The English Institute 2024

Friday, October 4

1:00 Welcome

(Shonni Enelow and Jennifer Fleissner)

1:15 Nancy Yousef, "Yours Truly"

(Introduced by Yoon Sun Lee)

3:00 Caleb Smith, "Cat Got Your Tongue?"

(introduced by Jennifer Fleissner)

4:30 Coffee break

5:00 Tina Post, "Robot Bodies"

(introduced by Shonni Enelow)

6:30 Opening reception


Saturday, October 5

8:30 Continental breakfast

9:00 Kevin Quashie, "Reading, Thinking"

(Introduced by Donna Jones)

10:45 Courtney Weiss Smith, "The Poetics of Flow"

(Introduced by Meredith Martin)

12:15 Coffee break

12:45 The Conversation: Namwali Serpell, from Stranger Faces (introduction, "E-Faced," and conclusion); Victor Shklovsky, "Art as Technique"

1:45 Lunch

3:00 Julie Orlemanski, "Between Voice and Name"

(Introduced by Virginia Jackson)

4:45 Karen Tongson, "Wilde at Heart"

(introduced by Anahid Nersessian)

6:15 Closing reception