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2013 UND Writers Conference Schedule

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Unless otherwise noted, all readings and panels will be held in the UND Memorial Union Ballroom. Films will be shown in the Memorial Union Lecture Bowl. All events are free and open to the public.

Tuesday, March 19
 2:00 p.m. World Poetry Reading
River Valley Room, Memorial Union
 4:00 p.m. Reading: Richard Bausch
 6:00 p.m. Film: Elsa y Fred (Dir. Marcos Carnevale, 2005) selected by Richard Bausch
Lecture Bowl, Memorial Union
 8:00 p.m. Reading: Dorothy Allison
Reception to follow at the North Dakota Museum of Art

Wednesday, March 20
 10:00 a.m. Public Readings
River Valley Room, Memorial Union
 12:00 noon
Panel: "Remembrance of Things Past"
Richard Bausch, Dorothy Allison, and Mary Jo Bang
Moderator: Adam Kitzes
 2:00 p.m. Film: Adaptation (Dir. Spike Jonze, 2002)
Lecture Bowl, Memorial Union
 4:00 p.m. Reading: Mary Jo Bang
 6:00 p.m. Film: Being Flynn (Dir. Paul Weitz, 2012) selected by Nick Flynn
Lecture Bowl, Memorial Union
 8:00 p.m. Reading: Nick Flynn
Reception to follow at the North Dakota Museum of Art

Thursday, March 21
 10:00 a.m. Public Readings
River Valley Room, Memorial Union
 12:00 noon
Panel: "Diving into the Wreck"
Nick Flynn, Cheryl Strayed, and Ed Bok Lee
Moderator: Steven Morrison
 2:00 p.m. Recording of WHY? Radio with Mary Jo Bang
 4:00 p.m. Reading: Ed Bok Lee
 6:00 p.m. Film: Winter's Bone (Dir. Debra Granik, 2010) selected by Dorothy Allison
Lecture Bowl, Memorial Union
 8:00 p.m.
North Dakota Humanities Council Reading: Cheryl Strayed

Friday, March 22
 10:00 a.m. Public Readings
River Valley Room, Memorial Union
 12:00 noon Panel: "White Noise"
Gary Shteyngart, Tony Kushner, Ed Bok Lee
Moderator: Chris Nelson
 2:00 p.m. Film: Floating Weeds (Dir. Yasujirō Ozu, 1959) selected by Ed Bok Lee
Lecture Bowl, Memorial Union
 4:00 p.m. Reading: Gary Shteyngart
 6:00 p.m. Film: Exit Through the Gift Shop (Dir. Banksy, 2010) selected by Mary Jo Bang
Lecture Bowl, Memorial Union
 8:00 p.m. A Conversation with Tony Kushner
Chester Fritz Auditorium
Moderator: Dr. Jack Russell Weinstein

Saturday, March 23
 12:00 noon

Community Workshops

 7:30 p.m.

UND Theatre presents two works by Tony Kushner:
"Reverse Transcription: Six Playwrights Bury a Seventh, A Ten-Minute Play That's Nearly Twenty Minutes Long"
and "Terminating, or Sonnet LXXV or "Lass mein Schmerzen nicht verloren sein" or Ambivalence"
Burtness Lab Theatre

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