Schedule By Day

African American Revolutionaries

Fri. March 28th, 2008 10:00 AM

Paul Alkebulan (Survival Pending Revolution: The History of the Black Panther Party), Wesley C. Hogan (Many Minds, One Heart: SNCC's Dream for a New America), Patrick McGilligan (The Great and Only Oscar Micheaux: The Life of America's First Black Filmmaker).

McIntire Room

Artworks and War: Europe, Washington and Virginia

Fri. March 28th, 2008 10:00 AM

It was one of our finest hours. In World War II, every artwork in Europe was endangered. The Allies, led by David Finley in Washington and the American Army's Monuments Men -- many trained in Charlottesville -- heroically saved most of the artworks.

Fiction at Work--Novels of the Working Life

Fri. March 28th, 2008 10:00 AM

Mark Ethridge (Grievances), Saira Rao (Chambermaid), and Malcolm McPherson (Hocus Potus).

Page to Stage to Page

Fri. March 28th, 2008 10:00 AM

Theatre professionals Francine Smith, Todd Ristau, and Jack Shea join Stephen Sossaman (Writing Your First Play) with advice on getting produced on stage and getting published: readings, workshops, getting produced at regional and college theaters, and script catalog publication.

Science Writing: Life Cycles

Fri. March 28th, 2008 10:00 AM

Jennifer Ackerman (Sex, Sleep, Eat, Drink, Dream), Michael Sims (Apollo's Fire: A Day on Earth in Nature and Imagination), and Susan Freinkel (American Chestnut: The Life, Death, and Rebirth of a Perfect Tree).

The Launch of Ulster-Scots Writing: An Anthology

Fri. March 28th, 2008 10:00 AM

Scholars Bob Welch, John Wilson, and editor Frank Ferguson will launch Ulster-Scots Writing, An Anthology and discuss the impact of Scottish literature and culture upon the north of Ireland and the United States of America.

The Presidential Recordings: Lyndon B. Johnson

Fri. March 28th, 2008 10:00 AM

David Coleman, Guian McKee, Kent Germany, and David Shreve of the Miller Center's Presidential Recordings Program will discuss their new book, The Presidential Recordings, Lyndon B. Johnson: Toward the Great Society, February 1, 1964-May 31, 1964.

Katrina in Fact and Fiction

Fri. March 28th, 2008 12:00 PM

Tony Dunbar (Tubby Meets Katrina), Ken Foster (The Dogs Who Found Me), and Neal Thompson (Hurricane Season: A Coach, His Team and Their Triumph in the Time of Katrina).

Kenn Reagle: Poetry Reading and Booksigning

Fri. March 28th, 2008 12:00 PM

Kenn Reagle is the author of No One Calls Me Hero. He is a Vietnam veteran, and a poet and lives in Charlottesvile.

Old Chestnuts: American Culture in Conflict

Fri. March 28th, 2008 12:00 PM

Explore subjects of cultural controversy with Susan Freinkel (American Chestnut), Jeff Wiltse (Contested Waters), David Hajdu (The Ten Cent Plague), and Joe Bageant (Deer Hunting with Jesus).

Praise for the Unfinished: Julia Hartwig's Poetry

Fri. March 28th, 2008 12:00 PM

Discover the poetry of Julia Hartwig, hailed by Nobel laureate Czeslaw Milosz as "the grande dame of Polish poetry." Bogdana and John Carpenter will read from their newly published translation of Hartwig's poetry, the first to appear in English.

Upstairs Library

Ready & Satisfied! Women, Motherhood & Intimacy in Later Life

Fri. March 28th, 2008 12:00 PM

Elizabeth Gregory, Ph.D. will speak about her book (Ready: The New Later Motherhood) and Anita Clayton, M.D. will speak about her book (Satisfaction: Women, Sex, and the Quest for Intimacy).

South Meeting Room

Short Stories

Fri. March 28th, 2008 12:00 PM

Cary Holladay (The Quick-Change Artist), Nin Andrews (Midlife Crisis with Dick and Jane), and Gerald Duff (Fire Ants).

The Collected Manuscripts of Ralph Ellison's Second Novel

Fri. March 28th, 2008 12:00 PM

Four decades after Ralph Ellison published Invisible Man, he died leaving thousands of scattered notes in preparation for his second novel. For 14 years, two "literary detectives," John Callahan, Ph.D., and Adam Bradley, Ph.D., put the pieces together. Bradley will share the outcome.

McIntire Room

The Positive Legacy of Muslim Culture

Fri. March 28th, 2008 12:00 PM

Michael Hamilton Morgan (Lost History: The Enduring Legacy of Muslim Scientists, Thinkers, and Artists)

The Renaissance Generation: How It Affects Your Business
(Canceled)

We regret to announce that this event has been canceled.

Fri. March 28th, 2008 12:00 PM

VQR Poetry Series: Debut Reading

Fri. March 28th, 2008 12:00 PM

Celebrate the launch of a new poetry series featuring Jennifer Chang (The History of Anonymity), Kevin McFadden (Hardscrabble), Cecily Parks (Field Folly Snow), and Patrick Phillips (Boy). Introductions by series editor Ted Genoways.

Post High Performs Some Friends to Feed by Paul DuBois Jacobs and Pete Seeger

Fri. March 28th, 2008 1:30 PM

Mecca Burns directs Post High Students in an improvisation of Some Friends to Feed, which is based on the classic story, Stone Soup.

Capturing a Life: Variety in Biographical Writing

Fri. March 28th, 2008 2:00 PM

Leah Bendavid-Val (Song Without Words: The Photographs & Diaries of Countess Sophia Tolstoy), editor Anne Hobson Freeman (Mary Lee Settle's Learning to Fly), Lisa Hickman (William Faulkner and Joan Williams: The Romance of Two Writers), Catherine Reef (E. E. Cummings), and Patrick McGilligan (The Great and Only Oscar Micheaux: The Life of America's First Black Filmmaker).

Families Coming Together: Fiction and Memoir

Fri. March 28th, 2008 2:00 PM

 With novelists Carleen Brice (Orange Mint and Honey), Emilie Richards (Touching Stars)and memoirist Kim Reid (No Place Safe).

How the Media Shapes Life As We Know It

Fri. March 28th, 2008 2:00 PM

Hank Klibanoff (The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation), Stephen J. Farnsworth (The Nightly News Nightmare), John Semonche (Censoring Sex: A Historical Journey Through American Media), and Mary Beth Mathews (Rethinking Zion: How the Print Media Placed Fundamentalism in the South).

Living on the Edge: Cons and Characters

Fri. March 28th, 2008 2:00 PM

Michael Sims (Editor of new edition of Arsene Lupin's Gentleman Thief), Nicholas Griffin (Dizzy City), and Dallas Hudgens (Season of Gene) explore clever rogues in tense situations.

Poetry with Heather McHugh

Fri. March 28th, 2008 2:00 PM

Celebrated poet Heather McHugh sharing some "special collections" of her own:  Eyeshot, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, and Hinge & Sign, a New York Times "Notable Book of the Year," as well as poems from a book not yet available in bookstores.

SELC's Awards for Outstanding Nature Writing

Fri. March 28th, 2008 2:00 PM

H. Emerson Blake (Editor-in-Chief of Orion magazine; the Southern Environmental Law Center - Reed Writing Award judge) explores how literature and the arts go hand-in-hand with policy and legislation in the effort to protect the environment. SELC presents Reed awards to winning authors of outstanding nature writing, who will read from their work.

The Civil War in Fiction

Fri. March 28th, 2008 2:00 PM

With novels of the Civil War with Nick Taylor (The Disagreement), set in Charlottesville, and Peter Melman (Landsman), set in New Orleans and on the move during the War.

Traveling Historic Virginia: Sites and Tales

Fri. March 28th, 2008 2:00 PM

With Jean L. Cooper (A Guide to Historic Charlottesville & Albemarle County, Virginia), Pamela K. Kinney (Haunted Richmond) and Donna Akers Warmuth (Legends, Stories and Ghostly Tales of Abingdon and Washington County, VA)

A View from the Bench

Fri. March 28th, 2008 4:00 PM

The Tenth Annual Henry J. Abraham Distinguished Lecture Series presented by the Hon. J. Harvie Wilkinson, III, of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.

Caplin Auditorium

Australia and the U.S.--Two Histories Compared

Fri. March 28th, 2008 4:00 PM

With renowned Australian historian, Stuart Macintyre (What If? Australian History As It Might Have Been)

Kaleidoscope Room

Celebrate Women Writers Reception

Fri. March 28th, 2008 4:00 PM

Join us for a joyous celebration of women authors with special guest Heather McHugh. The event is open to all and brings together local writers, University authors, students, and Virginia Festival of the Book participants. R.S.V.P. to ebconroy@gmail.com.

Solarium Room

Climbing Mountains with Greg Mortenson

Fri. March 28th, 2008 4:00 PM

FREE tickets will be distributed beginning at 3 pm, and due to demand, we anticipate that they will go quickly. Both Mr. Mortenson and the Book Festival organizers appreciate your passionate response to his appearances. Greg Mortenson, author of Three Cups of Tea,  will talk about his experiences climbing mountains and building schools in Central Asia

Forming American Identities: Southern Writers

Fri. March 28th, 2008 4:00 PM

The conclusion of a colloquia series, investigating how Southern history and culture affect and create our understanding of what it means to be an American. Casey Clabough, Deborah McDowell, and Lisa Russ Spaar discuss the works of Southern writers whose work they admire. Reception to follow.

Going Places: A Poetry Reading

Fri. March 28th, 2008 4:00 PM

Move across reflective landscapes with Margaret Gibson (One Body), Sharon Leiter (The Dream of Leaving), David Rigsbee (Cloud Journal), and Ron Smith (Moon Road).

New Research in Bibliography

Fri. March 28th, 2008 4:00 PM

A program of presentations on bibliographical research by UVa graduate students Ben Deitle, PC Fleming, Barbara Heritage and Keith Howard. Moderated by G. Thomas Tanselle and Keicy Tolbert

Playing with Fire: Fiction Reading

Fri. March 28th, 2008 4:00 PM

Explore the fiction of friction with Alan Cheuse (The Fires) and Martha Tod Dudman (Black Olives).

Senior Happiness, Life Satisfaction, Health & Fitness

Fri. March 28th, 2008 4:00 PM

UVA Professors Jonathan Haidt (Psychology) The Happiness Hypothesis, and Glenn Gaesser (Kinesiology) Big Fat Lies, The Truth About your Weight and Health, will give tools to lead happy and healthy lives into the 80's and beyond.

Stories of the Civil Rights Struggle

Fri. March 28th, 2008 4:00 PM

Hank Klibanoff (The Race Beat: The Press, The Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation), Michael Klarman (Unfinished Business: Racial Equality in American History), and Risa L. Goluboff (The Lost Promise of Civil Rights).

The Creative Mind: How Writers and Artists Invent the World

Fri. March 28th, 2008 4:00 PM

Explore how creative minds have shaped and will continue to shape our lives with Jonah Lehrer (Proust Was a Neuroscientist), David Kirby (Ultra-Talk: Johnny Cash, The Mafia, Shakespeare, Drum Music, St. Teresa Of Avila, and 17 Other Colossal Topics of Conversation), and Patricia Martin (Ren Gen: Renaissance Generation -- The Rise of the Cultural Consumer).

McIntire Room

Abstinence, Education, and the Politics of Virginity

Fri. March 28th, 2008 6:00 PM

Hanne Blank will discuss how our society's definitions and views of virginity have changed and the influence they have had on policies and politics. Moderated by Ruth Gaare Bernheim, Associate Director of UVA's Institute for Practical Ethics and Public Life.

Alternative Universes: Science Fiction and Fantasy

Fri. March 28th, 2008 6:00 PM

David B. Coe (The Sorcerers' Plague: Book One of the Blood of the Southlands), L.E. Modesitt, Jr. (Natural Ordermage), and Steve White (Blood of the Heroes).

Anticipating Adolescence: The Mother-Daughter Project

Fri. March 28th, 2008 6:00 PM

Renee Schultz (co-author with SuEllen Hamkins, The Mother-Daughter Project: How Mothers and Daughters Can Band Together, Beat the Odds, and Thrive Through Adolescence) examines how girls and their mothers can get  support to maintain  healthy, connected relationships.

Changing the World Through Community Organizing

Fri. March 28th, 2008 6:00 PM

Authors Michael Jacoby Brown, Kristin Szakos, and Susan Wells discuss various aspects of community organizing --why organizers do what they do, the "nuts and bolts" of how they do it, and how a retreat center has been effective in renewing their energy to work to change the world.

Depravity, Upheaval, and the "Good War"

Fri. March 28th, 2008 6:00 PM

Five days after the fifth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, writer Dave Griffith (A Good War is Hard to Find), L.A.-based painter Sandow Birk (The Depravities of War), and composer Judith Shatin (Songs of War and Peace) will reflect on how artists address the most pressing social and political issues without resorting to cliche and didacticism. William Cleveland (Art and Upheaval) moderates

Dracula vs. Frankenstein: A Monster Mash of Fact and Fiction

Fri. March 28th, 2008 6:00 PM

With Paul Bibeau (Sundays with Vlad: From Pennsylvania to Transylvania, One Man's Quest to Live in the World of the Undead) and Susan Tyler Hitchcock (Frankenstein: A Cultural History).

Immigration and Emigration: Stories

Fri. March 28th, 2008 6:00 PM

William Poy Lee (The Eighth Promise), H.G. Carrillo (Loosing My Espanish), Marsha Mehran (Pomegranate Soup), and Nahid Rachlin (Persian Girls: A Memoir) share their stories.

Living the Uncommon Life for Real

Fri. March 28th, 2008 6:00 PM

John St. Augustine (Living an Uncommon Life: Essential Lessons from 21 Extraordinary People), a radio commentator and producer for Oprah & Friends Radio, joins success coach Michelle Prosser to discuss creating a greater life experience. Reception to follow.

The Politics of God

Fri. March 28th, 2008 7:00 PM

This session explores the faith factor in American public life and ponders the matter of why we can't seem to stop talking about religion. One writer calls for a moratorium on religious talk in politics; the other seeks to inspire a new progressive religious culture. Both are concerned about the misuses and abuses of faith in recent American politics.

A Poetry Evening: Charles Simic and Charles Wright

Fri. March 28th, 2008 8:00 PM

FREE tickets will be distributed beginning 7 pm in the theatre lobby. Seating begins at 7:30. Theatre capacity is 600. The Virginia Quarterly Review presents a reading by Griffin Prize-winner Charles Wright (Littlefoot) and the current U.S. Poet Laureate Charles Simic (My Noiseless Entourage).

Being a Black Man

Fri. March 28th, 2008 8:00 PM

Featuring Washington Post editors Kevin Merida (Supreme Discomfort: The Divided Soul of Clarence Thomas) and Joe Davidson, and Adam Bradley (The Collected Manuscripts of Ralph Ellison's Unpublished Second Novel).

Crime Wave: Murder, Murder Everywhere

Fri. March 28th, 2008 8:00 PM

David Ignatius (Body of Lies), Margaret Coel (The Girl with The Braided Hair), James W. Hall (Hell's Bay) and Jacqueline Winspear (An Incomplete Revenge).

Introduction to Tantra

Fri. March 28th, 2008 8:00 PM

Mark A. Michaels and Patricia Johnson, authors of The Essence of Tantric Sexuality and Tantra for Erotic Empowerment, will discuss key principles of Tantra, an ancient tradition recognizing sexual energy as a source of personal and spiritual enlightenment.

Tales That Keep You Up at Night

Fri. March 28th, 2008 8:00 PM

Justin Evans (A Good and Happy Child), Beth Massie (Homeplace), and Mindy Klasky (Girl's Guide to Witchcraft) offer material for nightmares.

Vin: Talking About Wine

Fri. March 28th, 2008 8:00 PM

Martine Coutier (Dictionnaire de la langue du Vin) of Besancon, France, talks about Jura wine.