2022 Festival of Books at USD
Date and Time
Saturday, August 20, 2022
This event occurred in the past
- Saturday, August 20, 2022 at 10 a.m.
Location
Varies
5998 Alcala Park San Diego, CA 92110Cost
Free
Details
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.