Bill Gora and Frank Borkowski, "Two Musical Tales: A Performance of Igor Stravinsky’s Histoire du Soldat and Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring"
September 23
8 PM, Rosen Concert Hall

Thomas McGowan and Orville Hicks, "‘Sort of Like a University Professor’: The Complications and Pleasures of Studying Orville Hick’s Storytelling and Expressive Lying"
October 30
6-7:30 PM, Calloway Peak Room, Plemmons Student Union

"Words and Music, The Synergy of Story and Song," a panel discussion on the interactions of words and music in the work of writers Clyde Edgerton, Silas House, and Lee Smith and of Sugar Hill musicians Tim O'Brien and Scott Miller.
November 6
5-6 PM, I.G.Greer Auditorium

(This session is in conjunction with the Visiting Writers’ session "Storytellers: Writers and Singer-Songwriters on Their Craft," featuring Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill authors Lee Smith, Clyde Edgerton, and Silas House and Sugar Hill recording artists Tim O'Brien and Scott Miller also November 6 in the Blue Ridge Ballroom, Plemmons Student Union at 7:30 PM.

Carol Harding (Family and Consumer Sciences), "Motherhood Stories"
Sandie Gravett (P&R), "Out of Our Father’s Gardens" Eve’s Bayou, The Poisonwood Bible,and Feminist Biblical Scholarship"
November 19
6-7:30 PM, Table Rock Room, Plemmons Student Union

Georgia Rhoades (English), "Waterwoman: How I Tell Myself"
December 4
6-7:30 PM, Calloway Peak Room, Plemmons Student Union

Holly Martin (English), "Putting the Underdog on Top: Humorous Stories as Subversion in U.S. Ethnic Literature"
Leon Lewis (English), "Indians Always Tell a Story"
January 15
6-7:30 PM, Calloway Peak Room, Plemmons Student Union

Betsy Beaulieu (IDS), "Great Slave Escapes: Personal Narrative, Public History, and the Making of the Slave Self"
Shelia Phipps (History), "‘All You Who May Hereafter Read My Journal’: the Dialogue of Power in Autobiography"
February 12
6-7:30 PM, Calloway Peak Room, Plemmons Student Union

Craig Fischer (English), "A Fanboy’s Notes; or, Why Fantastic Four #44-#68 is the Greatest Artistic Achievement of the Twentieth Century"
March 18
6-7:30 Calloway Peak Room, Plemmons Student Union

Mini Conference: Narrative as Therapy

Thursday April 1 and Friday April 2

Alice Naylor (LRE), "Personal Stories of Choice, Power and Belonging"
Alan Hauser (P&R), "Tales Told and Tales Not Told: The Silence Experienced By a Third Generation Immigrant"
April 1
6-7:30 Calloway Peak Room, Plemmons Student Union

Diana Quealy-Berge and Sally Atkins, "Oral Tradition, Storytelling and Societal Healing"
Michael Dale (LES), "Tell-Tale Hearts"
April 2
2:30-4:00 PM Linville Falls Room, Plemmons Student Union