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2011-12 Public Lectures & Readings

Unless otherwise noted, all events free & open to the public; no tickets necessary.

Edelstein-Keller Visiting Writer Series

Jenny Boully
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
7:30 pm
Upson Room, Walter Library
117 Pleasant Street S.E., Mpls.

Ronaldo V. Wilson
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
7:30 pm
Weisman Museuml
333 East River Road, Mpls.
Co-sponsored with the Weisman Museum

Percival Everett
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
7 pm
Cowles Auditorium, Hubert H. Humphrey Center
301 19th Avenue S., Mpls.
Co-sponsored with the NOMMO African American Authors Series. $15 for non-students.

Fourth Annual Benefit for Hunger Reading
hosted by Charles Baxter with Creative Writing Program faculty
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
7 pm
Coffman Union Theater
300 Washington Avenue S.E., Mpls.

Esther Freier Endowed Lecture in Literature Series

Philip Gourevitch
Monday, October 10, 2011
7:30 pm
Coffman Union Theater
300 Washington Ave. S.E., Mpls.

Denis Johnson
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
7:30 pm
Coffman Union Theater
300 Washington Ave. S.E., Mpls.

English in the Public Sphere

Nuruddin Farah Reading
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
7 pm
Downtown Minneapolis Library
300 Nicollet Mall, Mpls.
Co-sponsored by the CLA Winton Chair and the Library Foundation of Hennepin County Talk of the Stacks

Joseph Warren Beach Lectures in Literature

No lecture this year.


image of Maxine Hong Kingston

2009 Esther Freier Endowed Speaker Maxine Hong Kingston

"Thanks so much for another wonderful evening! Thanks too for maintaining your mailing list so well, so I get to hear and meet authors from everywhere!"

Lecture attendee