2009 IWP Events

Iowa City Public Library Panel Series
Fridays Noon - 1:30 pm

9/4  “Literature of Desire”
Alice Pung  
Milos Djurdjevic  paper
Millicent Graham  paper
Salomat Vafo  
Ge Fei  paper

9/11  “Teaching Writing”
Yasser Abdel-Latif  paper
Dung Kai Cheung  paper
Fedosy Santaella  paper
Mabrouck Rachedi  paper
Kathy White  paper

9/18  “What’s in a Name?”
Meena Kandasamy  paper
Hanaa Hijazi  paper
Kim Do Eon  
Efrat Mishori  
Hagar Peeters  paper
Azeem Sajjad  paper

9/25  “Translation”
Soheil Najm paper
Fflur Dafydd paper
Vicente Groyon paper
Lijia Zhang paper

10/9  “1989-2009”
Marius Ivaškevičus paper
Dragica Rajčić paper
Kang Youngsook paper
Maxine Case paper
Violet Grygorian paper

10/16 “Questions of Travel”
[Gerber Lounge, 3rd floor, EPB]
Jan-Willem Anker paper
Jiang Bin paper
Bo Han paper
Kyoko Nakajima paper
Mani Rao paper

10/23  “Why I Write...”
Siobhan Ni Shíthigh paper
Kim Soom
Andreas Weber paper
Min Htet Maung paper
Osman Conteh paper

10/30 “Images of America”
Open Microphone - all writers

2008 Events

Reading Series
Prairie Lights
Sundays 4-5 pm

9/6
Meena Kandasamy
Marius Ivaskevicius
Adam Roberts, poet

9/9  Wednesday 7 PM
Fflur Dafydd

9/13
Hagar Peeters
Yasser Abdel-Latif
Timothy Denevi, non-fiction writer

9/15 Tuesday 7 PM
The Open World 4

9/20
Milos Djurdjevic (Croatia)
Erika Jo Brown, poet
Jan-Willem Anker, poet (the Netherlands)

9/27
Millicent Graham, poet (Jamaica)
Maxine Case, fiction writer & novelist (S. Africa)
Cutter Wood, nonfiction writer, Writers' Workshop

10/4
Alice Pung
Bo Han

10/11
Fedosy Santaella
Efrat Mishori
Alexander (Xander) Maksik, fiction

10/18
Vicente Groyon
Mani Rao
Rawaan Alkhatib, poet

10/25
Kyoko Nakajima
Mabrouck Rachedi
Anthony Marra, fiction

11/1
Osman Conteh
Lijia Zhang
Nicholas Gulig, poet

Cinematheque
Wednesdays 8-11 pm

E105 Adler Journalism Bldg.

The IWP Cinematheque is an informal film series curated by the IWP writers in residence, who introduce and lead conversations around films they have chosen to show to UI community.

The titles in the 2009 series will be announced on 9/4, and the screenings will go from 9/9 to 11/4. Details to follow.

9/9 8:00 pm, E105 AJB

Hanaa Hijazi (Saudi Arabia) presents Caramel (Lebanon, 2007, dir. Nadine Labaki)
Caramel revolves around the lives of five Lebanese women and a beauty salon. The title word refers to an epilation method that consists of heating sugar, water and lemon juice, and also symbolically implies the "idea of sweet and salt, sweet and sour": everyday relations can sometimes be sticky but ultimately the sisterhood shared between the central characters prevails.

9/16 Yahya Alabdallah : Shorts (Jordan, dir. Y. Alabdallah) and Divine Intervention (Israel/Palestine, 2002, dir. Elia Suleiman)

 9/23 VicenteGroyon :  Namets!  (Phillipines, 2008, dir. Jay Abello)    

9/30 Jan Willem Anker : Abel  (The Netherlands, 1986, dir. Van Warmerdam)

10/7 Kathy White introduces the film Poisoning Paradise (New Zealand, 2008 ; dir. Brothers Graf)    

10/14 Lijia Zhang introduces the film Platform(Hong Kong/China/Japan, 2000, dir. Zhang Ke Jia)  NB : 154 min.

10/21 Azeem Sajjad introduces the film  Ramchand Pakistani(Pakistan, 2008, dir. Mehreen Jabbar)

10/28   Mabrouck Rachedi introduces the film  Still Walking(Japan, 2009, dir. Hirokazu Koreda)  
Middle-aged brother and sister and their families visit their aging parents on the fifteenth anniversary of their brother Junpei’s death from drowning while saving another boy. Generational conflicts and the consequences of loss are unfolding in real time over a twenty-four hour period.

11/4 Bo Han introduces the film The Sun Also Rises (China, 2007, dir. Wen Jiang, 116 min.)
This film (in Chinese "Tai yang zhao chang sheng qi") co-written, produced and directed by Wen Jiang features several interconnected stories, displaced in time, that trace a marriage, an infidelity and a suicide, rendered in a lush and fluid visual style. Jiang, a Grand Prix winner at the Cannes Film Festival for the much-noted Devils on the Doorstep (2000), is also a well-known actor on television and cinema, , and a professor at Beijing’s Central Academy of Drama.
      Han is the author of several poetry collections and he won the 1998 Li-An Liu poetry prize. His short stories have been published in a number of literary journals. Both a playwright and a stage director, he founded the Ewood Drama Studio, and he directed the 2008 Mecoon Film Festival in Shanghai. He participates in the IWP with the support of the U.S. Embassy in Beijing.