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Welcome
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The Center for the Writing Arts provides a rich array of courses (many taught
by distinguished Visiting Writers), public lectures and readings, all in celebration
of writing here at Northwestern.
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Event History: Fall 2005
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All presentations are free and open to the public, unless indicated
otherwise. For directions and event details, see the Center's
calendar or call 847-467-4099.
Monday
October 10, 2005
5:30 p.m.
University Hall, Room 201-Hagstrum room
"Reading: Experiencing Katrina "
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William T. Jeanes
Writer-in-Residence for Fall Quarter 2005. Contributor to Sports Illustrated and Smithsonian Air & Space magazines; former Editor-in-Chief of Car and Driver; former publisher of Car and Driver and Road and Track. |
Friday
October 14, 2005
DVA Gallery
2568 N. Lincoln Avenue
Chicago, IL
60614
Reading from latest works
Free to the public. Cocktails and hors d'oeuvres will be served. |
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Brock Clark
Brock Clarke has published a novel (The Ordinary White Boy) and two collections of short fiction: What We Won't Do (winner of the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction) and most recently, Carrying the Torch (winner of the 2005 Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction). He has published fiction in The Georgia Review, The Southern Review, New England Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Missouri Review, and the New Stories from the South and Pushcart Prize Anthologies. He has been awarded fellowships from the Ohio Arts Council, the Christopher Isherwood Foundation, and the Bread Loaf, Sewanee, and Wesleyan Writers' Conferences. He is currently an associate professor of creative writing at the University of Cincinnati. |
Monday
October 17,2005
12:00 noon
University Hall, Hagstrum Room
Readings from "Rotary" |
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Christina Pugh
Winner of Word Press First Book and Grolier Poetry Prizes, Ruth Lily Poetry and Whiting Humanities Fellowships, three Pushcart Prize nominations, author of Rotary and Gardening at Dusk, and former Northwestern University faculty member.
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Wednesday
November 2, 2005
4:00 p.m.
University Hall, Hagstrum Room- 201
"The Reportorial Imagination " |
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William T. Jeanes
Writer-in-Residence for Fall Quarter 2005. Contributor to Sports Illustrated and Smithsonian Air & Space magazines; former Editor-in-Chief of Car and Driver; former publisher of Car and Driver and Road and Track. |
Monday
November 7, 2005
12:00 noon
University Hall, Hagstrum Room
A Reading from "Masterworks of Technology"
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Elmer Lewis
NU faculty member, ANS Fellow, Compton Award winner and author of Masterworks of Technology: The Story of Creative Engineering, Architecture and Design and Introduction to Reliability Engineering. |
Monday
November 14, 2005
12:00 noon
Fisk Hall, Room 211
"Questioning the Purposes on Journalism" |
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Katherine Boo
Pulitzer Prize winner and MacArthur Fellow; staff writer at the New Yorker; former writer and editor at the Washington Post and the Washington Monthly magazine. |
Monday
November 21, 2005
12:00 noon
Fisk Hall, Room 211
"Reporting on Other Worlds"
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Jennifer 8. Lee
Consumer Technology Reporter, "Circuits" Section of the New York Times; former Harvard Yenching Fellow; and winner of 2002 Gold Medal from Society of Newspaper Designers. |
Thursday
December 1, 2005
12:00 noon
University Hall, Hagstrum Room
Reading from
"The Redemptive Self" |
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Dan McAdams
NU faculty member, APA Fellow; director, Foley Center for the Study of Lives and author of The Person: An Integrated Introduction to Personality Psychology and Geverativity and Adult Development: How and Why We Care for the Next Generation. |
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