2022 Festival of Books at USD

Location

Varies

Free

The University of San Diego is the presenting sponsor of The San Diego Union-Tribune’s 6th Annual Festival of Books on August 20. 

The Festival of Books will be held on campus for the first time this year and is open to book lovers of all ages. Enjoy workshops, activities, photo booths, live entertainment, discussions with award-winning authors and more!

USD will host several panels with faculty who have recently published books and will be on the Festival of Books poetry stage.

USD Panels

Architecture and Adornment
10:30 a.m.
Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice Theatre

• Marilynn Johnson, PhD | Assistant Professor
  Department of Philosophy
  Adorning Bodies: Meaning, Evolution, and Beauty in Humans and Animals
• Daniel López-Pérez, PhD | Professor
  Department of Art, Architecture + Art History
  Buckminster Fuller: Pattern Thinking

Food and Culture
1 p.m.
Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice Theatre

• Christopher Carter, PhD | Assistant Professor
  Department of Theology and Religious Studies and Assistant Chair and Department Diversity Officer
  The Spirit of Soul Food: Race, Faith, and Food Justice
• Rebecca Ingram, PhD | Professor
  Department of Languages, Cultures and Literatures
  Women’s Work: How Culinary Cultures Shaped Modern Spain 

Law, Diversity and the Environment
3:30 p.m.
Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice Theatre

• Roy L. Brooks, JD | Warren Distinguished Professor of Law
  USD’s School of Law
  Diversity Judgments: Democratizing Judicial Legitimacy
• Margaret McKeown, JD | U.S. Circuit Judge and Jurist in Residence
  USD’s School of Law
  Citizen Justice: The Environmental Legacy of William O. Douglas—Public Advocate and Conservation Champion

USD Faculty on the Poetry Stage

Poetry Stage
11:30 a.m.
Paseo de Colachis, Poetry Corner

• Leonora Simonovis, PhD, MFA | Professor, Spanish
  Department of Languages, Cultures and Literature
  Study of the Raft

USD College of Arts and Sciences and the Humanities Center Hospitality Tent

10-5 p.m.
Paseo de Colachis (The Lawn)

• Chat with the Dean and the Director of the Humanities Center from 2 to 5 p.m.
• Water, refreshments, and lounge furniture will be offered.