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Upcoming Speakers

2025-26 Speaker Series

  • Thursday, March 12 at 5pm: Poet Travis Chi Wing Lau, brought to the Joynes Reading Room by the Crip Narratives Collective
  • Thursday, March 26: Plan II and the Joynes Reading Room are co-sponsors of the Rapoport Center's Farenthold Lecture in Peace, Social Justice, and Human Rights with acclaimed novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen. Details to come.
  • Thursday, April 9 at 6pm: Novelist Nina McConigley, whose new book How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder is out January 2026 from Pantheon
  • Friday, April 24 at 3pm: Novelist Dur e Aziz Amna, brought to the Joynes Reading Room by the South Asia Institute

All readings, unless noted otherwise, take place in the Joynes Reading Room, Carothers Hall #007 (2501 Whitis Ave). For more information about the Joynes Room Speaker Series, call 512-471-5787 or write Zack Schlosberg.