Friday

Room: 123

9:30am: Welcome and opening remarks

9:30-10:45am: Doris Hutton Auxier - Competing Sorrows

10:45am-12:00pm: Charles Edonmi - Can the Writer Right? The Social Obligations of the Literary Artist

12:00-1:15pm: Lunch

1:15-2:30pm: Michelle Forrest - Art is Social Action

2:30-3:45pm: Scott MacFarlane- Hippie Activism in Literature: Meta-Narrative, Juxtapositioning, and the Continuous Fictional Dream

Saturday

Room: 123

9:30-10:45am: Jeff R Warren - Musical Improvisation and Social Action

10:45am-12:00pm: Edgar Rodriguez Sanchez - The Counselor as an Artist

12:00-1:15pm: Lunch

1:15-2:30pm: Fred Ribkoff - Ethical Acts of Witnessing Trauma

2:30-3:45pm: Loranne Brown - The Sorceror's Agenda: Thoughts on writings and issue-driven fiction