photo by: Sara Shepherd

The University Press of Kansas, 2502 Westbrooke Circle on the University of Kansas' West Campus.

The Lawrence-based University Press of Kansas will be hosting a panel discussion of Native American and Indigenous scholars as part of a project to digitally publish a host of books that previously had fallen out of publication.

The panel discussion, which will take place online, is set for 7 p.m. on March 29 and will feature a trio of Indigenous scholars who will discuss Kansas and Native American issues. The panelists include:

• Sarah Deer, a KU professor and author of “The Beginning and End of Rape: Confronting Sexual Violence in Native America.”

• Farina King, author of “The Earth Memory Compass: Diné Landscapes and Education in the Twentieth Century.”

• Kiara Vigil, author of “Indigenous Intellectuals: Sovereignty, Citizenship, and the American Imagination.”

The event will be moderated by Tai Edwards, author of “Osage Women and Empire: Gender and Power.”

The panel discussion is being held as part of a launch of the Kansas Open Books project. That initiative is digitizing out-of-print University Press of Kansas books and making them available for free online. People can access books in that program at kansaspress.ku.edu/kansasopenbooks.

People who want to attend the virtual panel discussion can register at kansaspress.ku.edu.