2023 Festival of Books at USD

Location

Varies

Free

The University of San Diego, including the College of Arts and Sciences and the Humanities Center, is the presenting sponsor of The San Diego Union-Tribune’s Festival of Books for the fourth year on Saturday, August 19, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. 

The university is thrilled to host San Diego County’s largest celebration of the written word on campus for the second year. 

The festival will feature workshops, activities and live entertainment for book lovers of all ages to enjoy. There will also be Q&As and panels with award-winning authors across the country, including T. Jefferson Parker and Guadalupe García McCall!

USD will host a variety of panels with faculty who have recently published books (more details on times and locations to be announced).  

USD Faculty Author Panels 

**All USD faculty author panels will be held in the Nexus Theatre in the Knauss School of Business.

On Coloniality 
10:30 a.m.

• Josen Diaz, PhD | Associate Professor, Department of Ethnic Studies | Postcolonial Configurations: Dictatorship, the Racial Cold War, and Filipino America
• Atreyee Phukan, PhD | Professor, Department of English | Contradictory Indianness: Indenture, Creolization, and Literary Imaginary

Liberty and Poverty
11:30 a.m.

• Miranda Perry Fleischer, JD | Richard and Kaye Woltman Professor in Finance | Universal Basic Income: What Everyone Needs to Know (co-author)
• Matt Zwolinski, PhD | Professor, Department of Philosophy | Universal Basic Income: What Everyone Needs to Know (co-author) | The Individualists: Radicals, Reactionaries, and the Struggle for the Soul of Libertarianism

Justice and Social Transformation 
12:40 p.m.

• Sarah Federman, PhD | Associate Professor of Conflict Resolution | Transformative Negotiation: Strategies for Everyday Change and Equitable Futures
• Ronald Niezen, PhD | Professor of Practice, Department of Political Science and International Relations | The Memory Seeker

Technology and Society 
1:45 p.m.

• Orly Lobel, SJD | Warren Distinguished Professor of Law | The Equality Machine: Harnessing Digital Technology for a Brighter More Inclusive Future

The Novel and Homelessness: The Return of the Fifth Horseman 
2:50 p.m.

• Dennis Clausen, PhD | Professor, Department of English | The Return of the Fifth Horseman