zuletzt z. B. auch zu Migration von Europa in die USA ("Hidden Histories" von D. Battisti und S. D. Kang). #buchsky #buchliebe
University of Illinois Press@illinoispress.bsky.social · 4d agoGet your *free* e-book of TO ADVANCE THE RACE: Black Women's Higher Education from the Antebellum Era to the 1960s by Linda M. Perkins! mailchi.mp/illinois/fbd... #AfricanAmericanStudies #AmericanHistory #WomensStudies #Education #BlackAugust
Do you like history? Do you like free books? University of Illinois Press hands out free history! LIKE THIS! (which is amazing because university press books are usually expensive while also being rock solid sources) @illinoispress.bsky.social
Thanks muchly for the kind words. Hope the remaining chapters resonate as well. To others who feel like enriching their vacations w/ my @illinoispress.bsky.social book, I remain happy, for a small fee, to accompany you on your trip & read the book TO you. Especially if you're going to Sardinia.
Jim Watson@jimboses.bsky.social · 3d agoThe first 5 chapters absolutely spoke to me and how I found music that resonated with me in high school and was exposed to much more (in my case) in college. Zoomed through these first 5 on day 1 of vacation. Thank you @millerscave.bsky.social 🙏
Daniel Thomas reviews "The Battle of Maldon: A New Critical Edition" edited by Mark Griffith (@livunipress.bsky.social): "a singular service to scholarship." Check it out in Journal of English and Germanic Philology 125.2 @projectmuse.bsky.social. @ndiscenza1.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/pub/34/artic...
Black August is an annual commemoration to remember Black political prisoners, freedom struggles in the U.S. & beyond, & to highlight resistance against racial, colonial & imperialist oppression. Full list of titles in our Black studies collection: buff.ly/pqcAxLv
Get your *free* e-book of TO ADVANCE THE RACE: Black Women's Higher Education from the Antebellum Era to the 1960s by Linda M. Perkins! mailchi.mp/illinois/fbd... #AfricanAmericanStudies #AmericanHistory #WomensStudies #Education #BlackAugust
In American Philosophical Quarterly Vol. 63, No. 3, @nirfresco.bsky.social and Oron Shagrir claim that accounting for miscomputation—understood ontologically—is a challenge for norm-based accounts of computation. scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/apq/arti...
📣 Did you know there's an easy way to recommend your favorite journals to your local or institutional library? Just fill out our online form to let your library know about the journals you want to read! www.press.uillinois.edu/journals/sub...
Last chance to get your *free* e-book of DEMOCRACY’S REBIRTH: The View from Chicago by Dick Simpson! mailchi.mp/illinois/fb4... #America250 #Chicago #Politics #Democracy #AmericanHistory
Announcing History of Philosophy Quarterly Vol. 43, No. 1! Featuring four new articles by Massimo Reichlin (@unisr.bsky.social), Mario Schärli (@marioschaerli.bsky.social), Colin C. Smith, and Benedict Rumbold (@uonphilosophy.bsky.social). scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/hpq/issu...
Check out "Unnr and Auðr djúpúðga: On Language Change and Scribal Interpretation" by Haraldur Bernharðsson in Vol. 125, No. 2, of Journal of English and Germanic Philology on @projectmuse.bsky.social. cc: @ndiscenza1.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/pub/34/artic...
The Class Divide in Baseball @sethstannenbaum.bsky.social joins to discuss his new @illinoispress.bsky.social book on the history of baseball stadiums as spaces of democracy and division. open.spotify.com/episode/2idy...
In American Music 43.1-2 (a special issue on @projectmuse.bsky.social ), @dfosler.bsky.social and Stacy Hartman ( @acls1919.bsky.social ) explore how mentors and programs support graduate students in music programs. muse.jhu.edu/pub/34/artic...
📄 Check out "Problems in Social and Health Care Services of People with Dementia in Finland: Formal Rights and Lived Experiences of Access to Justice in a Welfare State" by @kgadd.bsky.social et al in Journal of Finnish Studies Vol. 28, No. 2. scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jfs/arti...
Did you know that field season for alpine fungi -- tiny mushrooms that index the advance of global climate change -- starts at the end of July & goes into August? Now you do. ALPINE MUSHROOMS OF NORTH AMERICA is now available for pre-order. www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...
In Journal of Mormon History 52.3, @jstuart.bsky.social reviews Brian Q. Cannon's "Building a Global Zion": "Indispensable for Mormon studies scholars and deeply rewarding for Latter-day Saint readers." Review on @projectmuse.bsky.social: muse.jhu.edu/pub/34/artic...
We’re concluding our journey through time with some featured titles from our American History, 21st Century list www.press.uillinois.edu/wordpress/ce... #America250 #America250UIP
Available now! American Philosophical Quarterly Vol. 63, No. 3, featuring contributions by @nirfresco.bsky.social, @loehrgui.bsky.social, @antoninbroi.bsky.social, @nicemm.bsky.social, and more. scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/apq/issu...