Fall Quarter 2011 Events
You can find more writing events around campus on the Center's calendar too. For a listing of past CWA events, visit the events archive page.
To get directions and maps on how to get to our various events CLICK HERE for our MAP PAGE.
Books by CWA speakers can usually be purchased at the events, or beforehand from Northwestern's Norris Bookstore.
All CWA events are FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC unless otherwise noted.
Monday, September 26, 2011 5:00 p.m. University Hall 201 |
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Wednesday, October 12, 2011 5:30-6:30 pm Hagstrum Room 201-University Hall |
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![]() JANE TAYLOR, SOUTH AFRICAN AUTHOR AND PLAYWRIGHT ON: READING/WRITING THE TRANSPLANT MEN The CWA is proud to have Jane Taylor as the 2011 Fall Quarter Visiting Writer in Residence teaching the Art of Fiction. There will be a Q&A, plus a book-signing. Reading/Writing The Transplant Men will be excerpts and some dialogue around her recent novel. The Transplant Men is work of fiction that takes the first heart transplant as the premise for an exploration of our modernity and its obsession with the medicalized body. The novel also obliquely but expressly addresses recent South Africa and the body under Apartheid. She will engage in dialogue with the audience both about the writing of the book, and about the world-historical circumstances of that first heart transplant in South Africa. JANE TAYLOR is a writer, scholar and curator from South Africa. For the past several decades, in addition to writing fiction and plays, she has been involved in cultural critique and public scholarship. In 1987 she and David Bunn co-edited From South Africa (TriQuarterly and University of Chicago Press). In 1996 Taylor designed and curated “FAULT LINES,” a series of cultural responses to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission that followed the end of Apartheid in South Africa. As part of this program she wrote the playtext Ubu and the Truth Commission for South African artist/director William Kentridge and the Handspring Puppet Company. In 2000 she wrote the libretto of a new opera for Kentridge, The Confessions of Zeno(performed at Lincoln Centre in New York and the MCA in Chicago). She has published two novels, Of Wild Dogs (winner of the Olive Schreinerfiction prize in South Africa) and The Transplant Men(grounded in the first heart transplant, an event that took place in South Africa). For more information contact Stacy Oliver at the Center for the Writing Arts at 847-467-4099 or words@northwestern.edu. |
Wednesday, October 19, 2011 6:00-9:00 pm Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art Auditorium- 40 Arts Circle Drive, Evanston, IL |
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![]() SPECIAL FILM SCREENING OF THE INTERRUPTERS, PRODUCED BY ALEX KOTLOWITZ AND STEVE JAMESThe Interrupters tells the moving and surprising stories of three Violence Interrupters who try to protect their Chicago communities from the violence they once employed. From acclaimed director Steve James and best-selling author Alex Kotlowitz. "The Interrupters" captures a period in Chicago when it became a national symbol for the violence in our cities." There will be a talkback after the film with Alex Kotlowitz and one of the Cease Fire members. This event is being co-sponsored by the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Center for Civic Engagement, and Medill. For more information contact Stacy Oliver at the Center for the Writing Arts at 847-467-4099 or words@northwestern.edu. |
Thursday, November 3, 2011 5:30-6:30 pm University Hall, Room 201- 1897 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL |
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Monday, November 14, 2011 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Fisk Hall, 111 1845 Sheridan Road Evanston, IL 60208 |
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![]() "MAKING THE FOREIGN FAMILIAR" WITH JOURNALIST MICHAEL SLACKMANThe Center for the Writing Arts invites you to this special event THE LITERATURE OF JOURNALISM featuring special guest MICHAEL SLACKMAN. SLACKMAN is the Deputy Foreign Editor of the New York Times, former Berlin and Cairo bureau for the New York Times, former Los Angeles Times Cairo bureau chief and former Moscow bureau chief for Newsday. Sponsored by the Center for the Writing Arts, Medill, Communications Residential College and The Alumnae of NU. |
Monday, November 21, 2011 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Fisk Hall, 111 1845 Sheridan Road Evanston, IL 60208 |
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![]() "REPORTING ON POPULAR CULTURE" NEW YORK TIMES CRITIC GINIA BELLAFANTEThe Center for the Writing Arts invites you to this special event THE LITERATURE OF JOURNALISM featuring special guest GINIA BELLAFANTE. Television critic and cultural reporter for the New York Times, former cultural essayist and writer for Time Magazine and contributor to the New York Observer. Sponsored by the Center for the Writing Arts, Medill, Communications Residential College and The Alumnae of NU. |