Schedule of Events

Friday, November 9

Empty Bowls Dinner
Join us for the Craft Center‘s simple supper of soup, salad, and bread. Bid on one of the lovely ceramic bowls (hand-crafted by community members) presented for auction. All proceeds benefit Food for the Hungry, an organization dedicated to fighting hunger in Knox County.

Peirce Hall, Alumni Dining Room

Art and Identity Lecture: “Nazi Art Looting: Culture, Barbarism, and the Quest for Identity among Perpetrators, Victims, and Their Heirs,” by Jonathan Petropoulos, the John V. Croul Professor of European History and the chair of the department of history at Claremont McKenna College.

Gund Gallery, Community Foundation Theater

Saturday, November 10

CLMP Midwest Lit Mag Fair
An amazing selection of Literary Magazines and Kenyon Review Preview Books. You won’t find a better selection anywhere in Ohio! Lit Mags $2, Books $4

Kenyon College Bookstore

Fiction Workshop with E.J. Levy
In our image-inundated twenty-first century, most contemporary fiction still shies away from engaging the visual aspects of literary art. This workshop will offer participants a chance to explore the intersection of the visual and textual, as we experiment with making meta-fictions by refracting personal stories through the lens of non-literary forms. Space is limited to 12, class is full.

Graham Gund Gallery, Ederic Seminar Room

Art and Identity: Featured Talks
Joan Breton Connelly, professor of classics and art history at New York University, will give a talk entitled: “Archaeology, Cultural Heritage, and Identity: The Dawn of a New Ethics Protocol” and Claire Lyons, acting senior curator of antiquities at the J. Paul Getty Museum, will give a talk entitled: “Art as Cultural Diplomacy: a Curator’s Perspective.” Following the lectures, Connelly and Lyons will lead a discussion on cultural ownership, classical antiquity, and current affairs.

Gund Gallery, Community Foundation Theater

Gund Gallery Open Hours
Current exhibitions are “Left, Right, and Center: Contemporary Art and the Challenges of Democracy,” “You’ve Come A Long Way, Baby” featuring more than 250 tobacco advertisements from the early-1900s through the late 20th century, and “Thin” featuring over 50 of Lauren Greenfield’s magnificent large-scale color photographs.

Gund Gallery

A Reading by E.J. Levy
E. J. Levy’s fiction and essays have appeared in Best American Essays, Paris Review, Missouri Review, Gettysburg Review, The Kenyon Review, Salmagundi, Orion, and the New York Times. Her short story collection, Love, In Theory, won the Flannery O’Connor Award and has been called “a brilliant debut” by best-selling author Cheryl Strayed (author of WILD); it was released in September 2012. To learn more, visit www.ejlevy.com.

Kenyon Bookstore

Keynote Event

The Denham Sutcliffe Memorial Lecture:
An Evening with Nicole Krauss
Followed by book signing

Nicole Krauss is the author of the international bestseller The History of Love which won the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing, France’s Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger, and was short-listed for the Orange, Médicis, and Femina prizes.

In 2010, The New Yorker named her one of the 20 best writers under 40. Her fiction has been published in the New Yorker, Harper’s, Esquire, and Best American Short Stories, and her books have been translated into more than thirty-five languages.

Her first novel, Man Walks Into a Room, was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award for First Fiction. In 2007, she was selected as one of Granta’s Best Young American Novelists. She recently completed a Cullman Fellowship at the New York Public Library. Her new novel, Great House, was published in October, 2010. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Rosse Hall

Sunday, November 11

CLMP Midwest Lit Mag Bag Sale
As many books and lit mags as you can fit in a bag for $5!!!

Kenyon College Bookstore