Upcoming Speakers
2024-25 Speaker Series
Fall 2024
- Thursday, 9/12 at 6pm: Poet Fady Joudah in conversation with Roger Reeves, in partnership with the Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, and the New Writers Project
- Wednesday, 10/9 at 6:30pm: Poet Elisa Gonzalez
- Thursday, 10/10 at 5pm: Artist Kourosh Beigpour
- Monday, 10/21 at 6pm: Poet Ravi Shankar with Brandon Lamson, in partnership with Liberal Arts Honors (Joynes Reading Room Poets/Duets Series)
- Thursday, 11/14 at 6pm: Novelist and essayist Lucy Ives
For more information about the Joynes Room Speaker Series, call 512-471-5787 or write Zack Schlosberg.
Lucy Ives, whose first collection of essays, An Image of My Name Enters America, was just published by Graywolf Press.
THE JOYNES READING ROOM PRESENTS: LUCY IVES
Thursday, 11/14 @ 6pm, CRD #007 (2501 Whitis Ave.)
On Thursday, 11/14 at 6pm, the Joynes Reading Room will host the novelist Lucy Ives, who has just published her first book of essays, An Image of My Name Enters America, with Graywolf Press. This unbelievably wide-ranging text examines everything from My Little Pony to eighteenth-century cults and the development of modern obstetrics, all with Ives's customary intellect and wit. "I am in complete awe," wrote Percival Everett about Ives's latest book. A reception and Q&A will follow this special event, the last Joynes reading of the semester.
Lucy Ives is the author of three novels: Life Is Everywhere; Loudermilk: Or, the Real Poet; and Impossible Views of the World. Her work has appeared in Art in America, Artforum, The Baffler, frieze, Harper's, n+1, Vogue, and other publications. A graduate of Harvard and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, she holds a PhD. in comparative literature from New York University, and is currently the Bonderman Assistant Professor of the Practice in Literary Arts at Brown University.