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UPColorado @upcolorado.bsky.social · 1d

Happy end of #AFS2025! Superstar #folklorist Andrea Kitta came to say goodbye & was a good sport about letting us photoshop her books into her photo bc they sold out.

Both KISS OF DEATH and AN EPIDEMIC OF RUMORS is FREE to download and read here: tinyurl.com/33sdvvdz #OAWeek #openaccess #readup

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UPColorado @upcolorado.bsky.social · 1d

You may know him as "the #monster studies guy" but Michael Dylan Foster also wrote this fantastic book on the interplay of popular culture and #folklore: MOBIUS MEDIA

Don't forget: you can order his book and others at the 40% #AFS2025 discount online! Use code AFS25 at checkout until Nov 30th

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UPColorado @upcolorado.bsky.social · 1d

Happy fall #bookstack 🎃

Need some #folklore reading for the holidays? We've still got these last couple of display books left on our final day at #AFS2025. 10 for a book? In this economy? Stop by our booth to pick one up!

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UPColorado @upcolorado.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks for sharing!

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UPColorado @upcolorado.bsky.social · 2d

It's #OAweek! So here is your regular reminder that we have a whole catalogue of books that are #openaccess and free to read #archaeology #writingstudies #composition #history #folklore read.upcolorado.com

University Press of Colorado Open Books

Open Books, Open Minds

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Michelle Chen @michellechn.bsky.social · 2d

#NOKINGS

~Just Folklore~

(All conferences should have crafting stations tbh)

#AFS2025 @upcolorado.bsky.social

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Michelle Chen @michellechn.bsky.social · 2d

V important update: there’s a Tim Hortons (next to a gentlemen’s club?) by the hotel so I’ve added donut holes to my repertoire of booth treats 🍩

**add witty connections between donuts and folklore here

#AFS2025

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UPColorado @upcolorado.bsky.social · 3d

We love an author/book photoshoot. Diane Goldstein is here with her book BEHIND THE MASK: VERNACULAR CULTURE IN THE TIME OF COVID. Display copy still available for $10! #AFS2025

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Michelle Chen @michellechn.bsky.social · 3d

I might be having too much PUN at this conference (I dunno is this sign a pun, technically?) #AFS2025

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UPColorado @upcolorado.bsky.social · 3d

Always nice to see friendly faces! Especially the prolific Lynne S. McNeill representing not one, but two of her books (not to mention FOLKLORE RULES, not pictured here) #AFS2025

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Michelle Chen @michellechn.bsky.social · 3d

Ya’ll these $10 books are going fast… we’ve technically been open just 15 min and 5 display books sold and reserved already. Don’t sleep on the exhibit hall today! #AFS2025

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Michelle Chen @michellechn.bsky.social · 3d

We are off and running for #AFS2025!

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UPColorado @upcolorado.bsky.social · 5d

Alas we are not having a last day sale at #WHA2025 this year...because EVERY day is the last day sale. All paperbacks are $10 and all hardbacks are $20, so stop by our booth IRL to say hi and stock up!

#readup #booksale #westernhistory #history

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UPColorado @upcolorado.bsky.social · 6d

Having FOMO about not attending #WHA2025 this year? Fear not, because you can still get our 40%-off conference discount online! Use code WHA25 at checkout (expires 12/1)

Time to load up on your western #history books: upcolorado.com/history

#readUP #smallpress

University Press of Colorado - History

You are viewing content tagged with 'History' - The University Press of Colorado, including the Utah State University Press imprint, publishes forty to forty-five new titles each year, with the goal o...

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UPColorado @upcolorado.bsky.social · 6d

We are all set up for #WHA2025! Western #historians: see you tomorrow 📚

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UPColorado @upcolorado.bsky.social · 7d

Angalkut/Shamans in Yup'ik Oral Tradition

This gorgeous book is just out, order now and use promo code FIEN25 to get 40% off while you can!
upcolorado.com/university-o...
#UAlaskaPress #AcademicSky #BookSky #Yup'ik #AlaskaSky #IndigenousAlaska #Shaman #indigenousbooks #NativeVoices

Angalkut/Shamans in Yup'ik Oral Tradition
transcribed and translated by Alice Rearden and Marie Meade, edited by Ann Fienup-Riordan
“Undoubtedly the finest and richest compilation of shamanic ethnographical information for Alaska. A great contribution to the preservation and transfer of Yup’ik knowledge and cosmology. The book gives precedence to the voices of the elders and their perspectives and provides access to powerful stories.”
—Frédéric Laugrand, Université Catholique de Louvain

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Andrew Berzanskis @aberzanskis.bsky.social · 7d

AI-generated "books" are flooding Amazon and other online retailers.

Here is a regular reminder: Take note of who published the books you read or buy.

Presses are perhaps more important than ever in helping identify trustworthy resources in a failing information ecosystem.

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Association of University Presses @aupresses.bsky.social · 12d

Adding our support to this statement. The Compact simultaneously tramples academic freedom and denigrates the humanities, both of which are essential to the work of our members and their authors.

American Association of Colleges & Universities (AAC&U) @aacu.org · 19d

AAC&U Statement on the Trump Administration’s “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” https://bit.ly/3VOEJvx

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UPColorado @upcolorado.bsky.social · 13d

#UAlaskaPress author Marybeth Holleman talks to Carrie Freeman about her books, Bloom Again and Among wolves, on @wrfg.bsky.social In Tune to Nature podcast!
"Both books will affect you deeply"
cpfreeman.podbean.com/e/bloom-agai...

Bloom Again Climate Fiction and Among Wolves Nonfiction Books: Nature Writer Marybeth Holleman in Alaska | In Tune to Nature Podcast

In this 50-minute podcast, we talk polar bears, wolves, women, climate activists, and Denali wolf advocacy, through the tales of award-winning nature writer Marybeth Holleman whose new book is the eco...

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UPColorado @upcolorado.bsky.social · 13d

In fact, we have not one, but two of #folklorist Andrea Kitta's books available to read for free. AN EPIDEMIC OF RUMORS and KISS OF DEATH, both available for download here: tinyurl.com/33sdvvdz

Michelle Chen @michellechn.bsky.social · 13d

Rather than reading Fahrenheit 451 for the nteenth time, why not branch out into some Critical #Folklore Studies? And just so you know I’m not just trolling for book sales, this one happens to be available to read for FREE tinyurl.com/33sdvvdz

#BannedBooksWeek

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Association of University Presses @aupresses.bsky.social · 13d

Worth repeating: "University presses are essential infrastructure for the humanities & should be financially supported in the same way that other higher education inter-institutional infrastructure is." Some powerful examples here:

Institutions and funders must recognize the contributions of university presses to the humanities infrastructure (opinion)

Recognizing the university press community’s essential contributions to that infrastructure will be crucial as institutions and funders plan for the future, write Charles Watkinson and Melissa Pitts.

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Catherine Cocks @catherinefte.bsky.social · 14d

Humanities scholars, ever thought about getting an ORCID? Here's why you should: networks.h-net.org/group/discus... #feedingtheelephant @acls1919.bsky.social @smckee-acls.bsky.social

ORCID iDs for the Humanities | H-Net

A guest post from Feeding the Elephant: A Forum for Scholarly Communications.

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UPColorado @upcolorado.bsky.social · 14d

No matter how many books we've published, it's always *the most exciting thing* getting an advance copy from the printers. Especially when the cover looks so good!

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Michelle Chen @michellechn.bsky.social · 14d

“Speak English or die.” Wow. This #BannedBooksWeek let’s also think about linguistic hegemony—what languages don’t get published & read. Lingít is an endangered language of the Tlingit people of the Pacific NW Coast. What does it sound like? Give these recordings a listen! tinyurl.com/4h4xkvwp

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UPColorado @upcolorado.bsky.social · 15d

Get 'Posterity Is Now: Practicing Museum Anthropology, Collections Care, and Collaborative Research with Indigenous Peoples' for 405 off with promo code SHAN25!
tinyurl.com/dwmsum84
#museumstudies #museumcollection #anthropolgy #AcademicSky #BookSky #ATALM #ATALM25

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