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This Schedule of Events and Panels is subject to change. Wednesday's & Thursday's events will be held in Doheny Beach (ground floor of the UCI Student Center's Conference Center). Friday's events will be held in the Calit2 Auditorium. Both evening performances and the evening film showing will take place in School of Humanities buildings.

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Wednesday, October 24th \| UCI Student Center - Doheny Beach A
Time	Event/Session	Speakers and Panelists
9 AM	Continental Breakfast
10 - 11 AM	Plenary Keynote by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
10 AM	Music by Aisling Aboud and Arlo Klahr
11 AM - 12:30 PM	Session I \| Reading Introduction by Jacobo Sefami	Ronald Snake Edmo Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill Bei Ling Arantxa Urretabizkaia
12:30 - 2 PM	Lunch Break
2 - 4 PM	Session II \| Voices in Europe: Revival, Restoration, and Visibility Moderated by Dilek Dizdar	Tove Skutnabb-Kangas Robert Phillipson Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill Joseba Gabilondo Timothy J. Reiss Arantxa Urretabizkaia
4:15 - 6:15 PM	Session III \| Voices in Latin America: Revival, Restoration, and Visibility Moderated by Horacio Legras	Adriana Johnson Sara Castro Klaren Freya Schiwy
6:15 - 7:30 PM	Break
7:30 PM	"about HER...in five chapters" A dance performance by Anita Ratnam with an introduction by Ketu Katrak NOTE: THIS EVENT WILL TAKE PLACE IN HUMANITIES HALL 161

Thursday, October 25th \| UCI Student Center - Doheny Beach A
Time	Event/Session	Speakers and Panelists
8 AM	Continental Breakfast
9 AM	Music by Abdi Jibril
9 - 11 AM	Session IV \| Voices in South Asia: Revival, Restoration, and Visibililty Moderated by Ketu Katrak	Rita Kothari Sukrita Paul Kumar Anita Ratnam Sudipto Chatterjee
11:15 AM - 12:45 PM	Session V \| Enabling Practices: The Role of the Non-Native Speaker in Revival, Restoration, and Visibility Moderated by Kassahun Checole	Charles Cantalupo Peter Cole Patricia Penn Hilden With comments from Haruo Aoki
12:45 - 2 PM	Lunch Break
2 - 4 PM	Session VI \| Voices in North America: Revival, Restoration, and Visibility Moderated by Patricia Penn Hilden	Ronald Snake Edmo Simon J. Ortiz Ofelia Zepeda
4:15 - 6:15 PM	Session VII \| Voices in Africa: Revival, Restoration, and Visibility Moderated by Ntongela Masilela	Kofi Anyidoho Henry Chakava Kassahun Checole Chege Githiora Gatua wa Mbugwa
6:15 - 7:30 PM	Break
7:30 PM	Who's Afraid of Ngũgĩ film showing Remarks by Kofi Anyidoho Moderated by Kyung Hyun Kim NOTE: THIS EVENT WILL TAKE PLACE IN LUCILLE KUEHN AUDITORUM (HUMANITIES INSTRUCTIONAL BUILDING 100)

Friday, October 26th \| Calit2 Auditorium
Time	Event/Session	Speakers and Panelists
9 AM	Continental Breakfast
10 AM - Noon	Session VIII \| Technology: Revival, Restoration, and Visibility Moderated by Barbara Cohen	Elham Gheytanchi Thomas Keenan Geert Lovink Susan Harris
Noon - 1:15 PM	Lunch Break
1:15 - 2:45 PM	Session IX \| Reading Introduction by Gabriele Schwab	Kofi Anyidoho Simon Ortiz with Gabriele Schwab Sholeh Wolpe Ofelia Zepeda
3 - 4 PM	Session X \| Achille Mbembe, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, and Satoshi Ukai in Conversation with David Theo Goldberg
4:15 - 5:15 PM	Session XI \| Culminating Roundtable: Revival, Restoration, and Visibility Moderated by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
5:15 - 6:45 PM	Booksale and Signing
7 PM	"Man of the Heart" A dramatic performance by Sudipto Chatterjee with introductory remarks from Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak NOTE: THIS EVENT WILL TAKE PLACE IN HUMANITIES HALL 161