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News of the Week
July 17, 2013

CONTENTS:

Announcements

Conferences

North Philly Notes

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Honorable Mention for Laotian Daughters

• Bindi Shah's Laotian Daughters received Honorable Mention from the American Sociological Association's Section on Asia and Asian America. Her award is mentioned in the Spring/Summer 2013 issue of Asian Mode, the Association's official publication for the section.

• Sara Cohen, Assistant Editor and Rights and Contract Manager at Temple University Press, will participate in a week-long professional exchange with Harvard University Press through the Association of American University Presses' Whiting Residency Program. The exchange is designed to give AAUP staff members the opportunity to refine or learn new skills from expert colleagues.

• Benjamin Hunnicutt's Free Time was featured on the website, Too Much, on July 15.

• The July 16 issue of the Cornell Chronicle featured an article about the publication of Jane Juffer's Intimacy Across Borders.

• Susan Ostrander, author of Citizenship and Governance in a Changing City, will have a book discussion and community conversation at the Somerville Central Library, 79 Highland Avenue, on July 17 at 6:30 pm. The event is co-sponsored by the Somerville Public Library and The Welcome Project.

CONFERENCES

Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing, July 18-21 in Philadelphia, PA

• Display via the Scholar's Choice featuring: Pimping Fictions by Justin Gifford, and Captain America and the Nationalist Superhero by Jason Dittmer.
  
  
• Justin Gifford is also featured in the documentary, Iceberg Slim: Portrait of a Pimp, which is being released on July 19.

• Envisioning Emancipation, by Deborah Willis and Barbara Krauthamer, is being advertised in the festival guide.

North Philly Notes

• This week in North Philly Notes, Scott Larson, author of "Building Like Moses with Jacobs in Mind," reflects on the state of Michael Bloomberg's New York this Mayoral election year.

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