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Events Calendar

February 2019

Friday – Saturday
February 1 – February 2
6:00 pm – 12:00 am
A Night of Ideas: Facing Our Time Los Angeles event

A Night of Ideas: Facing Our Time

Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Wednesday
February 6
7:00 pm

PEN America Winter 2019 Authors' Evening with Wendy Sherman

Thursday
February 7
7:00 pm

PEN America Winter 2019 Authors' Evening with A.J. Jacobs

Thursday
February 7
7:00 pm

PEN America Winter 2019 Authors' Evening with Jane Leavy

Monday
February 11
7:00 pm

PEN America Winter 2019 Authors' Evening with A.M. Homes

Tuesday
February 12
6:00 pm

PEN America Winter 2019 Authors' Evening with E.J. Dionne

Tuesday
February 12
6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
Words for War New Poems from Ukraine event flyer

Words for War: New Poems from Ukraine

Drexel University Writers Room
Wednesday
February 13
12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
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How Can We Know the Dancer from the Dance? The Challenges of #MeToo and the Morally Compromised Artist

New York Hilton Midtown—2nd Floor—Gramercy West
Wednesday
February 13
6:00 pm

PEN America Winter 2019 Authors' Evening with Danielle Citron

Saturday
February 16
1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
South Side Weekly workshop series, in partnership with PEN America

South Side Weekly Workshop Series: FOIA 101

Experimental Station
Thursday
February 21
7:00 pm

PEN America Winter 2019 Authors' Evening with Min Jin Lee and Caroline Weber

Thursday
February 21
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

PEN Out Loud: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah and Isaac Fitzgerald

Strand Book Store
Saturday
February 23
10:00 am – 6:00 pm
Press Freedom Cincinnati with Franki, Thanks PEN America

Press Freedom Cincinnati: A Traveling Tour

Six Acres Bed & Breakfast
Saturday
February 23
10:00 am – 5:00 pm
Celebration Of Diverse Literary Voices Of Texas event flyer

Celebration of Diverse Literary Voices of Texas

Austin Central Public Library
Monday
February 25
7:00 pm

PEN America Winter 2019 Authors' Evening with Victoria Johnson

Tuesday
February 26
7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Boundaries and Borders event flyer

Boundaries and Borders: Storytelling and Journalism

The Dallas Morning News Auditorium
Tuesday
February 26
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
2019 Lit Awards Save the Date

2019 PEN America Literary Awards Ceremony

NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts
Wednesday
February 27
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
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Los Angeles Book Club: Friday Black

Blu Elefant Cafe
Wednesday
February 27
7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
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Works of Justice: Good Kids, Bad City with Kyle Swenson

Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
Wednesday
February 27
7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
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Speak Up: A Student Forum on Hate Speech, Academic Freedom, and the First Amendment

University of California Washington Center
Thursday
February 28
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
event flyer for the Indian Child Welfare Act Reporting Symposium with keynote speaker Suzette Brewer

NAJA Indian Child Welfare Act Reporting Symposium

Gaylord Auditorium

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“Clark offers a study into the simultaneous dissolution and unification that comes with inhabiting a body which is both historical and personal.”

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