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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
  • Thursday, 3/6 at 6pm: Poet Jane Huffman, presented by the Crip Narratives Collective and co-sponsored by the New Writers Project
  • Tuesday, 3/25 at 6:30pm: Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Carl Phillips, in conversation with Michener Center visiting professor Jennifer Elise Foerster, in partnership with the Michener Center for Writers (*At the Harry Ransom Center)
  • Tuesday, 4/1 at 5pm: Writer and visual artist Riva Lehrer, in partnership with the New Writers Project
  • Thursday, 4/3 at 5pm: Internationally-bestselling novelist Colum McCann (and UT alum!), celebrating Apricity/Analecta Magazine's 50th Anniversary, sponsored by the College of Liberal Arts

For more information about the Joynes Room Speaker Series, call 512-471-5787 or write Zack Schlosberg.

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Riva Lehrer will read from her memoir Golem Girl and participate in a conversation with Elizabeth McCracken at the Joynes Reading Room.

RIVA LEHRER IN CONVERSATION WITH ELIZABETH MCCRACKEN
Tuesday, 4/1 @ 5pm, CRD #007 (2501 Whitis Ave.)

On Tuesday, April 1st at 5pm, the Joynes Reading Room will co-host acclaimed artist, author, and curator Riva Lehrer in partnership with the New Writers Project. Lehrer’s memoir Golem Girl follows the revolutionary change that Lehrer experiences when invited to join a group of artists, writers, and performers building a Disability Culture movement. Lehrer will be in conversation with award-winning novelist and UT professor Elizabeth McCracken. Reception and Q&A will follow. 

Riva Lehrer is an artist, writer and curator who focuses on the socially challenged body. She is best known for representations of people whose physical embodiment, sexuality, or gender identity have long been stigmatized. Lehrer's work has been seen in venues including the National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian, Yale University, the United Nations, the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, DC, and others. She is on faculty at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and instructor in the Medical Humanities Departments of Northwestern University.

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National Book Award-winning novelist and UT alum Colum McCann will discuss his earliest published piece in Analecta as part of Apricity Magazine's 50th Anniversary celebration.

APRICITIY/ANALECTA MAGAZINE 50th ANNIVERSARY WITH COLUM MCCANN
Thursday 4/3 @ 5pm, CRD #007 (2501 Whitis Ave.)

On Thursday, April 3 at 5pm, please join the Apricity Magazine team in the Joynes Reading Room for a conversation with internationally bestselling author and UT alum Colum McCann. McCann will be discussing his first published piece in Analecta Magazine (now Apricity) and his journey as a writer. The event will be followed by an audience Q&A and a reception.

This event is free and open to the public, made possible by a collaboration between the College of Liberal Arts, the Joynes Reading Room, and Apricity Magazine. This event is part of a celebration of the 50th Anniversary of Analecta Magazine, UT Austin's first undergraduate literary arts journal, which merged with Apricity Magazine in 2019.