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All events take place at the Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk, Philadelphia (U of P).

Wednesday, 3/1
Thursday, 3/2
Friday, 3/3
Saturday, 3/4
Sunday, 3/5
Monday, 3/6
Tuesday, 3/7
Wednesday, 3/8
Thursday, 3/9
Friday, 3/10
Saturday, 3/11
Sunday, 3/12
Monday, 3/20
Tuesday, 3/21
Wednesday, 3/22
Thursday, 3/23
Friday, 3/24
Saturday, 3/25
  • 2:00-3:00 PM: Laughing Hermit Reading Series presents Julia Kasdorf and George O'Brien
    Julia Kasdorf is the author of Sleeping Preacher, which won the Angus Lynch Starret Prize and the Great Lakes Colleges Association Award for New Writing, and Eve's Striptease, both from the University of Pittsburgh Press. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, The New Yorker, and are forthcoming in The Paris Review.
    George O'Brien is a scholar of Irish literature as well as a biographer and novelist. He received his B.A. and Ph. D. from the University of Warwick, and has taught at the University of Birmingham, Clare College, the University of Warwick, Vassar College, Trinity College, and is currently a Professor of English at Georgetown University. Works he has edited or authored include three editions of The Village of Longing, Brian Friel: A Reference Guide, and The Ireland Anthology. His new book, A Book of Matches, is forthcoming this year from New Island. Professor O'Brien has received the John Eddeyrn Hughes Prize and the Irish Book Awards Silver Medal for The Village of Longing.

Sunday, 3/26
  • 3:00-5:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: Rehearsal for Alex Minnaar's Noh drama
  • 6:00 PM in Room 202: Manuck! Manuck! a fiction writing group
  • 11:00 PM: Live at the Writers House airs on 88.5 WXPN FM

Monday, 3/27
Tuesday, 3/28
Wednesday, 3/29
Thursday, 3/30
  • Cancelled! 4:30 PM: The Twentieth Century Reading Group hosts a presentation by on "William Carlos Williams and the Aesthetics of the New World" Jane Penner, followed by discussion
  • 8:00 PM: "I Do Not Want To Know Anything About It: The Negative Therapeutic Reaction. Lacanian Aspects of Freud's Clinical Observation," a talk by Suzanne Yang, hosted by the Philadelphia Lacan Study Group and Seminar.
    Suzanne Yang, M.D. is Resident Physician at Columbia University and the New York State Psychiatric Institute. She first encountered Lacan's work while studying comparative literature at Yale, and this interest continued as she pursued graduate studies in the history of science and medicine at Johns Hopkins. While completing her medical degree at the University of California San Francisco, she participated in activities at the Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis in Berkeley, where she served as chair of the Scientific and Research Committee. She is the editor (with Juliet Flower MacCannell) of ANaMORPHOSIS: Journal of the San Francisco Society for Lacanian Studies. One may find her most recent essays in JPCS Journal for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society, The Psychoanalysis of Race (Columbia Press, 1998), and Homosexuality and Psychoanalysis (Macmillan, forthcoming).

Friday, 3/31
  • 11:00 AM-1:00 PM: Conversation and writing workshop with writer Dana Sachs
    Dana Sachs has been writing about Vietnam since 1990. Her memoir, The House on Dream Street: An American Woman's Life in Hanoi, will be published by Algonquin Books this fall. Her magazine and newspaper articles have been published widely, including in The Far Eastern Economic Review, Sierra, Parenting, The San Francisco Examiner, and The Philadelphia Inquirer. She has also translated a great deal of contemporary Vietnamese literature into English, including Le Minh Khue's collection of short stories, The Stars, the Earth, the River (Curbstone Press, 1996), which she co-translated with Bac Hoai Tran. With her sister, filmmaker Lynne Sachs, she made the award-winning documentary about contemporary Vietnam, "Which Way is East." She currently teaches courses in journalism and in Vietnamese literature and society at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.
  • 4:00-5:30 PM: The Transparency Machine Series presents poet Cecilia Vicuna, in collaboration with the Temple University Creative Writing Program. Cecilia Vicuna will be giving a reading the previous evening, Thursday, March 30, at the Temple Gallery, 45 N. 2nd Street (free and open to the public).
    Graywolf Press writes: Chilean poet, filmmaker, performance artist, and sculptor Cecilia Vicuna is, according to the Spanish magazine Quimera, "one of the most vivid and creative personalities of the Latin American scene." Working in the tradition of the oral poetry of the High Andes, she brings forth a poetic universe of ancient resonance and new forms. The sacred wordplay practiced in the pre-Columbian Americas meets modern linguistics, and the wisdom of the Andean women shamans with whom she has studied is used to confront the contemporary realities of ecological disaster. Vicuna is also the author of Ul: Four Maupche Poets (1998), The Precarious/Quipoem (1998), and Palabra E Hilo/word & Thread (1996).

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