March 2012

Thursday, 3/1

Friday, 3/2

Saturday, 3/3

Sunday, 3/4

Monday, 3/5

Tuesday, 3/6

Wednesday, 3/7

Thursday, 3/8

Friday, 3/9

Saturday, 3/10

Sunday, 3/11

Monday, 3/12

A meeting of the Writers House Planning Committee (the "Hub")

5:00 PM in the Arts Cafe

rsvp: jalowent@writing.upenn.edu

From the time of its founding in 1995-1996, the Kelly Writers House has been run more or less collectively by members of its community. Our original team of intrepid founders—the group of students, faculty, alumni, and staff who wanted to create an independent haven for writers and supporters of contemporary writing in any genre—took for themselves the name "the hub." "Hub" was the generic term given by Penn's Provost, President, and other planners who hoped that something very innovative would be done at 3805 Locust Walk to prove the viability of the idea that students, working with others, could create an extracurricular learning community around common intellectual and creative passions. To this day, the Writers House Planning Committee refers to itself as "the hub"—the core of engaged faculty, student, staff, and alumni volunteers from whom the House's creative energy and vitality radiates.

New and old Hub members alike are welcome to join us for pizza and a discussion of upcoming readings and programs, volunteer opportunities, and updates from project leaders. Anyone is welcome to join the Writers House Planning Committee.

Go here to get a sense of what we do; go here for sound clips and photos from our end-of-year party; go here for a list of campus publications.

Tuesday, 3/13

A poetry reading by Stephen Dunn

6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe

introduced by: Greg Djanikian

co-sponsored by: The Creative Writing Program

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A conversation with Bill Keller

Povich Journalism Program

12:00 PM in the Arts Cafe

Moderated by: Al Filreis

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Bill Keller is an Op-Ed columnist for The New York Times and writes for The New York Times Magazine. From July 2003 until September 2011, he was the executive editor of the Times, presiding over the newsroom during an era of journalistic distinction, economic challenge, and transformation. During his eight years in that role, the Times sustained and built its formidable newsgathering staff, winning 18 Pulitzer Prizes, and expanded its audience by mastering the journalistic potential of the Internet. Mr. Keller joined The New York Times in 1984 as a domestic correspondent based in the Washington bureau, reporting variously on labor, agriculture and military affairs. From December 1986 to October 1991, Mr. Keller was a Times correspondent in Moscow, reporting on the easing and ultimate collapse of Communist rule and the breakup of the Soviet Union. In 1989, he won a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage. As chief of the Times bureau in Johannesburg from April 1992 until May 1995, he covered the end of white rule in South Africa. He is the author of "The Tree Shaker: The Story of Nelson Mandela," published in January, 2008, by Kingfisher.

6:00 PM to 8:00 PM in Room 209: Suppose an Eyes, a poetry group. For more information, contact Pat Green at patricia78@aol.com.
5:30 PM to 7:00 PM in room 202: Pennomicon writing group. For more information, contact pennomicon@comcast.net

Wednesday, 3/14

A lunch talk with Roger Simon

Povich Journalism Program

POSTPONED

hosted by: Dick Polman

rsvp:wh@writing.upenn.edu

This program has been POSTPONED until March 28.

Handmade/Homemade

The Brodsky Gallery Opening

6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe

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The Brodsky Gallery is an art gallery integrated with the ground floor of the Writers House. Up to six exhibitions take place during the academic year from September through May. Openings feature a reception for the artist and an accompanying program; examples include panel discussions, poetry readings, film screenings, and technique demonstrations by the artist. Through exhibiting a diverse array of art media and cross-disciplinary programming, the Brodsky Gallery at KWH seeks to engage Penn students and the broader Philadelphia community with the interrelationships between literary and visual arts. Thanks to the generosity of Michael and Heidi Brodsky, whose support makes our gallery space possible, the Brodsky Gallery is a permanent project of Kelly Writers House.

This exhibition at Brodsky Gallery, HANDMADE/HOMEMADE, is a collaboration with Philadelphia poet and bookmaker JenMarie Davis and represents a stunning collection of broadsides, limited edition works, chapbooks, and posters, all of which are all handmade, homemade and letterpress printed by multiple artists. The opening event will feature readings and discussion with some of the artists, followed by a reception that will include the opportunity to explore the handmade book arts with a small book-making demonstration table.

Deborah Poe is author of the poetry collections Elements (Stockport Flats Press 2010), Our Parenthetical Ontology (CustomWords 2008), and "the last will be stone, too" as well as a novella in verse, "Hélène" (Furniture Press 2012). Her writing regularly appears in journals, most recently in Denver Quarterly, Mantis, Bone Bouquet, Peep/Show, Yew Journal, and Open Letters Monthly. With her colleague Ama Wattley, she is co-editing a fiction anthology, Between Worlds: An Anthology of Fiction and Criticism (Peter Lang 2012). She is also co-editing an anthology of Hudson Valley innovative poetry with Anne Gorrick and Sam Truitt (Station Hill Press 2013). Deborah is assistant professor of English at Pace University, Westchester. For more information, please visit www.deborahpoe.com.

Bushra Rehman's mother says Bushra was born in an ambulance flying through the streets of Brooklyn. Her father is not so sure, but it would explain a few things. Bushra was a vagabond poet who traveled for years with nothing more than a greyhound ticket and a bookbag full of poems. Her work has been featured on BBC Radio 4, KPFA, New York Times, India Currents, Crab Orchard Review, Sepia Mutiny, Color Lines, Mizna, and in numerous anthologies. Bushra is co-editor of Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism. Her novella "Bhangra Blowout" is forthcoming through Upset Press. www.bushrarehman.com.

5:30 PM to 7:30 PM in Room 202: Penn and Pencil, a writing group for Penn and Health Systems Staff. If you're a Penn employee and want to work on your creative writing, contact Karen Murphy at ktmurphy@mail.med.upenn.edu

Thursday, 3/15

Marathon Reading of Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49

4:00 PM in the Arts Cafe

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"Shall I project a world?" Oedipa Maas wonders before she dives into the bizarre underworld of conspiracies and counter-cultures that sets the scene for The Crying of Lot 49. Projecting a world is precisely what we'll be doing during our Marathon Reading of Thomas Pynchon's 1966 postmodern cult-classic, when we bring to life Oedipa's romp through paranoid-schizophrenic suburban California, populated by acid-tripping housewives, Nazi psychiatrists, corporate anarchists, and evidence-burning philatelists. We will take turns reading the novella aloud from start to finish, while enjoying snacks pulled from the pages of the book—and live rock'n'roll. All are welcome to listen, all are welcome to read, and costumes are encouraged (it's the early sixties so think more mod and Mad Men and less peace signs and ponchos)! To sign up for a reading slot, please send a note to wh@writing.upenn.edu.

Friday, 3/16

Saturday, 3/17

Sunday, 3/18

Monday, 3/19

A reading by Ron Silliman

Kelly Writers House Fellows Program

6:30 PM in the Arts Cafe

rsvp: seating strictly limited; please rsvp to whfellow@writing.upenn.edu or call 215-573-9749

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Funded by a grant from Paul Kelly, the Kelly Writers House Fellows program enables us to realize two unusual goals. We want to make it possible for the youngest writers and writer-critics to have sustained contact with authors of great accomplishment in an informal atmosphere. We also want to resist the time-honored distinction — more honored in practice than in theory — between working with eminent writers on the one hand and studying literature on the other.

Ron Silliman has been crucial to the changing scope of contemporary American poetry for more than forty years. A founder of the Language poetry movement, Silliman established the concept of "the new sentence," which Penn's own poet and scholar Bob Perelman calls "defiantly unpoetic." "Its shifts break up attempts at the natural reading of universal, authentic statements." Perelman continues, "Instead they encourage attention to the act of writing and to the writer's multiple and mediated positions within larger social frames."

Silliman's first book, Crow, was published in 1971. His collection Paradise won the Poetry Center Book Award from San Francisco State University in 1985. Silliman has written and edited over 30 books, including a memoir, Under Albany (2004), which was named a book of the year by Small Press Traffi. His remarkable and notorious twenty-six part poem The Alphabet was written continuously between 1979 and 2004. He was a Pew Fellow in the Arts in 1998, a 2002 Fellow of the Pennsylvania Arts Council, a 2003 Literary Fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts, and the 2006 Poet Laureate of the Blogosphere. He was also one of the first to launch a poetry blog, which received its 3 millionth visit in October 2010.

Silliman's unique work in his field has merited respect from a broad base of readers, but also from the finest writers. Eminent poetics critic (and 2011 Writers House Fellow) Marjorie Perloff writes of the poem "Albany": "In their curious collisions, these 'casual' sentences point to an author who is matter-of-fact, street-wise, and largely self-educated; his is the discourse of a working-class man [...] who has slowly and painfully learned the craft of poetry. Yet Silliman's characteristic formulations are by no means gloomy: on the contrary, his 'voice' emerges as sprightly, engaged, curious, fun-loving, energetic."

Tuesday, 3/20

A brunch conversation with Ron Silliman

Kelly Writers House Fellows Program

10:00 AM in the Arts Cafe

hosted by: Al Filreis

rsvp: seating strictly limited; please rsvp to whfellow@writing.upenn.edu or call 215-573-9749

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more: Ron Silliman on PennSound and on Kelly Writers House Fellows

Bug Time Working Group, No. 3: I AM GOING TO DRONE YOU

7:00 PM in the Arts Cafe

Bug Time Working Group is a roving ensemble with a rotating membership that convenes to create collaborative writings extemporaneously through constraint-based rituals and practices. Bug Time Working Group is presented by the Creative Ventures series at the Kelly Writers House.

For this, the third meeting of BUG TIME WORKING GROUP, writers Henry Steinberg and Claire Wilcox will present two writer's workshops-in-miniature that turn the tables on everyone's favorite remote-controlled ambassadors of the Great Satan, coming soon to a domestic airspace near you! Please join us as we write through the drone, riffing on ideas of remote control, agency, monotony, and humming.

Whether you think of yourself as a "writer" or not, we're sure that you've got some creative urges you're dying to indulge. Join us in making bizarre & interesting writings on the spot, in good cheer and good company. Light refreshments will be served. All writings produced by Bug Time Working Group are collected and published as limited-edition chapbooks.

Claire Wilcox lives in Philadelphia. She is a student in writing at the Bard MFA program.

Henry Steinberg was last seen leaving his home this morning. If you have any information regarding his whereabouts please contact Henry Steinberg immediately.

Wednesday, 3/21

We All Feel Like Spoken Word

Caroline Rothstein Oral Poetry Event

6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe

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Thursday, 3/22

Brave Testimony presents Christian Campbell

co-sponsored by the Center for Africana Studies

6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe

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Christian Campbell is a writer of Bahamian and Trinidadian heritage. He studied at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and received a PhD at Duke. His poetry and essays have been published widely in journals and anthologies such as Callaloo, Indiana Review, New Caribbean Poetry, New Poetries IV, PN Review, Poetry London, Small Axe, The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South, The Routledge Companion to Anglophone Caribbean Literature, Wasafiri and West Branch. His work has been translated into Spanish in the anthology Poetas del Caribe Ingles. An Assistant Professor of English at the University of Toronto, he has received grants and fellowships from Cave Canem, the Arvon Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Fine Arts Work Center and the University of Birmingham. He is also a recipient of a Lannan Foundation Residency Fellowship.

Running the Dusk won the 2010 Aldeburgh First Collection Prize and was shortlisted for the 2010 Forward Poetry Prize for the Best First Book in the UK. It was also named a finalist for the Cave Canem Prize by Sonia Sanchez.

Held during National Poetry Month (April), Brave Testimony was inaugurated in 2000 as an annual event that celebrates poetry of the African Diaspora. Past participants include former U.S. Poet Laureate Rita Dove, Sonia Sanchez, Michael Harper, and Toi Dericotte, as well as poets from the Cave Canem Poetry Workshop, notably Natasha Trethway, Terrence Hayes and Tracie Morris. Other Brave Testimony participants include Sekou Sundiata, Jay Wright, Dub poet Kwesi Johnson and, most recently, a multi-media performance by the cast of SOARS: Story of a Rape Survivor.

A lunch talk with Cara Benson and Pattie McCarthy

Junior Fellows Presentation

12:00 PM in the Arts Cafe

organized by: Genji Amino

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Cara Benson is the author of the poetry collection (made) (BookThug, 2010) and a forthcoming book for SUNY Press on and from the poetry class she teaches in a NY State Prison. Her second poetry book "Funny. Considering how heated it was." will be published in 2012. She is a 2011 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow in Poetry and included in the current Best American Poetry. Her chapbook "Quantum Chaos and Poems: A Manifest(o)ation" won the 2008 bpNichol Prize. "The Secret of Milk," her treatise on the possibilities of lyric advocacy within the tainted world of agribusiness, is now out from eohippus labs. Benson is a committee member of the PEN Prison Writing Program, editor of the interdisciplinary book Predictions for ChainLinks, and featured in the Belladonna Elders Series with Jayne Cortez and Anne Waldman. Other creative and critical work has appeared or is forthcoming in: Boston Review, Jacket 2, Forklift OH, Tarpaulin Sky, Sentence, Cutbank, and Interim, and others. Benson has been a Visiting Poet at NY State Writers Institute at SUNY Albany, University of Southern Maine, Rhode Island School of Design, Toronto New School of Writing, and Skidmore College.

Pattie McCarthy is the author of bk of (h)rs, Verso and Table Alphabetical of Hard Words. She received her M. A. in Creative Writing—Poetry from Temple University. Her work had appeared recently in many journals, including Colorado Review, Dusie, EOAGH, Fanzine, ixnay reader, Lungfull!, The Poetry Project Newsletter and The Tangent. She has taught literature and creative writing at the Queens College of the University of New York, Loyola University Maryland, and Towson University. She lives in Philadelphia and teaches at Temple University.

The Junior Fellow Award is open to any recently graduated Penn student, especially students who have been deeply engaged with Penn's writing community. If you are graduating from Penn this year, or if you have graduated from Penn in the last two years, please consider applying for this small but very sweet fellowship. For more information, please visit: http://writing.upenn.edu/wh/involved/awards/juniorfellow/#apply

Friday, 3/23

Saturday, 3/24

Sunday, 3/25

Monday, 3/26

LIVE at the Writers House

7:00 PM in the Arts Cafe

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LIVE at the Writers House is a long-standing collaboration between the Kelly Writers House and WXPN FM (88.5). Six times annually between September and April, Michaela Majoun hosts a one-hour broadcast of poetry, music, and other spoken-word art, along with one musical guest, all from our Arts Cafe onto the airwaves at WXPN. LIVE is made possible by generous support from BigRoc. For more information, contact Producer Erin Gautsche (gautsche@writing.upenn.edu).

Eddie Hopely organizes Blanket, a Philadelphia talk series, and is the author of chapbooks such as Cannot Contract, Rude Door, and New International Collaboration in Pen and Ink (2009-2010).

Cecilia K. Corrigan is a writer, currently based in New York. She recently worked on the HBO show Luck, and completed a book of poems, Titanic: a work which addresses the issues of nautical cinema, the Singularity, 12 and 13 year old humans, and the philosophy of language. She is currently working on a screenplay about Connecticut. Her work is available here and here.

John Paetsch is a corroded philosophic algorithm in need of a real frozen philosopher to reconstitute its appliances, RADIO. Visit www.comcast.gov.

Gordon Faylor is the editor of Gauss PDF, a publisher of digitally-based works. He is the author of Sebaceous Heph and Docking, Rust Archon, both published by bas-books; other projects can be downloaded at jqua.net.

Trisha Low appreciates the difference between restraint and restraints, and she's talking about poetry, okay? She is the author of Confessions [of a variety] and Target Is Bustling And Friendly with Tyler Antoine (both from Gauss PDF). Some other things have appeared in some other things like Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing, Artifice magazine, and Elective Affinities.

Oh! Pears is the main musical project of Philadelphia- and Seattle-based singer-songwriter-guitarist Corey Duncan. Duncan grew up surrounded by music. His grandfather, Vilem Sokol, conducted the Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra for nearly 30 years and many of his aunts and uncles are professional classical musicians, composers, and music teachers. His father listened only to 1930s jazz and pop music, and that was the music Duncan heard for the first 10 years of his life. Duncan is currently a DJ of 30s and 40s jazz and pop in Philadelphia as well.

His debut self-released EP, Fill Your Lungs, found Duncan exploring a sound a lifetime in the making: setting stunning orchestral arrangements drawn from his family's long lineage of classical conductors and musicians to urgent, three-minute pop nuggets not far removed from the stylings of his previous outfit, Pattern Is Movement. While Duncan has assembled groups ranging from solo or duo performances to arrangements for a 13-piece chamber orchestra, Oh! Pears toured Europe as a quartet in the summer of 2011, sharing bills with such bands as TV On The Radio. Upon returning to the States, they recorded video with local web series Bands In The Backyard and played CMJ showcases. They returned to Europe for another tour this winter, supporting a new single on the Danish label Kanel Records and were featured on The World Cafe from NPR. Oh! Pears has just returned from SXSW in Austin with immediate plans to record a full-length debut album.

Tuesday, 3/27

Emergency Poetry Reading

6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe

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Emergency is designed to address several questions we see arising in contemporary North American poetry around issues of emergence and literary community. We've created an ongoing dialogue among working poets on how they think about poetic lineage, theoretical stances, and aesthetic practice. The series was launched in 2006 with support from the Kerry Sherin Wright Prize for programming at Kelly Writers House in Philadelphia, an award designed to support a project that demonstrates aesthetic capaciousness and literary communitarianism. All readings are held in Philadelphia and available online at PennSound.

Carolina Maugeri's recent mixed media works, A Note on School of the Holy Beast and Takoyaki Hiss, Come L'amore, were included in the exhibitions Cinematic: Medi(t)ations Upon a Medium at the Osvaldo Romberg Studio and Containment Policy at the Pterodactyl Gallery. Since then she has performed music with Tristan Dahn in the Moles Not Molar series. She lives in Philadelphia.

Julia Bloch grew up in Northern California and Sydney, Australia, earned an MFA at Mills College and a PhD at Penn, and is the author most recently of Letters to Kelly Clarkson (Sidebrow Books). She is an editor of Jacket2 and lives in Los Angeles, where she teaches literature at the Bard College MAT program.

5:30 PM to 7:00 PM in room 202: Pennomicon writing group. For more information, contact pennomicon@comcast.net
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM in Room 209: Suppose an Eyes, a poetry group. For more information, contact Pat Green at patricia78@aol.com.

Wednesday, 3/28

A lunch talk with Roger Simon

Povich Journalism Program

12:00 PM in the Arts Cafe

hosted by: Dick Polman

rsvp:wh@writing.upenn.edu

watch: a video recording of this event via KWH-TV

listen: to an audio recording of this event.

Roger Simon is the Chief Political Columnist of Politico.com, an award-winning journalist, and a New York Times best-selling author. He has won more than three dozen first-place awards, including two American Society of Newspaper Editors Distinguished Writing Awards for Commentary, and three National Headliner Awards. Simon was a staff columnist at The Baltimore Sun from 1984 to 1995 before becoming the White House Correspondent of the Chicago Tribune in 1998 and covering the Monica Lewinsky scandal. His critically acclaimed books on presidential politics include Road Show, Show Time, and Divided We Stand. His writing, which has been compared to that of H.L. Mencken and Russell Baker, has been included in the "Best Newspaper Writing in America" in three different years.

Speakeasy Open Mic Night

Poetry, Prose, and Anything Goes!

8:00 PM in the Arts Cafe

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Our Speakeasy Open Mic Night is held once a month. We invite writers to share their work, or the work of others, in our Arts Cafe. Speakeasy welcomes all kinds of readings, performances, spectacles, and happenings. Bring your poetry, your guitar, your dance troupe, your award-winning essay, or your stand up comedy to share. You should expect outrageous (and free!) raffles for things you didn't know you needed, occasional costumes, and, of course, community members who love writing.

Thursday, 3/29

How to Be a Famous Author

a conversation with Lynn Rosen

presented by the Sylvia Kauders lunch series

12:00 PM in the Dining Room and Arts Cafe

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Lynn Rosen is a book publishing professional with more than twenty-five years of experience as an editor, literary agent, book packager, and author. She is the author of Elements of the Table: A Simple Guide for Hosts and Guests (Clarkson Potter, 2007), a guide to setting the table, dining etiquette, and the history of fine dining. Lynn is also the co-author of The Baby Owner's Games and Activities Book (Quirk Books, 2006), and The Baby Owner's Maintenance Log (Quirk Books, 2004), as well as several gift books and journals. Lynn has been a freelance writer for the Home & Design section of The Philadelphia Inquirer covering the domestic beat, and has written on subjects including how to do laundry properly, learning the dreaded art of sewing, and her Mother's Day special: what she learned about housecleaning from her mother. Lynn has also written legal profiles for Young Lawyer and General Counsel Mid-Atlantic (American Lawyer Media). Lynn is the Director of Graduate Publishing Programs at Rosemont College in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. teaches at several major Philadelphia universities. As an editor, Lynn has worked with publishers of adult trade non-fiction and illustrated gift books including Ballantine Books, a division of Random House, Peter Pauper Press, an independent publisher of gift books, and Running Press.

Feminism/s presents: Masha Tupitsyn

6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe

Feminism/s is an interdisciplinary series exploring how art, criticism, political action, and community building can create structural and cultural solutions to gender hierarchies. Feminism/s aims to give voice and consideration to the (macro) micro that surround contemporary feminisms in all their pluralities. Feminism/s supports conversation, analysis, philosophy and community connection related to structural and cultural solutions to the gender hierarchy. Feminism/s is a group-curated series supported by the Fund for Feminist Projects at Kelly Writers House.

Masha Tupitsyn is the author of LACONIA: 1,200 Tweets on Film (ZerO Books, 2011), Beauty Talk & Monsters, a collection of film-based stories (Semiotext(e) Press, 2007), and co-editor of the anthology Life As We Show It: Writing on Film (City Lights, 2009), which was voted one of the best film books of 2009 by Dennis Cooper, January Magazine, Shelf Awareness, and Chicago's New City. She is currently working on a new book of essays on film, Screen to Screen, as well as a book about John Cusack called Star Notes: John Cusack and The Politics of Acting. Her fiction and criticism has appeared in the anthologies Wreckage of Reason: XXperimental Women Writers Writing in the 21st Century (2008) and the Encyclopedia Project Volume II, F-K (2010), as well as Broome Street Review, Keyframe, Specter Magazine, BOMB, Indiewire's Press Play, Venus Magazine, Bookforum, Fence, The Rumpus, 2nd Floor Projects, Animal Shelter, The Fanzine, Make/Shift, NYFA, Vertebrae, and San Francisco's KQED's The Writer's Block. She regularly contributes video essays on film and culture to Ryeberg Curated Video, which features writers like Mary Gaitskill and Sheila Heti. In 2011, she wrote a radio play for Performa 11, Time for Nothing, the New Visual Art Performance Biennial in conjunction with Frieze Magazine. You can read her blog Love Dog, a new book project, at: http://mashatupitsyn.tumblr.com/.

7:00 to 8:30 PM in Room 202: A meeting of the Lacanians. For more information, contact Patricia Gherovici at pgherovici@aol.com.