Upcoming Speakers
2024-25 Speaker Series
Spring 2025
- Thursday, 2/13 at 5pm: Author & Plan II alum Margaret Juhae Lee in conversation with Madeline Vosch, in partnership with the Center for East Asian Studies and the Center for Asian American Studies
- Tuesday, 3/25 at 6pm: Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Carl Phillips, in partnership with the Michener Center for Writers (*At the Harry Ransom Center)
- Tuesday, 4/1 at 6pm: Writer and visual artist Riva Lehrer, in partnership with the New Writers Project
For more information about the Joynes Room Speaker Series, call 512-471-5787 or write Zack Schlosberg.
Margaret Juhae Lee, whose debut memoir Starry Field was published in 2024 by Melville House.
THE JOYNES READING ROOM PRESENTS: MARGARET JUHAE LEE
Thursday, 2/13 @ 5pm, CRD #007 (2501 Whitis Ave.)
On Thursday, February 13, the Joynes Reading Room will welcome Plan II alum Margaret Juhae Lee, whose debut book, Starry Field: A Memoir of Lost History, was published in 2024 by Melville House. Starry Field depicts the author's search for her family’s history, lost to the darkness of Korea’s colonial decades, and contends with the shockwaves of violence that followed them over four generations and across continents. Margaret will be in conversation with Austin-based writer and memoirist Madeline Vosch. The event will be followed by an audience Q&A and reception. Interested Plan II students can pick up copies of Starry Field at the front desk of the Joynes Reading Room starting in early February.
Margaret Juhae Lee is an alum of the Plan II Honors Program and the author of Starry Field: A Memoir of Lost History (Melville House, 2024). She received a Bunting Fellowship from Harvard University and a Korean Studies Fellowship from the Korean Foundation in support of research for her book. Previously, she was an editor for the Books and the Arts section at The Nation magazine. Her articles, interviews, and book reviews have been published in The Nation, Newsday, Elle, ARTnews, The Advocate, and beyond.