Events for April 26, 2023 - March 10, 2023

In celebration of World Health Day, PBS Books, in partnership with the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH), is pleased to host a conversation with scholar and author Dr. Sandro Galea, discussing his latest book The Contagion Next Time, with Dr. Valerie Maholmes, Chief of the Pediatric Trauma and Critical Illness Branch at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.

Thursday, April 8 at 8pm ET | 5pm PT, PBS Books presents, in partnership with the Marygrove Conservancy and The Tuxedo Project, is excited to welcome novelist and essayist Brit Bennett as the guest author for the 33rd Annual Contemporary American Authors Lecture Series (CAALS).

PBS Books, in partnership with University of Michigan's Wallace House, presents a special conversation with award-winning jornnalist Elena Milashina, video journalist and filmmaker Simon Ostrovsky, and professor of history and political science at U-M Ronald Suny, regarding the conflict in Ukraine.

PBS Books, in partnership with GPB, is thrilled to present an unforgettable, emotional evening of reading, as the biggest children's book authors read real pandemic stories submitted by real kids!

To address Water's True Cost, PBS Books is pleased to host a conversation with journalist and professor Peter Annin, discussing his book "The Great Lakes Water Wars," led by Program Director of the Great Lakes Now Sandra Svoboda.

In commemoration of the 40th anniversary of Vincent Chin, PBS Books is pleased to interview award-winning author Paula Yoo, who recently published “From A WHISPER TO A RALLYING CRY: The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial that Galvanized the Asian American Movement”.

In commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the death of Vincent Chin, PBS Books, in collaboration with DPTV, is pleased to host an important conversation about “Who Killed Vincent Chin?” with Filmmakers Christine Choy and Renee Tajima-Peña, along with executive producer Professor Juanita Anderson and attorney/activist Jim Shimoura.