Conference Schedule May 19-21, 2004
All panels and presentations are free and open to the public.

Wednesday Evening, May 19, Beckman Center Auditorium & Atrium

7:15 Seating for Fireside Chat

7:30 Fireside Chat with David Halberstam, "Who We Are and What We Do"
         Introduction by Michael Szalay
        Welcome Remarks by Barbara Cohen

9:00 Dessert Reception in the Atrium

Thursday, May 20, Monarch Bay A&B, UCI Student Center

7:45 Continental Breakfast

8:15 Welcome and Introductory Remarks by Barbara Cohen, HumaniTech

8:30 - 10:15 "At the Edges of Academic Publishing"

     Moderator: Alice Fahs, UCI Department of History
     Douglas Armato, University of Minnesota Press
     Kassahun Checole, Africa World Press and Red Sea Press
     Branden Joseph, UCI Department of Art History, Grey Room
     Sina Najafi, Cabinet Magazine
     Ken Wissoker, Duke University Press
     Lynne Withey, University of California Press    
    

10:30 - 12:15 "The Journal"

     Moderator: Michael Szalay, UCI Department of English
     Marshall Brown, Modern Language Quarterly
     Dilip Gaonkar, Public Culture    
     Jackson Lears, Raritan
     Randy Martin, Social Text
    
12:15 Lunch break

1:30 - 3:15 "Literary Culture in Los Angeles"

     Moderator: Mark Richard, Award-Winning Author of The Ice at the Bottom of the World
     Aimee Bender, Author of Invisible Sign of My Own and The Girl in the Flammable Skirt
     Glen David Gold, Author of Carter Beats the Devil
     Maile Meloy, Author of Liars and Saints and Half in Love: Stories    
     Susan Reynolds, Los Angeles Times
     Benjamin Schwarz, The Atlantic Monthly
     Steve Wasserman, Los Angeles Times Book Review

3:30 Victor Navasky, "The Journal of Opinion: Relic or Counterforce?"
         Introduction by Jon Wiener

5:00 Dinner break

7:30 Lawrence Lessig, "The Good of the Journal in a Digital Age"
         Introduction by Steve Mailloux

Friday, May 21, Monarch Bay A&B, UCI Student Center

8:00 Continental Breakfast

8:30 Welcome and Introductory Remarks by Carol Hughes, UCI Libraries

8:45 - 10:30 "In the Shadow of Big Media"

     Moderator: Kit Rachlis, Los Angeles Magazine
     Lawrence Lessig , Stanford Law School
     Victor Navasky, The Nation    
     Mike Sager, Writer-at-Large for Esquire, Author of Scary Monsters and Super Freaks
     Michael Wolff, Vanity Fair

10:45 - 12:30 "Electronic Media and the Public Sphere"

     Moderator: Lorelei Tanji , UCI Libraries
     Catherine Candee, California Digital Library
     Michael Grossberg, American Historical Review
     Aileen McHugh, Project Muse   
     Paul Saint-Amour, Pomona College
     Felicity Scott, UCI Department of Art History, Grey Room

12:30 Lunch break

2:00 - 3:45 "The Life of the Mind in Southern California"

     Moderator: Barry Siegel, UCI Department of English
     Tom Christie, LA Weekly
     Bret Israel, Los Angeles Times
     Ngugi wa Thiong'o, UCI International Center for Writing & Translation    
     RJ Smith, Los Angeles Magazine
     Will Swaim, OC Weekly
     George Wolfe, The LALA Times

4:00 Refreshments Break

5:00 Michael Wolff, "How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Rupert Murdoch"
         Introduction by Michael Szalay

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