Lannan presents Readings & Conversations, featuring inspired literary writers of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, as well as cultural freedom advocates with a social, political, and environmental justice focus.
Event | Type | Date |
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Taking Children, Taking the Land: Nick Estes with Rebecca Nagle | Readings & Conversations | 11/10/2021 |
Noam Chomsky with E. Tammy Kim | In Pursuit of Cultural Freedom | 10/13/2021 |
Abolition, Cultural Freedom, Liberation | In Pursuit of Cultural Freedom | 10/05/2021 |
Surviving Autocracy: Masha Gessen with Anand Giridharadas | Readings & Conversations | 10/20/2020 |
Yanis Varoufakis with Daniel Denvir | Readings & Conversations | 08/13/2020 |
Stephen Dedalus, Leopold Bloom, and the Ghost of Shakespeare in Chapter 9 of Ulysses | Readings & Conversations | 06/16/2020 |
Noura Erakat with Janine Jackson | Readings & Conversations | 12/04/2019 |
Eve L. Ewing with Wayne Au | Readings & Conversations | 11/13/2019 |
Deborah Levy with John Freeman | Readings & Conversations | 10/30/2019 |
Poetry Sunday with Natalie Scenters-Zapico | Readings & Conversations | 10/13/2019 |
Vijay Prashad with Melanie K. Yazzie | Readings & Conversations | 09/25/2019 |
Boots Riley with Robin D. G. Kelley | Readings & Conversations | 09/11/2019 |
Sebastian Barry with Daniel Mendelsohn | Readings & Conversations | 05/01/2019 |
Ruth Wilson Gilmore with Rachel Kushner | Readings & Conversations | 04/17/2019 |
Edwidge Danticat with Aja Monet | Readings & Conversations | 03/27/2019 |
Dahr Jamail with William Rivers Pitt | Readings & Conversations | 03/13/2019 |
Richard Powers with Tayari Jones | Readings & Conversations | 02/27/2019 |
Tracy K. Smith with Joy Harjo | Readings & Conversations | 02/06/2019 |
Ilan Pappé with Dima Khalidi | Readings & Conversations | 01/23/2019 |
David Harvey with Laura Flanders | Readings & Conversations | 10/24/2018 |
Rev. William Barber II with Khury Petersen-Smith | Readings & Conversations | 10/11/2018 |
Nikhil Pal Singh with Jeremy Scahill | Readings & Conversations | 09/26/2018 |
Clive Hamilton with Lisa Sideris | In Pursuit of Cultural Freedom | 05/02/2018 |
Rachel Kushner with Michael Silverblatt | Readings & Conversations | 04/18/2018 |
Diane Ravitch with Jesse Hagopian | In Pursuit of Cultural Freedom | 04/11/2018 |
Roxane Gay with Tressie McMillan Cottom | Readings & Conversations | 03/14/2018 |
Nancy MacLean with Greg Grandin | In Pursuit of Cultural Freedom | 03/07/2018 |
Aleksandar Hemon with John Freeman | Readings & Conversations | 02/28/2018 |
Colum McCann with Gabriel Byrne | Readings & Conversations | 01/31/2018 |
Nomi Prins with Juliet Schor | In Pursuit of Cultural Freedom | 01/24/2018 |
Valeria Luiselli with Sonia Nazario | Readings & Conversations | 11/29/2017 |
Óscar Martínez with Alfredo Corchado | In Pursuit of Cultural Freedom | 11/01/2017 |
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz with Nick Estes | In Pursuit of Cultural Freedom | 10/11/2017 |
Glenn Greenwald with Tom Engelhardt | In Pursuit of Cultural Freedom | 09/27/2017 |
Wallace Shawn with Sarah Knopp | In Pursuit of Cultural Freedom | 08/13/2017 |
Marlon James with Russell Banks | Readings & Conversations | 05/10/2017 |
Arundhati Roy with Anthony Arnove | In Pursuit of Cultural Freedom | 05/03/2017 |
Viet Thanh Nguyen with Maxine Hong Kingston | Readings & Conversations | 03/29/2017 |
Terry Tempest Williams with Colum McCann | In Pursuit of Cultural Freedom | 03/08/2017 |
Eileen Myles with Dan Chiasson | Readings & Conversations | 02/15/2017 |
China Miéville with Jordy Rosenberg | Readings & Conversations | 01/18/2017 |
Andrew Bacevich with Marilyn B. Young | In Pursuit of Cultural Freedom | 12/07/2016 |
Angela Y. Davis with Barbara Ransby | In Pursuit of Cultural Freedom | 11/02/2016 |
Anne Carson with Michael Silverblatt | Readings & Conversations | 10/26/2016 |
Gideon Levy with David Barsamian | In Pursuit of Cultural Freedom | 10/05/2016 |
Ru Freeman with John Freeman | Readings & Conversations | 09/21/2016 |
Louise Glück with Peter Streckfus | Readings & Conversations | 05/11/2016 |
Karl Ove Knausgaard with Zadie Smith | Readings & Conversations | 04/27/2016 |
Juan Cole with Phyllis Bennis | In Pursuit of Cultural Freedom | 04/06/2016 |
Nadeem Aslam with Phil Klay | Readings & Conversations | 03/30/2016 |
Gabrielle Walker with Chris Williams | In Pursuit of Cultural Freedom | 03/23/2016 |
Winona LaDuke with Mililani Trask | In Pursuit of Cultural Freedom | 02/24/2016 |
Teju Cole with Amitava Kumar | Readings & Conversations | 02/03/2016 |
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor with Donna Murch | In Pursuit of Cultural Freedom | 01/20/2016 |
Anthony Ray Hinton with Ben Harmon | In Pursuit of Cultural Freedom | 01/10/2016 |
Richard Falk with Ali Abunimah | In Pursuit of Cultural Freedom | 12/02/2015 |
Aminatta Forna with Laila Lalami | Readings & Conversations | 11/11/2015 |
Henry A. Giroux with Maya Schenwar | In Pursuit of Cultural Freedom | 10/14/2015 |
Elizabeth Alexander with Maureen Corrigan | Readings & Conversations | 09/30/2015 |
Claudia Rankine with Saskia Hamilton | Readings & Conversations | 05/06/2015 |
Naomi Klein with Katharine Viner | In Pursuit of Cultural Freedom | 04/29/2015 |
Wallace Shawn with Michael Silverblatt | Readings & Conversations | 04/15/2015 |
Ta-Nehisi Coates with Michele Norris | In Pursuit of Cultural Freedom | 04/08/2015 |
Noam Chomsky with David Barsamian | In Pursuit of Cultural Freedom | 03/18/2015 |
Kevin Barry with Ethan Nosowsky | Readings & Conversations | 03/04/2015 |
The Fire This Time: A Tribute to James Baldwin with Nikky Finney, Randall Kenan, Kevin Young, et al. | Readings & Conversations | 02/11/2015 |
Ann Jones with Andrew Bacevich | In Pursuit of Cultural Freedom | 11/12/2014 |
Alice McDermott with Michael Silverblatt | Readings & Conversations | 10/22/2014 |
Max Blumenthal with Amy Goodman | In Pursuit of Cultural Freedom | 10/10/2014 |
Alfredo Corchado with Melissa del Bosque | In Pursuit of Cultural Freedom | 09/17/2014 |
Leopold Bloom and his Adulterous Molly: Can this Marriage be Saved? | Readings & Conversations | 06/15/2014 |
Colm Tóibín with Michael Silverblatt | Readings & Conversations | 05/21/2014 |
Sandra Steingraber with Laura Flanders | In Pursuit of Cultural Freedom | 05/07/2014 |
Benjamin Alire Sáenz with Cecilia Ballí | Readings & Conversations | 04/16/2014 |
Dave Zirin with David Barsamian | In Pursuit of Cultural Freedom | 04/02/2014 |
Trevor Paglen with Rebecca Solnit | In Pursuit of Cultural Freedom | 03/19/2014 |
Greg Grandin with Avi Lewis | In Pursuit of Cultural Freedom | 02/26/2014 |
George Saunders with Joel Lovell | Readings & Conversations | 02/12/2014 |
Bryan Stevenson with Liliana Segura | In Pursuit of Cultural Freedom | 01/15/2014 |
Nothing Personal: The Dark Room Collective Reunion Tour | Readings & Conversations | 12/12/2013 |
Luis Alberto Urrea with Michael Silverblatt | Readings & Conversations | 11/20/2013 |
Jeremy Scahill with Tom Engelhardt | In Pursuit of Cultural Freedom | 10/30/2013 |
Jamaica Kincaid with Robert Faggen | Readings & Conversations | 10/16/2013 |
Tim DeChristopher with Terry Tempest Williams | In Pursuit of Cultural Freedom | 09/25/2013 |
Leopold Bloom: Sensual Cuckold, Crucified Jew, Heroic Pacifist | Readings & Conversations | 06/16/2013 |
Eduardo Galeano with Marie Arana | In Pursuit of Cultural Freedom | 05/15/2013 |
David Mitchell with Tom Barbash | Readings & Conversations | 04/24/2013 |
Russell Banks with Stona Fitch | Readings & Conversations | 03/27/2013 |
Barbara Ehrenreich with David Barsamian | In Pursuit of Cultural Freedom | 03/13/2013 |
James Hansen with Subhankar Banerjee | In Pursuit of Cultural Freedom | 02/20/2013 |
Omar Barghouti with Amy Goodman | In Pursuit of Cultural Freedom | 02/01/2013 |
Hamid Dabashi with David Barsamian | In Pursuit of Cultural Freedom | 12/05/2012 |
Kevin Young with Colson Whitehead | Readings & Conversations | 11/14/2012 |
David Suzuki with Clayton Thomas-Müller | In Pursuit of Cultural Freedom | 11/07/2012 |
Nathalie Handal with Naomi Shihab Nye | Readings & Conversations | 10/24/2012 |
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | In Pursuit of Cultural Freedom | 10/10/2012 |
Michelle Alexander with Liliana Segura | In Pursuit of Cultural Freedom | 09/12/2012 |
Lydia Davis with Ben Marcus | Readings & Conversations | 05/16/2012 |
W.S. Merwin with Michael Silverblatt | Readings & Conversations | 04/18/2012 |
Phyllis Bennis with David Barsamian | In Pursuit of Cultural Freedom | 04/10/2012 |
Ann Beattie with Michael Silverblatt | Readings & Conversations | 03/28/2012 |
Chris Williams with David Barsamian | In Pursuit of Cultural Freedom | 03/20/2012 |
Brian Jones in Howard Zinn's play, Marx in Soho | In Pursuit of Cultural Freedom | 02/22/2012 |
Michael Ondaatje with Carolyn Forché | Readings & Conversations | 02/15/2012 |
David Shirk with Peter Smith | In Pursuit of Cultural Freedom | 01/24/2012 |
John Sayles with Francisco Goldman | Readings & Conversations | 01/18/2012 |
Norman Finkelstein with Chris Hedges | In Pursuit of Cultural Freedom | 12/06/2011 |
Dinaw Mengestu with Penn Szittya | Readings & Conversations | 11/16/2011 |
Tariq Ali with Avi Lewis | In Pursuit of Cultural Freedom | 10/26/2011 |
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie with Binyavanga Wainaina | Readings & Conversations | 09/28/2011 |
Richard Wolff with Anthony Arnove | In Pursuit of Cultural Freedom | 09/13/2011 |
Guy Tillim with Adam Hochschild | Readings & Conversations | 07/31/2011 |
Michael Ratner with Mary-Charlotte Domandi | In Pursuit of Cultural Freedom | 05/24/2011 |
Joe Sacco with Chris Hedges | Readings & Conversations | 05/18/2011 |
Chris Hedges on the Work of Sheldon Wolin | Readings & Conversations | 05/17/2011 |
Kay Ryan with Atsuro Riley | Readings & Conversations | 04/13/2011 |
Maria Hinojosa with Mary-Charlotte Domandi | In Pursuit of Cultural Freedom | 04/06/2011 |
Everything and More: A Tribute to David Foster Wallace | Readings & Conversations | 03/16/2011 |
Glenn Greenwald with David Barsamian | Readings & Conversations | 03/08/2011 |
John D'Agata with Ben Marcus | Readings & Conversations | 02/16/2011 |
Tom Engelhardt with Jeremy Scahill | Readings & Conversations | 02/02/2011 |
Lorrie Moore with Kate Moses | Readings & Conversations | 01/19/2011 |
Charles Bowden with Avi Lewis | Readings & Conversations | 12/15/2010 |
John McPhee with Peter Hessler | Readings & Conversations | 11/10/2010 |
A. L. Kennedy with Gill Dennis | Readings & Conversations | 10/20/2010 |
Kwame Dawes with Chris Abani | Readings & Conversations | 09/29/2010 |
Jimmy Santiago Baca with Carolyn Forché | Readings & Conversations | 09/15/2010 |
Yiyun Li with Brigid Hughes | Readings & Conversations | 05/12/2010 |
Don DeLillo with Mark Danner | Readings & Conversations | 04/28/2010 |
Arundhati Roy with Avi Lewis | Readings & Conversations | 03/24/2010 |
August Kleinzahler with Kate Moses | Readings & Conversations | 03/03/2010 |
Breyten Breytenbach with Lawrence Weschler | Readings & Conversations | 11/18/2009 |
Rebecca Solnit with Tom Engelhardt | Readings & Conversations | 10/21/2009 |
Eduardo Galeano with Michael Silverblatt | Readings & Conversations | 06/10/2009 |
Marge Piercy with Martin Espada | Readings & Conversations | 05/20/2009 |
Amiri Baraka with Marvin X | Readings & Conversations | 03/09/2009 |
Walt Whitman Tribute Evening | Readings & Conversations | 02/11/2009 |
Junot Díaz with Samuel R. Delany | Readings & Conversations | 01/21/2009 |
Jonathan Schell with Hamilton Fish | Readings & Conversations | 11/19/2008 |
Lester Brown with Doug Fine | Readings & Conversations | 10/29/2008 |
Tony Hoagland with Kate Daniels | Readings & Conversations | 10/15/2008 |
Isabel Allende with Michael Silverblatt | Readings & Conversations | 09/24/2008 |
Annie Proulx with Michael Silverblatt | Readings & Conversations | 06/04/2008 |
Brian Turner and Bruce Weigl with Michael Silverblatt | Readings & Conversations | 03/05/2008 |
Linh Dinh with Charles Alexander | Readings & Conversations | 02/27/2008 |
Eamon Grennan with Dennis O'Driscoll | Readings & Conversations | 02/13/2008 |
Mike Davis with Susan Straight | Readings & Conversations | 01/16/2008 |
Naomi Klein with Laura Flanders | Readings & Conversations | 12/12/2007 |
Richard Powers with Brad Leithauser | Readings & Conversations | 11/14/2007 |
Tim Flannery with Amy Goodman | Readings & Conversations | 10/24/2007 |
Martin Espada with John Nichols | Readings & Conversations | 10/03/2007 |
Jonathan Kozol with Sarah Knopp | Readings & Conversations | 09/26/2007 |
Terry Tempest Williams with Christopher Merrill | Readings & Conversations | 05/30/2007 |
Gore Vidal with Michael Silverblatt | Readings & Conversations | 05/09/2007 |
Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida with Michael Silverblatt | Readings & Conversations | 04/25/2007 |
Denis Johnson with Gary Kamiya | Readings & Conversations | 04/11/2007 |
Carl Safina with Julie Packard | Readings & Conversations | 03/28/2007 |
Charles Simic with David Lehman | Readings & Conversations | 03/14/2007 |
B. H. Fairchild with R. S. Gwynn | Readings & Conversations | 02/28/2007 |
Lawrence Weschler with Oliver Sacks | Readings & Conversations | 01/31/2007 |
Deborah Eisenberg with Ben Marcus | Readings & Conversations | 01/17/2007 |
Cave Canem Evening | Readings & Conversations | 11/15/2006 |
Caryl Phillips with Glyn Maxwell | Readings & Conversations | 11/01/2006 |
Mary Oliver with Joseph Parisi | Readings & Conversations | 10/25/2006 |
Robert Coover with Michael Silverblatt | Readings & Conversations | 10/11/2006 |
Seymour Hersh with Amy Goodman | Readings & Conversations | 09/27/2006 |
Andrew J. Bacevich with Lewis Lapham | Readings & Conversations | 06/28/2006 |
Eduardo Galeano with John Leonard | Readings & Conversations | 05/31/2006 |
Stuart Dybek with Michael Silverblatt | Readings & Conversations | 05/17/2006 |
T. Coraghessan Boyle with Michael Silverblatt | Readings & Conversations | 05/10/2006 |
Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove | In Pursuit of Cultural Freedom | 04/26/2006 |
C. D. Wright with Stephen Burt | Readings & Conversations | 04/19/2006 |
Mario Vargas Llosa with Efraín Kristal | Readings & Conversations | 04/05/2006 |
A. S. Byatt with Michael Silverblatt | Readings & Conversations | 03/15/2006 |
Chris Hedges with Amy Goodman | In Pursuit of Cultural Freedom | 03/01/2006 |
Jim Harrison and Ted Kooser | Readings & Conversations | 01/18/2006 |
Edwidge Danticat with Junot Díaz | Readings & Conversations | 11/30/2005 |
W. S. Merwin with Robert Hass | Readings & Conversations | 10/26/2005 |
In Support of the Santa Fe Indian School | Readings & Conversations | 10/12/2005 |
Salman Rushdie with Michael Silverblatt | Readings & Conversations | 10/05/2005 |
Robert Fisk with Amy Goodman | Readings & Conversations | 09/21/2005 |
Dr. Cornel West Receives Prize for Cultural Freedom | In Pursuit of Cultural Freedom | 09/17/2005 |
Pattiann Rogers with Christopher Merrill | Readings & Conversations | 05/04/2005 |
George Saunders with Michael Silverblatt | Readings & Conversations | 04/20/2005 |
Campbell McGrath with Michael Silverblatt | Readings & Conversations | 03/30/2005 |
Rikki Ducornet with Joanna Scott | Readings & Conversations | 03/09/2005 |
Louise Glück with James Longenbach | Readings & Conversations | 02/16/2005 |
Louise Erdrich with Gail Caldwell | Readings & Conversations | 02/02/2005 |
Noam Chomsky with Tariq Ali | In Pursuit of Cultural Freedom | 01/26/2005 |
Margaret Atwood with Valerie Martin | Readings & Conversations | 12/01/2004 |
Gilbert Sorrentino with Michael Silverblatt | Readings & Conversations | 11/10/2004 |
Luis Alberto Urrea with Darrell Bourque | Readings & Conversations | 10/13/2004 |
Chalmers Johnson with Amy Goodman | Readings & Conversations | 09/29/2004 |
William Gass with Micheline Aharonian Marcom | Readings & Conversations | 09/22/2004 |
Joyce Carol Oates with Michael Silverblatt | Readings & Conversations | 05/12/2004 |
Timothy Ferris with Ed Krupp | Readings & Conversations | 04/28/2004 |
John McGahern with Hermione Lee | Readings & Conversations | 04/07/2004 |
Subhankar Banerjee with Peter Matthiessen | In Pursuit of Cultural Freedom | 03/31/2004 |
Susan Sontag with Michael Silverblatt | Readings & Conversations | 03/03/2004 |
Alistair MacLeod with Shelagh Rogers | Readings & Conversations | 02/11/2004 |
Eavan Boland with Nicholas Jenkins | Readings & Conversations | 01/21/2004 |
Nadine Gordimer with Steve Wasserman | Readings & Conversations | 12/03/2003 |
Tariq Ali with Micheline Aharonian Marcom | Readings & Conversations | 11/19/2003 |
Lewis Lapham with Amy Goodman | Readings & Conversations | 10/27/2003 |
Lawrence Ferlinghetti with Quincy Troupe | Readings & Conversations | 10/15/2003 |
Seamus Heaney with Dennis O'Driscoll | Readings & Conversations | 10/01/2003 |
Dr. Cornel West with Amy Goodman | In Pursuit of Cultural Freedom | 06/25/2003 |
Dennis O'Driscoll with Adam Kirsch | Readings & Conversations | 05/28/2003 |
Carolyn Forché with James Longenbach | Readings & Conversations | 05/11/2003 |
Ahdaf Soueif with Michael Silverblatt | Readings & Conversations | 04/09/2003 |
Philip Levine with Kate Daniels | Readings & Conversations | 03/19/2003 |
David Norris | Readings & Conversations | 02/19/2003 |
Helen Vendler | Readings & Conversations | 01/22/2003 |
Hans Magnus Enzensberger with Charles Simic | Readings & Conversations | 12/11/2002 |
Derek Walcott with Glyn Maxwell | Readings & Conversations | 11/20/2002 |
John Balaban with Michael Silverblatt | Readings & Conversations | 11/06/2002 |
Elena Poniatowska with Bell Chevigny | Readings & Conversations | 10/09/2002 |
Arundhati Roy with Howard Zinn | In Pursuit of Cultural Freedom | 09/18/2002 |
Amy Goodman with John Pilger | In Pursuit of Cultural Freedom | 06/26/2002 |
Scott Russell Sanders with John Elder | Readings & Conversations | 05/22/2002 |
Adam Zagajewski with Edward Hirsch | Readings & Conversations | 05/01/2002 |
Mahmoud Darwish at Swarthmore College | In Pursuit of Cultural Freedom | 04/28/2002 |
Sharon Olds with Michael Silverblatt | Readings & Conversations | 04/10/2002 |
Amy Tan with Molly Giles | Readings & Conversations | 03/05/2002 |
Jim Harrison with Peter Lewis | Readings & Conversations | 02/27/2002 |
Michael Cunningham with Stacey D'Erasmo | Readings & Conversations | 11/14/2001 |
J. M. Coetzee with Peter Sacks | Readings & Conversations | 11/08/2001 |
Denise Chavez with Sandra Cisneros | Readings & Conversations | 10/11/2001 |
Billy Collins with Henry Taylor | Readings & Conversations | 09/26/2001 |
Robert Pinsky and Stanley Kunitz with Michael Silverblatt | Readings & Conversations | 08/04/2001 |
Mary Oliver with Coleman Barks | Readings & Conversations | 08/01/2001 |
Jerry Mander and Vandana Shiva with Amy Goodman | In Pursuit of Cultural Freedom | 06/29/2001 |
Edward Said with Christopher Hitchens | Readings & Conversations | 05/02/2001 |
John Barth with Michael Silverblatt | Readings & Conversations | 04/21/2001 |
Anne Carson with Brighde Mullins | Readings & Conversations | 03/21/2001 |
Thomas Lynch and Dennis O'Driscoll | Readings & Conversations | 02/28/2001 |
Lois-Ann Yamanaka with Jessica Hagedorn | Readings & Conversations | 02/07/2001 |
Richard Powers and David Foster Wallace with John O'Brien | Readings & Conversations | 12/06/2000 |
Eduardo Galeano and Sebastião Salgado with Amy Goodman | Readings & Conversations | 11/03/2000 |
W. S. Merwin with Naomi Shihab Nye | Readings & Conversations | 10/18/2000 |
Ana Castillo with Ruth Lopez | Readings & Conversations | 10/12/2000 |
Chet Raymo with Scott Russell Sanders | Readings & Conversations | 04/26/2000 |
Li-Young Lee with Michael Silverblatt | Readings & Conversations | 03/29/2000 |
Gish Jen with Don Lee | Readings & Conversations | 03/01/2000 |
Mark Strand with Michael Silverblatt | Readings & Conversations | 02/09/2000 |
Wallace Shawn | Readings & Conversations | 12/15/1999 |
Gary Snyder and Wendell Berry with Jack Shoemaker | Readings & Conversations | 11/10/1999 |
Adrienne Rich with Carol Muske Dukes | Readings & Conversations | 09/29/1999 |
Jorie Graham with Michael Silverblatt | Readings & Conversations | 05/20/1999 |
Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge with Arthur Sze | Readings & Conversations | 04/01/1999 |
William Gass with Michael Silverblatt | Readings & Conversations | 11/05/1998 |
A. J. Verdelle with Nikky Finney | Readings & Conversations | 11/03/1998 |
Robert Hass with Jorie Graham | Readings & Conversations | 10/22/1998 |
Czeslaw Milosz with Helen Vendler | Readings & Conversations | 03/26/1998 |