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Saturday, 5/1
- 2:00-5:00 PM: Saturday Reading Cooperative Graduation Ceremony and Final Session!
Sunday, 5/2
Monday, 5/3
- 4:30 PM: Graduate Student Reading
Listen to an audio recording of this event. - 5:30 PM: Penn and Pencil Club!
- 7:00 PM: Theorizing in Particular presents Paola Mieli: "On
Trauma"
Paola Mieli is a practicing psychoanalyst in New York City, co-founder and president of Apres-Coup Psychoanalytic Association, member of Le Cercle Freudien (Paris), and faculty member of the Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis (Berkeley) and at the School of Visual Arts (NYC). She is the author of numerous articles on psychoanalysis.
Tuesday, 5/4
- Writers House Low-Pulse (No Events)
Wednesday, 5/5
- Writers House Low-Pulse (No Events)
Thursday, 5/6
- 6:30 PM: End-of-the-Year Hub Celebration!
- 8:30 PM: Virgin House Band last spring gig
Friday, 5/7
- Last Day of Final Exams
Saturday, 5/8
- 2:00 PM: Laughing Hermit Reading Series presents Paul
Muldoon.
Paul Muldoon is regarded as one of Ireland's finest poets. He is the author of six collections of poetry and a screenplay. He has also translated work of poets writing in the Irish language. He currently teaches at Princeton University.
Sunday, 5/9
- 1:00-5:00 PM: University City House Tour (with a stop at Writers House). For information and tickets, contact Philadelphia Open House at (215) 928-1188.
Monday, 5/10
- Writers House Low-Pulse (No Events)
Tuesday, 5/11
- Writers House Low-Pulse (No Events)
Wednesday, 5/12
- Writers House Low-Pulse (No Events)
Thursday, 5/13
- Writers House Low-Pulse (No Events)
Friday, 5/14
- Writers House Low-Pulse (No Events)
Saturday, 5/15
- 10:00-3:00 PM: Open House and Bagel Brunch for Seniors and their families!
- 1:00-3:00 PM: Performance by graduating senior and musician David
Lavin.
David Lavin is a fingerstyle solo player and songwriter originally from Minnesota. He has performed throughout the Midwest and Northeast of the United States,as well as various locations in Europe. After finishing a year studying at Berklee College of Music, David returned to Philadelphia last year, where he has been studying with Philadelphia Blues Great "Philadelphia" Jerry Ricks, and was recently a featured performer on "Live at the Writers House," which airs on WXPN. - 4:00-6:00 PM: A performance of one-act comedies written by
graduating senior and writer Michael Schein.
Michael Schein is a graduating senior and the author of Teenage Roadhogs, a humorous and thorough driving manual for teens. He's originally from Miami, Florida. - Cancelled: 10:15-11:15 AM: Alumni
Day presents: "Biography!"
This panel will discuss the difficulties of faithfully capturing someone else's life and work on paper. Can you include all the flaws when you know your subject personally? Can you do your subject justice if he or she is an historical figure? Bob Lucid will discuss his forthcoming biography of his friend and colleague, writer Norman Mailer, and Ben Yagoda will talk about writing the 1993 Will Rogers: A Biography. Cosponsored by the School of Arts and Sciences and the Kelly Writers House Alumni/Faculty Exchange
Sunday, 5/16
Monday, 5/17
- Commencement
- Writers House closes for the summer!
Tuesday, 5/18
Wednesday, 5/19
Thursday, 5/20
Friday, 5/21
Saturday, 5/22
Sunday, 5/23
Monday, 5/24
Tuesday, 5/25
Wednesday, 5/26
Thursday, 5/27
Friday, 5/28
Saturday, 5/29
Sunday, 5/30
Monday, 5/31
