Author
and Journalist Joan Didion to Present The Writer
as Witness, January 25
New
York, NY-- Writer Joan Didion will speak at Barnard
College Thursday, January 25 at 7 p.m. as part
of Barnard's Forum on Migration. The reading and
discussion, The Writer as Witness: An Evening
with Joan Didion, will take place in the lower
level of McIntosh Center.
Didion, a writer whom Newsday has called
"a novelist with important things to say about
the dislocations of our time," has also written
five non-fiction works, including Slouching
Towards Bethlehem, The White Album,
and Miami. She is a frequent contributor
to The New Yorker and The New York Review
of Books. Didion is a member of the American
Academy of Arts & Letters, the American Academy
of Arts and Sciences, The Berkeley Fellows and
the Council of Foreign Relations. In 1996, she
was awarded the Edward MacDowell Medal and in
1999, the Columbia Journalism Award.
Didion,
along with her husband John Gregory Dunne, has
written a number of screenplays in the last 20
years, including The Panic in Needle Park,
A Star is Born, and Up Close & Personal.
She is the author of five novels, including Play
It as It Lays, A Book of Common Prayer;
and, most recently, The Last Thing He Wanted,
which Joyce Carol Oates called, "an articulate
witness to the most stubborn and intractable truths
of our time, a memorable voice."
The
Writer as Witness: An Evening with Joan Didion
is part of the Barnard Forum on Migration, which
sponsors special events including lectures, readings,
and films exploring issues connected to the movement
of people from one part of the world to another.
Each year, the Forum hosts distinguished writers
and academics who address a broad range of issues
relating to questions of migration and social
order.
To
accommodate the lecture, Java City will be closed
from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Complimentary coffee will
be served at the Altshul Atrium at that time.
The
Barnard Forum on Migration is supported by a bequest
establishing the Weiss International Fellowship
Fund to bring distinguished scholars in literature
and the arts to Barnard. The forum is organized
by Caryl Phillips, the Henry R. Luce Professor
of Migration and Social Order.
The next Barnard Forum on Migration presentation
will be held April 19 and is titled 'Home'
Away from 'Home'? -- The Migration Journey in
Selected Caribbean Fiction by Women, a discussion
led by Evelyn Callaghan, a Senior Lecturer of
Literatures in English at University of West Indies.
For more information and for other events of interest
to the Barnard community, visit the Spring
2001 Events Calendar.
Contact:
Petra Tuomi, Associate Director of Public Affairs,
212-854-7907
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